Andy Mink, Curry School of Education, and Chris Bunin, Director of the Teaching Fellows Program: In this Teaching American History seminar for K-12 teachers in Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado, key documents in the site were used to explore: 1.) the expansion west in the 1850s, including mining and town development, 2.) the process of railroad land grants and the way railroads sold and marketed lands, 3.) the ways Native Americans were displaced by new treaties favoring certain railroads and how Euro-Americans justified land expropriation, 4.) the corruption in the Credit Mobilier scandal, and 5.) the Victorian values of manliness and self-control evident in the correspondence of middle managers in the railroad industry, such as Samuel B. Reed.
John McClymer, Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.-- History 121: U. S. History, Reconstruction to the Present (Spring 2008): In this U.S. History survey course Professor McClymer uses the site for a student-researched special report on the Strike of 1877.
Kurt Kinbacher, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, Washington--U.S. History : In the U.S. history survey course Professor Kinbacher uses the site as a research archive for students to write an essay on how the growth of railroads transformed the South and West between 1828 and 1877. He asks his students to focus on comparing settlement patterns and economic development in both regions.
Leslie Working, University of Nebraska-Lincoln--HIST 201 History of the United States to 1877 (coming)
William G. Thomas, III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln--HIST 202 History of the United States, 1877-present : In the U.S. history survey course with over 150 students, we use the site to focus on: Land Sales and Migration into the New West using the land sales database and letters of migrants. We also use the Strike of 1877 starting with railroad detective Allan Pinkerton's narrative Strikers, Communists, Tramps, and Detectives to teach reading documents for key historical concepts and themes. For our overhead samples using Pinkerton, see:
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