Invention of the Steamboat
Description
Author John Steele Gordon discusses Robert Fulton's steamboat and the monopoly that he and his partner obtained for steam-powered navigation.
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The Nullification Crisis
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes a tariff Congress passed in 1828 to protect American manufacturers from cheaper foreign imports. This protective tariff almost brought the country to the brink of civil war.
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Credit Mobilier Scandal
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes one of the greatest political scandals in American history, involving a company called Credit Mobilier. The scandal was traced to the highest levels of President Ulysses S. Grant's administration.
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Slavery in the Rise of New England Commerce, Industry, and Culture to 1860
Description
In this institute, K12 teachers, in conjunction with a group of leading scholars and public historians, will explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of early American history—the two-and-a-half-century web of connections between the rise of New England as a commercial and industrial center and the enslavement of Africans. New England's extensive and complicated relationship with slavery is a crucial part of the American story that almost never is clearly and comprehensively discussed in American history textbooks. But this is an important story, and there is no better place to explore it, and learn how to teach about it, than in Rhode Island, not only the center of the American slave and provisioning trades, but also the birthplace of the American industrial revolution. The two-week institute will include lectures by experts, tours of historic sites associated with these key developments, and guided explorations of original 18th- and 19th-century print and graphic sources that document this fascinating, often painful history. Teachers will be able to bring back to their classrooms and departments new knowledge, new primary documents and images, and fresh ideas and strategies for teaching this sensitive material, including shared lesson plans.
Contact name
Parys, Marie
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Rhode Island Historical Society
Phone number
401-331-8575
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $2,000 stipend
Course Credit
For Rhode Island teachers, the institute can yield Continuing Education Units (CEUs). For all other participants, the project team will provide a letter of equivalency that states the content of the two-week program and the hours spent at the institute. Participants should determine the requirements for receiving CEUs from their state departments of education and should plan to bring all necessary documentation to the institute so that staff can fill out any additional paperwork.
Duration
Twelve days
End Date
FDR Creates the War Election Board
Description
Columbia University professor Alan Brinkley describes the extraordinary efforts by Franklin Roosevelt to ramp up industrial production to meet the needs of World War II.
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Child Labor Reform in the Progressive Era
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, progressive reformers turned their attention to the nearly two million children working, often in unhealthy or dangerous work environments.
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Morse's Telegraph
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, which ushered in the communications era.
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Growth of Southern Cities
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the post-Civil-War boom for Southern cities like Atlanta, GA, and Chattanooga, TN, as railway and factory jobs replace jobs on the farm.
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The Market Revolution
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary covers the period between 1812 and 1850, which marked the transition from an economy based on local farms and communities to a market economy, largely like what exists today.
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Economic Woes of the New South
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Civil War, a group of influential southerners promoted a vision and some said a myth about a "New South" that would be competitive with the north.
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