2013-2014

June 9-11, 2014
A Mini Summer Institute - Celebrating 11 Years of AHTC

May 3, 2014
An Abbreviated Focus Workshop Featuring Dr. James Loewen

April 4, 2014
Book & Film Discussion Session - Comic Books: A History of the Medium as a Mirror for Social Issues, Part II

March 1, 2014
A Focus Workshop - Making Waves: A History of Feminism in the United States

September 26, 2013
Book & Film Discussion Session - Comic Books: A History of the Medium as a Mirror for Social Issues, Part I

2012-13

July 24, 2013
Book & Film Discussion Session - Based on a True Story? The Truth and Narrative License in American Film

July 9-10, 2013
A Mini Summer Institute - Love, Pride, Civil Rights, & Identity:
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in American History

April 18, 2013
Book & Film Discussion Session - Presidential Portraits: The Chief Executive on Film

February 9, 2013
The Harlem Renaissance

November 3, 2012
Focus Workshop: Food, Drink, and Drugs in American History

October 17, 2012
Book & Film Discussion Session - The Nature of the Truth: The History of the Documentary Film

September 15, 2012
Focus Workshop: The History of Poverty in America

July 23 - 27, 2012
Summer Institute: The History of Scientific Innovation and Computing in the United States

 

2011-12

April 14, 2012
Focus Workshop: The History of American Sports and Games

April 4, 2012
Book and Film Discussion Session:
More than a Game: American Sports in the Movies

February 4, 2012
Focus Workshop: The History You See Depends on From Where You Are Looking - American History from Various Perspectives

November 19, 2011
Focus Workshop: Spies and The Intelligence Community

October 19, 2011
Book and Film Discussion Session:
Spies and the Intelligence Community

October 8-10, 2011
Experiential Learning Trip:
St. Louis: Gateway to the West

September 17, 2011
Focus Workshop: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, & Ford - Shaping a Nation through Capitalism

July 25-29, 2011
Summer Institute on Illinois History

2010-11

June 7-8, 2011
Immigration

April 9, 2011
Focus Workshop: American Indian Tribes of the Southeast

March 3, 2011
Book and Film Discussion Session:
American Film of the 1980s

February 5, 2011
Focus Workshop: Children & Teenagers in U.S. History

December 4, 2010
Focus Workshop: Voices of the People

October 14, 2010
Book and Film Discussion Session:
American Film of the 1970s

September 25, 2010
Focus Workshop: History of Illinois

July 26-30, 2010
Summer Institute on the Civil Rights Movement

2009-10

June 21-25, 2010
Experiential Learning Trip: Memphis: Music, the Mississippi, and Marching for Freedom

June 9-10, 2010
Pop Culture and Foreign Policy in the 1970s and 1980s

May 14-15, 2010
The Civil War

May 6, 2010
Book Discussion: Through A Child's Eyes:Two Little Girls & The Civil Rights Movement

April 24, 2010
Focus Workshop: Money, Materialism, Monopolies, and Millionaires Part II

April 17, 2010
Focus Workshop: Money, Materialism, Monopolies, and Millionaires Part I

March 11, 2010
Discussion Session:Defiance
Presented by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

March 4, 2010
Book and Film Discussion Session:
The Great Depression

February 27, 2010
Focus Workshop: African American Education

February 11, 2010
Book Discussion: The Lord Was Not on Trial

December 5, 2009
Focus Workshop: Wartime Innovations

November 19, 2009
Book Discussion: Too Politically Sensitive

October 24, 2009
Focus Workshop: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass

October 15, 2009
Book and Film Discussion Session:
Sight Unseen - 9/11 and the Iraqi War in American Movies

September 19, 2009
Focus Workshop: Leaders of a New Nation

AHTC 2010 Summer Fellows

2008-09

July 27-31, 2009
Summer Institute on Reform, Reformers, and Reformatories

June 16-21, 2009
Experiential Learning Trip: Boston: Relocation, Revolution, & Resistance

March 7, 2009
Focus Workshop: Woman Suffrage

November 22, 2008
Focus Workshop: Life in the Colonies

October 23, 2008
Book and Film Discussion Session: The Civil Rights Movement in American Film

September 17
Film Discussion Session: The Changing Roles of Women in the Movies

AHTC 2009 Summer Fellows

2007-08

July 21-25, 2008
Summer Institute on the Constitutional Convention

April 19, 2008
Focus Workshop: The Middle Passage -
The Human Experience on the Triangular Trade Route

January 26, 2008
Focus Workshop: History of American Music

September 29, 2007
Focus Workshop: Kennedy at Home and Abroad

September 15, October 25, November 27, 2007
Book and Film Discussion Series: The Hays Code of 1930

AHTC 2008 Summer Fellows

2006-07

July 23-27, 2007
Summer Institute: World War II and the Holocaust

June 8 & 9, 2007
Third Annual Teaching American History Conference
Hilton Garden Inn, Urbana Illinois

April 28, 2007
Focus Workshop: History of American Indians

January 27, 2007
Focus Workshop: Resistance to Slavery

January 25, March 1, April 26, June 20, 2007
Book and Film Discussion Series

November 18, 2006
Focus Workshop: History of American Journalism

August 17 & 18, 2006
Two-Day Learning Trip to Chicago

AHTC 2007 Summer Fellows

2005-06

July 24-28, 2006
Summer Institute: American Legal History

June 8 & 9, 2006
Two-Day Summer Workshop: Labor History

April 29, 2006
Focus Workshop: Brown v. Board of Education

April 8, 2006
Focus Workshop: Illinois Maps and History

February 23, 2006
Book Discussion: Isaac's Storm
by Erik Larson

January 21, 2006
Focus Workshop: Los Alamos & the Atomic Bomb

October 20, 2005
Book Discussion: Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918
and the search for the virus that caused it
by Gina Kolata

AHTC 2006 Summer Fellows

2004-05

July 25-29, 2005
Summer Institute: Tools and Medicine: The History of Science and Technology in Daily Life

April 9, 2005
Focus Workshop: Great Depression & Economics History

January 29, 2005
Focus Workshop: Teaching: Then & Now

October 23, 2004
Focus Workshop: Champaign-Urbana History

October 12 & 14, 2004
Book Discussion: Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson

AHTC 2005 Summer Fellows

2003-04

January 31, 2004
Focus Workshop: Lies My Teacher Told Me, a keynote presentation by James Loewen

April 13, 2004
Book Discussion : Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History
by James Percoco

February 24, 2004
Book Discussion: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong
by James Loewen

May 8, 2004
Focus Workshop: Civil Rights

March 13, 2004
Focus Workshop: Transportation & Local History

July 26-30, 2004
Focus Workshop: Immigration and Immigrant Life

AHTC 2004 Summer Fellows