Digital Paxton: Digital Collection, Critical Edition, and Teaching Platform Main Menu Introduction Will Fenton Using Digital Paxton Historical Overview Will Fenton Digital Collection Keywords GHOST RIVER Education Transcriptions Public Outreach Contact Credits The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and The Library Company of Philadelphia

Teacher Seminar Educational Materials

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The following 11 lessons and units model thoughtful and innovative approaches to the primary source materials available in the Digital Paxton Collection and the secondary source text, Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga (Red Planet Books & Comics, 2019).These materials are suitable for middle school and high school classrooms.

Contents of this path:

  1. Early Encounters: Treaty Protocols and the Significance of Wampum
  2. The Ghosts of Wampum
  3. Ghost River Meets the Spirits of the Conestoga
  4. Interpreting Conflict through Political Cartoons
  5. Listening for Voices: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga
  6. Murder on the Frontier: The Paxton Massacres
  7. Murder, Theft and Silence: The Conestoga Massacre
  8. Neolin and Pontiac's Rebellion
  9. Portrayal and Popular Opinion
  10. Revisiting the Massacre at Lancaster
  11. Wampum Tells a Story