History 111: U.S. History to 1877

Dr. Madsen

Depictions of Crispus Attucks

Depictions of Crispus Attucks

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Paul Revere's famous depiction of the Boston Massacre, which depicts British troops firing on Americans at a command from an officer
Paul Revere, The Bloody Massacre, perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th, 1770, published three weeks after the event (via Wikimedia Commons).
British troops fire on American colonists. A black American lies dying in the arms of a white colonist.
William C. Nell, Crispus Attucks, the First Martyr of the American Revolution, from The Coloured Patriots of the American Revolution (1855). (via New York Public Library).
A skirmish between British troops and American colonists. In the center foreground, a black man is being shot or bayonetted by a British soldier.
William Champney, Boston Massacre (1856). (via Wikimedia Commons)
A skirmish between British troops and largely white American colonists. Both sides are exhibiting violence.
Alonzo Chappel, Boston Massacre (1857). (via Wikimedia Commons)
A painting of several black men wearing colonial attire. Some resemble pirates. Most are armed with sticks, pitchforks, or other non-firearm weapons.
Source: “Who Was Crispus Attucks?” (2012) (via the Crispus Attucks Museum)
Several white men, and one black man, lean over the side of a rowboat to rescue a naked white man in the water. The man in the water is about to be bitten by a large shark.
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark (1778). (via Wikimedia Commons)

Additional reading

Albert Boime, “Blacks in Shark-Infested Waters: Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and Homer”

Karsten Fitz, “Commemorating Crispus Attucks: Visual Memory and the Representations of the Boston Massacre, 1770-1857”

Matthew Wills, “Crispus Attucks Needs No Introduction. Or Does He?”

Brendan Wolfe, “Believe it or Not, He Survived”

Puritan resources (+ redlining)

Puritan resources (+ redlining)

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Painted portrait of Jonathan Edwards
Portrait of Jonathan Edwards, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Puritan documents

Redlining

Also, remember that I mentioned redlining in class a couple weeks ago? It’s back in the news, courtesy of the Democratic presidential primaries: “Bloomberg once blamed end of ‘redlining’ for 2008 collapse”

Finding the 1619 Project if you’ve hit the New York Times paywall

Finding the 1619 Project if you’ve hit the New York Times paywall

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Update: I encourage you to use the path below to find the reading so that you can familiarize yourself with the Library’s databases—resources you’ll need to use throughout your career at Boise State—but I also found a PDF of the project at the Pulitzer Center’s website.

If you find you’re hitting the paywall on the New York Times website, you can access the 1619 Project via the Albertsons Library website. I made a video to show you how to do that. You can find it below.

Note: I forgot to point out in the video that you can access a much more visually appealing version of the 1619 Project by clicking on the “Full text – PDF” tab in ProQuest:

A screen shot of the ProQuest interface, with an arrow indicating where to click to access a PDF version of the 1619 Project
Picturing Columbus

Picturing Columbus

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Image from the assigned reading

A depiction of Columbus meeting the native inhabitants of the Caribbean. Colmbus and his men look self-assured and curious; the indigenous people look cautious, worried, or subservient.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. “Christopher Columbus.” New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Additional images of Columbus

An engraving of Columbus greeting the Native peoples of the Caribbean. Columbus looks self-assured, and the indigenous people are approaching him with gifts.
The engraving by Theodore de Bry, from 1592, which formed part of his “America-series”, showing Christopher Columbus landing on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1492 – Source.
A depiction of Columbus greeting the Native peoples of the Caribbean. Columbus looks self-assured, but the indigenous people look awed or excited.
Bernard Picart’s depiction of Columbus’ landing as featured in his Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde, 1732 – Source.
An etching of Columbus greeting the Native peoples of the Caribbean. Columbus looks self-assured, but the indigenous people look awed or afraid.
Reinier Vinkeles’ 1788 etching depicting Columbus’ landing – Source.

Image captions/attributions by Michiel van Groesen, and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Read van Groesen’s commentary on these images at the Public Domain Review.

Talking about the past (Chapter 1 resources)

Talking about the past (Chapter 1 resources)

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Early humans in Idaho

Idaho Site Shows Humans Were in North America 16,000 Years Ago

Local government minutes example

Board of Education minutes, Newton, Connecticut, 2013

Environmental history example

A completely destroyed building. Only the arched stone doorway remains standing.
Jefferson Junior High School, Long Beach, California, following the 1933 earthquake
A slightly different angle of a completely destroyed building. Only the arched stone doorway remains standing.
Jefferson Junior High School, Long Beach, California, following the 1933 earthquake
Three men stand on the beach in front of wooden longboard surfboards.
Surfers in Long Beach, California circa 1938. In the middle is Tom Lind. From the collection of Ian Lind.
Satellite view of southeastern Long Beach, with the Breakwater indicated.
Satellite view of southeastern Long Beach, with the Breakwater indicated.

View of Long Beach’s waves today

Welcome

Welcome

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Welcome to HIST 111: U.S. History I! Soon this page will be filled with resources we have used during class. Until then, check out the links on the menu at the top of the site.

Harriet Tubman as a young woman, seated in a chair in a portrait studio.
Benjamin F. Powelson, Harriet Tubman, circa 1868. Source: Library of Congress.