From the Facing History and Ourselves website:

"This film [Journey to Freedom] tells the story of Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister from Massachusetts, and his wife Martha, a social worker, who helped feed and shelter thousands of refugees and assisted anti-Nazi dissidents and Jews as they escaped to safety, first in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and later in France. The Sharps were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem—the highest recognition accorded by the state of Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the World War II. The Sharps' compelling story reveals a largely unknown chapter of Holocaust history and provides a new perspective on America's relationship to it. This film is an important addition to Facing History's collection of classroom resources that focus on rescue and resistance during the Holocaust. The Facing History Film Series is presented in partnership with the Denver Film Society.

The workshop is in two parts. Part 1 (4:30-6:30 pm) will be an educator workshop focused on pedagogy. Part 2 (7:00-9:00 pm) will include the film presentation. A light dinner will be served between the two parts."

"Too often, our students view Civil Rights in isolation—they don't understand the rich historical background of African American history or the legacies of the movement in the more recent past. They know the major civil rights figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Rosa Parks, but they don't grasp the complexities of civil rights leadership, or the experience of the movement's foot soldiers—the students in SNCC, the freedom riders, or the everyday people who marched, boycotted, protested, and volunteered to make the movement happen. This course will try to explore the movement from all of these perspectives using, where possible, first-hand accounts from the people who lived this important history.

The instructor will assume that the main historical outlines of the movement are familiar to K-12 teachers—instead of recounting that basic history, we'll spend much of our time delving into lesser-studied events of the movement and the primary sources that will allow us to explore our own ideas about the movement and its meanings in detail.

The best way to learn history is by doing history. This course will allow for the opportunity for deep historical analysis and interpretation using primary sources. We'll tackle documents, images, newspaper accounts, artistic expressions, film, and other sources. By doing so, we'll develop our own arguments and ideas about the movement, and help our future students do the same. Many of the resources we will use have been recently added to the Internet and they should be exciting additions to the course, and to historical scholarship more broadly. As you mine these sources, you'll hopefully enjoy the historical process and also get some great ideas for classroom activities for your students.

The instructor has selected websites and multimedia resources that will give participating teachers access to literally thousands of documents including newspaper accounts, oral history interviews, government documents, photographs, works of art, film clips, and more. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to analyze these sources through engaging activities to create a lesson plan for classroom use; to receive individualized, constructive feedback and answers to content-oriented questions from a well-versed instructor; and to join other teachers from across the state in lively online discussions throughout the course—all on your own schedule from home or from your school's computers."

From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"To many, the Great Plains are part of the 'Great Flyover,' whose landscape and history alike are flat and featureless. But in this region in the middle of the nation, cultures have mingled and clashed for thousands of years. We will focus on the nineteenth century, though we will also examine the first peoples and the continuing cultural exchanges of the twentieth century. We will begin with the physical setting, plants, and animals, and consider early humans in both Native American traditions and anthropological/archeological studies. Europeans arriving in the sixteenth century accelerated the long history of change and evolution, initiating more than three centuries of converging peoples and cultures, new centers of power, flourishing trade, calamitous epidemics, and cultural and material intrusions from around the planet. We will visit Bent's Fort to see a cultural crossroads illustrated through one family. We will also examine cattle ranching, homesteading, scientific explorations, and the depiction of the Plains in art."