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Primary
Source of the Month
Folding men's pocketbook covered with
wool flame-stitch embroidery, America,
1771. From the collections of the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation.
CONTENTS
"1699, And All That..."
Primary
Source of the Month
Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quotation of the Month
The
next
Electronic Field Trip is
Jamestown Unearthed
October 11, 2007
2007-2008 Teaching
Resources Catalog
2007–2008 Electronic Field
Trip Scholarships
Games,
activities, and resources about life
in colonial America
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TOP STORIES
“1699, And All That...” by Michael Olmert
The year is 1699. In your mind’s eye, watch carefully as an ungainly ship, a lumbering merchantman, arrives in the middle Chesapeake, and tucks into Eastern Bay, behind Kent Island, Maryland, for some relief from the constant buffeting. It’s been a terrible passage. With no wind, captain and crew settle down to a celebratory meal, featuring West Indian rum punch mixed in an old stoneware jug, the most elegant item aboard the rickety old ship.
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Primary
Source of the Month:
Folding Men’s Pocketbook
In
the eighteenth century, both men and women
carried pocketbooks to hold their valuables.
Such pocketbooks—rectangular in shape
and rather flat—held currency and
important papers. A gentleman's pocketbook
could be hidden away in a deep coat pocket
where it was secure from loss or theft.
Because they were valued by their owners,
pocketbooks were often mentioned in wills,
inventories, and diaries, and even show
up in an occasional newspaper lost and
found advertisement.
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More
Teaching
Strategy:
What's In Your Pocket?
Artifacts
are objects made or used by human beings.
The list of possible historical artifacts
is virtually endless—works of art, clothing,
tools, toys, maps, furniture, books, letters,
and so on. After being carefully analyzed
by historians, and many objects end up
in museum exhibits that teach the public
about life in the past. In this lesson,
students bring small objects from home
in their pockets. They then analyze the
objects, create explanatory museum exhibit
labels for some of them, and discuss what
information the objects reveal about the
daily lives of young people in the twenty-first
century.
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial
Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
instructional materials dealing with 18th-century
life, including:
- Hands-On History: Lady’s Pocket (object kit)
- Discovering the Past Through Archaeology (classroom simulation kit)
- Archaeology: Revealing Our History (video and Web materials)
- Archaeology for Young Explorers (book)
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Teaching
News
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation welcomes the following new Electronic Field Trip Series broadcast partners!
- KUHT in Houston, Texas
- Rocky Mountain PBS in Colorado
- WPBS in Watertown, New York and Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
- UNC-NC TV in North Carolina (Emissaries of Peace only)
Visit our Web site for a complete
list of broadcasters. If your local
public television station is not on the
list, please ask a station representative
to contact us by calling 1-800-761-8331.
Did you know that The Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation and Newsweek Education
have a partnership to create great history
and current events materials for teachers
and students? Newsweek Education provides
news, lessons, and study guides to thousands
of schools across the United States. Look
for a monthly Colonial Williamsburg History
Connections column linking current news
events with those from the past. Read the
latest column, “Ruler
. . . of the whole world.”
Quotation
of the Month
"But
artifacts speak powerfully, too. They sometimes
carry the voices of men and women long gone.
Museums and archives are where we can encounter
those artifacts. They are places we need
to educate our children as well as ourselves."
—Richard
P. Mills, New York State
Education Commissioner, 2002
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Volume
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Historic Triangle
