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Primary
Source of the Month
D’Habit d’Imprimeur en Letters,
by Gerard Valck, Holland, ca. 1700. From
the collections of the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation.
CONTENTS
"Early
American Newspapering"
Primary
Source of the Month
Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quotation of the Month
The
next
Electronic Field Trip is
Influenced By None
January 18, 2007
2006-2007 Teaching
Resources Catalog
2006–2007 Electronic Field
Trip Scholarships
Games,
activities, and resources about life
in colonial America
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"Early
American Newspapering"
by James Breig
In seventeenth-century America, colonial governments had rather do without newspapers than brook their annoyance. In 1671, Governor William Berkeley of Virginia wrote: "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both." As the British government once told the governors of Massachusetts, "Great inconvenience may arise by the liberty of printing."
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Primary
Source of the Month:
D’Habit d’Imprimeur en Letters, by Gerard Valck
This print, titled “Habit d’Imprimeur en Lettres,” was created by Dutch engraver by Gerard Valck (1651–1726). It is one of a series of witty, imaginative, detailed engravings portraying itinerant vendors, tradesmen, and professionals wearing the tools and products of their occupations.
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Teaching
Strategy: Colonial Newspapers and Communication
Today, news and information is available in many forms, including the spoken word, handwritten documents, printed pieces, radio, television, and the Internet. Of these modern forms of communication, only the written word, handwritten documents, and printed pieces existed in the eighteenth century. In this lesson, students will learn how printers and newspapers provided readers with essential news and information in the 1700s.
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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:
- Maria's Story: 1773 (book)
- Teacher Guide for the Young Americans Series Books
- Earning a Living as a Tradesperson in Colonial America (lesson unit)
- Teaching Literacy Through History (lesson unit)
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Teaching
News
Are
you familiar with the National History
Day program? It is a history competition
for students in grades six through twelve
that engages students in the process of
discovery and interpretation of historical
topics. Students produce dramatic performances,
imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries
and research papers based on research
related to an annual theme. All projects
are evaluated at local, state, and national
competitions held each spring and early
summer.
The
2006–2007 National History Day contest
theme is "Triumph and Tragedy."
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Quotation
of the Month
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Currie,
January 28, 1786 |
Volume
5, Issue 5 
Historic Triangle