[WSCSS] Teachers' Conf: The Military in America's (Domestic) History

[Gary and Robyn Cressman]

THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN AMERICA'S (DOMESTIC) HISTORY
A History Institute for Teachers
www.fpri.org

Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11, 2010
The First Division Museum, 1 S. 151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL

Sponsored by 

The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center
The Cantigny First Division Foundation of the McCormick Foundation

FPRI’s Wachman Center, in association with the Cantigny First
Division Foundation, is proud to be presenting their fifth weekend-long
conference for teachers on subjects in military history.

Topics and Speakers include:

EXPLORING THE WEST
Michael Tate, Charles and Mary Martin Chairof Western History,
University of Nebraska

BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE
Todd Shallat, Director, Center for Idaho History and Politics,
Boise State University

PROTECTING MARITIME TRADE
James C. Bradford, Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M University

SPURRING TRANSPORTATION
Alex Roland, Professor of History, Duke University

PROMOTING CIVIL RIGHTS
Christopher S. Parker, Assistant Professor of Political Science,
University of Washington, Seattle

NATION BUILDING
Dominic Tierney, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore
College, and Senior Fellow, FPRI

The conference begins at 8:50 am CT on Saturday, April 10, and
concludes at 1:00 pm CT on Sunday, April 11, 2010.
 
WHAT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE
Social studies and history teachers, curriculum supervisors, and
junior college faculty are invited to apply for participation in
the History Institute. Forty participants will be selected to receive:

* free room and board;

* assistance in designing curriculum and special projects based on the
History 

Institute;

* stipends of $200 for well-developed lesson plans for posting on our
website that effectively utilize the experience of the weekend conference,
or documentation of in-service presentations based on the weekend;

* partial travel reimbursements (up to $250) for participants outside
the vicinity of the conference center;

* subscription to E-Notes, FPRI's weekly bulletin; and Footnotes, FPRI's
bulletin for high school teachers.

* a certificate of participation in a program offering 12 hours of
instruction. In addition, for those interested, college credit is
available for a small fee through our cooperating institution,
Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

TO APPLY 

Please email to lux at fpri.org a resume and a short statement describing
your current teaching or professional assignments, your reasons for
wanting to attend, and how your students or school district will
benefit from your participation. NOTE: At the time of application,
you are asked to make a commitment either to prepare a curriculum unit
based on the weekend or to do in-service activities based on the weekend.

Schools with a school membership in FPRI's Wachman Center are guaranteed
one place at one History Institute weekend per year. For information about
school membership, contact lux at fpri.org.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 20, 2009

Videotapes of the entire conference will be posted subsequently on our
website.

For information about future and previous programs visit:
http://www.fpri.org/education/historyinstitutes.html


RECENT PROGRAMS

The Invention and Development of Rotorcraft: A Case Study in Teaching
Innovation
September 2009
Hosted by the American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PA

The United States and the Modern Middle East
June 2009
Cosponsored by the American Institute for History Education

What Students Need to Know About America's Wars, Part II
May 2009
Hosted by the First Division Museum, Wheaton, IL

Teaching the Nuclear Age
March 2009 
Hosted by the Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas

Teaching Innovation
October 2008, Kansas City, MO
Hosted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

For essays, slides, videotapes and classroom lessons
based on these and other weekends, visit:
http://www.fpri.org/education/historyinstitutes.html

For Answers to Student Questions on Innovation
http://www.fpri.org/education/innovationwebcast/answers.html

For Answers to Student Questions on 9/11
http://www.fpri.org/education/911webcast/answers.html

Support for our weekends on military history is provided by the
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Stuart Family Foundation.
In-kind support is provided by the Cantigny First Division Foundation
of the McCormick Foundation.  Major funding for other History Institute
programming has been contributed contributed by The Annenberg Foundation,
the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and Mr. H.F. Lenfest.


HISTORY INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS
FPRI’s Wachman Center is proud to administer the History Institute
for Teachers, co-chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter A. McDougall.
Designed to bring high school teachers from around the country together
with the nation’s top scholars in history, political science, and other
fields, the History Institute offers intensive weekends of lectures and
discussion. 

David Eisenhower is an FPRI Senior Fellow and a Lindback Award for
Excellence of Teaching-recipient Public Policy Fellow at the Annenberg
School of Communications, where he teaches communications and the
president. 
He is author of the New York Times bestseller Eisenhower at War, 1943-45.

Walter A. McDougall is an FPRI Senior Fellow and Professor of
International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. A Pulitzer
Prize-winning historian, he is author most recently of a two-volume
American history, Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History,
1585-1828 (2004) and Throes of Democracy: America in the Civil War Era,
1829-1877 (March 2008).

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST!
To join our mailing list, please send an email with complete contact
information to: lux at fpri.org

CANTIGNY FIRST DIVISION FOUNDATION
www.firstdivisionmuseum.org
The Cantigny First Division Foundation, part of the McCormick Foundation,
promotes public learning about America’s military heritage and affairs
through the compelling history of the US Army’s 1st Infantry Division,
the famed "Big Red One." The foundation preserves the Big Red One’s
history from 1917 to the present and promotes learning through the First
Division Museum at Cantigny; the Robert R. McCormick Research Center; the
Cantigny Military History Series of books and conferences; and a
wide variety of public and educational outreach programs and grants.

FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.fpri.org
Founded in 1955, FPRI is devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship
to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national
interests 
abroad. We add perspective to events by fitting them into the larger
historical and cultural context of international politics. A font of
ideas for policymakers, a trusted resource for journalists, a center for
scholars, a prolific publisher online and in print, FPRI aspires like
Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin to embrace the nation and the world.

WACHMAN CENTER
http://www.fpri.org/education/wachman.html
Begun in 1990, FPRI’s Wachman Center is dedicated to improving civic
and international literacy in the community and in the classroom. The
Center is named for FPRI’s former president Marvin Wachman (1917-2007).

For more information, contact: Alan H. Luxenberg
Director, Wachman Center
Foreign Policy Research Institute
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel. 215-732-3774
Email: lux at fpri.org
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