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.

"An NCHE team of Tom Connors, Cindy Stout, and Chris Sink will explore the topic of the Industrialization and America's Rise to World Power at this Teaching American History colloquium."

"A one day seminar on the expansion of presidential power. There will be a scholar and a mini-hearing activity."

"This seminar is concerned with the formative period of early American constitutionalism. It begins with the pre-Revolutionary debate over the rights that the American colonists could claim under the 'ancient' imperial constitution, and ends with the escalating controversies over the interpretation of the Federal Constitution of 1787, culminating (in a sense) with the Supreme Court’s much-heralded decision in Marbury v. Madison and its less known but arguably more important holding in Stuart v. Laird a week later. In between, the heart of the seminar focuses on the constitutional experiments of the 1770s and 1780s: the adoption of the first state constitutions (1776-1780), and the framing and ratification of the Federal Constitution (1787-1791, if we throw in the first ten amendments)."

"Professors David Kennedy and Richard White examine the experience of the American people in the Great Depression and World War II, with special emphasis on the implications of those episodes for the American West. Lecture topics include the causes and impact of the Great Depression; the New Deal; the West and American individualism; the military and diplomatic dimensions of American participation in World War II; and the war's impact on American society."

This institute will provide "educators the opportunity to engage in serious study and seminar-style discussion of basic issues of political theory and the values and principles of American constitutional democracy."

"The seminar will explore several key works by the political theorist, Hannah Arendt: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem,' 'The Origins of Totalitarianism,' and 'The Human Condition.' These works shed light on the problem of evil and the use of terror in the contemporary age, and provide a philosophical perspective on current debates about the use of violence to settle political conflicts, about the conditions of democracy, and about the scope and importance of human rights."

This workshop will "explore political thought and constitutional change with leading experts in the field. Leading scholars and workshop participants will discuss the processes of Constitutional change, taking advantage of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s unique collections and exhibits."

This workshop will use the Choices program's unit "To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate" as a jumping-off point for discussing Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the League of Nations, and WWI, as well as how they may be taught.

This workshop will use the Choices' program's unit "Beyond Manifest Destiny: America Enters the Age of Imperialism" as a jumping-off point for discussing the Spanish-American War and the resulting U.S. colonial acquisitions, as well as how these may be taught.