Fort Ticonderoga has announced new college-level “Micro-Course” videos taught by Fort Ticonderoga Curator Dr. Matthew Keagle are now available for free online streaming.
These Micro-Courses were developed based on a national survey conducted with university professors. Each course provides a brief video exploring a wide range of historical topics and approaches based on Fort Ticonderoga rich museum collections. Discussion prompts or activities for engagement are provided to stimulate dialogue about the topic.
Currently three Micro-Courses are available building on strengths of the museum collection and exhibitions at Fort Ticonderoga:
Service and Citizenship: The Militia from Colonies to Nation builds upon Fort Ticonderoga’s new exhibit “A Well Regulated Militia: Citizen, Soldier, and State” and explores the legacy of the militia in colonial and early national history. This prompts students to think not only about the service of the militia historically, but what it tells us about the development of the American state and the evolving expectations and obligations of citizens.
Setting the World on Fire: Firearms in the Atlantic World explores the complex and fascinating history of firearms in the 18th-century Atlantic World. Firearms circulated across the world as currency, tools, weapons, and cultural objects in the thousands in the 18th century across a huge range of cultures. This course uses Fort Ticonderoga’s extensive collection to reveal how new organizations of labor produced literally millions of weapons that shaped the world we still live with to this day.
Sources and Methods for Holistic History look at how historians do the work of history. Using examples from Ticonderoga’s rich museum collection, we explore how different historical sources that tell us different aspects about the same topic, reminding students of history to be aware of the type of sources they encounter as well as what they record. By using a range of archival documents, as well as material culture, this course examines the range of sources that help us reconstruct the world of the past.
The courses can be found on Fort Ticonderoga’s website.
Photo of Fort Ticonderoga by Carl Heilman II.
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