A Look Back
Pre-Project
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After two or three unsuccessful attempts to
win a Teaching American History grant, we
were finally successful in 2009.
Past rejections were due;
 Too much emphasis on technology
 Faculty presenters who were too old
In the 2009 competition, these past problems,
became strengths in securing a grant
Call for Teachers
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In the summer of 2009 we sent
announcements and invitations to all the area
school districts to send us their best and
brightest teachers
This is how many of you ended up in the
program
Year 1 2009-2010
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In August of 2009 the original group of
teachers met for a week of orientation
workshops at Cicero-North Syracuse High
School
August 2009
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 You met our evaluator and took a pre-test
 You visited Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
 You heard a presentation by Professor Ralph
Ketcham on “The Revolution and the New Nation,
1763-1791”
 You watched and participated in a reenactment of
the Ratification Debates with our guests George
Clinton and Alexander Hamilton
 You participated in “The Presidency and our
Constitution” simulation
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September 2009
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 We introduced the American History Public Policy
Analyst (AHPPA)
 We presented on WebQuests
 You created your own WebQuest lesson plans for
your classes
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October 2009
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 Professor Ketcham presented on the Presidency and
the first Presidents drawing from his book,
“Presidents Above Parties”
November 2009
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 Professor Roger Sharp delivered two talks
 The Election of 1800
 The Market and Transportation Revolution
 We visited the Erie Canal Museum
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December 2009
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 Professor Jim Carroll delivered a presentation on the
Marshall Court
 We showed you how to analyze Individual Rights
Supreme Court cases using CompuLEGAL
January 2010
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 We reviewed the AHPPA again
 We presented on PowerPoint
 You created a PowerPoint lesson for your classes
which included one step of the AHPPA process
February 2010
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 Professor Jim Carroll presented on landmark Equal
Protection Supreme Court cases
 We reviewed CompuLEGAL again
 We showed you several different teaching methods
for infusing Supreme Court cases into your teaching
March 2010
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 Professor Sharp delivered two more presentations
 The Election of Andrew Jackson
 The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
April 2010
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 Professor Sharp returned one more time for
presentations on
 The Origins of the Sectional Controversy
 The Secession Crisis
May 2010
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 We took a field trip to Auburn, NY and visited
 The Seward House Museum
 The Harriet Tubman House
Year 2, 2010-2011
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August 2010
 Professor Douglas Egerton of Le Moyne College
presented (based on his book “Year of Meteors”) on
consecutive days in August on
 Abe Lincoln and the Election of 1860
 Civil War and Reconstruction
 We also visited the Onondaga Historical Association
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September 2010
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 Professor William Wiecek presented on “The United
States Supreme Court and Race in American
History”
 In the afternoon you created another AHPPA
WebQuest
October 2010
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 Professor Andrew Cohen presented on “Tariffs,
Smuggling, Law and Foreign Policy in the Gilded
Age” based on his book
November 2010
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 Professor Margaret Thompson delivered a talk
entitled “The Road to Suffrage”
 We also heard a presentation from Sue Boland on the
Matilda Joslyn Gage and the Gage Home
December 2010
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 Professor John Briggs presented on “Story Lines and
Myths in 20th Century Immigration Historiography”
1937-2012
January 2011
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 Visiting Professor Mark Schmeller presented a talk
on “Public Opinion”
February 2011
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 Professor Jim Carroll delivered a presentation on
Freedom of Speech and Press with an emphasis on
National Secuity
 We also reviewed CompuLEGAL
March 2011
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 Professor Cohen presented on “American Workers,
1830-1945”
April 2011
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 Professor Carol Faulkner delivered a talk on
“Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention”
 Later we visited the Oneida Community Mansion
House
May 2011
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 Professor Cohen returned one final time to talk about
“Progressivism and the Jazz Age”
Year 3 2011-2012
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 The original Project HISTORY was supposed to be a
5-year project with two cadres of teachers each
participating for 2.5 years.
 However the funding was cut for the program and
so instead of recruiting a new cadre of teachers we
continued with the current group
September 2011
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 Professor David Bennett presented an in depth look
at World War I
October 2011
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 We heard from Melissa Greene from Teacher
Created Materials who presented on the new
Common Core State Standards
 Later in the day you created another AHPPA
WebQuest for your classes
November 2011
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 We visited Seneca Falls, New York
 Women’s Rights National Park
 National Women’s Hall of Fame
 Heard an after-lunch talk from Hall of Famer, Karen
DeCrow on the second wave of feminism
December 2011
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 Professor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn presented on Jane
Addams and “Settlement House”
January 2012
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 Professor David Bennett returned for an in depth
study of World War II
February 2012
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 Professor Bennett delivered a talk based on his book
“The Party of Fear” which you received copies of
March 2012
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 Another workshop where you created an AHPPA
PowerPoint
 In the afternoon Professor Jim Carroll presented on
student rights and
 We had a special guest (Mary Beth Tinker) for our
simulation which you all participated in
April 2012
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 We took a three-day field trip to Philadelphia, PA
 Among the sites we visited were
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Valley Forge
Independence Center
Liberty Bell
Christ Church
National Constitution Center
City Tavern
May 2012
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 Professor Bennett returned one final time for a
workshop on “Terrorism”
Year 4, 2012-2013
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Our grant was supposed to end in July of 2012, but due
to our sound fiscal management of the project, we had
enough carry-over funds to apply for and receive a sixmonth extension
September 2012
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 Professor Gonda presented on the “Origins of the
Civil Rights Movement”
October, 2010
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 Joe Montecalvo did a short presentation on the new
CCSS as well as on flipped teaching
October 2012
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 Professor Milton Sernett presented on “Harriet
Tubman and the Abolition Movement”
November 2012
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 Dr. Lee Kanawada visited and presented on “The
Holocaust, 1933-1945”
November 2012
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 Professor Margaret Thompson returned and
presented on “Social Media and the Elections”
December 2012
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 Professor Jim Carroll presented on Due Process
Rights Supreme Court cases
 We reviewed CompuLEGAL once again
January 2013
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 TODAY!
 Status of teacher material orders
 A review of the entire project
 A review of resources that you will have going
forward
 An online exit survey for you to take
 Our thanks for making this a most enjoyable 3+
years!
Parting thought
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 If you recall from the initial workshop back on
August 24, 2009, Jim presented a PowerPoint (with
thanks to Charles Schultz) where he listed the three
kinds of teachers you will find in every school
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Keep Your Deck Chairs
Facing Forward!!!
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