Website Resources - 8th Grade

These web links are organized by the themes included in the California History/Social Science Framework (2016) and by the themes used in the 8th grade curriculum guide.

• 8th Lesson Links
• 11th History Resources
• LGBT History Timeline

General Links:

• Quick History of LGBT History from Wikipedia.
• National Park Service - LGBTQ Theme Study . Collection of 32 different historical articles about LGBTQ history. 
• Out History. Primary source documents and historical articles. OutHistory.org was founded in October 2008 by Jonathan Ned Katz, author of the groundbreaking Gay American History (1976) and other books on the history of sexuality. http://outhistory.org/  
• University of California, Santa Cruz. Oakes Queer History Project (Archives, Timeline and Vocabulary). http://queerhistory.sites.ucsc.edu/ 
• Rainbow History Project. http://rainbowhistory.org/ 
• World Gender Map (Clickable Google Map)  

Lesson 1: The Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment 

• 14th Amendment Summary. https://www.thoughtco.com/us-constitution-14th-amendment-summary-105382 
• Constitution Center. Huge Supreme Court cases about the 14^th Amendment. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-huge-supreme-court-cases-about-the-14th-amendment 
• Fourteenth Amendment for Kids. http://www.ducksters.com/history/us_government/fourteenth_amendment.php 
• Library of Congress Guide, 14^th Amendment. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html 
• PBS. Landmark Court Cases. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html 
• PBS. Equality and the Fourteenth Amendment. http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/equality/#.We-9bBNSzSk 
• PBS. Expanding Civil Rights / Landmark Court Cases. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark.html 
• U.S. News and World Reports. Fourteenth Amendment Cases that were a Big Deal. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/28/heres-why-the-14th-amendment-is-a-big-deal

Topic 2:  Westward Movement and Gender Diversity in Frontier Life Through Photo Analysis (1800-1870) 

• Lesson Images
• Arango, Tim. "Overlooked No More: Charley Parkhurst."  New York Times. December 15, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/obituaries/charley-parkhurst-overlooked.html
• Flanaghan, Michael. “Gold Rush Gays.” Bay Area Reporter. November 20, 2012. https://www.ebar.com/bartab//233376 
• Hart, Bret. “Tennessee’s Partner.” Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 3. 1907.  (Discusses two men and their friendship during the late 1800s). http://www.bartleby.com/195/15.html 
• Hupp, Theresa. Roles of Women During the California Gold Rush.  https://www.theresahuppauthor.com/blog/2015/04/22/roles-of-women-during-the-california-gold-rush/ 
• Hushed Up History. Charley Parkhurst. https://husheduphistory.com/post/144458529593/a-driver-in-disguise-the-story-of-charley
• Kaplan, Sarah. “The Improbable, 200 year old story of one of America’s first same sex “marriages.” Washington Post. March 20, 2015.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/20/the-improbable-story-of-one-of-americas-first-same-sex-marriages-from-over-200-years-ago/?utm_term=.86bb1a6786aa 
• Museum of California. “Gold Fever!” http://explore.museumca.org/goldrush/fever12.html 
• National Park Service. “Gold Rush Families San Francisco through Letters and Stories.”  https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/gold-rush-families-letters.htm  
• Only in Your State. “These 14 Rare Photos Show Northern California’s Mining History Like Never Before.” July 5, 2017. http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/mining-photos-norcal/ 
• Painter, George. “The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States.”  2005.  https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/introduction.htm 
• Placzek, Jennifer. "Meet Charley Parkhurst, the Gold Rush's Fearless Gender Non Conforming Stagecoach Driver."  KQED News.  April 25, 2019.  
  https://www.kqed.org/news/11742467/meet-charley-parkhurst-the-gold-rushs-fearless-gender-nonconforming-stagecoach-driver 
• U.C. Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. “The California Gold Rush Experience: Gold Rush Women.” 
• http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Goldrush/room_06.html 
• U.C. Berkeley History-Social Science Project. “Remembering Charley Parkhurst: New Opportunities in Gold Rush Era California” lesson plan.
• http://ucbhssp.berkeley.edu/content/remembering-charley-parkhurst-new-opportunities-gold-rush-era-california 
• Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.  “The Gold Discovery.”  http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/impact.html

Books

• Parkinson, Jessie. Adventuring in California.  Applewood Books, 2008. (Discusses lifelong partners James P. Chamberlain and Jason A. Chaffee who settled in California in 1852).  

Lesson 3: Native Americans, Gender Roles and Two-Spirit People

• NPS Series: LGBTQ and Native Americans / Two-Spirt Tradition
• 5 Genders, The Story of the Native American Two-Spirits (2016). https://the-numinous.com/native-american-two-spirits/
• Pruden, Harlan. Two-Spirit Presentation / PowerPoint. http://www.ncai.org/policy-research-center/initiatives/Pruden-Edmo_TwoSpiritPeople.pdf
•  Pruden, Harlan. “Two-Spirit: Past, Present & Future.” (Written in document, “The Gender Spectrum: What Educators Need to Know.”) http://www.nlta.nl.ca/wp-content/uploads/public/documents/resources/gender_spectrum.pdf 
•  PBS Two Spirit Movie and Resources (2011).  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/two-spirits/
• Roscoe, Will. “Who are the Native American Two Spirits?” 2010. http://www.willsworld.org/twospiritq-a.html 
• Williams, Walter. “The “Two-Spirit” People of Indigenous North Americans.” The Guardian. October 2010.  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/11/two-spirit-people-north-america

YouTube Videos about Two Spirit People 

• Two-Spirit People Voices. Frameline Films. (22 Minutes).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JcmAoderl4
  An overview of historical and contemporary Native American concepts of gender, sexuality and sexual orientation and two-spirit tradition.
• As They Are: Two-Spirit People in the Modern World – USC Department of Anthropology. (18 minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGxZL870ZE
  Reference for teachers. Provides a first person account from several individuals about two-spirit people as well as the insights from gay two-spirit people. 

Books:

• Lang, Sabine, Men as Women, Women as Men (1998). 
• Jacobs, Sue-Ellen, Sabine Lang, and Wesley Thomas, eds., Two-Spirit People (1997)

Topic 4: Cross-Dressing or “Passing Women” in the Civil War 

General:

• Righthand, Jess. “The Women Who Fought in the Civil War.”  The Smithsonian. April 7, 2011.    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-fought-in-the-civil-war-1402680/
• Sheppard, Nicholas. “The Gay Man Who Saved the American Revolution.”  Huffington Post. 2015. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-sheppard/the-gay-man-who-saved-the_b_7838506.html 
• Women's Service in the Revolution War. http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume7/nov08/women_revarmy.cfm 
• Women in the Revolutionary War. http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-roles-of-women-in-the-revolutionary-war/
• Was Pres. James Buchanan Gay? https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/753439.html  

Jennie Hodgers – Albert Cashier 

• Challenging Gender Boundaries: Albert D. J. Cashier.  http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/tgi-bios/albert-cashier 
• National Park Service. Jennie Hodgers, aka Private Albert Cashier.  https://www.nps.gov/articles/jennie-hodgers-aka-private-albert-cashier.htm 
• NPR. In Civil War, Woman Fought Like a Man for Freedom. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104452266 
• Albert, the Musical. https://www.albertcashierthemusical.com/

Loreta Velazquez – Harry Buford 

• Loreta Janeta Velazquez Biography. https://www.civilwar.org/learn/biographies/loreta-janeta-velazquez 
• Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez: Heroine or Hoaxer. http://www.historynet.com/madame-loreta-janeta-velazquez-heroine-or-hoaxer.htm
• Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford. 1876. Google Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=i7kNAQAAMAAJ
• Davis, William C. Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Solider Impersonator, Media Celebrity , and Con Artist. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48035

Sarah Emma Edmonds – Frank Thompson 

• Civil War Biography. http://www.civilwarhome.com/edmondsbio.html 
• National Park Service Biography. https://www.nps.gov/resources/person.htm%3Fid%3D209 
• Edmonds, Sara Emma (1865). Digitized Book. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army. https://archive.org/stream/nursespyinuniona00edmo#page/n7/mode/2up
• Edmonds, Sara Emma (1865). Audio Book. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0BEN7AWDis

Deborah Sampson – Robert Shurtleff 

• Deborah Sampson: Woman Warrior of the American Revolution. http://historyofmassachusetts.org/deborah-sampson-woman-warrior-of-the-american-revoultion
•  Vinton, John Adams. Life of Deborah Sampson: The Female Solder in the War of Revolution. 1797. https://archive.org/details/femalereviewherm00mannrich   
• Proctor, Judd and Brian Burns. "America's First Gender Bending Soldier Fought in the Revolutionary War." LGBTQ Nation. 2017.  https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/08/americas-first-gender-bending-soldier-fought-revolutionary-war/

Slave Life Narratives - 8.7 The South;  8.11 Reconstruction 

Framework: “Students discuss the role that race and gender played in constructing the enslaved as in need of civilization and thereby rationalizing slavery; the daily lives of enslaved men and women on plantations and small farms, including the varied family structures they adopted..."

OutHistory. "Same Sex Desire and the Slave Narrative."  http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aspectsofqueerexistence/aspectsofqueerexistenceslavena 

Books

Boag, Peter. Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Blanton, DeAnne and Laren Cook Wike. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Google books: https://books.google.com/books?id=deYLGaWeUCcC

Charles Clifton, “Rereading Voices from the Past: Images of Homo-Eroticism in the Slave Narrative,” in The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities, ed. Delroy Constantine-Simms (Los Angeles: Alyson, 2000)

Kneib, Martha. Women Soldiers, Spies, and Patriots of the American Revolution; 2004.

Moore, Frank. Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-sacrifice. Cincinnati: S. S. Scranton & Co., 1866. Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/Women_of_the_War.html?id=ymDhAAAAMAAJ

Stiehm, Judith. It’s Our Military Too!: Women and the U.S. Military; 1996.

General Info

National Park Service - LGBTQ Theme Study