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National Humanities Center Announces
Spring Schedule of Online Professional Development Seminars
News Release Date: January 4, 2010
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This spring the National Humanities Center will host seven online professional development seminars for history and literature teachers focusing on specific topics in American history and culture. The 90-minute sessions are led by prominent scholars of history, art, and literature and provide opportunities for sharing ideas with teachers across the United States. Using online conferencing software that allows verbal exchanges among participants, these seminars are the newest offering from the National Humanities Center's education programs and build on its thirty years of dedicated effort to improve humanities teaching.
Seminars scheduled for this spring include sessions on Deism, Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry, the history of the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the distinct visions of America offered by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. The seminars 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teachers with, materials in the National Humanities Center's Toolbox Library, an extensive archive of primary sources—historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and audio materials—which are supplemented with discussion guides and helpful notes.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 seminar is $35. All sessions are conducted live, online. Participants need a computer, an internet connection, along with speakers, and a microphone.
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Teachers of U.S. History and American Literature.
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All sessions will be conducted online.
Thursday, January 28
"Deism and the Founding of the U.S."
Led by historian Ryan K. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Thursday, February 4
"Rethinking Booker T. and W.E.B."
Led by historian Kenneth R. Janken, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Thursday, February 18
"The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century"
Led by historian Henry Binford, Northwest University
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Tuesday, February 23
"Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs"
Led by art historian Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College
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Thursday, February 25
"The Role of the West in the Reunification of the U.S. after the Civil War"
Led by historian Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Thursday, March 18
"Walt Whitman's Civil War Poetry," An American Experience Seminar
Led by literature scholar Franny Nudelman, Carleton University
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Wednesday, March 24
"Hamilton's America-Jefferson's America" An American Experience Seminar
Led by historian Peter Onuf, University of Virginia |
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For more information, or to register please contact Caryn Koplik,
(919) 406-0111; ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org
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