This brief lecture explores the use of graphic organizers to help students prepare for, gather information during, and synthesize information after a visit to a museum.

Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director of the Smithsonian Early Education Center, outlines methods for using hands-on exploration of objects to prepare students to experience museum exhibits and to extend the lesson following museum visits.

How can U.S. citizens today view Native American history through a Constitutional lens? In answering that question, Bob Miller, Lewis & Clark Law School professor and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, uncovers the history of Federal Indian Law. Professor Miller describes the Doctrine of Discovery's long reach, from the founding of the colonies through the writing of the Constitution all the way to Russia planting its flag on the Arctic seafloor in 2007.

Idaho State University Political Science Professor David Gray Adler examines what he describes as the great constitutional crisis of the day: the usurpation and abdication of constitutional roles by President and Congress. Building his argument on the concerns of the Framers, Dr. Adler points to the endangerment to liberty posed by the erosion of checks and balances.

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Paul Englesberg of Western Washington University unveils the work of the Asian American Curriculum and Research Project, detailing outrages afflicting immigrants in Washington State.

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Paul Finkelman of Albany Law School presents a wide-ranging discussion of the Constitutional history of citizenship in the United States. In the first part of the presentation, Finkelman traces the story back to the earliest recorded anti-immigrant references during the time of a legal "open door," through the persecution of Chinese immigrants, to today.

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Robert D. Kaplan, a Foreign Policy Research Institute Senior Fellow, a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, discusses his latest book Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground. He examines the actions of the American military worldwide, arguing that the U.S.'s preoccupation with the Middle East may lead to the rise of military power, meanwhile, in Asia.

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John Allen Williams of Loyola University Chicago, Thomas E. Ricks of the Washington Post, Elizabeth Stanley of Georgetown University, and Mackubin T. of the Naval War College discuss several questions: "What is the current state of relations between the military and society?," "How representative is the military of civil society?," and "What effect is the War on Terrorism having on military-societal relations?"

Philip Zelikow of the University of Virginia examines the U.S.'s role in a globalizing world, arguing that the nation needs to actively discuss its place in the world, instead of "talking around" it.

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Edward Schultz of the University of Hawaii gives a basic outline of the history of Korea, focusing on its importance to the global community and on resources educators can use to teach about Korea.

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