A worksheet to help students analyze the photographs, provided by the National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/photoana.htm
Photographs of the Sweet Briar Plantation.http://www.tusculum.sbc.edu/SweetBriarPlantation/history_photos.shtml
African American Heritage at Sweet Briar.
http://www.tusculum.sbc.edu/AfricanAmericans.shtml
Historic Postcards from Sweet Briar's campus.
http://briarpatchpostcards.pbworks.com/Postcard-Collection
Article about enslaved families.
http://www.tusculum.sbc.edu/SweetBriarPlantation/enslavedfamilies.shtml
View information about Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (Albemarle County)
http://classroom.monticello.org/kids/home/
Learn about Thomas Jefferson's Retreat at Poplar Forest (Bedford County)
www.poplarforest.org/
Compare George Washington's Mt. Vernon to the Sweet Briar Plantation
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/index.cfm/
Visit the newly restored Montpelier, home to James and Dolley Madison (Orange Co.)
http://www.montpelier.org/
This lesson plan was modified from the National Park Service's Teaching With Historic Places on-line guide. For more lesson plans that use historic places, visit: www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/. For a list of lesson plans that use sites in Virginia, visit: www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/state.htm#va.
Please send feedback on this lesson to: Dr Lynn Rainville (lrainville@sbc.edu).
For the high resolution photographs and on-line readings visit: www.tusculum.sbc.edu