Smithsonian Education Online Conference: Abraham Lincoln

Description

The Smithsonian is honoring Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial with special exhibitions and programs, and educators will be able to participate in the national celebration through the first Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Abraham Lincoln. Participants will explore Smithsonian research and collections related to Lincoln's life—everything from portraits and diaries to documents and historical artifacts. Alongside Smithsonian curators, participants will look at Lincoln's life and legacy from the perspectives of history, science, and art.

Sponsoring Organization
Smithsonian Institution
Location
Online
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Saturday Seminar #6: Slavery and Narrative

Description

This final session in the series features a talk from University of California, Davis historian Clarence Walker and lessons presented by three teachers.

Contact name
Garcia, Nichole
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
530-752-4383
Target Audience
5, 8, 11
Start Date
Duration
Three and a half hours

Native Americans and Explorers: Fourth and Fifth (4 of 4)

Description

Participants will learn to think like a historian and encounter Native Americans and explorers through primary sources, legends, storytelling, and expository and narrative writing. Participants will each receive instructional materials such as model lessons, maps, primary source materials, and literature.

Contact name
Hutton, Lisa
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
310-243-2748
Target Audience
4, 5
Start Date
Course Credit
One semester unit of university credit is available for an additional fee through Extended Education.
Duration
Two and a half hours

Native Americans and Explorers: Fourth and Fifth (3 of 4)

Description

Participants will learn to think like a historian and encounter Native Americans and explorers through primary sources, legends, storytelling, and expository and narrative writing. Participants will each receive instructional materials such as model lessons, maps, primary source materials, and literature.

Contact name
Hutton, Lisa
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
310-243-2748
Target Audience
4, 5
Start Date
Course Credit
One semester unit of university credit is available for an additional fee through Extended Education.
Duration
Two and a half hours

Native Americans and Explorers: Fourth and Fifth (2 of 4)

Description

Participants will learn to think like a historian and encounter Native Americans and explorers through primary sources, legends, storytelling, and expository and narrative writing. Participants will each receive instructional materials such as model lessons, maps, primary source materials, and literature.

Contact name
Hutton, Lisa
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
310-243-2748
Target Audience
4, 5
Start Date
Course Credit
One semester unit of university credit is available for an additional fee through Extended Education.
Duration
Two and a half hours

Life on an Antebellum Plantation

Description

This workshop examines the questions "How did the self-contained environment of a plantation—its layout, buildings, isolation, and use of the land—influence the lives and self-image of the enslaved?," "What made a plantation 'home?'," "What made a plantation 'hell?'," "How did a slave reconcile 'home' and 'hell?,'" and "What can plantation photographs tell us about plantation life?"

The Center's online resource workshops give high school teachers of U.S. history and American literature a deeper understanding of their subject matter. They introduce teachers to fresh texts and critical perspectives and help teachers integrate them into their lessons. Led by distinguished scholars and running 60 to 90 minutes, they are conducted through lecture and discussion using conferencing software. A resource workshop identifies central themes within a topic and explores ways to teach them through the close analysis of primary texts, including works of art, and the use of discussion questions. Texts are drawn from anthologies in the Center's Toolbox Library. To participate, all that is needed is a computer with an internet connection, a speaker, and a microphone.

Contact name
Schramm, Richard R.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
$35
Course Credit
The National Humanities Center will supply documentation for certificate renewal credit.
Contact Title
Vice President for Education Programs
Duration
One and a half hours

Teaching African American History with WPA Slave Narratives

Description

This workshop will examine the questions "What do recollections of formerly enslaved people, gathered by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, tell us about slavery in America?," "What interpretative challenges do the WPA slave narratives pose?," and "How can the WPA slave narratives be used with students?"

The Center's online resource workshops give high school teachers of U.S. history and American literature a deeper understanding of their subject matter. They introduce teachers to fresh texts and critical perspectives and help teachers integrate them into their lessons. Led by distinguished scholars and running 60 to 90 minutes, they are conducted through lecture and discussion using conferencing software. A resource workshop identifies central themes within a topic and explores ways to teach them through the close analysis of primary texts, including works of art, and the use of discussion questions. Texts are drawn from anthologies in the Center's Toolbox Library. To participate, all that is needed is a computer with an internet connection, a speaker, and a microphone.

Contact name
Schramm, Richard R.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
$35
Course Credit
The National Humanities Center will supply documentation for certificate renewal credit.
Duration
One and a half hours

What It Meant to Be Enslaved

Description

This workshop will examine the questions "What did it mean to be enslaved in the United States?," "How did the enslaved respond to bondage?," "How did labor shape their daily lives?," "In what ways did the enslaved resist bondage?," and "How did the enslaved maintain their identities?"

The Center's online resource workshops give high school teachers of U.S. history and American literature a deeper understanding of their subject matter. They introduce teachers to fresh texts and critical perspectives and help teachers integrate them into their lessons. Led by distinguished scholars and running 60 to 90 minutes, they are conducted through lecture and discussion using conferencing software. A resource workshop identifies central themes within a topic and explores ways to teach them through the close analysis of primary texts, including works of art, and the use of discussion questions. Texts are drawn from anthologies in the Center's Toolbox Library. To participate, all that is needed is a computer with an internet connection, a speaker, and a microphone.

Contact name
Schramm, Richard R.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
$35
Course Credit
The National Humanities Center will supply documentation for certificate renewal credit.
Duration
One and a half hours

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Conference

Description

The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. As part of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebrations, Harvard University's Houghton Library will cosponsor with the Lincoln Forum and the Lincoln Group of Boston a symposium on "Abraham Lincoln at 200: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy." The symposium, to be held at Houghton Library and other Harvard University venues will coincide with a major exhibition featuring books, manuscripts, ephemera, and artifacts from Houghton Library's Abraham Lincoln Collection. The symposium will examine or reexamine several aspects of Lincoln's career, such as his views on race and slavery, his role as Commander-in-Chief, his use of the press to shape public opinion, his relationship with Congress and his influence on the legislative process, and his role as a politician and as a party leader. Several prominent Lincoln and Civil War scholars have agreed to participate, including Jean H. Baker, Michael Beschloss, Gabor Boritt, Brian Dirck, David Herbert Donald, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Drew Gilpin Faust, Richard W. Fox, Harold Holzer, John Marszalek, James McPherson, Edna Greene Medford, Matthew Pinsker, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, Craig Symonds, Thomas Turner, Michael Vorenberg, and Frank J. Williams.

Sponsoring Organization
Houghton Library; Lincoln Forum; Lincoln Group of Boston
Location
Cambridge, MA
Start Date
End Date