American History Teachers' Collaborative
Mini Summer Institute

Celebrating Eleven Years of the American History Teachers' Collaborative!

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Monday, June 9th, 2014

Agenda

8:00 - 8:30 Welcome and introductions
8:30 – 10:30 Keynote by Dr. HW Brands, Presidents I Have Known
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 11:45

Breakout session 1:
- Discussion session with Dr. Brands
- Discussion session with Professor Mark Leff
- Film Discussion with Chuck Koplinski, Hollywood & the Red Scare
11:45 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:15

Breakout session 2: Switch groups
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 4:00 Keynote by Dr. Mark Leff, McCarthyism and the Politics of Fear
4:00 - 4:30

Closing remarks and evaluations

Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Agenda

8:00 - 8:15 Welcome and introductions
8:15 – 9:45 Keynote by Dr. Jim Barrett, The Irish and the Making of the Inter-ethnic American City
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:40

Breakout session 1 - Choose from one of the following:
- Discussion session with Dr. Barrett
- Lesson Presentation by Kyle Sondgeroth, How the Other Half Lives: Jacob Riis and his Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Film and Book Review by Michael Pollock and Carol Inskeep, Using Film to Enhance Historical Inquiry
10:40 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 Breakout session 2: Switch groups
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 2:00

Keynote by Dr. Stacey Robertson, Antislavery Now and Then: How We Can Learn from History to End Human Trafficking
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:00

Breakout session 3: Choose from one of the following:
- Discussion session with Dr. Robertson
- Lesson Presentation by Mark Foley, The Potawatomi Trail of Death
- Lesson Presentation by Mary Reger, Women in the Civil War
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00 Breakout session 4: Switch groups
4:00 - 4:30 Closing remarks and evaluations

Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Agenda

8:00 - 8:15 Welcome and introductions
8:15 – 9:45 Keynote by Dr. Sara Clarke Kaplan, African American Women's Political Resistance: From Slavery to Civil Rights
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45

Breakout session 1 - Choose from one of the following:
- Discussion session with Dr. Kaplan, Telling Black Women's History through Fiction and Film
- Lesson Presentation by Chris Adrian, On Display: Imperialism, Nationalism, Racism and Progress? The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World's Fair)
- Lesson Presentation by Karen Klebbe, Mighty Tired: Life as a Farm Wife
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Breakout session 2: Switch groups
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 1:00

Group photo
1:00 - 2:30 Keynote by Dr. Donald D. Owen, Finding Martin
2:30 - 3:30

Closing remarks and evaluations

 

 

     
 

 

 

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