The Civil Rights Movement

Description

"This seminar explores how an economically and politically powerless racial minority wrested dramatic change from a determined and entrenched white majority in the American South. It will examine the changing nature of protest from the 1940s to the 1950s; the roles of Martin Luther King, Jr., local movements, and women; and the relative importance of violence and non-violence. Participants will discuss how they can use the experiences of schoolchildren, teachers, and students in the crises of the 1950s and 1960s to bring home the realities of the civil rights movement in the classroom. Topics include the Little Rock 9 and their teachers in 1957, students and sit-ins, and the use of schoolchildren in the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
1 646-366-9666
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
None ($400 stipend)
Course Credit
"Participants who complete the seminar in a satisfactory manner will receive a certificate. Teachers may use this certificate to receive in-service credit, subject to the policy of their district. No university credit is offered for the course."
Duration
One week
End Date

The Age of Lincoln

Description

"Abraham Lincoln will stand at the centre of the seminar, though less as a biographical subject than as a prism for exploring key aspects of his age. The themes and topics to be addressed include slavery and the Old South; the abolitionist impulse and the broadening antislavery movement; party political realignment and the sectional crisis of the 1850s; evangelicalism and politics; the election of 1860, the secession of the Lower South, and the coming of war; wartime leadership, political and military; the Civil War 'home front'; emancipation; the elements of Confederate defeat and Union victory; and the meaning of the war for American nationalism."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
1 646-366-9666
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
None ($400 stipend)
Course Credit
"Participants who complete the seminar in a satisfactory manner will receive a certificate. Teachers may use this certificate to receive in-service credit, subject to the policy of their district. No university credit is offered for the course."
Duration
One week
End Date

Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records

Description

"To celebrate Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, NARA archivist Reginald Washington will give a presentation on marriage records among the Freedmen’s Bureau records."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Phone number
1 202-357-5000
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
None
Course Credit
None
Duration
One or two hours

Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records

Description

"To celebrate Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, NARA archivist Reginald Washington will give a presentation on marriage records among the Freedmen’s Bureau records."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Phone number
1 202-357-5000
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
None
Course Credit
None
Duration
One or two hours

Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends

Description

"Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment. He drew to him some of the greatest minds of that time—people whose ideas continue to shape how we live. Jack Fruchtman, author of Atlantic Cousins, examines how Franklin and his circle of friends shaped a remarkable period in history. A book signing will follow the program."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Phone number
1 202-357-5000
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
None
Course Credit
None
Duration
One or two hours

Were Your Ancestors Slaves?

Description

"The story of slavery in the United States is told in stark and often chilling documents in the records in the National Archives. This workshop will focus on Federal court cases related to the slave trade and Slave Manifests which document the transportation of slaves between American ports."

Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Phone number
1 770-968-2100
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
None
Course Credit
None
Duration
One day

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom.

Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Target Audience
Fourth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
$100.00
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom.

Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Target Audience
Fourth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
$100.00
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

"This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom."

Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Target Audience
Fourth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
$100.00
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

"This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom."

Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives
Target Audience
Fourth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
$100.00
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Nine days
End Date