Advanced Placement Summer Workshop: United States History

Description

This workshop is designed to prepare high school United States history teachers to teach this course in their high schools, to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history, and to develop the skills necessary for arriving at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and the skills for presenting reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. The teachers will also be introduced to the latest College Board changes to the test and scoring strategies.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Institute for History Education
Phone number
856-241-1990
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
$1,295 for resident; $895 for commuter
Course Credit
All teachers will receive a certificate for 30 hours of College Board approved instruction. In addition, all New Jersey teachers will receive 30 professional development hours from the American Institute for History Education as a state-approved vendor.
Duration
Six days
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Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History

Description

Designed especially for secondary school teachers of U.S. history, law, and civics/government, the institute will deepen participants' knowledge of the federal judiciary and of the role the federal courts have played in key public controversies that have defined constitutional and other legal rights. Participants will work closely throughout the institute with leading historians, federal judges, and curriculum consultants. Confirmed faculty include Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Harvard Law School and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University.

To explore the theme of "Seeking Social Change Through the Courts," the institute will focus on these three landmark federal trials: Woman suffrage and the trial of Susan B. Anthony, Chinese Exclusions Acts and Chew Heong v. United States, and the desegregation of New Orleans schools and Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board.

Contact name
Kaplan, Howard
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Bar Association Division for Public Education; Federal Judicial Center
Phone number
312-988-5738
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Six days
End Date

Eisenhower Academy

Description

From the Eisenhower National Historic Site:

"The 13th annual Eisenhower Academy, a summer institute for teachers, presents an in-depth perspective of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president and world leader, and introduces effective strategies for teaching the Cold War era in the classroom. Lectures and discussion cover civil rights, the Cold War, 1950's economics, popular culture, and new scholarship on the Eisenhower Presidency. Field trips include a visit to the Eisenhowers' home and a guided walk through historic Gettysburg to explore Eisenhower's life and times in the community."

Contact name
John Joyce
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Eisenhower National Historic Site, Gettysburg College, Mount St. Mary's University
Phone number
7173389114
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
$725 with room and board; $475 for day students
Course Credit
"Two Pennsylvania Professional Education Credits (60 Act 48 CEUs) are available for attending the Academy. Three graduate credits are available for an additional fee of $1128 through the Mount St. Mary's Master of Education program. To receive credit, students will complete course assignments and lesson plan, and attend all sessions of the Academy."
Duration
Six days
End Date

Great Lakes Regional Conference

Description

From the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies website:

"Built around the theme of 'Today's Students, Tomorrow's Globel Citizen,' the conference offers stimulating sessions, thought-provoking keynote speakers, and two full days that focus on teaching social studies and international/global education."

Sponsoring Organization
Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
Middleton, WI
Contact name
Jenny Morgan
Phone number
6087328237
Start Date
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America's Moral Crisis: Politics and Culture in the 1850s

Description

During the 1850s, the United States was a nation of foreboding and hope. An irresolvable conflict between North and South seemed to be approaching, along with periodic hopes that the divide could somehow be bridged and conflict forestalled. At the start of the decade, the nation's eloquent orators were led by John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster; 10 years later, a new voice had been added to public discourse: that of Abraham Lincoln. Literary artists—including Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe—addressed the issues of slavery, regional autonomy, and federal power both directly and obliquely in poetry and prose. This seminar will explore this ominous yet hopeful era, with the aim of understanding the political and moral issues that drove Americans apart, and how the literature of the period can help readers understand why.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date

Information Technology in World History Summer Institute

Description

The present age is one of globalization characterized in part by rapid developments in technology and information systems. But information and technology have often been powerful forces for historical change. This institute will place the current information and technological revolutions in world-historical perspective through a set of case studies drawn from different cultures and contexts from antiquity to the present day. In examining the effects of information and technology on political, economic, and social development, the institute will explore several major themes, including writing and print/information technology; science and society; technology and warfare; and empire and the diffusion and consolidation of knowledge. Presented by professors from the University of California, Berkeley's History Department, and organized around the Content Standards for California Public Schools, these case studies will provide a number of useful tools and strategies for teaching information and technology in world history.

Contact name
Leary, Donna
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
510-643-0897
Target Audience
4-12
Start Date
Cost
$450
Course Credit
Participants may earn up to 40 professional development hours.
Duration
Five days
End Date

Twentieth-century Women's Rights Movements

Description

Movements for women's equality and gender justice have transformed American society over the past few generations. Nancy Cott will focus this seminar on the varied branches of feminism. After reviewing the suffrage campaign and opportunities for women during World War II, the seminar will explore convergences and conflicts among women's groups, both feminist and conservative, emerging after 1960. Topics include the formation of the National Organization for Women, radical feminism, African American and Chicana feminism, reproductive rights advocacy, the women's health movement, Roe v. Wade and its opponents, the women's rights revolution in law, and the campaigns for and against the Equal Rights Amendment.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date

Advanced Placement Annual Conference

Description

The AP Annual Conference is the largest gathering of the Advanced Placement Program and Pre-AP communities, AP teachers and coordinators, middle school teachers, and administrators and counselors from across the United States and throughout the world.

Sponsoring Organization
College Board
Contact email
Location
San Antonio, TX
Start Date
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United States and China Relations

Description

The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date

Teaching Digital History

Description

Across the country, an increasing number of teachers have discovered an exciting and innovative way to promote a love of history. Easy-to-use software (such as Microsoft's PhotoStory and Movie Maker, and Apple's iMovie) and extensive copyright-free online images (like those found on the Library of Congress's American Memory site) make it possible for students to create high-quality, Ken Burns-like videos combining narration, text, graphics, and historical images and music. Professor Mintz, a pioneer in the application of new technologies to history teaching and research, will lead teachers through the process of creating digital documentaries with their students.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date