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

Religion, Revival and Reform: The Second Great Awakening and Its Legacy

  • Date: February 6, 2007
  • Location: Amesbury Cultural Center and
    Rocky Hill Meeting House
  • Time: 9AM - 3PM
  • Address and Directions
  • Dr. Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
  • Professor of History
  • Boston College

Professor Lyerly teaches courses in American women's history, race, gender, and the Old South. She is currently at work on her second book, Thomas Dixon, Jr.: Apostle of Hate, about the well-known minister, playwright, lecturer, professional southerner yet resident of New York City, Social Gospel preacher and rabid racist, and author of dozens of popular novels, including The Clansman, upon which D.W. Griffith's infamous film, Birth of a Nation, was based.



Bibliography

  • “An Account of the Conversion and Happy Death of MB J.Philologus.” Christian Advocate (1826-1827). Chicago: Nov 11, 1826. Vol. 1, Iss. 10; p. 37 (1 page)

  • James F. Cooper, Jr. “Enthusiasts or Democrats? Separatism, Church Government, and the Great Awakening in Massachusetts.” The New England Quarterly V.65 No. 2 (June, 1992), pp. 265-283.

  • James E. Johnson, “Charles G. Finney and a Theology of Revivalism,” Church History V. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1969), pp. 338-358.

  • Nancy F. Cott, “Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England,” Feminist Studies V. 3 No. ½ (Autumn, 1975), pp. 15-29.

  • “Accounts of the Revivals at Cane Ridge, Kentucky.” Annotated by Dr. Cynthia Lyerly.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Accounts of the happy death of Little Eva, Chapter 24 (“Foreshadowings”) through Chapter 28 (“Reunion”).

 

Address and Directions

  • Amesbury Cultural Center
  • 37 Millyard
  • Amesbury, MA 01913
    • Map

  • Follow Rt 95 North until exit 58B
  • Take Exit 58B (Rt 110W)
  • Bear right at Macy Street/John Greenleaf Whittier Hwy. Follow for 1.5 miles
  • Turn Right at Main Street and follow for a half mile
  • At rotary, take first exit onto Friend Street
  • Take immediate left onto Pond Street
  • Take first right onto High Street, and follow into Market Square/Downtown
  • Once in Market Square, bear right up the hill
  • Take right into Municipal Parking Lot at top of hill
  • Walk across footbridge into Millyard


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.