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

High School Education

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Digital Paxton features 13 lessons suitable for high school classrooms, most of which were created during a 2019 Teacher Seminar co-sponsored with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Most lessons are also suitable for use alongside the Native American graphic novel, Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga.

This page has paths:

  1. Education Will Fenton

Contents of this path:

  1. Early Encounters: Treaty Protocols and the Significance of Wampum
  2. The Ghosts of Wampum
  3. An Interview with the Paxton Boys
  4. Listening for Voices: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga
  5. Lynching and Terrorism: The Paxton Boys
  6. Murder on the Frontier: The Paxton Massacres
  7. Native American-European Contact in the Colonial Period
  8. Neolin and Pontiac's Rebellion
  9. Portrayal and Popular Opinion
  10. Primary Source Sets and Ghost River
  11. Transcribing the Paxton Boys
  12. Where are their Voices?
  13. Which Pennsylvania?