Summer Teachers Conference: 1919-1939, Between the Wars
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum's 2009 Summer Teachers Conference focuses on the years 19191939.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum's 2009 Summer Teachers Conference focuses on the years 19191939.
The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the responses to them that came to be known as progressivism. The course includes the study of World War I as a manifestation of progressive principles. The course emphasizes the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their political expression of progressive principles.
The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the responses to them that came to be known as progressivism. The course includes the study of World War I as a manifestation of progressive principles. The course emphasizes the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their political expression of progressive principles.
Tim Mulligan, retired from National Archives and currently teaching at the University of Maryland, will speak on the Christmas Truce of 1914. The truce was not one ordered from above, rather the French, German, and Scottish troops in the trenches began singing carols, which lead to a meeting in "no man's land" (the area between trenches) and exchanging of gifts. The presentation will include a showing of the film Joyeux Noel 2005 about the same topic. Mulligan often uses this film in his course "History through Hollywood."
What difficult choices confront individuals, groups, and nations in the face of genocide? What dangers does everyone face when nations do not confront history? Participants can learn ways of integrating Facing History's newest resource kit, Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians, into their curriculum. This is a multimedia resource for teachers which includes a resource book and companion DVD, lesson plans, and two documentary DVDs.
"An NCHE team of Elliott West, Ted Green and Susan Dangel will explore the topic of the 19th Century Through WWI: Civil War and Reconstruction, the Urban/Industrial Revolution, America's Rise to World Power at this East Meets West: Traditional American History for New Mexico Teachers colloquium."
"This course examines the lives, character, political thought and political practice of two of America's leading thinkers and statesmen, viz., James Madison and Woodrow Wilson. Close attention will be given to the relationship between ideas and actions in their political careers."
"The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the responses to them that came to be known as progressivism. The course includes the study of World War I as a manifestation of progressive principles. The course emphasizes the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their political expression of progressive principles."
"The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the responses to them that came to be known as progressivism. The course includes the study of World War I as a manifestation of progressive principles. The course emphasizes the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their political expression of progressive principles."
"This seminar will trace Woodrow Wilson’s evolution as a world leader. A novice in foreign affairs when he entered the White House, he ardently championed U.S. neutrality for the first two years of the war, then joined it on the side of the Allies but insisted on American command of American troops. Admired throughout the world by the end of the war, Wilson figured prominently in the peacemaking and pressed for a new world order in which nationalism would be tamed by internationalism. To that end, he persuaded the world to establish the League of Nations, and although he could not persuade his own nation to join, the main tenets of his new order (collective security, national self-determination, and the spread of democracy) remain central to American foreign policy."