{"id":86,"date":"2015-09-18T21:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/?p=86"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:51:43","slug":"early-american-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/early-american-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"Early American Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we will look at two travel narratives from early America. The first is the famous journals of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/lewisandclark\/\">Lewis and Clark<\/a>&#8216;s Corps of Discovery and their 2-year journey across the continent in search of a Northwest water passage (1804-1806). The second is is the 1744 trip&#8211;by boat, and by rather primitive roads&#8211;of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Hamilton_(doctor)\">Dr. Alexander Hamilton<\/a> (not to be confused with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Hamilton\">Alexander Hamilton<\/a>, man on the $20 bill, Jefferson&#8217;s Secretary of Treasury, who was killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804. That&#8217;s a completely different guy), a young physician rambling alone with a keen eye to the Eastern seaboard world and a keen ear for the many accents and languages he encounters there. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll use both of these as case studies for how to approach a primary source: the raw material of historical analysis. Also we consider the literary conventions in travel writing, and how these writers (and many others) narrate journeys across America&#8211;and how we remember, memorialize and mythologize such journeys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/lewisandclark\/archive\/maps\/map2_b.jpg\" width=\"387\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Tues 9\/22<\/strong> Bring laptops &#8211; you&#8217;ll get assigned a portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu\/\">Lewis and Clark journals<\/a> in class, and we&#8217;ll talk about how to search within and analyze these sources. <strong>[H-Lab #1 due &#8211; email it by classtime]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/193LewisnClark-WebAssignment.Fa15.doc\">Lewis and Clark homework document for Thurs 9\/24<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs 9\/24 <\/strong>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi193road\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Hamilton.Itinerarium.pdf\">Hamilton&#8217;s Itinerarium of 1744<\/a> (PDF &#8211; also posted on Blackboard) and bring it to class either as a printout or on your laptop\/device. The word &#8220;Itinerarium&#8221; recalls ancient Roman road schemas, e.g. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/talbert\/\">Peutinger Table<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, I <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&#038;msid=100153201231944797667.000472f19634583452f0e\">mapped the Hamilton Itinerarium excerpts we have onto Google maps<\/a> so you can see where his travels took him. Surprisingly, most of the place names he mentions have survived to the present. Notice anything about his route? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we will look at two travel narratives from early America. The first is the famous journals of Lewis and Clark&#8216;s Corps of Discovery and their 2-year journey across the continent in search of a Northwest water passage (1804-1806). 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