Further Explorations

Cover image: Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams, June 20, 1795. Adams Family Papers, https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17950625aa Accessed 30 May 2019.

This research was done as a personal project in conjunction with my Massachusetts Historical Society John Winthrop Fellowship, however, one of my goals in doing this work is to extend my research by engaging my community. 

As a result, with the help of my teacher advisor, I will propose a mini-unit on Abigail Adams and reading primary sources to our school, the Cambridge School of Weston's history department chair in the fall. The unit would use the Massachusetts Historical Society's cataloged online items to teach students how to analyze primary sources more deeply, develop probing questions, and engage and excite around topics in American colonial history.

The Unit will be called "The Who and What of Reading Historical Letters: Deciphering the Code." Some identified courses that would be good fits for the mini-until include United Sates Overview: Content, U.S. Women's Movements (looking before First Wave Feminism) and, Food, Justice, Power (an introductory 9th grade course which aims to build research skills in the history discipline).