Civil Rights: Focusing on Voting Rights

Description

From the Facing History and Ourselves website:

"Join us as we explore the history of voting in the United States with a special emphasis on the gains and struggles during the civil rights movement. We will showcase Facing History resources that examine the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Selma March, voter registration drives, the role of non-violent protest and more. We will also investigate the impact of youth in the movement and their role in politics then and now."

Contact name
Karen Mortimer
Sponsoring Organization
Facing History and Ourselves
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Seven and a half hours

Film Series for Educators: The Reckoning

Description

From the Facing History and Ourselves website:

"This film [The Reckoning] chronicles the battle for the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to mass atrocities around the world in the late 20th century. The Reckoning follows ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team for three years across the four continents as he issues arrest warrants for Lord's Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, puts Congolese warlords on trial, shakes up the Colombian justice system, and charges Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur. This film is an important addition to Facing History's collection of classroom resources that deal with questions of justice after genocide.

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."

Contact name
Karen Mortimer
Sponsoring Organization
Facing History and Ourselves
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Four and a half hours

Civil Rights: The Power of the Vote

Description

From the Facing History and Ourselves website:

"Join us as we explore the history of voting in the United States with a special emphasis on the gains and struggles during the civil rights movement. We will showcase Facing History resources that examine the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Selma March, voter registration drives, the role of nonviolent protest and more. We will also investigate the impact of youth in the movement and their role in politics then and now."

Contact name
Karen Mortimer
Sponsoring Organization
Facing History and Ourselves
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Five and a half hours

Online Workshop: The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court

Description

From the Facing History and Ourselves website:

"Facing History is working in close partnership with Skylight Pictures to bring the documentary film The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court, and additional film modules into classrooms around the globe.

Educators are invited to join this free online workshop about the International Criminal Court. The workshop will highlight the various ways these films, and the website (ijcentral.org), can be used with students to explore both the history of the International Criminal Court and various questions around justice in a global society."

Contact name
Tanya_Lubicz-Nawrocka
Sponsoring Organization
Facing History and Ourselves
Phone number
617-735-1643
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Two weeks
End Date

The U.S., the Middle East, and the Cold War

Description

From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website:

"Throughout the Cold War, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan were caught between the geopolitical ambitions of the United States and the Soviet Union. Stalin himself famously called the Caucasus the 'soft underbelly' of the Soviet Union, both vulnerable to outside attack and valuable for its vast oil reserves. As a result, the last three quarters of a century have seen a number of small skirmishes, wars, and regime changes and what has become the world's most volatile region. In this lecture, National Security Archive Deputy Director Malcolm Byrne discusses this eventful period in world history and America's role in it."

Free registration is required to access this lecture.

In Search of the Civil Rights Movement

Description

From the National Humanities Center website:

"'A growing number of historians now look at the Civil Rights Movement not just as something that happened in the 1960s, but as a historical process that spanned decades beginning in the World War II years or even earlier. While the African American freedom struggle is most remembered for its stirring sit-ins and other dramatic clashes to dismantle segregation in public accommodations and to win the vote, it has long had a strong economic and political focus, too. Among the topics the workshop will tackle are how and when the movement began; what demands it placed before the nation; the organizations that came into being and their strategies; how the movement changed between the 1930s and 1970s; and how the movement changed America."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
"K-12 U.S. History and American Literature teachers"
Start Date
Cost
$35
Course Credit
"The National Humanities Center programs are eligible for recertification credit. Each workshop will include ninety minutes of instruction plus ninety minutes of preparation. Because the workshops are conducted online, they may qualify for technology credit in districts that award it. The Center will supply documentation of participation."
Duration
One and a half hours

Civil War Art

Description

From the National Humanities Center website:

"The Civil War destroyed the institution of slavery and transformed the United States socially, politically, economically, and artistically. Not only did the subject inspire some of the nation's best painters, sculptors, photographers, and illustrators, it also changed the face of town and countryside as monuments to soldiers and statesmen of the Civil War era spread across the landscape. This workshop will pay close attention not only to the imagery of battle but also to the social and political issues which shaped the image of the war and which in many respects continue to shape us today. How did artists come to grips with the new realities of warfare and the unprecedented scale of death it caused? How did the new media of that era (especially photography) change the way that war was represented and understood? What insights did artists offer into the social and political changes happening both on the homefront and battlefront? Did the memorialization of the war in public art create new understandings of the conflict or perpetuate old myths?"

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
"K-12 U.S. History and American Literature teachers"
Start Date
Cost
$35
Course Credit
"The National Humanities Center programs are eligible for recertification credit. Each workshop will include ninety minutes of instruction plus ninety minutes of preparation. Because the workshops are conducted online, they may qualify for technology credit in districts that award it. The Center will supply documentation of participation."
Duration
One and a half hours

History of Photography

Description

From the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration website:

"Learn about key American photographers and photographic processes and styles, as well as how photography from 1839 to the present day relates to American history. Receive digital images, image guides, and other materials to make connections between photography's history and levels of language arts, science, social studies, and visual art."

Program provided by the Amon Carter Museum.

Contact name
Nancy Strickland
Sponsoring Organization
Amon Carter Museum
Phone number
817-989-5038
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
$10 for individuals; $200 for a group of up to 35 educators in a point-to-point connection
Duration
Two hours

I Sing the Nation Electric: How Poetry Makes America

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"This course approaches poetry as a force that shapes ideas of citizenship and cultural identity. We will examine the form and content of familiar and less familiar poems from the period of the American Revolution to the present, including works by Longfellow, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, and Joy Harjo."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3700
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Cost
$180
Duration
Seven weeks
End Date

Schooner Ernestina [MA]

Description

The schooner Ernestina, launched in 1894, is one of six remaining Essex-built schooners. The vessel also has the distinction of being the final sail-powered vessel to bring immigrants to the United States from the Cape Verde Islands.

The site appears to consist entirely of one interpretive sign and the opportunity to view the vessel from the pier.