Using ESSEX History is a three-year project to improve the quality of American History instruction in Essex County's middle schools and high schools through teacher seminars and summer institutes on the people, places and events of
Essex County, Massachusetts.

Rebecca Nurse Homestead

Field
Resources

Explore early settlement, maritime and industrial sites in Essex County.



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Jan Maetzliger

Lesson
Plans

Developed by teachers using primary and field resources available here and throughout Essex County.

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List of Import Tariffs from 19th Century

Primary
Resources

Documents, online here and available through our partners, for teaching any American History class.

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Seminars and Institutes

Upcoming Seminars

Westward Migration
The Culture of Jim Crow
October 29, 2008

The China Trade
November 19, 2008

Young America on a World Stage: 1800 - 1812

General Institute Information
Application Deadline is May 22
  • Date: July 18
  • Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location: Salem Maritime National Historic Site, St. Joseph's Hall


Primary Resources
Bibliography
Directions

  • Dane Morrison
  • Professor of History
  • Salem State College

  • Dane A. Morrison is Professor of Early American History and Coordinator of Undergraduate American Studies at Salem State College and former History department chairperson. He earned his B.A. and M.B.A. from Boston College, and his Ph.D. in History from Tufts University. He is the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600-1690 (New York: Peter Lang, 1995), editor of American Indian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues (New York: Peter Lang, 1997), and co-editor of the award-winning anthology, Salem: Place, Myth and Memory (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004). His current research, from which he has presented numerous papers, is on the first generation of Americans to encounter other peoples in the Pacific and Indian oceans.



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Address and Directions



St. Joseph's Hall
160 Derby Street
Salem, MA 01970

Parking is available in the South Harbor Parking Garage


Parking Map

From the North or South, take Route I-93 to Route I-95N/128N (exit 37A). Follow 128N to exit 44 (Peabody). Take exit 26, right, onto Lowell Street (becomes Main St. then Boston St.) into Salem. Watch for brown signs with National Park Service arrowhead. Turn left onto Bridge Street, right onto Winter Street, right on Washington Square North, and follow Hawthorne Boulevard to a left on Derby Street, to 160 Derby Street. St. Joseph's Hall will be on the left hand side.
    Information will be updated as it becomes available

Using ESSEX History Themes

Using ESSEX History will address four core themes in American history. These four themes are listed below. Teachers will find materials that relate to specific topics linked to the appropriate heading. Any subjects that relate to more than one theme will be linked to all of the appropriate headings.