Fall Schedule of Online Teacher Workshops

This fall the National Humanities Center will hold eight online workshops for high school teachers focusing on specific topics in American history and culture along with primary source materials that can be used with their students in their classrooms. The 90-minute sessions are led by leading scholars of history, art, and literature and provide opportunities for sharing ideas with other teachers across the United States. Using online conferencing software that allows verbal exchanges among participants, these workshops are the newest offering from the National Humanities Center's education programs and build on its thirty years of dedicated effort to improving humanities teaching at all levels of education through engagement with scholars and professional development.

Workshops scheduled for this fall include sessions on consumer behavior in colonial America, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and art in the Civil War and early twentieth century, among other topics. The workshops will draw from, and help familiarize teachers with, materials in the National Humanities Center's Toolbox Library, an extensive archive of primary sources - historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and audio materials - which are supplemented with discussion guides and helpful notes.

Registration for each workshop is $35. All sessions are conducted live, online. Participants need a computer, an Internet connection, along with speakers, and a microphone. For participants who need a headset with a built-in microphone, one will be provided.

WHO: Teachers (K-12) of U.S. History and American Literature

WHEN:

Thursday, October 8:

"The Consumer Revolution in Colonial America"

Led by historian Maurie McInnis, University of Virginia

Tuesday, October 13:

"Why Some New World Colonies Succeeded and Others Failed"

Led by historian Kathleen Duval, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tuesday, October 20:

"Lincoln's Gettysburg Address"

Led by historian Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University

Tuesday, October 27:

"Civil War Art"

Led by art historian Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, October 28:

"The Cult of Domesticity"

Led by literature scholar Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University

Tuesday, November 10:

"Emancipation"

Led by historian Reginald Hildebrand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thursday, November 12:

"The Ashcan School"

Led by art historian Angela Miller, Washington University of Saint Louis

Thursday, November 19:

"In Search of the Civil Rights Movement"

Led by historian Kenneth Janken, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

WHERE: All sessions will be conducted online.

CONTACT: For more information, or to reserve space, please contact Michelle Walton-Shaw, 919-549-0661, mshaw@nationalhumanitiescenter.org

Website: http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/