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Session B-4: Why Study War? The Importance Of Teaching Military History, Justin Riskus
Session B-4: Why Study War? The Importance Of Teaching Military History, Justin Riskus
Professional Learning Day
This session will provide educators with the means and methods of incorporating American military history into the classroom, and how its study fosters critical thinking skills. A global perspective of American military power {Civil War, Cold War, War on Terror), and ideas on how to teach such perspectives, will be explored.
Session C-4: Mary Lincoln’S Journey, Mary Kerr
Session C-4: Mary Lincoln’S Journey, Mary Kerr
Professional Learning Day
Lincoln's Journey will detail in an interesting and objective manner the pivotal points in her life: early feelings about slavery, the decision to leave Lexington and settle in Springfield, IL, being a single mother while her husband was "riding the circuit", her continued support of Lincoln as a national politician, restoration of the White House, and her inability to make positive decisions after Lincoln's assassination. In the end she was able to live on a budget and died with dignity. The presentation follows the book Mary Lincoln's Journey by Kerr and Kerr in which primary sources are emphasized.
Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid
Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid
Professional Learning Day
This session will enable attendees to teach the origins of the Cold War for the United States (and world) along with the evolution of American opinion on the topic. This fragmentation of historical opinion (left, right, center) will help attendees see the many possibilities of the topic. Teachers will leave ready to teach the topic.
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
The Great Gatsby Unit
Despite mixed reviews at the time of its 1925 publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has come to be one of the most widely taught American books and has become a popular candidate for the title of the “Great American Novel.” Uniquely intertwining social history, biography, and literature, the text challenges readers to understand the culture and history of the Jazz Age and to see its interrelationship with the lives and motivations of the characters, as well as with the author himself. This project encourages students to engage and work closely with one of the historical elements that influenced …
Session A-4: National Archives Resources And The Common Core, Kris Maldre Jarosik
Session A-4: National Archives Resources And The Common Core, Kris Maldre Jarosik
Professional Learning Day
Discover the online resources of the National Archives and learn how they can support Common Core standards and help build the literacy skills of your students. We will explore sample U.S. history activities relating to the Civil War, American Indians, and World War II during this session.
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Laurie S. Sutherland
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Laurie S. Sutherland
Publications & Research
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is America's first and only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for Meritorious Service for her contributions to the American Civil War as a field surgeon. This article provides an overview of her life and many roles: surgeon, feminist, abolitionist, social reformer, suffragette, nonconformist and eccentric.