American Historical Association

From the Supplement to the 123rd Annual Meeting

National History Education
Clearinghouse Workshop

Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division

The National History Education Clearinghouse was created by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and the Stanford University History Education Group in partnership with the American Historical Association and the National History Center, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education (Contract Number ED-07-CO-0088). The web site is http://teachinghistory.org. Participants must register in advance; tickets will be distributed with the meeting badge. See www.historians.org/annual/2009 to register and for more information.

8:30–9:00 a.m. Coffee

9:00–9:15 a.m. Introduction

Speaker: Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California and vice president, AHA Teaching Division

9:15–11:15 a.m. From Colonial Beginnings to Early Republic

Chair: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

Panel:
Race and the Early Colonization of the Chesapeake,
Avram Barlowe, Urban Academy

Democracy and the Declaration of Independence
Richard Miller, Beacon High School

The First Party System: Expanding the Political Sphere
Steven Jackson, Aviation High School

Comment:
David Gerwin, Queen’s College
David Jaffe, City University of New York

11:15–11:30 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Teaching with Textbooks

Speaker: Daisy Martin, Stanford University

12:00–1:15 p.m. Luncheon

Address: Inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy: What’s Basic When Reading History?

Speaker: Sam S. Wineburg, Stanford University

1:15–1:45 p.m. National History Education Clearinghouse Introduction

Speaker: Teresa DeFlitch, Outreach Coordinator, NHEC

1:45–2:00 p.m. Break

2:00–3:00 p.m. FDR and ER: Using Documents to Tell Their Story

Speaker: Allida M. Black, George Washington University

3:00–3:15 p.m. Break

3:15–4:45 p.m. Many Movements: Teaching Black Freedom Struggles from WWII to the 1960s

Chair: Ellen Noonan, chair, American Social History Project

Panel:
Gregory P. Bernardi, Franklin D. Roosevelt High School
Leah Y. Potter, American Social History Project/ CUNY
Beth Vershleiser, Brooklyn Studio School

4:45–5:00 p.m. Closing: National History Education Clearinghouse Staff

Panel:
Sharon M. Leon, George Mason University
Daisy Martin, Stanford University
Kelly Schrum, George Mason University

Last Updated: December 15, 2008 3:04 PM