USH: Colonial Era Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:24:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Anatomy of a Slave Ship https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/the-anatomy-of-a-slave-ship/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:20:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5338 “The threat of insurrection was ever present. The captain assured a nervous Riland that he “kept such a guard on the slaves as would baffle all their efforts, should they attempt to rise.” They had already tried once while on the coast of Africa and failed. When the slaves were brought above, the main deck … Continue reading The Anatomy of a Slave Ship →

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]]> Animated Interactive: Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/animated-interactive-atlantic-slave-trade-in-two-minutes/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:44:23 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5334 This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on … Continue reading Animated Interactive: Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes →

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]]> Lecture: Paradoxes of the American Experience https://daniellazar.com/2014/09/01/lecture-paradoxes-of-the-american-experience/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:02:37 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5056 He is my lecture on Paradoxes of the American Experience, extrapolating on Michael Kammen’s masterpiece.

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]]> Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/some-wacky-cruel-and-bizarre-puritan-names/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:59:55 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4735 Slate collected some of the best, worst, and strangest names the English Puritans came up with. Most of these are courtesy of the 1888 book by Charles Bardsley, Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (seen here on the Public Domain Review’s website), which includes Parish records with details about some of the people who had these names. 20 Puritan Names … Continue reading Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names →

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]]> The Oatmeal on Columbus and his Legacy https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/the-oatmeal-on-columbus-and-his-legacy/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:16:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4725 Zinn and Loewen are sources for this cartoon

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]]> Long Hidden, Vatican Painting Linked To Native Americans https://daniellazar.com/2013/09/01/long-hidden-vatican-painting-linked-to-native-americans/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 05:59:14 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4651 For close to 400 years, the painting was closed off to the world. For the past 124 years, millions of visitors walked by without noticing an intriguing scene covered with centuries of grime. Only now, the Vatican says a detail in a newly cleaned 15th century fresco shows what may be one of the first … Continue reading Long Hidden, Vatican Painting Linked To Native Americans →

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]]> Howard Zinn at 90: Lessons From the People's Historian https://daniellazar.com/2012/09/08/howard-zinn-at-90-lessons-from-the-peoples-historian/ Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:42:58 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3784 August 24 — would have been the 90th birthday of the great historian and activist Howard Zinn, who died in 2010. Zinn did not merely record history, he made it: as a professor at Spelman College in the 1950s and early 1960s, where he was ultimately fired for his outspoken support of students in the … Continue reading Howard Zinn at 90: Lessons From the People's Historian →

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]]> Lecture Notes: English Colonization https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/lecture-notes-english-colonization/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:22:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3456 From Free University

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]]> Interview: In '1493,' Columbus Shaped A World To Be https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/interview-in-1493-columbus-shaped-a-world-to-be/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:31:58 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3290 “It was a tremendous ecological convulsion — the greatest event in the history of life since the death of the dinosaurs,” says Mann. “And this underlies a huge amount of history learned in schools: the Industrial Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, the rise of the West — all of these are tied up in what’s been … Continue reading Interview: In '1493,' Columbus Shaped A World To Be →

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]]> Colonial America Lecture Series https://daniellazar.com/2010/06/18/colonial-america-lecture-series/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:45:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2154 A Brief History of 13 Colonies. 18th Century Colonial Society & Culture Areas of focus are: Demography, Commerce, Religion, Education, Press, Politics & Philosophy Settlements Across Seas; The Reasons, The Failures & a Success (1520-1624) (Conlin Ch 2) From America Past and Present (Divine, et al.) Ch 2 England’s Colonial Experiment (1590-1750) Ch 3 Putting … Continue reading Colonial America Lecture Series →

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