Attention: Teaching American History Grant Applicants
THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND
MUSEUM
Hyde Park, New York
Announces
Teacher Professional Development Seminar
The Great Depression and World War II
Summer 2004
The Roosevelt Presidential Library invites educators to participate in The Roosevelt Era
1929-45: The Great Depression and World War II: a seven-day comprehensive residential
institute designed to renew and revitalize teaching on the crucial years that marked the
dawn of the modern era in domestic and world affairs.
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Each seminar will be team-led by a distinguished academic historian in partnership
with a master teacher and based at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
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The seminar includes daily curriculum-writing workshops enabling each educator to
produce a customized curriculum on the Roosevelt Era by the seminar’s conclusion.
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Participants will receive books, curriculum support materials, and tools to find new
resources on their own.
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Program sessions are designed in conjunction with national history curriculum
standards on the Great Depression and World War II and feature special units on
archival document-based research, Internet resources, teaching with historic places,
films and videos.
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Seminar activities include special behind-the-scenes tours of the presidential archive,
the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Eleanor Roosevelt’s cottage,
Val-Kill, and FDR’s newly restored retirement retreat, Top Cottage.
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The Roosevelt Era 1929-45: The Great Depression and World War II will be the
inaugural educational program in the Library’s new state-of-the-art Henry A. Wallace
Conference Center.
School districts are encouraged to enroll one or more educators, or reserve an entire
seminar for their staff’s exclusive instruction.
Tuition and fees: $2,500 inclusive
Including first class hotel accommodations, all meals, local transportation, books and
supplies.
Project Partners: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, one of the ten
presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, the
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the National Park Service, and the Eleanor
Roosevelt Papers Project.
Participating Historians
Allida Black, George Washington University
Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
J. Garry Clifford, University of Connecticut
Robert Dallek, Boston University
David M. Kennedy, Stanford University
Warren F. Kimball, Rutgers University
George T. McJimsey, Iowa State University
Customize Your Seminar
If our seven-day residential survey seminar on The Roosevelt Era 1929-45: The Great
Depression and World War II does not meet your school district’s needs, contact us and we
will design a program to meet your faculty development requirements and budget. Options
include intensive historical seminars on special themes and/or one-to-three-day workshops
on archival research. Beginning in the Fall 2003 in-service training will be available through
our distance learning lab.
Selected Topics
The New Deal: How did it work?
Pearl Harbor: Did FDR know it was coming?
Japanese-American Internment
Civil Rights on the Home Front
The Fireside Chats
American Culture in the Roosevelt Era
FDR: Disability and Determination
The Letters of FDR and Churchill
The Life and Times of Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR and the Holocaust
FDR and the Atomic Bomb
Political Cartoons
For additional information contact
Jeffrey Urbin
Education Specialist at the Roosevelt Library
(845) 229-8114 ext. 315
jeffrey.urbin@nara.gov
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu