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| New Bog Website | | | | | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:39 PM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
| | | I'm trying a new website for my blog. It can be found here: http://mrdaugherty.wordpress.com/ Check it out. I have a new entry on it. | | | |
| Yesterday's Meeting | | | | | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:51 PM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
| | | Hello APUSHers! First of all I would like to thank Monica and Kim for showing up at our second APUSH summer session. Yesterday we went through the folder and I explained a little bit about historical theory. Our next and last meeting will be on Aug | | | |
| 4th of July (repost from last year) | | | | | Saturday, July 4, 2009 10:34 AM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
| | | In honor of our country's 232nd birthday today, I thought I would give you just a little history of our Independence (don't worry, we will go over this in depth in just a couple of months). In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, many col | | | |
| Michael Jackson 1958-2009 | | | | | Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:43 PM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
| | | OK APUSHers, this one will be a little off topic. First of all, I wouldn't call myself a Michael Jackson fan. Not to speak ill of the dead, but I think he was a little wierd. However, as I watch the news coverage tonight, I am struck as to how this | | | |
| | | Eastward Expansion | | | | | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:48 PM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
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Yesterday I talked about western expansion. To both the English colonists and later to the Americans, the west was always the frontier so for us today, we tend to look that way to our future.
Frederick Jackson Turner is the one historian that is most closely tied to this idea that the history of America is the history of the West. In fact in the opening paragraph of a paper he delivered in 1893, he states:
In fact, according to the Turner, it was the frontier that ultimately makes us who we are today. According to him, it was this connection to the frontier and the dangers that it contained (lack of civilization, the threat of Native Americans, and the rugged simplicity of those living in it) that allowed for the European immigrants to truly become Americans (he uses the illustration of taking a German immigrant from a railroad car and putting him in a birch canoe.) In fact from an economic point of view, the west was very important for us. During the 1800s, a good portion of the revenue the US Government came from land sales and tariffs.
The great newspaper editor Horace Greeley is often quoted as giving the advice "Go West Young Man" during the 1800s, signifying that the future of this country was to the west. And we tend to think of this land as wide, open spaces, ripe for the taking. However, we don't always state that this land wasn't ripe for the taking and we forget that there was a people living here before we got here. A people who did not advance from the East to the West, but who arrived from the West and headed East.
More tomorrow.
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| First Entry | | | | | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:55 PM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
| | | Evening APUSHers, Ok, I'll admit that I am a little unmotivated to work much this year so I can only imagine how you feel. I have really tried to steer away from history this summer. I'm a little burned out from AP last year. I'm also sorry for th | | | |
| Welcome to the Blog | | | | | Sunday, June 7, 2009 8:00 AM -0400 | By: Bob Daugherty |
| | | Good Morning APUSHers. Welcome to the first entry in this summer's blog. The purpose of this blog is to stay in touch with you over the summer and try to get you to think about history. I've learned from some of the mistakes I made last year and thi | | | |
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