Bill of Rights
Description
Professor Gordon Lloyd examines the U.S. Bill of Rights, its wording, its drafting and acceptance, and the arguments that sprang up surrounding it during its creation.
Ratification
Description
Professor Gordon Lloyd examines the final ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the continuing arguments for and against it (particularly the arguments of James Madison), and the introduction of the Bill of Rights.
How to Read the Federalist, Part Three
Description
Professor Christopher Flannery takes the listeners through the Federalist Papers, looking at their significance to United States history and examining their structure and the arguments they present. He examines particularly James Madison's views as expressed in the Federalist Papers. This lecture continues from the lecture "How to Read the Federalist, Part Two."
How to Read the Federalist, Part Two
Description
Professor Christopher Flannery takes the listeners through the Federalist Papers, looking at their significance to United States history and examining their structure and the arguments they present. This lecture continues from the lecture "How to Read The Federalist, Part One"
How to Read the Federalist, Part One
Description
Professor Christopher Flannery takes the listeners through the Federalist Papers, looking at their significance to United States history and examining their structure and the arguments they present.
The American Mind
Description
Professor Christopher Flannery examines the prominence of the Declaration of Independence in U.S. history and present life, the context in which it was written, and the intentions of its drafters. He looks at the ethics and morality represented in the document.
"Apple of Gold": The Centrality of the Declaration of Independence in American Political Life
Description
Professor Christopher Flannery examines the prominence of the Declaration of Independence in U.S. history and present life, the context in which it was written, and the intentions of its drafters. It includes readings from historical documents.
Women Fighting Slavery from the Home Front
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the viewpoints and reform activities of women in the years immediately prior to the Civil War. While many women in the North were advocating the abolition of slavery, Southern women were still defending their way of life.
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Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929: A Summer Institute for High-school Teachers
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Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:13
Description
How did World War I affect politics in the United States? Why did the prestige and power of American business dramatically increase in the 1920s? What explains the remarkable cultural ferment of this period? What place did religious and spiritual values assume in the United States during the 1920s? How did concepts of citizenship and national identity change in the decade after World War I? How did women and African Americans struggle to advance social equality? How did modernizing and traditional forces clash during the decade?
This institute will explore these and other questions through history, literature, and art. Under the direction of leading scholars, participants will examine such issues as immigration, prohibition, radicalism, changing moral standards, and evolution to discover how the forces of modernity and traditionalism made the 1920s both liberating and repressive. Participants will assist National Humanities Center staff in identifying texts and defining lines of inquiry for a new addition to the Center's Toolbox Library, which provides online resources for teacher professional development and classroom instruction.
Contact name
Schramm, Richard R.
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Phone number
877-271-7444
Target Audience
High
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,000 stipend
Contact Title
Vice President for Education Programs
Duration
Eleven days
End Date
Left Behind on the Oregon Trail
Description
Professor Maria Montoya of New York University examines diaries of women who join the trip along the Oregon Trail. She finds heartwrenching stories of women who lost loved ones but could not stop to bury them.
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