My apologies for cross-posting.

This was posted to the H-OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute of Early American
History & Culture at William and Mary) list this morning and I thought that
many on this list would also want to know about it, if they didn't already.

Martha Katz-Hyman

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To: Good People on EARAM-L and H-OIEAHC

May 13. Founding of Jamestown. I wonder if I can use this birthday for a
brief note to call attention to our recently enhanced Pocahontas Archive.

http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/

The site now has 1900 entries in the bibliography, the first half of
which are annotated and linked, where available, to the growing number
of online texts provided by Google Books and other digital libraries.
Also new to the archive are sections on the historical record (the
places where Pocahontas did and did not appear during her lifetime and
just after), the debunking controversy (from before Adams to after
Lemay), a wacky but revealing collection of Pocahontas epithets (from
"the dusky dryad" to "Powhatan's tomboy"), and teaching assignments
(please send us yours). On the horizon are finishing the annotating and
linking of the second half of the bibliography, a large compilation of
sound bites from primary and secondary works, and a collection of essays.

As things wind down this spring, I invite you to consider ways that you
can use the archive in your fall classes, to contribute your
assignments, and, especially, to contribute student essays (or videos or
podcasts) to help kick off the essay collection.

Hang in there--

Ed Gallagher

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Edward J. Gallagher
Professor of English
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/ejg1.html<http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eejg1/ejg1.html>


John Saillant
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