Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
What are the boundaries of NH and how did they get there? How have the natural environment and the way people live affected each other in NH? What has happened when different cultures, races, and ethnic groups have met in NH? How have government and politics affected NH groups and individuals? How have technology and science affected life in NH? What have non- governmental organizations and groups contributed to NH life? How have people and organizations interacted to produce, distribute and consume wealth and take care of material needs in NH? How have NH people expressed their views, and what have they had to say?
Boundaries
Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
natural boundaries: NH landscape formation

human-made boundaries: Native American lands' European claims and grants

mapping

migrations

NH landscape

climate

Native American Culture, changes and alteration of land

European attraction to NH

Abenaki culture at contact

European fisherman

Protestant reformation

European explorers
(source 2)

epidemics in America

conflict and cooperation

Abenaki governance

European nation-states

European grants and claims

Native American technologies

sailing and navigation

European firearms

health and medicine

Abenaki families and clans

joint stock companies (Council for New England)

Native American hunting, gathering and agriculture

Native American trade

European need for resources

Colombian Exchange

Abenaki art, crafts and oral culture

European explorer narratives

archaeological artifacts

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
grant controversies 

Abenaki vs European ideas of ownership 

Massachusetts Bay and the Merrimack River 

boundaries after 1763 

town boundaries

animals and people 

access to Europe and West Indies 

population distribution 

transportation 

regionalism 

logging, sawdust and rivers

West African civilizations 

slave trade 

English colonists and culture 

Abenaki culture after contact 

Londonderry Scots-Irish 

conflict and cooperation

English, French, and Indian wars 

Abenaki leaders 

NH and MA Bay Colony 

NH and the English Crown 

town governments 

jurisdiction over Native Americans

Native American/
European exchanges of technologies 

tools 

household technologies 

weaponry 

transportation 

water power

families 

joint stock companies 

churches 

schools 

missionaries

fur, fish, lumber, farms 

Abenaki economy after contact 

mercantilism 

slavery 

local colonial economy 

barter

Abenaki 
(source 2)
legends, traditions, and music 

captivity narratives 

sermons 

missionary narratives 

travel narratives 

newspapers

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
settlement of the interior

NH-VT boundary

country boundaries

international boundaries

sectionalism in NH

sectionalism in the colonies

over-hunting and over-trapping

over-cutting timber

slaves of NH owners

free blacks

Native American emigration and assimilation

acts that build resentment

Declaration of Independence

Rebels, Tories, and war

NH and US Constitutions

NH slave petition - 1779

Republican Virtue

embargo and home production

print technology and revolution

road building and nationhood

bridge building

health and medicine

Daughters of Liberty

women and boycotts

revolution and the homefront
(Capture of Fort William and Mary)

benevolent societies

Freemasonry

sectionalism, economics, and politics

commerce

privateers and war

embargo and home manufactures

provincial currency
gold and silver

US constitution and the press (The Popular Press in New Hampshire 1756-1800 - online exhibit from UNH)

broadsides

Revolutionary music

needlework

crafts and art

Jeremy Belknap, History of NH

Boundaries
Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics
Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups
Material Wants and Needs
Self-
Expression
Indian Stream Republic

Webster-Ashburton Treaty (second source)

county borders

state sale of public lands

water: rivers and canal

mills and pollution

population distribution

roads and bridges

North Country notches

agriculture

going West

demographics

immigrant mill workers

religious sects

cult of true womanhood

embargo and War of 1812

Portsmouth Navy Yard

Jacksonian Democracy

Daniel Webster
(second source)

NH and national politics

education

mills: textiles and shoes

canals

railroads

millgirls and immigrant labor

Concord Coach

capitalism

religious sects

reform organizations

NH Historical Society

educational societies
 

professional societies

lodges and philanthropic organizations

cash economy vs barter

precapitalism to capitalism

farmers and cash

banking

emigration

Singing Hutchinsons

Shakers
(Shaker Crafts from the Index of American Design, Natrional gallery of Art)
Furniture Design - Article on furniture design from Jacobean to Art Nouveau)

Sarah Josepha Hale

Thomas Cole
(second source) 
(third source)

court cases

songs of reform

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
state completes sale of public lands national sectionalism

leaving NH

deforestation and farming

demographics

industrial labor

Know-Nothings
(second source)
race riots

fugitive slaves, abolitionists, and free blacks

Republican Party

Franklin Pierce

locofocos

Lincoln in NH

NH in battle and on the homefront

Morrill Act

photography and H.P. Moore

Thaddeus Lowe and the Union Balloon Corps

weaponry

wartime production

professional societies

benevolent societies

Secret Order of the Star Spangled Banner

patriotic societies

wartime manufacturing

wartime agriculture

wartime commerce

Harriet Adams Wilson, Our Nig

Celia Thaxter - Bio, articles, poems, timeline and more ...
(Paintings of Celia Thaxter by Massachusetts painter Childe Hassam)

photography

White Mountain School

letters and diaries

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
Monadnock first NH state and reserve logging, railroads, papermaking, Berlin

urbanization

agriculture

mining, quarrying

inspiration for art

demographics

religious diversity

Northern European immigrants

Canadian immigrants

Southern European immigrants

unionism

industry and government

utilities and government

education

suffrage movement

Populism

Old Home Day

paper and pulp

Cog Railway

railroads: tourism and logging

steam engines

trolleys

household technologies

covered bridges

NH Teachers Association

NH Grange

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

NH Woman Suffrage Association

NH Bar Association

youth camps

employment of children

employment of women

farming changes

class and leisure

emigration and immigration

urbanization

Amy Beach

Maxfield Parrish

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Mary Baker Eddy
Soul of a Women, a 60-minute video on the life of Mary Baker Eddy is available for $9.00 from New Hampshire PBS.

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
White Mountain National Park

town authorized to regulate growth

Franconia Notch-state recreation and conservation land

roads and the automobile

Weeks Act

tourism and the grand hotels

settlement patterns

forest fires

demographics

religous differences

Eastern European immigrants

education and Americanization

Red Scare

education reform

regulatory and protective legislation

welfare acts

Prohibition and its aftermath

World War I

automobile

telephone

electricity

radio

household technologies

Portsmouth Navy Yard

Society for the protection of NH forests

NH Woman Suffrage Association

NH Federation of Women's Clubs

NH Audobon Society

League of NH Craftsmen

textiles

labor actions

shoe manufacturing

agriculture

tourism

mail order catalogs

Robert Frost
(source 2)
(source 3)

Winston Churchill
(source 2)

Wallace Nutting
(source 2)

Edward MacDowell

mass leisure and culture

letters and diaries

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
Connecticut River Court Ruling

NH state park system

state recreation and land conversation

CCC Camps

Dust Bowl effects

drought, flood, wind

Victory Gardens

fines and fire-fighting

demographics

World War II immigrants

African-Americans

small-town life

Governor Winant

NH and the New Deal

World War II: NH at home and abroad

Camp Stark

town government

city government

health and medicine

farm machinery

defense industries

wartime production

Cooperative Extension Service

Red Cross

camps, scouting, 4-H, and other children's organizations

peace movement

civic clubs

The Great Depression in NH

faltering industries

women working

economic recovery

wartime economy

community canneries

Robert Frost
(source 2)
(source 3)

popular music, big bands, dancing

radio shows

letters and diaries

Willa Cather
(source 2)
(source 3)

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
Maine-NH Lobster War

zoning

geographical survey maps

water pollution

Interstate Highway System

Durham and the Onassis refinery

energy sources

environmental movement

recreational sports

demographics

Red Scare

population distribution

First-in-Nation Primary

Civil Rights Movement

Cold War in NH: Korea, Subversive Activities Law, Vietnam, Pease and Grenier Air Fields
tax issues

communications

transportation

energy sources

construction machinery

pollution and ecological damage

consumer goods

peace movement

veteran's organizations

volunteer organizations

private schools

civil rights organizations

feminist organizations

Daughters of the American Revolution

NH Sweepstakes Lottery

ski industry

tourism

agriculture

light manufacturing

lumber, fish, and minerals

newspapers

television

advertising

rock-n-roll
flower children

Elizabeth Yates

Boundaries Natural
Environment
and People
Culture,
Races and
Ethnic Groups
Politics Technology 
and Science
Non- governmental Groups Material Wants and Needs Self-
Expression
Piscataqua River dispute

NH Department of Transportation maps

NH, US, and World maps

city and regional planning maps

zoning

satellite maps

fishing industry

cleaning up the environment

conservation vs development

state parks

hunting game animals

weather prediction

demographics

Asian Americans in NH

Native Americans in NH

African Americans in NH

European Americans in NH

Hispanic Americans in NH

NH Constitution and amendments

community, county, and state government

taxation

welfare

state symbols

settlement patterns

light manufacturing

NH in Space

urbanization

communication

transportation

farmer's markets

Appalachian MT. Club

religious groups

labor unions

families

tourism

ski industry

agriculture

resource extraction

migrant labor

two NHs

Aerosmith
(official site)

Lotte Jacobe

Maxine Kumin

Donald Hall
(source 2)
(source 3)
 

May Sarton
 

Jane Kenyon
(source 2)


 
 

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