Kacy Tillman, PhD
Assistant Professor of English and Writing
University of Tampa
RADICAL REVOLUTIONARIES IN BOSTON: A TRAVEL COURSE
This is a travel-at-home course that takes students to Boston and its surrounding areas to tour authors' homes, battlefields, and famous literary sites.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
FREEDOM TRAIL TOUR
Take a walking history tour of Boston, Massachusetts. Join our merry band of revolutionaries for an exciting journey through Colonial Boston and the American Revolution. Let Captain David Hawkins, Corporal Jonathan Hoyt, Bully Jim Denton, Freelove Bliss, and others show you Boston's Historic Freedom Trail like you've never seen it before.
You'll visit The Granary Burying Ground, which is the final resting place for such distinguished Revolutionary-era patriots as John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine and Samuel Adams, signers of the Declaration of Independence. Your journey into the past and the present along The Freedom Trail include one of the oldest public parks in the country, The Boston Common. At Fanueil Hall, enjoy the sights and smells of the market stalls on the first floor that service shoppers much as they did in Paul Revere's day.
GREAT BOSTON LITERARY TOUR
This tour will feature persons involved in early American Literature. Although this trip features people who wrote between 1775 and 1865, the students will get to see Cotton Mather and Ann Hutchinson-related sites, as it relates.
Key Writers: Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, and Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville.
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD/WALDEN POND TOUR
This tour will highlight the Margaret Fuller House in Cambridge, before heading to Old Manse, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Emerson historical site in Concord. Then, everyone will walk Walden Pond and see Thoreau’s House replica. We'll then trek over to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery to pay homage to the hollowed graves of America's most famous authors.
John Adams's House/Tour of Salem
Students will have the choice of visiting John Adams's house or touring Salem, Massachusetts, where the Salem Witch Trials took place.
Massachusetts Historical Society Experience
Travel back in time to the world of eighteenth-century America. Hold Abigail Adams's letters in your hands. Put yourself on the battlefield as you peruse 240-year old manuscripts. Who knows? You might just discover something something incredible!
COST
$1300
WHAT IT INCLUDES
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FLIGHT
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HOTEL
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ALL TOUR PACKAGES
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TRIP TO MASS. HIST. SOCIETY
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TRANSPORTATION TO/FROM TOURS & AIRPORT
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BREAKFASTS