Strand Key:
HE = History Education in the Public Eye
KLH = Kids Learning History
LA = Latin American History
TAH = Teaching American History Grant Program
TECH = Teaching History with Technology
Conference
Program:
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
8:30 a.m. Ballroom A
Opening General Session
Greetings:
Henry Kiernan, Chair, National Council for History
Education and Superintendent, Bellmore-Merrick Central High
School District (NY);
Michelle Ungurait, Texas Education Agency
Speaker:
Carol Berkin, Professor of History, Baruch College (NY)
Topic:
Patriotic Mothers: Women's Role after the American, French,
and Italian Revolutions
Question and Answer with conference participants
Special Appearance:
Texas National History Day Student Presenters
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Renaissance Austin
Concurrent Sessions
TAH The Benevolent Empire at Home and Abroad: A TAH Grant
Links Antebellum American Reformers to Their International
Context; presented by Kevin Sheets, SUNY- Cortland,
Cortland (NY); Jay Didas, Wayland-Cohocton Central Schools,
Wayland, (NY); and Phil Johnson, Geneva High School, Geneva
(NY); Facilitator, Kevin Sheets.
KLH TAH The Bringing History Home Program for Grades K-5;
presented by Kim Heckart, Community College School
District, Cedar Rapids (IA); and Elise Filpot, University
of Iowa, Iowa City (IA); Facilitator, Elise Filpot. To
download handouts for this session click here.
LA TAH Hemispheric Hegemony: 19th and Early 20th Century
Case Studies of U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America;
presented by Anne Hartline, McKinleyville Middle School and
Doug Johnson, McKinleyville High School, McKinleyville
(CA); Jennifer Rosebrook, Arcata High School, Arcata (CA);
and Clover Gross, Humboldt County TAH Coordinator, Eureka
(CA); Facilitator, Gayle Olson-Raymer. To download handouts
for this session click here. To download PowerPoint for
this session click here.
TECH TAH Making the STORY in History Meaningful: Historical
Perspectives in the Americas; presented by Cameron White
and Sara McNeil, University of Houston; Angela Miller and
Mike Dorsey, Houston ISD; and Edith Brown, The Rice School,
Houston (TX); Facilitator, Angela Miller
KLH TAH Who Dunnit? Using Biography and Mystery to Help
Middle School Students Understand History; presented by
Lei-Anna Bertelsen and Andy Pontius, Chief Joseph Middle
School, Bozeman (MT). To download handouts for this session
click here. To download PowerPoint for this session click
here.
TAH Using TAH Grants for Improving Academic Achievement in
US History: San Antonio Independent School District's
Story; presented by Amy Jo Baker, Graciella Bell, Cynthia
Hernandez, and Doug Littlefield, San Antonio Independent
School District (TX); Facilitator, Graciella Bell
The War that Shaped a Hemisphere: Implications of the U.S.
Civil War; presented by Gary Horton, North Carolina NCHE
state coordinator, Mt. Airy (NC); Mark Stephens, history
educator and preservationist, Castro Valley (CA), and
Janice High, journalist and teacher, Soldotna (AK). To
download handouts for this session click here.
Town Hall III- Discussion and Dialogue; moderated by
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University (NJ); and Joseph P.
Ribar, NCHE (OH)
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Rio Grande Exhibit Hall
Conflict Free Exhibit Time and Lunch with the Exhibitors
[Lunch included for registered participants and
exhibitors.]
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Renaissance Austin
Concurrent Sessions
TAH Founding Mothers; presented by Stacy A. Boujoukos,
Chief Joseph High School, and Kimberly K. Warrick, Bozeman
High School, Bozeman (MT)
KLH TAH Life of the American Indian for the Elementary
Grades; presented by Stephanie DeLong-Smith and Sandra
Stults, American Legacies Project, Harlan (KY); and Bobbie
Mason, Mt. Vernon Elementary School, Mt. Vernon (KY);
Facilitator, Rebecca Hanly To download handouts for this
session click here.
HE George Washington: Commanding the World Stage; presented
by Nancy Hayward, George Washington's Mt. Vernon, Mount
Vernon (VA); and Renee Tullos, Brandon High School, Brandon
(MS). To download handouts for this session click here.
LA Mexico and World History; presented by Sharon Cohen,
Springbrook High School, Silver Spring (MD); Linda Black,
Texas A and M University, Cypress (TX); and George Rislov,
Texas Education Agency, Austin (TX); Facilitator, Kenneth
Curtis
TECH Cutting Edge Technology: Digital History Modules;
presented by Sergio Anaya, Ryan Buterbaugh, Robert Culp,
and Chris Manero, Colonial School District, Plymouth
Metting (PA); Facilitator, Sergio Anaya
Africa Enslaved: Trade Routes and Slave Systems Outside the
U.S.; presented by Natalie Arsenault and Christopher Rose,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin (TX)
TAH What Happens Here? An NCHE Colloquium; presented by
Carol Berkin, Baruch College CUNY, New York (NY); Fritz
Fischer, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley (CO);
Bruce A. Lesh, Franklin High School, Reisterstown (MD);
Facilitator, Joe Ribar
HE American Society as Seen Through the Lens of the
American Soldier in World War One; presented by Michael
Knapp, Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle (PA);
Facilitator, Lorraine Luciano
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Renaissance Austin
Concurrent Sessions
TAH America's Role in World History Through Primary
Sources: Lessons from a TAH Grant; presented by Laurie
Croft and Bruce Fehn, University of Iowa, Iowa City (IA);
Anthony Dehl, Waterloo East High School, Waterloo (IA);
Sally Thorson, Waverly-Shell Rock Community Schools,
Waverly (IA); and Keith Turner and Suzan Turner,
Nashua-Plainfield Community Schools, Nashua (IA);
Facilitator, Laurie Croft
KLH Music of the Andes: The Meeting of Spain and the
Americas; presented by Linda Luebke, Shoreline School
District, Shoreline (WA). To download handouts for this
session click here.
HE Texas: The Big Picture; presented by Sarita Rodriguez,
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin (TX).
Facilitator: Linda Pybus. To download handouts for this
session click here.
LA KLH Teaching About Latin America to Kids? You're Not
Alone!; presented by Chuck Price, EAGLE School, Madison
(WI); and Ian Friedman, Riverside Publishing, Oak Park
(IL); Facilitator, Chuck Bolton. To download handouts for
this session click here.
TECH New Monarchs in the New World; presented by Anita
Pilling, The John Cooper School, The Woodlands (TX); and
Andrew Pilling, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville
(TX); Facilitator, Anita Pilling
Stepping into the Past through Research: Developing
Historical Empathy; presented by Bill Lickiss, National
History Day, College Park (MD); and Dave Landers, Azusa
Pacific University, Azusa (CA); Facilitator, Ann Claunch
HE The Global Marketplace; presented by Bill White,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg (VA);
Facilitator, Bill Fetsko
Making More Room at the Table: The American Civil Rights
Movement of the 1950s and 1960s; presented by Cynthia
DuBois, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
(TX)
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Conflict Free Exhibit Time
4:00 p.m. Ballroom A
General Session
Introduction:
Byron Hollinshead, NCHE Trustee, American Historical
Publications
Speaker:
David J. Weber, NCHE Founding Member, Robert and Nancy
Dedman Professor of History at Southern Methodist
University, and Director of the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University
Topic:
Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment
Q and A with conference participants
6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Reception:
An evening at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
(optional, must pre-register)
Discover The Story of Texas as you explore state-of-the-art
exhibits related to 3 central themes in Texas history:
Land, Identity, and Opportunity. You will also investigate
the conference's theme of the Americas in World History at
the exhibit Henrietta Marie: A Slave Ship Speaks. In
addition to visiting one of Austin's premiere museums you
will be provided with food, beverages, and bus
transportation. This reception is graciously sponsored by
the Ignite! Learning Company.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2006
Registration Open
7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Renaissance Austin Atrium Lobby
Exhibits Open
7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Rio Grande Exhibit Hall, Plaza Level
Coffee and Croissants with the Exhibitors,
8:30 a.m.
Concurrent General Sessions
Session A in Ballroom A:
James Basker, President, Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History and the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of
English, Barnard College, Columbia University
Topic:
Amazing Grace: Literary Sources for Teaching the History of
Slavery.
Q and A with conference participants.
Session B in Trinity:
Joy Hakim, Author, and
Maria Garriott, Author/Curricula Developer
Topic:
Reading History (RKLH Feature)
Q and A with conference participants
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Renaissance Austin
Concurrent Sessions
TAH The Role of the Individual in History-Alexander
Hamilton as a Product of the Americas; presented by Phil
Nicolosi and Mike Walsh, West Morris Central High School,
Chester (NJ); and Carol Berkin, Baruch College CUNY, New
York (NY); Facilitator, Phil Nicolosi. To download handouts
for this session click here.
KLH TAH Using Biography to Teach Community and Sense of
Place; presented by Evelyn Ybarra, Irving Elementary
School, Bozeman (MT)
HE Exciting, Inspiring, and Relevant: Our National
Archives; presented by Lee Ann Potter, NARA (DC); Meg
Hacker, NARA-Southwest Region, Fort Worth (TX); Marsha
Sharp, LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Austin (TX);
Shirley Hammond, Bush Presidential Library and Museum,
College Station (TX); and Kathleen Pate, Clinton
Presidential Library, Little Rock (AR). To download
handouts for this session click here. (Updated April 21,
2006)
TECH HE Primary Sources in the Digital Age; presented by
Dale Van Eck, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
Williamsburg (VA). To download handouts for this session
click here.
Playing with the Monroe Doctrine: From John Quincy Adams to
Condoleeza Rice; presented by Fritz Fischer, University of
Northern Colorado, Greeley (CO). To download handouts for
this session click here.
Geography and History of the World; presented by Alan
Backler, Ellettsville (IN); Jay D. Gatrell, Indiana State
University, Terra Haute (IN); Alan Hagedorn, Geography
Educators' Network of Indiana; and Chris McGrew, Indiana
Department of Education and Purdue University, West
Lafayette (IN); Facilitator, William B. Pickett. To
download handouts for this session click here.
The Lessons of Borderlands History; presented by Armando C.
Alonzo, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX; and
Caroline Castillo Crimm, Sam Huston State University,
Huntsville (TX); Facilitators, Amy Jo Baker, San Antonio
ISD (TX) and Eric Lupfer, Humanities Texas (TX)
Trade, Transportation, and Infectious Disease; presented by
Jonathan Lee and Dean Lambert, San Antonio College, San
Antonio (TX). To download a PowerPoint for this session
click here.
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Renaissance Austin
Concurrent Sessions
TAH Liberty and Equality in the Progressive Era; presented
by Laura Westhoff, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.
Louis (MO); and Dennis Lubeck and John Robinson, Liberty's
Legacies: Historical Perspectives on Liberty, Equality, and
Reform, St. Louis (MO). To download handouts for this
session click here.
KLH TAH Expanding Our Worlds: Elementary Teachers and
Teaching American History Grants; presented by Michell
Piva, Garfield Elementary School, Parsons (KS); and Debbie
Shaffer and Mary Colvin, Guthridge Elementary School,
Parsons (KS); Facilitator, Will Mallatt. To download
handouts for this session click here.
HE Museum Resources: What's Out There? How Can We Make it
Better?; presented by Heather Paisley-Jones, and Patrick
Coleman, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History-
Behring Center (Washington DC); Facilitator, Heather
Paisley-Jones
LA TAH Failed Policies: A Diplomatic History of Modern
US-Cuban Relations; presented by Al Jacobs South GA History
Project Wiregrass History Consortium, Homerville (GA);
Facilitator, John Dunn. To download handouts for this
session click here.
TAH Building Academic Literacy Through History; presented
by Donna Leary, University of California- Berkeley History
Social Science Project, Berkeley (CA); Facilitator, Phyllis
Goldsmith
Major Episodes in the French and Indian War: Did George
Washington Set the World on Fire?; presented by Jim
Wetzler, Eric Stange and Karen Zill, The War That Made
America, (DC and PA); Susan W. Buckley, French and Indian
War 250th, Inc, New York (NY); and Steve Bullick, Mt.
Lebanon High School, Pittsburgh (PA). To download handouts
for this session click here.
What Difference Can One Person Make?; presented by Susan
Dangel, Johns Hopkins University, Annapolis (MD); Timothy
Dangel, Goucher College, Baltimore (MD); and Andrew Dangel,
Old Mill Middle School, Baltimore (MD); Facilitator, Susan
Dangel
AP US History for the Harried; presented by Richard Weiss,
UCLA, Los Angeles (CA); Stan Murphy, San Diego High School,
San Diego (CA); and Diane Vecchio, Furman University,
Greenville (SC); Facilitator, Marc Singer, ETS
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Rio Grande Exhibit Hall
Conflict Free Exhibit Time and Lunch with the Exhibitors
[Lunch included for registered participants and
exhibitors.]
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Renaissance Austin
Concurrent Sessions
TAH Together We Can: Developing Historical Thinking in the
Classroom; presented by Frank De La Teja and Dwight Watson
, Texas State University, San Marcos (TX); Lisa DeLand,
Tobias International School, Kyle (TX); Dana Devos, Wallace
Middle School, Kyle (TX); Laura Hall, Kyle Elementary
School, Kyle (TX); Karen Hayden, Dahlstrom Middle School,
Buda (TX); Rich Cusson, Impact Center, Buda (TX); and Devi
Puckett, Hays High School, Buda (TX); Facilitator, Bonnie
Marshall. To download handouts for this session click here.
To download the Spanish Missions PowerPoint for this
session click here. To download he Teach History PowerPoint
for this session click here.
KLH History- It Can't Happen Without You; presented by
Susan Buckley, author, New York (NY); and Elspeth Leacock,
author, Brooklyn (NY)
TECH Discovery and Early Settlement of the Americas;
presented by Lori Anderson and Peter Neville, Ignite!
Learning, Austin (TX)
HE Living History: Beyond 2 by 4 Teaching (2 covers of a
book and 4 walls of a classroom); presented by Tim Potts,
Robert J. Kaiser Middle School, Monticello (NY); and Joseph
J. Ryan, Living History Education Foundation, Buchanan
(NY); Facilitator, Donna Nestler
A Cockboat in the Wake of the British Man-of-War: Weaving
Context to Improve Students' Reading of World History;
presented by Sarah Drake Brown, Florida State University,
and Terry Hines, Lincoln High School, Tallahassee (FL). To
download handouts for this session click here. To download
PowerPoint for this session click here.
Teaching Gutenberg; presented by Sarah Witham Bednarz,
Texas A&M University, College Station (TX); and Fred H.
Walk, Illinois State University, Towanda (IL)
Slavery in the Americas-A World Trade System; presented by
Rita-Marie Murphy, Alicia Connelly, and Laura Klein,
Patchogue-Medford High School, Medford (NY); Facilitator,
Gloria Sesso
Teaching the Global in the Regional: An Integrated
Continental North American History Course; presented by
Richard Milk, Angelika Sauer, Judith Dykes-Hoffmann, and
Rebecca Kosary, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin (TX). To
download handouts for this session click here.
2:40 p.m. Ballroom A
Closing General Session
Speaker:
H.W. Brands, Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor,
Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Topic:
Andrew Jackson and World Revolutions
Q and A with conference participants
Closing Remarks and Door Prizes
