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

Civil Rights During War

General Institute Information
Application Deadline is May 22
  • Date: July 21
  • Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location: UMass Boston, Bay View Conference and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston


Primary Resources
Bibliography
Directions
  • David Quigley
  • Associate Professor of History
  • Boston College


  • David Quigley is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at Boston College. A graduate of Amherst College and New York University, he has written on race and democracy in nineteenth-century America in Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy and Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877 (coauthored with David N. Gellman). He is currently completing several book-length projects: Last, Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War, Busing in Boston: A Brief History with Documents, and A Companion to American Urban History.



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Address and Directions

  • The Bay View Conference is located in Room 3540. Elevators are located in the lobby, next to the information desk. Take a left out of the elevators, an immediate right, and a left at the corridor. Bay View Conference is the first room on the left.
    Bay View Conference, Room 3540
    UMass Boston
    Campus Center
    100 Morrissey Blvd.
    Boston, MA 02125

    • From North:
    Take Interstate 93 South through Boston to exit 15 (JFK Library/South Boston/Dorchester) and follow the University of Massachusetts signs along Columbia Road and Morrissey Boulevard to the campus. Once you enter the UMB entrance stay in the far right hand lane, passing the garage entrances. The Campus Center is a large white building, approximately 1/4 mile around the campus drive on your left. To self park, continue pass the circular drive and make an immediate left in to the North Parking Lot. Parking fees are $6 per vehicle. (All fees will be reimbursed)

    From South:
    Take Interstate 93 North to exit 14 (JFK Library/Morrissey Boulevard) and follow Morrissey Boulevard north to the campus. Once you enter the UMB entrance stay in the far right hand lane, passing the garage entrances. The Campus Center is a large white building, approximately 1/4 mile around the campus drive on your left. Make a left in to the circular drive in front of the Campus Center. To self park, continue pass the circular drive and make an immediate left in to the North Parking Lot. Parking fees are $6 per vehicle. (All fees will be reimbursed)

    Public Transportation:
    Subway: Take the Red Line to JFK/UMass Station. A free, Crystal Transportation shuttle bus will carry you to the Campus Center.

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.