Week 6: Seminole Wars + Indian removal / video games

Reading for today:

Seminole Wars/Indian removal

Prologue to Inskeep, Steve. Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. (This book is available online through the GMU library but it can only be used by one patron at a time, so if you’re planning to access it that way, don’t procrastinate!)

Watson, Samuel. “Military Learning and Adaptation Shaped by Social Context: The U.S. Army and Its ‘Indian Wars,’ 1790-1890.” Journal of Military History 82, no. 2 (April 2018): 373–438. (I will provide a PDF.)

Shire, Laurel Clark. “Seminole Resistance.” In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida, 102–34. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dfnrws.7.

Video games

SKIM McCall, Jeremiah. “The Historical Problem Space Framework: Games as a Historical Medium.” Game Studies 20, no. 3 (September 2020). http://gamestudies.org/2003/articles/mccall.

Read and watch the video here about Serena Zabin and team’s video game about the Boston Massacre. (Prepare questions by Monday night if possible and send to me!)