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Project Activities 2007-08
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Project Activities - 2007-2008
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| During the second year of the grant, Lead Teachers field tested the lesson plans developed at the 2007 Summer Institute and presented information about their efforts to American history teachers in their schools and others through professional developments presentations. In addition, the project sponsored a second year of after-school and Saturday workshops and conferences. |
| National History Day Workshop, New York State Museum, Albany - September 15, 2007 |
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John Buchinger, State History Day Outreach Coordinator, and Tobi Voigt, State Coordinator (left) described upcoming State History Day activities and shared student and teacher resources. Pat Jordan (right), Director of Community Relations for the State Museum and Capital Region Coordinator of State History Day, also led a tour through the museum.
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Conference: Western Frontier Symposium "Agents of Change in Colonial New York"
Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Johnstown - October 20-21, 2007 |
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| Project Lead Teachers joined scholars and historians at the Fulton-Montgomery Community College in Johnstown, NY for a symposium on "Agents of Change in Colonial New York: Sir William Johnson's World." Nationally known scholars, authors and historians such as Dr. Alan Taylor, University of California at Davis (top) shared their research on the decades before the American Revolution along the western frontier of colonial New York. All project participants received a teachers' packet that included classroom resources and a bound copy of the papers presented at the symposium. |
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Conference: New York State Historical Places Fair
Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs - November 10, 2007 |
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Representatives from nearby New York State Parks and Historic Sites, such as Peebles Island and Saratoga Spa State Parks, and the State Historic Sites at Crailo, Schuyler Mansion, Schoharie Crossing and Grant Cottage provided participants with an overview of the educational services (site visits, outreach, and special events) available to teachers and students.
After the presentations there was time to ask questions, visit with the individual representatives at their booths, see their historical displays, and walk away with lots of handouts and valuable information. |
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| Workshop: Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court's Most Radical Decision - January 17, 2008 |
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| Dr. Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Government Law Center at Albany Law School explored the background and the intricacies of the Brown decision. Participants reviewed the Court's decision and discussed its impact on American history. |
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| Workshop: E Pluribus Unum: Statistics and the Measure of Immigration - March 6, 2008 |
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| Dr. Robert V. Wells, Chauncey H. Winters Professor of History and Social Science at Union College in Schenectady, demonstrated how the statistics available to teachers can paint a detailed picture of the immigrants who moved to America. Participants examined a broad range of records, from passenger lists in the 17th century to censuses and immigration records in the 20th. |
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Workshop: Seneca Falls: Teaching About the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement - April 10, 2008
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| Judith Wellman, Director of Historical New York Research Associates and Professor Emerita of History at SUNY Oswego, described the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the birthplace of the women's rights movement in the United States. She also shared information about the Roads from Seneca Falls project (www.roadsfromsenecafalls.net), which is designed to help K-12 students and teachers have easy access to the best information about women's history on the web. |
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Conference: Lincoln's New York Soldiers
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, Saratoga Springs - May 17, 2008 |
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| This conference focused on the major role that citizens of New York had in the defense of the Union during the Civil War. Sessions examined New York's ethnic regiments, the proper use of photographs and documents to teach about the war, and the resources available to teachers for researching local veterans. Among the guest speakers were: Michael Aikey, Director of the NYS Military Museum; John Hennessy,Chief Historian of the Fredericksburg-Spotslvania Military Park; and R.L Murray, author of Letters from Gettysburg: New York Soldiers' Correspondence from the Battlefield. |
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Summer Institute 2008
July 7 – August 1, 2008
Union College, Schenectady, NY |
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The topic of the 2008 Summer Institute was “A New Birth of Freedom: the Broadening of the Rights and Freedoms of the American People.” It took place from July 7 to August 1, 2008, on the campus of Union College in Schenectady, NY. In addition to sessions on classroom methodology, researching history in local archives, and implementing History Day in classrooms, participants attended content lectures on the following topics:
·Teaching About Antebellum Slavery
·Abolition and the Underground Railroad, Nationally and Locally
·Researching Underground Railroad History
·Events Leading to the Civil War
·The Civil War: A Social History
·The Civil War Through a Soldier’s Eyes
·Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
·Citizenship in a Democracy: Expanding Suffrage from the Constitution Through Jackson
·Role of Women in Early America: From Colonial Times to Seneca Falls
·Women’s Rights And Suffrage Movements Through World War I
·19th Amendment and Women’s Changing Roles
·Native American Citizenship
·Immigration to America Through the Civil War
·The 2nd Wave of Immigration to the 1920s: Cities to Quotas
·Japanese Internment During World War II
·Chinese-American Immigration
·Immigration Since World War II
·Black Migration, NAACP and the Harlem Renaissance
·Brown v. Board, Civil Rights and the Politics of Post-war America
·Teaching Civil Rights in the Intersection: From Abigail Adams to Rosa Parks
·Six Degrees of Segregation: Civil Rights and Black Power
The following made presentations at the Summer Institute:
·Dr. Patrick Allen, Dean of the School of Education, Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY
·Dr. Kenneth Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY
·Susan D’Entremont, Document Heritage Program Regional Archivist, Capital District Library Council, Albany, NY
·Dr. Bruce Eelman, Associate Professor of History, Siena College, Loudonville, NY
·Dr. Andrew Feffer, Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies, Union College, Schenectady, NY
·Dr. Andrea Foroughi, Associate Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY
·Sean O’Connell, Adjunct Instructor, School of Education, Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY
·Dr. Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Assistant Professor of History, Siena College, Loudonville, NY
·Mari Shopsis, Director of Education, Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy, NY
·Ted Shuart, Interpreter, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY
·Catherine Snyder, Associate Dean of the School of Education, Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY
·Paul Stewart and Mary Liz Stewart, founders, Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital District, Albany, NY
·Dr. Yohuru Williams, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Black Studies, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
·Dr. K. Scott Wong, James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History & Public Affairs, Chair of the American Studies Program, Williams College, Williamstown, NY |
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