From the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville website:
"[This one-week workshop] will explore Abraham Lincoln's life in Springfield and New Salem Village, Illinois and the political and historical challenges he faced as President. Join us as we hear from outstanding Lincoln scholars drawn from universities in the St. Louis area."
The conference theme is "Latino/a Communities in the Midwest." Latino/a populations and communities are growing rapidly across the country and are found in every sector of life in the United States.
From the National Underground Freedom Center's website:
"The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center's digital learning environment uses media and technology to immerse students and teachers in unique and inspiring educational experiences. Come learn more about how these innovative experiences are being used to transform classrooms into 21st-century learning environments."
Sponsoring Organization
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Discovery Education
"The Durham Museum warmly welcomes educators of all subjects and grades to visit The Durham and see the vast education resources the region has to offer. This festive, after-hours open house gives teachers a chance to hear what's new at The Durham and other regional institutions. Highlighting this year's event will be educators from the Smithsonian Institution presenting lessons from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and the National Air and Space Museum. Participants will enjoy a cocktail reception, live entertainment and take home free classroom-ready materials and information about field trips and programs available to students."
For more on the Durham Museum, refer to NHEC's Museums and Historic Sites listing.
"Re-enactors portraying, soldiers and civilians will interact with Symposium participants and Cantigny visitors. See a Civil War cannon fire or watch a Civil War surgeon at work. The Commanding General's Mounted Color Guard from the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas, will drill. Fun, educational activities for children and adults alike will be available."
For more on the First Division Museum, see NHEC's Museums and Historic Sites listing.
From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum website:
"The Conference on Illinois History welcomes more than 350 people each year who appreciate opportunities to share their interest in the history of Illinois. More than 30 sessions include scholarly papers, panel discussions, and workshops. Exhibitors both days include university press publishers, new- and used-book dealers, and the Illinois State Archives."
For more on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, refer to NHEC's Museums and Historic Sites listing.
From the Kansas Council for History Education website:
"The Kansas Council for History Education will hold its fall conference in Garden City, focusing on the use of primary sources and current history standards. The featured speaker will be Dr. Fritz Fischer, Chairman of the Board of the National Council for History Education. A special panel session concerning twenty-first century skills and the social studies education will be held featuring Mike Brunner of Chanute Public Schools, Nathan McAllister of Royal Valley Schools, and Lucinda Evans of Topeka Public Schools, all participants in the 21st Century Skills Summer Kansas Workshop. There will also be breakout sessions and interaction with colleagues will all be designed to improve history instruction at all levels."
"This course will explore the social history of Chicago in the years between the Great Fire of 1871 and the modern Civil Rights Movement. Our core texts will be works of historical fiction, including selections from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and Richard Wright's Native Son. Using these as windows into the city's vibrant past, we will investigate the changing texture of everyday life amidst vast social, political, and economic change."
"The Plan of Chicago (1909) was based on the conviction of its principle writer, Daniel Burnham, that citizens can intervene in the rush of unplanned urban growth to re-direct Chicago's physical structure, creating conditions conducive to humane and prosperous living. We will read and discuss the text, diagrams, and illustrations of the Plan itself, to learn about an important epoch in Chicago's history and to reflect on the challenge it poses to our experience of living in Chicago a century later."
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.