Welcome to Revolutions in History and the 2009 NCHE National Conference
Each spring, the National Council for History Education holds a national conference. The NCHE chooses a conference site which parallels the anniversary of a significant event in American and World history. The national conference is a place where everyone who loves to teach and learn history can come together and share. NCHE encourages conference proposals that illustrate collaboration and history education.
This year's conference will be held in Boston, MA from March 12-14, 2009. The conference will be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. This year's keynote presentations will be given by Vartan Gregorian, David McCullough, Pauline Maier, and Sharon Leon.
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About the Presenters
Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian is the twelfth President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. He taught European and Middle Eastern history at San Francisco State College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. He became the Tarzian Professor of South Asian history at the University of Pennsylvania and was the founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. For eight years Gregorian served as the president of the New York Public Library and in 1989, he was appointed president of Brown University. Gregorian is the author of The Road to Home: My Life and Times, Islam: a Mosaic, Not a Monolith, and The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1880-1946.
Pauline Maier
Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research centers on the American Revolution and its impact. She is the author of From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Resistance to Britain, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams, The American People, a history textbook for junior high students, and American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.
David McCullough
David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history,” “a matchless writer.” He is twice winner of the National Book Award, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In December 2006 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. Mr. McCullough’s books include 1776, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, The Path between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave Companions, and Truman. His work has been published in ten languages and, in all, nearly 9,000,000 copies are in print. As may be said of few writers, none of his books has ever been out of print.
Sharon Leon
Sharon Leon is the Associate Director of Education Projects at the Center for History and New Media and Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She accepted the 2008 Paul Gagnon Award on behalf of the Center for History and New Media and Roy Rosenzwieg (1950-2007). She currently directs the Center's work on Historical Thinking Matters and the Object of History.
Please visit our Conference Archive for the 2008 Program and information about Louisville.