Lincoln on Slavery, Race, and Civil Liberties

Description

From the Ashbrook Center website:

"These seminars are offered to encourage teachers to seriously examine significant events in American history in light of the principles of the American founding, and also to encourage the use of primary source materials in the classroom. The seminars, which include both lecture and discussion, are taught by leading scholars in their field from throughout the nation."

Sponsoring Organization
Ashbrook Center
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
"These seminars are offered for CEU credit at no charge. One semester credit hour from Ashland University is available for participants who attend three of the four seminars during the year. Each seminar is held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on a Saturday. Those wishing to receive graduate credit must also develop one lesson plan on a topic from one of the three seminars. While there is no cost to attend the seminars and receive the CEU credit, the cost of the graduate credit is $172."
Duration
Four hours

Creating the United States

Description

From the Library of Congress website:

"This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about America's founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—based on the Library's primary and web based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition Creating the United States as its foundation."

Contact name
Susan Mordan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
2027079203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Seven and a half hours

Creating the United States

Description

From the Library of Congress website:

"This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about America's founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—based on the Library's primary and web based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition Creating the United States as its foundation."

Contact name
Susan Mordan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
2027079203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Seven and a half hours

Creating the United States

Description

From the Library of Congress website:

"This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about America's founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—based on the Library's primary and web based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition Creating the United States as its foundation."

Contact name
Susan Mordan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
2027079203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Seven and a half hours

A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans

Description

From the Penn State-Harrisburg website:

"During this one-week workshop . . . [participants will] walk the streets that Franklin walked, step through the doorways that he knew, and see the buildings where he helped found the United States. We'll explore the many rooms of Benjamin Franklin's mind: writer, civic leader, politician, diplomat, scientist, and revolutionary were just some of the titles that Franklin assumed during his eighty-four years. We'll read Franklin's words—published and personal—and those of men and women who lived in the era."

Contact name
George W. Boudreau
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, Penn State-Harrisburg
Phone number
7179486396
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Course Credit
"Two types of credit will be available to each educator participating. First, workshop staff will assist you in receiving continuing education credit (similar to Pennsylvania’s Act-48 requirements). Second, participants may register for graduate-level credit through the Pennsylvania State University, which will require both participation in all programs of the weeklong workshop and additional readings and assignments."
Contact Title
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Duration
Six days
End Date

A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans

Description

From the Penn State-Harrisburg website:

"During this one-week workshop . . . [participants will] walk the streets that Franklin walked, step through the doorways that he knew, and see the buildings where he helped found the United States. We'll explore the many rooms of Benjamin Franklin's mind: writer, civic leader, politician, diplomat, scientist, and revolutionary were just some of the titles that Franklin assumed during his eighty-four years. We'll read Franklin's words—published and personal—and those of men and women who lived in the era."

Contact name
George W. Boudreau
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, Penn State-Harrisburg
Phone number
7179486396
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Course Credit
"Two types of credit will be available to each educator participating. First, workshop staff will assist you in receiving continuing education credit (similar to Pennsylvania’s Act-48 requirements). Second, participants may register for graduate-level credit through the Pennsylvania State University, which will require both participation in all programs of the weeklong workshop and additional readings and assignments."
Contact Title
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Duration
Six days
End Date

A Revolution in Government: Philadelphia and the Creation of the American Republic

Description

From the National Constitution Center website:

"This workshop explores the American Revolution and the creation of the U.S. Constitution through the use of the Center's innovative museum exhibits, lectures by leading scholars, discussion, and visits to numerous historic landmarks."

Contact name
Lauren Cristella
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Constitution Center
Phone number
2154096628
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

A Revolution in Government: Philadelphia and the Creation of the American Republic

Description

From the National Constitution Center website:

"This workshop explores the American Revolution and the creation of the U.S. Constitution through the use of the Center's innovative museum exhibits, lectures by leading scholars, discussion, and visits to numerous historic landmarks."

Contact name
Lauren Cristella
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Constitution Center
Phone number
2154096628
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Duration
Five days
End Date

James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship

Description

From the James Madison's Montpelier workshop:

"James Madison's life encompassed the development, establishment, and maintenance of a new constitutional enterprise. His career was dedicated to establishing the new nation and its constitutional system, and in the process he made the transition from founder to citizen—that is, from the outside to the inside of the political system, from regime-making power to institutionalized governmental authority.

"Explore James Madison's role in the invention of fundamentally new concepts of a constitution, a bill of rights, and citizenship—and explore Montpelier, his lifelong home and plantation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains."

Contact name
Andy Washburn
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, James Madison's Montpelier
Phone number
5406722728
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship

Description

From the James Madison's Montpelier workshop:

"James Madison's life encompassed the development, establishment, and maintenance of a new constitutional enterprise. His career was dedicated to establishing the new nation and its constitutional system, and in the process he made the transition from founder to citizen—that is, from the outside to the inside of the political system, from regime-making power to institutionalized governmental authority.

"Explore James Madison's role in the invention of fundamentally new concepts of a constitution, a bill of rights, and citizenship—and explore Montpelier, his lifelong home and plantation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains."

Contact name
Andy Washburn
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, James Madison's Montpelier
Phone number
5406722728
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date