Landscape, Art, and Ecology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Demographics
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Introduction to Historical Maps as Artifacts
  5. Development of Richmond
  6. Pre-Civil War
  7. Civil War and Reconstruction
  8. Industrial Revolution and beyond
  9. Artistic Responses to Industrialization
  10. Landscape and Urban Changes
  11. African American Response to Industrialization
  12. African American Artistic Response
  13. Teaching Strategies
  14. Summative Assessment: Lives Through Time in Richmond, VA
  15. Differentiation Strategies
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Appendix On Implementing District
  19. Notes

The History of Richmond through Maps

Greysi Vasquez

Published September 2024

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Notes

1Waldoch, Laura. 2015. “Marshall Island Sailing Charts.” Www.lib.cam.ac.uk. April 20, 2015. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/royal-commonwealth-society/collections/marshall-island-sailing-charts.*images of the stick maps can be found here

2 “Fra Mauro’s Mappa Mundi.” NASA Landsat Science. January 17, 2014. Accessed July 9, 2024. https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/fra-mauros-mappamundi/#:~:text=Fra%20Mauro%2C%20a%20Venetian%20monk,map%20as%20citations%20of%20integrity.

3 Brotton, Jerry. 2013. A History of the World in 12 Maps. Penguin.

4 National Park Service. 2017. “Tredegar Iron Works - Ironmaker to the Confederacy.” Nation Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior, August. https://www.nps.gov/articles/tredegar-iron-works-ironmaker-to-the-confederacy.htm.

5 “10 Facts: Richmond, Virginia.” 2019. American Battlefield Trust. March 20, 2019. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-richmond-virginia#:~:text=Richmond%20was%20a%20heavily%20industrialized.

6 McInnis, Maurie D. 2011. Slaves Waiting for Sale. University of Chicago Press.

7 Furgurson, Ernest B. 1996. Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War. Knopf.

8 Unknown. 1835. View of Richmond, Virginia. The Valentine. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/a-history-of-richmond-in-50-objects-the-valentine-richmond-history-center/GwUxQxwLzA4A8A?hl=en. *Image of View of Richmond, Virginia can be found here

9 The Museum of Modern Art. 2016. “Frances Benjamin Johnston.” The Museum of Modern Art. MoMA. 2016. https://www.moma.org/artists/7851.*Photographs can be found here

10 Virginia Museum of History and Culture. 2024. “Jim Crow to Civil Rights in Virginia.” Virginia Museum of History & Culture. 2024. https://virginiahistory.org/learn/jim-crow-civil-rights-virginia.

11 Backer, Joseph. 1886. Tenth Annual Convention of the Knights of Labor, at Richmond. https://www.loc.gov/item/98506155. *Newspaper illustration from 1886 that depicts the tenth annual convention of the Knights of Labor, at Richmond – Frank J. Farrell, colored delegate of District Assembly No. 49, introducing General Master Workman Powderly to the convention/from a sketch by Joseph Becker can be found here

12 Borja, Mel. 2023. “Richmond’s Tradition of Black-Led Labor Organizing: Then and Now.” The Commonwealth Institute. July 19, 2023. https://thecommonwealthinstitute.org/the-half-sheet/richmond-labor-organizing-history/.

13 Bolling, Leslie. 1930. Aunt Monday. Richmond, VA. Virginia Museum of Fine Art. https://vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-311498144/. *Image of Aunt Monday can be fund here

14 The Library of Virginia. n.d. “Library of Virginia - Leslie Garland Bolling Exhibition - List of Titles - Sports.” Www.lva.virginia.gov. Accessed July 12, 2024. https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/bolling/list_sports.asp. *Images of Boxer, Runner, and Shot Putter can be found here

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