Project for Historical Education

PHE's next workshop be on American Presidential Politics and the Modern Political Party System on Saturday, September 27th. It will be led by Dr. William E. Leuchtenburg. Dr. Leuchtenburg is a professor of History, emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written countless books on the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and American politics.

The workshop will be held at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence in Chapel Hill and will begin at 10 am and end at 3 pm. Continental breakfast and a full lunch will be provided. Each participant will earn .5 Continuing Education Units. There is no cost for this program.

The Carolina Center for Educational Excellence is located at 9201 Seawell School Road in Chapel Hill. There is ample free parking. Directions to the workshop site can be found at: http://www.unc.edu/ccee/directions/

Don't forget about our travel grants! The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation graciously provides a small stipend to interested teachers who live more than 100 miles from Chapel Hill to attend workshops. This stipend will be paid at the end of the academic year 2007-08.

We encourage you to let your friends and colleagues know about this workshop. Please spread the word.

To register please send an email to phe@unc.edu by Monday September 22th.

We hope to see you there!

Thanks to everyone who attended April's workshop, "Using Film to Teach Modern World History." Our workshop leader Don Reid wanted me to post some useful links and documents for you to use.

Documents:

List of Films

Workshop Outline

Syllabus for World Since 1945

Links to view some movies on-line:

Salt of the Earth clip (nearly 10 minutes)

Salt of the Earth (entire film)

Battle of Algiers trailer (2:15)

Battle of Algiers - 1 of 13 (parts 2 to 13 are listed under related videos)

Dr. Strageglove trailer (3:26)

Deer Hunter - Russian Roulette (7:51)

Night and Fog part 2 of 5 (parts 3 to 5 also available; part 1 is title sequence)

The UNC History Department is co-sponsoring an exciting conference intended for students, educators and all people interested in any aspect of African American History.

New Perspectives on African American History and Culture

Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, 2008

Second Annual Conference of the
African American History Working Group,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The conference will have presentations on Charlie Scott and the desegregation of UNC basketball, Civil Rights activism in Charlotte and Chapel Hill, films on the historic UNC food workers strike and the Tillery resettlement community, and much more. You can view the program online to see the different panels, activities, and speakers.

The Keynote address will be by Gerald Horne of the University of Houston on Friday April 11th at 5:00 p.m. Dr. Horne specializes in African American history in the 20th Century.

The Luncheon address will be by Heather Ann Thompson of the University of North Carolina - Charlotte on Saturday April 12th at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Thompson is writing a book on African Americans and the prison system. Lunch will be provided free to those who RSVP by April 7th to Hilary Green at hngreen@email.unc.edu.

This event is free and open to the public.

All sessions to take place at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union on UNC's campus, on
the corner of Raleigh Street and South Road in Chapel Hill.

Friday April 11, 12:45-6pm, FPG Student Union Room 3206 A & B

Saturday April 12, 9:30am-4:30pm, FPG Student Union Room 3413

I am excited to announce our upcoming workshop "Using Film to Teach Modern World History: From Colonialism and the Cold War to Today." Dr. Donald Reid, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, will guide us. He will help us understand why film is a valuable pedagogical tool and what questions we and our students should ask of the medium to understand modern world history. We'll also watch film clips so we can learn as a group how to evaluate film and teach these skills to our students.

The free workshop will be on Saturday, April 12, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will be on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus in the Peabody/School of Education Building. Participants will receive .5 continuing education unit hours, and this workshop meets standard course of study goals in World History, AP World History, AP European History, and American History. A continental breakfast and full lunch will be provided.

To register for this workshop, please RSVP to phe@unc.edu by Monday, April 7th. Please provide me with your name, school/district, and subject you teach, if you need CEUs, and your meal preference
(turkey, chicken, or vegetarian option).

Please pass our flyer announcing our program to your colleagues and friends.

Thanks so much for letting me share this news with you, and I hope to see you in April!

What's School Got to Do with It?

At a time when unequal educational outcomes get attributed to deficiencies in black culture, James D. Anderson enlists history to call these claims into question. On February 21, 2008, he will deliver the African American History Month Lecture entitled, “No Sacrifice Is Too Great: The Value of Education in the African American Experience.”

A leading scholar on black education and the Gutsgell Professor of the History of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Anderson broadens the tapestry of American history with his analysis of the role education has played in African American life from slavery to the twenty-first century. He examines the diverse efforts African Americans have made to create and sustain educational institutions. From this vantage point, Anderson brings a thoughtful, alternative perspective to contemporary issues on education.

We hope that you can join us for a thought-provoking discussion. It will be on Thursday February 21, 2008, at 7 p.m. at the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. A public reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Please mark the date on your calendars.

For more information, please call 919-962-9825 or email rwhitfie@email.unc.edu.

You can also freely distribute the announcement flyer to your colleagues. Click here for the flyer with color and here for the flyer without color.

As requested, here are the documents and lecture presentations from our workshop "Sports as American History: Urban Development and Race Relations". Some of the files are large, so I divided them up into separate documents. Please be aware of a longer download time.

Urban Development

Sessions I and II Lecture Outline

For workshop documents on urban development, I have divided it into multiple parts.

Click here for part 1 that covers ancient sports to outdoor sports.

Click here for part 2 that covers indoors sports to children at play.

Click here for part 3 that covers women at play to city maps.

Race Relations

Session III PowerPoint and Session IV PowerPoint (divided) part 1 and part 2

For workshop documents from the Race Relations sessions, click here.

PHE's next workshop, "Sports as American History: Urban Development and Race Relations," is just in time for the Super Bowl. While you may talk with your colleagues around the water cooler about "last night's game," you can also use the game to start a conversation with your students.

This workshop will broaden our understanding of sports in the United States history and culture. Why is it that some cities lose their professional sports teams and other cities acquire them? Dr. Roger Lotchin of UNC's History Department will show us how urban rivalry, urban development, and urban decline can be shown by the development of professional sports teams. He'll also talk about how the role of sports brings together different groups of society.

Greg Kaliss, a Ph.D. candidate in UNC's History Department, will talk about how those different groups, particularly racial groups, clashed over playing sports. He will link the integration of collegiate sports and the American public's reaction to them to the end of segregation in American society in the 1960s.

Register now for PHE's next workshop. It will be held on Saturday, February 2, 2008 from 10am to 3pm at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union located on UNC's campus. Continental breakfast, a full lunch, and free on-campus parking will be provided. Directions and a campus map will be sent to you closer to the workshop.

And don't forget about our travel grants! The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation graciously provides a small stipend to interested teachers who live more than 100 miles from Chapel Hill to attend workshops. This stipend will be paid at the end of the academic year 2007-08.

We encourage you to let your friends and colleagues know about this workshop. Please direct them to our weblog or download our flyerto email them.

To register please send an email to phe@unc.edu by Tuesday November 27th.

We'll see you there!

As requested, I have created a .pdf of the documents from the "How to Teach Religion in the History Classroom" workshop. Click here to download the file.

And remember, our next workshop is February 2, 2008 on sports and American history.

PHE's next workshop will tackle "How to Teach Religion in the History Classroom" on Saturday, December 1st. It will be led by Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp. Dr. Maffly-Kipp will talk about analytical frameworks and categorizations as teaching strategies, and she will use those strategies on two case studies. She is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently teaches courses on the African American and Mormon religious experiences in modern America.

The workshop will be held at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence in Chapel Hill and will begin at 10 am and end at 3 pm. Continental breakfast and a full lunch will be provided. Each participant will earn .5 Continuing Education Units. There is no cost for this program.

The Carolina Center for Educational Excellence is located at 9201 Seawell School Road in Chapel Hill. There is ample free parking. Directions to the workshop site can be found at: http://www.unc.edu/ccee/directions/

Don't forget about our travel grants! The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation graciously provides a small stipend to interested teachers who live more than 100 miles from Chapel Hill to attend workshops. This stipend will be paid at the end of the academic year 2007-08.

We encourage you to let your friends and colleagues know about this workshop. Please direct them to our weblog or download our flyer to email them.

To register please send an email to phe@unc.edu by Tuesday November 27th.

We hope to see you there!

As requested, I have created a .pdf document of Dr. Chasteen's workshop materials. Click here to download the file.

Here are the images:

Presidente Chavez

Carabobo

Simon Bolivar Statue

El Banco de la Republica>

Mestiza

Morisca

Mulata

Coyote

Lobo

Guadalupe

Joao

Juana Azurduy

Manuela

Caste System

The Martyr

Thanks so much for making our first workshop of 2007-2008 a great success!