IS 182. Print & Power in America. Duggan. Web #1

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Print and Power in America. M.K. Duggan
Native American History by counting winters
Dakota winter count, 1230-1907
Plains Indian winter count. Sioux, 1752-1889 (John Anderson). Small picture . Large picture. Text about winter count .
Large individual years: UCI IDS Program, Native American Studies,

Trickster tales
Native American Trickster Tales. This comprehensive site has links to trickster tales of many cultures.
The first edition of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: Legends of the Old Plantation, 1881. With reproductions of illustrations of Br'er Rabbit, Fox, Bear, and Uncle Remus by various artists.
Tar Baby without dialect.
The complete text of Joel Chandler's stories in magazine articles in such magazines as Scribner's, The Century, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's.
Click here to view the trickster characters as drawn by Walt Disney's staff for the 1948 movie Song of the South. Could these images fulfill Levine's levels of meaning?

America about 1492. Examples of print in creating the idea of the "new world".
What came to be called "America". Look at a drawing of a North Carolina village of the 1580s, (published as an engraving in 1619).
Inventing America. Interesting map of 1562.
Europe Claims America. Scroll down to Florida for a picture of the French contact with the Timocua people (published in 1564).

Biography on the World Wide Web
Native American Electronic Text Resources, is an excellent source of biographies of Native Americans.
Geronimo: His Own Story.
Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque) and the Amistad Rebellion.
North American Slave Narratives. Print in the 18th and 19th centuries as a tool of communicating between freed African Americans and their fellow citizens.

Maps
Map of Manhattan drawn by a Dutchman in 1639. Includes slave quarters and Native American villages.
Indian Map of Ohio River Country, [about 1755]

Books
Bibles
"Indian Bible." Translated into Algonquian by John Eliot to support his missionary efforts among Native Americans.
Berkeley's copy of 1685 edition.
First edition, Library of Congress. Pages from Exodus.
German Bible. Second Bible printed in America.
Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1840. Click on "Anti-Slavery and Civil War Ephemera," then click on Anti-Slavery Almanac.
Frederick Douglass. Orator, editor, writer.
Slavery Code, Washington, D.C., 1862. Slavery was abolished there in 1862.
Phyllis Wheatley. Also at this site are many other African American writers.
The Abolitionist movement. Includes Sojurner Truth.

Broadsides
An American Time Capsule. Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other printed Ephemera. Library of Congress, American Memory. Try searching for such words as anti-slavery, Chinese, Quaker.

Education and Printing
The hornbook and the New England Primer. Page 24
The primer by Daniel Claus [and Paulus?] with bilingual Mohawk and English.
Sequoyah and The Cherokee Phoenix
McGuffey's Reader.
"Impressions of an Indian Childhood. Zitkala-Sa. Atlantic Monthly, vol. 85, 1900. Text. Section 1. Impressions of an Indian Childhood. Section 2. The School Days of an Indian Girl. Section 3. An Indian Teacher Among Indians. At the same site are other of her writings, including "Why I am a Pagan."
The Cotton Mather Home Page. Includes "The Education of Children," The Duties of Children to Their Parents," and "The Duties of Parents to their Children."
"A Chinese fortune-teller." Harper's Weekly 22 (Dec. 28, 1878). "The Chinese School in Mott Street, New York." Harper's Weekly 23 (Mar. 15, 1879).
Reconstruction, reading, and education. An introductory text on the period of the Reconstruction of the South.
Sea-Island School, South Carolina. Click on "Education Among the Freedmen."
Fisk University. History.
Howard University. Click on Facts, then History.

Slavery and Printing
Pamphlet against slavery, New York, 1693.
Sale notices, runaway notices. Another site.
Magazines
The Lady's Magazine, and Repository of entertaining Knowledge. The first literary journal for women.
The Knickerbocker. New York, 1835.
The Gentlemen's Magazine.London, 1776.

Newspapers
To the Revolution, 1700-1776 Images 2 (first newspaper in colonies), 6, 11, 12, 16.
Colored American
Illustrated London News. September 27, 1856.

Political Drawings, Wood engravings
Negro expulsion from railway car, Philadelphia. Illustrated London News. September 27, 1856.
Alfred Waud, Civil War sketch artist; some published in Harper's Weekly
Thomas Nast and others, Harper's Weekly.
Stereotypes
Jefferson's notes on slavery. Text of manuscript.
African Americans in music. Go to 19th-Century California Music and click on African American. Each piece of California music may be viewed by using the search engine and typing in the name of the piece. While a few depict African Americans realistically, the great majority depend on caraicature. Nevertheless, it is clear that the public wanted to hear and buy music associated with African Americans.

IS 182AC, Laboratory, IS182. Links on the World Wide Web

IS 182AC, Laboratory, IS182.
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