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Session A-2: Encountering Ourselves: American Indians And The Age Of Revolution, Claiborne Skinner
Session A-2: Encountering Ourselves: American Indians And The Age Of Revolution, Claiborne Skinner
Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
This session will explore how Europeans who encountered the indigenous peoples of North America came to see them as a window into their own past. This provided philosophers and political theorists with a means by which to critique Baroque civilization. The result was Locke's "Natural Law," and Rousseau's Noble Savage." The notion that the world had moved away from freedom and liberty by becoming civilized became a potent argument for both the American and French Revolutions.
Session C-1: Teaching New Salem: Jacksonian America In An Illinois Village, Claiborne Skinner
Session C-1: Teaching New Salem: Jacksonian America In An Illinois Village, Claiborne Skinner
Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
Salem State Park is inextricably bound up in the legend of Abraham Lincoln. Obscured by this is the fact that the rise and fall of the village of New Salem offers teachers a microcosm of the era of Andrew Jackson, westward expansion, and the aspirations and disappointments of antebellum America.