Defining US: The American Experience
FCPS Teaching American History Grant
Agenda
June 23 and 24, 2004
8:00-8:15am Sign in and completion of seminar surveys
8:15-8:30am Welcome and announcements
8:30-11:30 am--June 23
Group A (Secondary)-Rm E108
Society and Culture in the Early Republic-Barbara C. Smith
Group B (Elementary)-Rm E109 computer lab
Analyzing and Using Online Primary Sources-T. Mills Kelly
11:30-12:30 pm--Lunch
12:30-3:30pm—June 23
Group A (Secondary) Rm E109 computer lab
Analyzing and Using Online Primary Sources-T. Mills Kelly
Group B (Elementary) Rm E108
Society and Culture in the Early Republic-Barbara C. Smith
8:30-11:30am-June 24
Group A (Secondary) Rm E108
Civil War and Reconstruction-Jane Censer
Group B (Elementary) Rm E100
Race in America-Adam Rothman
11:30-12:30pm—Lunch
12:30-3:30pm—June 24
Group A (Secondary) Rm E100
Race in America-Michael O’Malley
Group B (Elementary) Rm E108
Civil War and Reconstruction-Jane Censer
Suggested Readings:
Kobrin, David and Charles E. Smith, “Using ‘History Matters’ with a Ninth Grade Class,” The
History Teacher 43,3 (Mayu 2001): 339-344. This may also be accessed online at:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historyessays/usingmatersp.html
Smith, Barbara C. After the Revolution (New York: Pantheon Books, National Museum of
American History, 1987). 45-86.
McPherson, James M. What They Fought For 1861-1865 (New York: Doubleday, 1994). 9-46.
Nash, Gary. “Black People in a White People’s Country.” In Portrait of America, Vol I: To
1877, edited by Stephen Oates and Charles Errico, 31-46. Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2003.
Blassingame, John. “Life in a Totalitarian System.” In Portrait of America, Vol I: To 1877,
edited by Stephen Oates and Charles Errico, 324-337. Houghton Mifflin Company,
2003.
Foner, Eric. “The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment.” In Portrait of
America, Vol I: To 1877, edited by Stephen Oates and Charles Errico, 425-434.
Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2003.