2016 National History Day: Exploration, Encounter & Exchange in History
Topics and Resources for NHD 2016:
William Henry Sheppard: first African-American Presbyterian missionary to the Congo. He fought for better working conditions for Congolese rubber workers.
Rev. William H. Sheppard with Baketti Warriors, about 1900. [Image no. 4185]
Resources:
- Guide to the William H. Sheppard Papers (RG 457) (collection at PHS)
- Digitized photographs from RG 457 (Pearl)
- William H. Sheppard Missionary Personnel File, RG 360 (at PHS)
- Guide to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission Records (RG 432) (collection at PHS)
- Pioneers in Congo (autobiography in Internet Archive)
- Pagan Kennedy, Black Livingstone, 2003 (at PHS, BV 3625.C63 S544 2003 or the Free Library, 266.5109 SH49K)
- William Phipps, The Sheppards and Lapsley : Pioneer Presbyterians in the Congo (at PHS, BV 3625 .C62 P5 1991)
- Stanley Shaloff, "Presbyterians and Belgian Congo Exploitations: The Compagnie du Kasai v. Morrison and Sheppard," Journal of Presbyterian History, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Spring 1969)
Sheldon Jackson: pioneering missionary in the American West. He introduced reindeer to Alaska.
Introduction of domesticated reindeer into Alaska: Laplander giving a child a ride, 1898. [Image no. 2961]
Resources:
- Guide to the Sheldon Jackson Papers (RG 239) (collection at PHS)
- Sheldon Jackson Biographical Vertical File, RG 414 (at PHS)
- Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions Department of Work in Alaska Records (RG 301.3) (collection at PHS)
- Robert Laird Stewart, "The Mission of Sheldon Jackson in the Winning of the West," Journal of Presbyterian History, Vol. 6, Nos. 2 and 3 (1911-1912)
- "Sheldon Jackson-Pioneer Missionary," By Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, JPH, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1934-1935)
- Report on Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska, with maps and illustrations, 1894 (Internet Archive)
Eliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman: first white women to cross the Continental Divide. They were missionaries to the Cayuse and Nez Perce Indians in Oregon Territory.
Traveling party including Eliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman “on the Great Divide,” July 4, 1836. [Image no. 3495]
Resources:
- Guide to the Henry Harmon Spalding and Eliza Hart Spalding Papers (RG 283) (collection at PHS)
- Spalding letters from RG 283 (Pearl)
- Guide to the Sager Family Papers (RG 355) (collection at PHS)
- Records of the First Presbyterian Church in the Oregon Territory [1838-1878] (at PHS, VAULT BX 9211 .W29999 F51; Microfilm: MF/POS./39)
- "Mrs. Whitman's Letters, 1843-1847," published in 1894 (Internet Archive)
- Miles Cannon. Waiilatpu: Its Rise and Fall, 1836-1847: A Story of Pioneer Days in the Pacific Northwest Based Entirely Upon Historical Research, 1915 (Internet Archive)
- First white women over the Rockies : diaries, letters, and biographical sketches of the six women of the Oregon Mission who made the overland journey in 1836 and 1838 (at PHS, BV 3703 .D7 1963)
