Resources
Explore the resources below to find additional information U.S. history themes in introduced in the Collections and to learn more about Washington state history and place-based education.
Treaties and Native Land Rights
“American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection.” Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html
Grossman, Zoltan. “Washington Treaty History.” http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/WANativeHistory.ppt
“Leschi: Justice in Our Time.” Washington State Historical Society. http://washingtonhistoryonline.org/leschi/index.htm
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. W.W. Norton, 1987.
Mapes, Lynda V. Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village. University of Washington Press, 2009.
Scheuerman, Richard D. and Michael O. Finley. Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot. Pullman: Washington State Press, 2008.
“The Treaty Trail: U.S.-Indian Treaty Councils in the Northwest.” Washington State Historical Society. http://washingtonhistoryonline.org/treatytrail/intro.htm
Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
Wilkinson, Charles and The American Indian Resources Institute. Indian Tribes as Sovereign Governments: A Sourcebook on Federal-Tribal History, Law, and Policy. Oakland, CA: American Indian Lawyer Training Program, 2004.
Additional information about the tribes represented in these treaties can be found on the websites of the individual tribes.
Railroads in Washington and Oregon
Holter, Russell H. and Jesse Clark McAbee. Rails to Paradise: The History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad 1890-1919. Rochester, WA: Gorham Printing, 2005.
Washington State Railroads Historical Society Museum. http://www.wsrhs.org
“The West the Railroads Made.” Washington State Historical Society. http://stories.washingtonhistory.org/railroads/
Chinese Exclusion Act
“Chinese Exclusion Laws.” Teaching History in California, National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region. http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/curriculum/4th-grade/chinese-exclusion.html
“Chinese Expulsion Act of 1880.” The West the Railroads Made, Teaching: Middle/High School Lesson Plan, The Washington State Historical Society. http://stories.washingtonhistory.org/Railroads/Teaching/MiddleSchool.aspx
“Unit 6: The Gilded Age.” Stanford History Education Group. http://sheg.stanford.edu/?q=node/31 This unit includes a lesson on Chinese Immigration and Exclusion.
Native Boarding Schools
Bear, Charla. “American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many.” National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865
Boarding School Healing Project. http://www.boardingschoolhealingproject.org
Childers, Niki and Gayle Lawrence. “Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit.” Teacher Lesson Plan, American Memory, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/indian/index.html
“Fort Spokane Indian Boarding School, 1900-1908.” Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/archive/laro/ibstour/ibs1.html
Marr, Carolyn J. “Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest.” Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/marr.html
Centralia Massacre
“Centralia Massacre Collection.” Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://content.lib.washington.edu/iwwweb/index.html
“Four Men Die in the Centralia Massacre on November 11, 1919.” HistoryLink. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5605
Prohibition in Western Washington
Clark, Norman H. The Dry Years: Prohibition and Social Change in Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
Guide to the Prohibition Era Photographs of Matt Starwich, ca. 1921-1927. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://www.lib.washington.edu/Specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/StarwichMattPHColl676.xml
Samuels, Kayta Katherine. “The Rainy City on the ‘Wet Coast:’ The Failure of Prohibition in Seattle.” From The Great Depression in Washington State, University of Washingtn. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act/
Public Works Administration and the Grand Coulee Dam
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center. http://www.gorgediscovery.org
Grand Coulee Dam, Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region. http://www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
“Grand Coulee Dam Collection.” Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://content.lib.washington.edu/grandcouleeweb/index.html
“Public Works: Rebuilding Washington.” The Great Depression in Washington State, University of Washington. http://depts.washington.edu/depress/wa_new_deal.shtml
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Penguin Books, 1993.
White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
_____. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang, 1996.
Japanese-American Internment
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. http://www.densho.org
“Historical Overview: Japanese Americans in the Columbia River Basin.” Columbia River Basic Ethnic History Archives, Washington State University-Vancouver. http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/ja/ja.htm
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/
“Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Document sand Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II.” National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html
Waterways and Rivers
“Conceptualizing Native Place – Nisqually Watershed Podcasts.” The Evergreen State College. http://blogs.evergreen.edu/nativeplace/
“Elwha River Restoration.” Olympic National Park, National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/olym/naturescience/elwha-ecosystem-restoration.htm
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Penguin Books, 1993.
White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
_____. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang, 1996.
Life in Southwest Washington
“Farm Works in Washington State History Project.” Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, University of Washington. http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/farmwk_intro.htm
“Pamphlet and Textual Ephemera Collection.” Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://content.lib.washington.edu/ptecweb/index.html
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. Holt Paperbacks, 2000.
The Washington State Grange. http://www.wa-grange.org
“Washington State Localities Photographs.” Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington. http://content.lib.washington.edu/wastateweb/index.html
Place-Based and History Education Resources
Brooke, Robert, ed. Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing. Practitioner Inquiry 25. Berkeley, CA: National Writing Project, 2003.
Davis, M. Elaine. How Students Understand the Past: From Theory to Practice. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2005.
Gruenewald, David A. and Gregory A. Smith. Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
Haas, Toni and Paul Nachtigal. Place Value: An Educator's Guide to Good Literature on Rural Lifeways, Environments, and Purposes of Education. Charleston, WV: Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, 1998.
Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000.
Mandell, Nikki and Bobbie Malone. Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction. 2007.
Schur, Joan Brodsky. Eyewitness to the Past: Strategies for Teaching American History in Grades 5-12. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2007.
Stevens, Robert L. Homespun: Teaching Local History in Grades 6-12. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.
Whitman, Glenn. Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students & Meeting Standards through Oral History. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004.
Wade, Rahima C., ed. Community Action Rooted in History: The CiviConnections Model of Service-Learning. NCSS Bulletin 106. Silver Spring, MD: National Council for Social Studies, 2007.
