From the Maritime Museum, San Diego website:

"If you ever dreamed about sailing into the past, this is your opportunity to join a crew made up of distinguished university professors and noted historians as we navigate through 400 years of west coast history while exploring one of the world's greatest collections of historic vessels, rare museum gallery exhibits, and historic sites in San Diego.

"The week will be spent investigating new ways of thinking about the Pacific and its role in the American story. Sixty-five years before the settlement at Jamestown and seventy-eight years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, European sailing ships were busy exploring and charting the west coast. Long before the wagon trains moved across the plains, Americans were establishing themselves in their own seaborne empires stretching from Alta California and the Oregon territory to China. Where are these stories? Who were the players? What were their motivations? And what legacy did they leave behind that shapes our county today?"

From the University of Missouri-Kansas City website:

"Crossroads of Conflict: Contested Visions of Freedom and the Missouri-Kansas Border Wars is a Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop for Teachers that explores historic homes and public buildings, townscapes and museum collections in light of recent research to understand the clash of cultures and differing definitions of 'freedom' that played out on the Missouri-Kansas border. Workshop participants will consider the forces and events that led to the abandonment of the understandings reached in the Missouri Compromise, the rejection of popular sovereignty in the Kansas Territory and the establishment of the shadow 'Free State' government. They will examine the nature and intensity of the struggles between the Kansas Jayhawkers and Missouri Bushwhackers and the general mayhem these vicious disputes engendered along the Missouri-Kansas border during Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.

"The Crossroads of Conflict workshop will give K-12 teachers fresh tools for using historical settings, architecture, material culture, art and drama, along with historical documents and records to enable students to engage the past and gain a better understanding of the forces that shaped and continue to influence national and regional history."

From the University of Missouri-Kansas City website:

"Crossroads of Conflict: Contested Visions of Freedom and the Missouri-Kansas Border Wars is a Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop for Teachers that explores historic homes and public buildings, townscapes and museum collections in light of recent research to understand the clash of cultures and differing definitions of 'freedom' that played out on the Missouri-Kansas border. Workshop participants will consider the forces and events that led to the abandonment of the understandings reached in the Missouri Compromise, the rejection of popular sovereignty in the Kansas Territory and the establishment of the shadow 'Free State' government. They will examine the nature and intensity of the struggles between the Kansas Jayhawkers and Missouri Bushwhackers and the general mayhem these vicious disputes engendered along the Missouri-Kansas border during Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.

"The Crossroads of Conflict workshop will give K-12 teachers fresh tools for using historical settings, architecture, material culture, art and drama, along with historical documents and records to enable students to engage the past and gain a better understanding of the forces that shaped and continue to influence national and regional history."

From the University of New Mexico website:

"The intended impact of the Contested Homelands workshop is to strengthen teacher content knowledge about Pre-colonial America and to stretch understandings about the scope of European Colonial America. The sessions will take place on the road, in museums, in historic buildings, and in classrooms.

The workshop will consist of lectures from distinguished scholars, site visits to: the Camino Real Trail, the Palace of the Governors, Taos Pueblo, and area museums. Curriculum work sessions will be incorporated into the workshop agenda. A special art experience will also be part of the workshop itinerary. An award winning artist from the Santa Fe Market will lead participants in an art creation experience related to a traditional Spanish New Mexican art form. All parts of the workshop will build on the concept of homelands."

From the University of New Mexico website:

"The intended impact of the Contested Homelands workshop is to strengthen teacher content knowledge about Pre-colonial America and to stretch understandings about the scope of European Colonial America. The sessions will take place on the road, in museums, in historic buildings, and in classrooms.

The workshop will consist of lectures from distinguished scholars, site visits to: the Camino Real Trail, the Palace of the Governors, Taos Pueblo, and area museums. Curriculum work sessions will be incorporated into the workshop agenda. A special art experience will also be part of the workshop itinerary. An award winning artist from the Santa Fe Market will lead participants in an art creation experience related to a traditional Spanish New Mexican art form. All parts of the workshop will build on the concept of homelands."

From the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center website:

"This three-week institute provides educators with an unequaled opportunity to trace the history of one of the continent's most enduring cultural groups—Pueblo Indians—from the deep past into the twenty-first century."

From the National Humanities Center website:

"When we teach Reconstruction, we typically focus on the struggle to reunite the North and the South. But what of the West? What role did it play in national reunification? The late nineteenth century was the zenith of westward expansion. Western images dominated American culture. What did the wide-open spaces of the West represent to the Americans who were crowding into the cities of the Northeast? What did they represent to the ex-Confederates who resented the imposition of federal power in the South? How did the West shape the nation that emerged from the Civil War?"