James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship

Description

Participants in this workshop "Participants will study James Madison’s the life and political career, which encompassed the development, establishment, and maintenance of a new constitutional enterprise." Site says more information to come.

Contact name
Washburn, Andrew
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 540-672-2728
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Eight days
End Date

James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship

Description

Participants in this workshop "Participants will study James Madison’s life and political career, which encompassed the development, establishment, and maintenance of a new constitutional enterprise." Site says more information to come.

Contact name
Washburn, Andrew
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 540-672-2728
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Eight days
End Date

Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine

Description

"The role of St. Augustine and Florida is often overlooked in the study of US colonial history, a study that often begins with the founding of Jamestown. Participants in this seminar explore the history and the cultures that created this fascinating colonial city. They examine the role the sea played in the city’s founding and development; the nature of the relationship between Spanish colonists and Native Americans; the role of the military in the founding, development, and everyday life of colonial Spanish St. Augustine; the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in shaping the colonial experience of the Spanish settlement; how women, native peoples, and people of color fit within the colonial social hierarchy. They reflect on the question of who writes history and how it is disseminated and the larger role that Spanish exploration and colonization played in America’s development."

Contact name
Schoenacher, Ann Simas
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 727-873-2009
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Project Director
Duration
Five days
End Date

Calusa Culture and the Modern History of Old Marco Field Trip

Description

"Using the site of the Old Marco Inn, archaeologist William Marquardt guides a tour of the ancient Calusa ceremonial site."

Contact name
Perdichizzi, Elizabeth
Sponsoring Organization
Marco Island Historical Society
Phone number
1 239-394-6917
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Duration
One hour

Calusa Culture and the Modern History of Old Marco

Description

"Archaeologist William Marquardt discusses the archaeological findings that inform us today about the early peoples who inhabited the Marco Island area."

Contact name
Perdichizzi, Elizabeth
Sponsoring Organization
Marco Island Historical Society
Phone number
1 239-394-6917
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Duration
One hour

Jackdaws

Teaser

Jackdaws is for-profit and produces hands-on primary source materials for upper elementary and middle school students.

Description

<p>Jackdaws is for-profit and produces hands-on primary source materials for upper elementary and middle school students. </p>

<p>These sets include reproductions of primary sources, including maps, photographs, letters, diaries, and posters. Each set of sources is accompanied by full descriptions of the documents, timelines, and broadsheet essays – historians’ detailed narratives of the topics presented in journal-like formats. There is also a study guide/lesson plan with every set that includes worksheets, activities, and assessments.</p>

<p>Units in American history are available in the following categories: New York state history, California state history, American Indian History, Colonial America, Economics, Government and Civics, Immigration, Slavery and the Civil War, Westward Expansion, and Conflicts and Social Issues.</p>

<p>Samples are not available online, though titles may be ordered through the Jackdaws website.</p>

Publisher
Jackdaws Publications

Menoken Indian Village State Historic Site [ND]

Description

This site preserves a prehistoric earthlodge village site surrounded by a large fortification ditch with four clearly defined bastions. Although archaeologists originally thought the village dated 1780–1845, they now believe it may have been occupied as early as A.D. 1100. There is a marker on the site.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.

Father Marquette Memorial Scenic Site [MI]

Description

This historic state park hosts the national memorial that honors the Jesuit priest who established Michigan's first permanent settlement. Today, Father Marquette is recognized as one of the great explorers of the North American continent. On a rise overlooking the Straits of Mackinac, the Father Marquette National Memorial pays homage to this 17th-century missionary-explorer and the meeting of French and Native American cultures deep in the North American wilderness. Current attractions include the National Memorial, an outdoor interpretive trail, picnicking, and a panoramic view of the Mackinac Bridge.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services beyond signage available at the site.

Endicott Rock Historic Site [NH]

Description

Endicott Rock may be the oldest public monument in New England. The name of John Endicott, Governor of Massachusetts Bay, and the initials of Edward Johnson and Simon Willard, Commissioners of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and of John Sherman and Jonathan Ince, Surveyors, were inscribed on the rock on August 1, 1652. The rock marked the assumed headwaters of the Merrimack River. Under the original Bay Charter of 1629, the northern boundary of the colony was fixed as a line three miles north of the Merrimack.

The website specifies that the site is unstaffed, though open to the public.

The Texas Historical Commission

Description

The Texas Historical Commission is a state preservation assistance organization.

The commission website offers lesson plans on the French explorer known by the names René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Robert de LaSalle. LaSalle (1643-1687) explored the Great Lakes region, Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi River, claiming the Mississippi basin for France.

There are no interpretive programs or functions offered beyond the Internet.