Keepers of the Republic
TAH Courses, Saturday Seminars,
and
Summer Institutes
2007-2008
There are limited spaces available in each course, seminar and institute.
Participants will be taken on a first come, first serve basis.
Summer Institutes 2008
- "Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A
Dream" Speech " (June 23-27)
- "The Declaration of Independence"
(August 11-15)
Fall 2008
Course: "American Voices,
1763-Present" -
This
course
will examine Americans'
search
to develop a distinctly American language — Noah Webster's
Dictionary
is
an early and influential example — distinctly American religious
practices, a distinctly American literature, a distinctly American visual
arts, and a distinctly American music.
Saturday Seminars:
- The Hudson River School, led by Virginia
Raguin (Oct. 4)
- The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age,
instructor TBA (Oct. 25)
- Memory Matters: The Problem of Historical Memory in American
Culture, led by Stephanie Yuhl (Nov. 22)
Previous course offerings
Spring 2006
Course: "Revolutionary and Early National
America, 1763-1832" - This
course will cover the political and intellectual origins of America, the
Revolution and the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the
Federalist Papers, the formation and framework of the American democracy,
political democratization, and the diplomatic developments of westward
expansion. The course is taught by Dr. Charlotte Haller of Worcester
State College and Dr. John McClymer of Assumption College.
Saturday Seminars:
- The closing of the Worcester
Courthouse, September 1774 and the
Beginning
of the American Revolution, led by Dr. Steven C. Bullock of WPI (Feb.
11)
- The Rhetoric of the American
Revolution, led by Lucia Knoles of
Assumption
College and Thomas Knoles of AAS (Mar. 11)
- The Nullification Crises: An Echo of
the Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions?,
led by Drew McCoy of Clark University (Apr. 29)
Course: "Civil War and Reconstruction,
1832-1877" - Examination of the
root causes and various consequences of the Civil War: developments of the
northern industrial and southern agrarian economies and the issue of
slavery, the growing regional conflict and critical developments leading
up to the Civil War, the War itself, and efforts to reconstruct the South.
The course is taught by Dr. John McClymer of Assumption College.
Saturday Seminars:
- The Second Great Awakening and
Antebellum Reform, led by Dr. Janette
Greenwood of Clark University (Oct. 7)
- Frederick Douglass' Narrative and
the American Conversation About
Race, led by Thomas Thurston, Education Director, & Dr. David
Blight,
Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance &
Abolition (Nov. 18)
- The Rhetoric of Race and Reform,
1861-1871, led by
Dr. Lucia Z. Knoles of Assumption College (Dec. 2)
Spring 2007
Course: "Gilded Age Through World War
II,
1877-1945" - Survey of the
Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age, Immigration, Progressivism and the New
Deal, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United
States' increasing role in world events, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow
Wilson, child labor bans, the Meat Packing Act, and the Federal Reserve
Act are key issues in this time period.
Lecturer: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Remember the Ladies: A New Reading of Abigail
Adams's Famous
Letter
Saturday Seminars:
- Working Families, the "American
Standard" of Living and the
Origins of the Regulatory State, by Dr. John McClymer from Assumption
College (Feb. 3)
- "New Era Capitalism" and the Consumer
Ethos, by Dr. Stephanie Yuhl
from the College of the Holy Cross (Mar. 3)
- War Movies and the Shaping of
American
Civic Identity, Dr. Gary
Gerstle from Vanderbilt University (May 5)
- The Sources of Soviet Conduct
(June 25-29)
- The Gettysburg Address
(August 20-24)
Fall 2007
Course:
"From the Cold War to the War on Terror, 1945-Present" -
Examination of American isolationism and its impact on foreign policy, the
shift in the balance of power after WWII, factors that contributed to the
Cold War, Civil Rights, McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, desegregation of
school systems, women's rights, and the space race are key issues in this
course.
Saturday Seminars:
- Teaching "Eyes on the
Prize," led by Dr. Janette Greenwood of
Clark University (Sept. 15)
- The Collapse of these "Evil
Empire," led by Douglas Little
of Clark University (Oct. 27)
- "The Acids of
Modernity," led by John McClymer of Assumption
College (Nov. 17)
Spring 2008
Course: "The American Colossus,
1763-Present" - Teachers will examine more
fully the question of "who gets to be an American?" through in-depth focus
on significant events and issues including the Cherokee Removal,
abolition, women's rights, Chinese Exclusion, immigration (and immigration
restriction), and the Civil Rights movement.
Saturday Seminars:
- "Nineteenth-Century
Immigration," led by Dr. Ed O'Donnell of the
College of the Holy Cross (Feb. 2)
- "The Gilded Age," led by Dr.
Robert
Dykstra of Clark
University
(Mar. 1)
- "The New York Anti-Draft Riots of 1863" (Apr. 12)
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Courses and Saturday Seminars are open only to teachers in the Worcester,
Millbury, and Sutton school districts. Lectures are free and open to all
educators.
Contact:
Amy Lynn Sopcak-Joseph
Education Coordinator
American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, MA 01609
508-471-2129
asopcak[at]mwa.org
To learn more about this program, read James David Moran's remarks,
delivered on October 14, 2005, at the launch of the Keepers of the
Republic: A Teaching American History Project
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