"With a presidential election just around the corner, this workshop will focus on how presidents are packaged according to the most winnable personality, prepared in minute detail for every public appearance, and promoted as viable candidates and chief executive. Educators will look at examples and methods of how presidential image has been portrayed in the public sphere from George W. to George W. The evolution of presidential campaigns will be examined by comparing and contrasting early, short, and inexpensively-run campaigns to the grueling more than year-long marathons and multi-million dollar campaigns of the present. Educators will also examine the art of campaign buttons, banners, and broadsides of the past to the fire-side chats of FDR, the television ads, sound bites, and Internet of today."

"An NCHE team will explore the topic of the 19th Century at this Teaching American History colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Thomas Connors, Ted Green, and Jim McNeill will explore the topic of Creating a New Nation at this Teaching American History colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Sean Adams, Andrew Dangel, and Brian Riley will explore the topic of The Antebellum Years: Political, Social, and Economic Distinctions between North and South at this Frontiers of History colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Tad Kuroda, Dennis Denenberg and Nancy Taylor will explore a still-to-be-determined topic at this Shaping the Constitution: People and Documents colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Tad Kuroda, Ted Green, and Laura Wakefield will explore the topic of the Turning Points in American History: The Constitution of the U.S. in Historical Context at this Teaching American History colloquium."

"An NCHE team will explore the topic of the Founding of the Nation at this colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Woody Holton and Chris Sink will explore the topic of the American Revolution and the Creation of a Nation at this colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Matt Pinsker, Al Jacobs, and Jim McNeill will explore the topic of Abolition and the Emancipation Proclamation and Taking Sides: The Confederacy at this colloquium."