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Preserving Our Democracy
TAH Courses, Saturday Seminars,
and Summer Institutes
2007-2010

Fall 2008

Professional Development Days

• September 23-26, "Civil War and Reconstruction, 1845-1876" - Led by Robert Bonner at AAS (8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.)
• December 2-5, "Capital, Labor, and Technology, 1790-1920" - Led by Bruce Laurie at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.)

Saturday Seminar

• October 18, "The Rhetoric of Race in the Civil War Era" - Led by Lucia Knoles
at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

 

Spring 2009

Professional Development Days

• March 17-20, "Empire, 1845-1920" - Led by Kristin Hoganson at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.)
• April 28-May 1, "The City and the Immigrant, 1815-1924" - Led by Ed O'Donnell at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.)

Saturday Seminars

• January 24, "Capital, Labor, and Technology" - Led by John McClymer at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
• April 4, "Understanding Empire" - Led by Aldo Garcia Guevara at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
• May 9, "The City and the Immigrant, 1815-1924" - Led by Annelise Orleck at Assumption College (8 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

 

Summer 2009

Summer Institutes

• June 22-26, "FDR's Four Freedoms" - at Assumption College

 

Fall 2009

Professional Development Days

• October 2009, "Modern American Dilemmas and Reforms, 1877-1932" - Led by Rebecca Edwards

Saturday Seminar

• October 2009, "Modern American Dilemmas and Reforms, 1877-1932" - Led by Stephanie Yuhl

 

Spring 2010

Professional Development Days

• January 2010, "Wars and Rumors of Wars, 1915-present"
• March 2010, "The New American State, 1933-present" - Led by Lizabeth Cohen
• April 2010, "American Identities, 1877-present" - Led by Gary Gerstle

Saturday Seminars

• January 2010, "Wars and Rumors of Wars, 1915-present" - Led by Doug Little
• March 2010, "The New American State, 1933-present" - Led by Deborah Kisatsky
• April 2010, "American Identities, 1877-present" - Led by John McClymer

 

Summer 2010

Summer Institute

• June, July, or August, 2010, "JFK's Inaugural Address" - Led by Christian Appy

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Previous Programs

Fall 2007

Professional Development Days

• October 25, 26, and November 1, 2, "Colonial Encounters" - Led by Walter W. Woodward and Plimoth Plantation

Saturday Seminar

• December 1, 2007, "Colonial New England Family Life" - Led by Charlotte Haller

Spring 2008

Professional Development Days

• January 15-18, 2008, "Revolutionary America, 1763-1789" - Led by Ray Raphael
• March 4-7, 2008, "The First Republic, 1789-1844" - Led by Robert A. Gross
• April 8-11, 2008, "The West, 1783-1920" - Led by Jack Larkin

Saturday Seminars

• January 26, 2008, "Revolutionary America, 1763-1789" - Led by Steven Bullock
• March 15, 2008, "The First Republic, 1789-1844" - Led by Drew McCoy
• May 3, 2008, "The West, 1783-1920" - Led by Kathryn Morse

 

Summer 2008

Summer Institute

• July 28-August 1, 2008, Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" - Led by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin

 

For more information, contact:
Amy Lynn Sopcak-Joseph
Education Coordinator
American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, MA 01609
508-471-2129
asopcak[at]mwa.org

For more information about the 2008-2009 Teaching American History grant professional development days, please print this flyer.

 

Keepers of the Republic TAH Courses, Saturday Seminars, and Summer Institutes 2006-2008

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