The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Against Slavery and Racial Injustice from the American Revolution to the Civil War

Description

This seminar will focus on "close study of key scholarly readings and primary documents on the abolitionist movement, examining the evolution of the abolitionist movement from its beginnings during the Revolutionary era in Philadelphia through its radicalization in the years leading to the Civil War." The seminar will include examination of primary teaching resources, visits to historical sites, readings, discussion, journal writing, lesson planning, and lectures.

Contact name
Newman, Richard
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 585-475-2438
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None ($3,000 stipend)
Course Credit
Participants will receive a certificate indicating participation.
Duration
Four weeks
End Date

An Evening with Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson

Description

"The National C'onstitution Center welcomes Valerie Plame Wilson to discuss her new autobiography, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.' Plame Wilson provides her perspective on the public disclosure of her identity as a CIA officer and the federal investigation that led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby."

Sponsoring Organization
National Constitution Center
Phone number
1 215-409-6700
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
$12 members | $15 non-members | $6 K-12 teachers and students | (reservations required)
Duration
One to two hours

The Legacy of 1808: A Historical Perspective

Description

"The National Constitution Center welcomes visiting scholar Martha S. Jones and scholar Stephanie McCurry to discuss the political and cultural climate surrounding the issue of slavery in the early decades of the republic."

Sponsoring Organization
National Constitution Center
Phone number
1 215-409-6700
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
None (reservations required)
Duration
One to two hours

Changing the Constitution: Politics and Law in American Constitutional Development

Description

This workshop will "explore political thought and constitutional change with leading experts in the field. Leading scholars and workshop participants will discuss the processes of Constitutional change, taking advantage of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s unique collections and exhibits."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Annenberg Foundation
Phone number
1 215-409-6628
Target Audience
Seventh Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None
Duration
Five days
End Date

Changing the Constitution: Politics and Law in American Constitutional Development

Description

This workshop will "explore political thought and constitutional change with leading experts in the field. Leading scholars and workshop participants will discuss the processes of Constitutional change, taking advantage of the National Constitution Center’s unique collections and exhibits."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Annenberg Foundation
Phone number
1 215-409-6628
Target Audience
Seventh Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None
Duration
Five days
End Date

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

Description

"The workshop will use sites in Atlanta to tell the powerful and provocative stories of the imposition and demolition of the Color Line. The workshop participants will explore the Fox Theater, where the physical barriers of a segregated facility are still visible. They will walk the streets of the two principal historic districts that trace the history of the color line, the Martin Luther King National Historic Site and the Atlanta University National Register District. They will visit sites throughout the city where Civil Rights history is memorialized. The participants will have background readings and primary historic documents, access to historic site documentation on the websites of the Library of Congress (American Memory), the National Park Service, and the Landmark sites themselves in their study of the color line. They will hear lectures in their meeting places and at the sites they visit. Participants will receive resource packets with primary and secondary source materials for principal historical figures and the landmark sites with which they are associated in Atlanta."

Contact name
Crimmins, Tim
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 404-413-6356
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
One week
End Date

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

Description

"The workshop will use sites in Atlanta to tell the powerful and provocative stories of the imposition and demolition of the Color Line. The workshop participants will explore the Fox Theater, where the physical barriers of a segregated facility are still visible. They will walk the streets of the two principal historic districts that trace the history of the color line, the Martin Luther King National Historic Site and the Atlanta University National Register District. They will visit sites throughout the city where Civil Rights history is memorialized. The participants will have background readings and primary historic documents, access to historic site documentation on the websites of the Library of Congress (American Memory), the National Park Service, and the Landmark sites themselves in their study of the color line. They will hear lectures in their meeting places and at the sites they visit. Participants will receive resource packets with primary and secondary source materials for principal historical figures and the landmark sites with which they are associated in Atlanta."

Contact name
Crimmins, Tim
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 404-413-6356
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
One week
End Date

James Weldon Johnson: The Renaissance Man

Description

"Born in Jacksonville, FL, James Weldon Johnson is best known for his composition "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," widely known as the Negro National Anthem. In the presentation of Johnson by Chautauqua scholar Leroy Mitchell, we learn about this creative genius and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance."

Contact name
Staples, Margaret
Sponsoring Organization
Paragon Ladies of the Dove, Inc.
Phone number
1 305-253-2310
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Duration
One hour

James Weldon Johnson: The Renaissance Man

Description

"Born in Jacksonville, FL, James Weldon Johnson is best known for his composition "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," widely known as the Negro National Anthem. In the presentation of Johnson by Chautauqua scholar Leroy Mitchell, we learn about this creative genius and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance."

Contact name
Staples, Margaret
Sponsoring Organization
Paragon Ladies of the Dove, Inc.
Phone number
1 305-253-2310
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Duration
One hour

Conflict and Continuity: Reading, Writing, and Repression?

Description

This "will provide social studies teachers with the academic content and practical applications needed to explore the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment and the historical challenges of these freedoms to students."

Contact name
Scott, Marianne
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
The Bill of Rights Institute
Phone number
1 703-894-1776
Target Audience
Eighth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Education Programs Coordinator
Duration
One day