Participants will step back in time to a simpler life on uninhabited St. Helena Island. Participants will be immersed in the life and times of Great Lakes lighthouse keepers, including history, culture, and songs. Educators and youth leaders will sleep in the lighthouse bedrooms, cook with each other in the summer kitchen, and keep watch on the lantern deck as lighthouse families did 100 years ago. Activity classes, all based on the Michigan State Standards, offer the participant a means to integrate real world Great Lakes concepts into their classrooms. Some examples of these activities include topographical mapping, lens/prism and sound technology, use of primary reference materials, storytelling, journal entry, and decision making, to name just a few.

Learn how World War II affected North Carolinians and how the state’s men, women, and children contributed to the war effort at home and abroad.

This workshop "will focus on changing transportation and technology in urban America and how these forces shape modern cities and their economies. Guest speakers will include Mark Tebeau, Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and a variety of curators and archivists from the Ohio Historical Society."

This institute will "examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute encompasses lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Churchill Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites in Britain. "

This institute will "examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute encompasses lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Churchill Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites in Britain. "

"An NCHE team of Charles Errico, Ted Green, and Lucinda Evans will explore the topic of the First Amendment and Religious Liberty, Free Speech, and Free Press: 1791-Present at this colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Sarah Drake Brown, Fritz Fischer, and Joan Musbach will explore the topic of the Great Depression and WWII at this colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Fritz Fischer, Ted Green, and Lucinda Evans will explore the topic of Extending the Common Good in the 20th Century at this colloquium."

In this seminar, "Dr. Andrew Darien's discussion of The New Deal will use the National Archives' resources to move beyond the traditional list of legislation to understand the social and cultural implications of this era."

"This course examines the development of American political parties, focusing on the meaning of parties and historic moments in the rise and fall of political parties from the Founding era to the present. Topics may include re-aligning elections, changing coalitions within American parties, and the contemporary Democratic and Republican parties."