James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship

Description

Participants in this workshop "Participants will study James Madison’s life and political career, which encompassed the development, establishment, and maintenance of a new constitutional enterprise." Site says more information to come.

Contact name
Washburn, Andrew
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 540-672-2728
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Eight days
End Date

Teaching Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings

Description

This seminar will examine the teaching of Eudora Welly's memoir "One Writer's Beginnings," including how social studies teachers can "draw upon its vivid portrait of a distinctive era in Mississippi history."

Contact name
Manor, Wanda
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Eudora Welty Foundation
Phone number
1 601-974-1130
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Duration
One day

Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer: The Outside World and the Writer's Imagination

Description

This workshop will explore the life and times of author and photographer Eudora Welty (1909-2001). Hosted at the Welty House, the workshop will include visits to archives and historic sites, lectures, discussions, and curriculum development.

Contact name
Manor, Wanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 601-974-1130
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Six days
End Date

Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer: The Outside World and the Writer's Imagination

Description

This workshop will explore the life and times of author and photographer Eudora Welty (1909-2001). Hosted at the Welty House, the workshop will include visits to archives and historic sites, lectures, discussions, and curriculum development.

Contact name
Manor, Wanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 601-974-1130
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Six 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

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: The View from St. Augustine

Description

This workshop will look at the Gilded Age (post-Reconstruction) and the Progressive Era as they affected and were seen by residents of St. Augustine.

Contact name
Gray, Wanda
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 321-633-1000
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Project Manager
Duration
One day

People and Places of the Gilded Age

Description

This workshop will look at significant people and places in Florida during the Gilded Age -- that is, the late 1800s post-Reconstruction.

Contact name
Gray, Wanda
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 321-633-1000
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Project Manager
Duration
One day

The View from the Shore

Description

This workshop will "explore Florida's past and her peoples through the lenses of archaeology and history, beginning with an overview of the archaeological record, moving to the historical, and then wrestling with contemporary questions of interpretation, perspective, and ownership of objects. What can the archaeological record reveal about social and economic status and cultural traditions? How do we reconcile different worldviews?"

Contact name
Wakefield, Laura
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 407-563-4925
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Program Coordinator
Duration
One day

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: Florida in the 20th Century

Description

This workshop will discuss issues important in Florida 20th-century history, which may include "The Harlem Renaissance: Critical Issues in Black Literature and Culture," "Spanish Florida," "Democracy in Florida," "World War II: Florida Home Front," African-American communities and experience in Florida, or an overview of the archaeological record and cultural history of Florida. Contact the given number for more information.

Contact name
Smith, Elizabeth
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 941-301-1499
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Social Studies Supervisor
Duration
One day