Topics covered at this conference will include "CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook," "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution," "Helping Students to Think About Social Issues," "Meeting Hate with Humanity," "Making Sense of the Presidential Election," "Teaching Social Studies through Primary Sources," "Creating High-Quality Multiple Choice Test Questions for Social Studies Assessment," "Immigration Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," "Using Teacher Tube," "How to Create a Guest Speaker Program," "New Jersey Amistad Commission Lesson Planning for Restructing your Classroom Curriculum," "Sustaining Professional Development through Free or Almost Free Travel for History Teachers," "Developing and Scoring Rubric-Based Constructed Response Social Studies Test Questions," "Fingerprinting the Constitution: Teaching United States History through the Preamble ," "Using Artifacts to Understand the Wars of the Past," "Reading Strategies to Enhance Social Studies Instruction," "Using Popular Music to Study the Great Depression," "History Alive! Defining and Debating America's Founding Ideals," and "Using Thinking Processes and Technology=Social Studies in the 21st Century."

The theme for this conference is "Democracy, Diversity and the Social Studies Classroom." Topics covered will include "Analyzing Elections in American History," "Social Studies, History and the Elementary Classroom," "Teaching About Genocide and the Holocaust," "Technology in the Social Studies Classroom," "The Scoring Process on AP Examinations," "Literacy Strategies in Social Studies Classes," "Teaching about Foreign Policy and Presidential Decision Making," "Writing in the Social Studies," and others.

This conference will include a variety of lectures, clinics, and other opportunities for educators to share ideas and learn new techniques related to their profession.

The theme of this conference is "One Earth, One World."

The theme for this conference is "Everyone Counts!"

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and Howard University in Washington will co-produce a conference on Emancipation and Race in the Age of Lincoln. The conference will focus on the international dimension of emancipation and will compare different nations' approaches to the issue of emancipation. The conference coincides with the District of Columbia's Emancipation Day and will feature public evening events.

The U.S. Department of Education and the Teaching American History program presents this Project Directors Conference for Teaching American History grantees who received grants from 2005 through 2008.