National Humanities Center Online Professional Development Seminars for History and Literature Teachers

Online Professional Development Seminars
for History and Literature Teachers

http://goo.gl/pmnKR

Fall 2011 Schedule

Tuesday,Oct. 4, 2011
Jefferson and Slavery
Mia Bay
Rutgers Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Oct. 6, 2011 The Factory v. the Plantation: Northern and Southern Economies on the Eve of the Civil War
Peter Coclanis
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Oct. 11, 2011 "Aliens" in the Empire: Diversity in the American Colonies
Kathleen DuVal
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Oct. 13, 2011 No Lords, Spiritual or Temporal: The First Great Awakening and the American Revolution
Timothy H. Breen
Northwestern Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Oct. 25, 2011 Big Houses and African Villages: The Plantation Melting Pot
Heather Williams
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Oct. 27, 2011 The Idea of American Exceptionalism: From the Puritans to President Obama
Andrew Delbanco
Columbia Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Nov. 1, 2011 The Scopes Trial and America's Multiple Modernities
Michael Lienesch
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Nov. 3, 2011 Predicaments of the New Republic: America, 1789-1820
Scott Casper
Univ. of Nevada;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Nov. 8, 2011 Prohibition

Michael A. Lerner
Bard High School Early College


Thursday,
Nov. 10, 2011 The Impact of the Cold War on American Society
Michael Kazin
Georgetown Univ.


Tuesday,
Nov. 17, 2011 The Power of Speaking: Rhetoric in American Public Life
James Engell
Harvard Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Dec. 6, 2011 Making Sense of Battle: Journalism and Photography of the Civil War
Eliza Richards
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow
Cost: $35.00 per seminar.

Email Caryn Koplik, Assistant Director of Education Programs, for special pricing.
A list of assigned readings will be made available prior to each seminar. Assigned texts will be provided free and online.