Education

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Standards and Frameworks

Tools for Teachers

Scholarships and Awards

Student Resources

Tools for Teachers' Toolboxes

Educational Field Trips

Primary Source Documents

Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, Lorena S. Walsh. Robert Cole’s World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. The primary source material upon which the book is based serves as the foundation for the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation at Historic St. Mary’s City.


Close Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767. Documents for the Classroom. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1993, rev. 1994. This book contains copies of primary documents, maps, and drawings which relate to the contact between Maryland’s first inhabitants and the settlers who came from England. It is also available online at www.mdarchives.state.md.us.

Lesson Plans

Values Through History, a Texas non-profit, prepared the Why America Is Free program of study. This curriculum immerses fourth and fifth-grade students into the founding period of our democratic republic through a multi-week, engaging, historically accurate learning experience using lessons in History, Civics, Science, and other disciplines. For more information, visit Values Through History.

Documents for the Classroom

Scholarships and Awards: Additional Opportunities

Maryland State Archives "ischool"

For students interested in archives, special collections, and special libraries.

The Maryland State Archives is the repository for the permanent records of Maryland state, county and municipal government, including government reports and other publications. In addition to Maryland government records, our holdings include a Library of Marylandia and Special Collections of broad scope, such as newspapers, manuscripts and private papers, maps, church records, and an extensive art collection. For an overview of our holdings, SEE Finding Records.

Types of Opportunities

Field Study (year round): The Maryland State Archives strongly believes in supporting future professionals in the library and archive fields. We have a number of departments that can work with iSchool students, in both library and archive-based programs. We can work with students to tailor a Field Study to a potential interest or students can choose from an pre-identified need within the Archives. Students could work on one or more of the following subjects: appraisal, reference, cataloging, processing, arrangement and description, conservation and preservation, digitization, digital curation, collection development.

Specific Opportunities: Special Collections Processing

State Archives staff have a strong commitment to mentoring all students at the State Archives. For more information, contact Megan Craynon at megan.craynon@maryland.gov.

American Revolution Institute – Society of Colonial Wars Fellow Program

The General Society of Colonial Wars and the American Revolution Institute (ARI) of the Society of the Cincinnati share common interests and goals, including education and research about America’s Founding Era. The Maryland Society has funded several fellowships at the ARI’s Anderson House Library that are supported by a matching grant from the GSCW. Combined funds available for these fellowships amount to $15,000. The fellowships provide funds for graduate students and other scholars — each a “fellow” — to perform research at the ARI library related to the history of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region fom 1607-1775. Each fellowship grant is for $2,500. The ARI selects each Fellow subject to these historical periods and subject-matter limitations. The goal is to fund two fellowships annually until the full grant proceeds are exhausted. If the ARI selects only one or no fellow, such funds will be retained until Fellows are selected that meet the criteria. The ARI will encourage recipients of the fellowships to present their research to the Maryland Society or the SCW at an appropriate time and place. For more details about this short-term fellowship, contact the Library staff at the American Revolution Institute, library@societyofthecincinnati.org or call at 202-785-2040 ext. 424.

Washington College

With financial assistance from the General Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland has established the Halcott Mebane Turner Internship at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. This summer internship will be awarded to an undergraduate at the College who undertakes colonial period-related study and research.

For more information, see washcoll.edu. (Starr Center)

Student Resources

Historic Saint Mary's City

Where Maryland Began…the Colonial History of St. Mary’s County. Sandy Shoemaker. Orion Publications, 2000. Written by the former Education Coordinator at Historic St. Mary’s City, this book is directed at elementary school students studying Maryland history. It contains extensive descriptions of Maryland’s first capital and the beginnings of the colony.

Resources for Lifetime Learners

Maryland State Archives Publications

A Relation of the Successful Beginnings of the Lord Baltimore’s Plantation in Maryland (1634). Anonymous. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, Hall of Records.

Daily Life in the New World, 1634-1715. Documents for the Classroom. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1991, rev. 1993. This book contains copies of primary documents and maps related to Maryland’s early history. It is also available online at www.mdarchives.state.md.us.

America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Paul Hulton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. This book contains color prints of the original drawings by John White, which were interpreted by Theodor de Bry as engravings.

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