Project for Historical Education

Below are documents and information from the "Teaching Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Early Americas" workshop led by Dr. Kathleen DuVal on Saturday November 14th.

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Workshop Program

Selected Bibliography of Books and Online Sources

Session I: Introduction to Teaching Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Early Americas: First Contacts

Introduction to Alan Taylor's American Colonies (Viking, 2001)

Greenlanders’ Saga, c. 1000

Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel, Official Notary for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, 1493

Mexica (Aztec) & Tlaxcalan Accounts of the Spanish Arrival in Mexico, 1500s

Montagnais Indians on Their First Encounter with the French, Early 1500s

Account of the Hernando de Soto Expedition, 1539-43

Olaudah Equiano on Encountering Europeans, 1740s

Session II: Failed Colonies

French & Spanish Accounts of the Spanish Attack on the French Settlement of Fort
Caroline, 1565

Jesuit Missionaries, Letter Requesting Food for the Settlement of Ajacán (Chesapeake), 1570

Session III: Established Colonies

John White, Account of His Attempt to Rescue the Roanoke Colonists, 1590

Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz Describes French Conflict with the Natchez, 1729e

John Smith on the Powhatans, 1607-1616

Wampanoag Grievances against the Colonists of New England, 1675

Father Jacques Gravier Describes Indian Conversions at the Illinois Mission, 1694

Pontiac’s Speech to an Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Huron Audience, 1763

Session IV: Conclusion: What Came Next?

Kathleen DuVal, "Life, Liberty, and Benign Monarchy?" in New York Times online

What cultures interacted within the Early Americas, and How did that produce different experiences?

PHE's next workshop will address new themes and methodologies that recently have broadened the complexity of Early American history by understanding different colonial experience. It will incorporate the variety of indigenous perspectives about the New World, Europeans, and the colonial experience. It will also highlight Spanish colonization in what would become the United States, reminding us that the heritage of the United States has always been shaped by more than the English colonial experience. This focus on indigenous and Spanish perspectives will lead us to explore colonies outside the leading colonial paradigm found in New England, and we’ll also talk about the successes and failures of colonization within the Americas. The workshop will help place Early American history as one in which cross-cultural exchange and the variety of experiences and perspectives created a more exciting and complicated colonial landscape.

Participants can earn .5 CEUs. This workshop meets NC Standard Course of Study codes AP US History: 1.01, 1.02; American Indian Studies: 2.01, 2.02; AP World History: 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.05; World History: 3.04, 3.05, 3.07; 8th Grade North Carolina History: Creation & Development of the State: 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 10.4, 1.05, 1.07; 6th Grade: South America & Europe: 4.01, 7.01, 12.01.

Kathleen DuVal, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will lead this workshop. Her research and teaching focus on early America, particularly cross-cultural relations between Europeans and Indians in the North American borderlands that she explored in her first book, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She also teaches classes on cultural identities and race in early America, Spanish borderlands, the American colonial experience, and early nation-making in America.

The workshop is located at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence (CCEE). The CCEE is located at 9201 Seawell School Road in Chapel Hill. There is ample parking at the CCEE. Please click here or here for directions.

A continental breakfast, full lunch, and beverages will be supplied. Donations are accepted to cover program costs.

To register, you can send an email to PHE or click on the following link to fill out a brief registration form. You should receive a confirmation email within a few days.

Please share this announcement with downloading our flyer
and forwarding it to your colleagues or posting it in your schools.

Below are documents and information for the "Teaching the History of Human Rights" workshop led by Dr. Lloyd Kramer on Saturday October 3rd.

Workshop Program

Session I: An Overview: Why and How the History of Human Rights became Important

Kenneth Minogue, History of the Idea of Human Rights

Session II: The Legacies and Contradictions of the American and French Revolutions

American Declaration of Independence, 1776

US Bill of Rights and Amendemnts, 1791-

French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789

Session III: Nationalism, Abolitionism, and Women’s Rights in the Long Nineteenth Century: Campaigns for Human Rights - and Their Opponents

Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, 1852

Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, 1918

Session IV: Human Rights in the Contemporary World: From the UN Declaration of Rights of the Global War on Terror

United Nations, Universal Declaration on Human Rights, 1948

Nelson Mandela, Speech from the Docks at the Rivonia Trial, 1964 (abridged) - Full text version here

Organization of American States, Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, 1985

Council of the League of Arab States, Arab Chapter on Human Rights, 1994

Amartya Sen, Human Values and Asian Values, 1997

Dick Cheney, Speech on the Use of Torture to American Heritage Foundation, 2009

Selected Bibliography and Online Source List

Online Sources

Amnesty International

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Human Rights Education Associates Resource Center

Human Rights Watch

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

National Constitution Center

Seneca Falls National Historic Site

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

What is the History of Human Rights in the Modern World?

The public debate about human rights continues to evoke controversy in American society, despite the widely-held belief that individuals have certain inalienable rights that no government can or should take away. Recent arguments about the dangers of terrorism and the use of torture, indefinite detentions, targeted assassinations, secret surveillance, and the denial of habeas corpus have reappeared often in the American and international media. But how did the idea of human rights develop as a key theme in modern societies? How do we teach students about the history of this idea, the ways in which the meaning of “human rights” has evolved, and the arguments for limitations on the rights that human beings should possess? How does the history of “human rights” help us understand the contemporary world - from the eighteenth-century “age of revolutions” to the modern movements for civil rights and the current responses to terrorism?

This PHE workshop will examine these questions and provide materials for teaching about the meaning and expansion of human rights since the 18th century. It meets NC Course of Study Competency Goals: World History 1.01, 4.01, 4.05, 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.06, 8.05, 8.06; AP World History 1.05, 5.04, 7.04; AP European History 2.04, 2.10, 3.03, 3.05, 3.06, 5.04, 6.04; U.S. History 1.02, 2.05, 7.03, 9.04, 9.05, 11.03, 12.06; AP U.S. History 4.04, 5.01, 15.01; Civics and Economics 3.06, 6.01, 10.02, 11.06; AP U.S. Government 1.02, 9.01, 9.02, 9.03, 9.04

This workshop will be led by PHE's own Dr. Lloyd Kramer. Lloyd is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in 19th century France with acute emphasis on cultural exchange, nationalism, and identity.

It will be held at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence, located off of Seawell School Road in Chapel Hill. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and participants can earn .5 CEU credits.

There is ample parking at the facility. A light continental breakfast and full lunch will be provided to attendees. There is no cost for this workshop.

To register, please send an email to phe@unc.edu by Monday September 28th. Please spread the word by distributing our flyer
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I'm pleased to announce PHE's upcoming workshop "Bringing the Natural Environment into Teaching History: Nature and Culture in the History of the Americas." This workshop will invite teachers to explore ways in which the natural environment and human cultures shape the landscapes in which they live. Through lectures and discussions we will highlight the integration of nature and culture in the historical processes that communities remember and share in their sense of identity. This workshop will allow us to design teaching methods that help our students heighten their awareness of nature as an historical actor, of the dialectical relations between nature and culture, and of the central place of the environment in the exercise of power. Illustrative examples will lead workshop participants to consider comparative borderlands and their environments in different geographical and political regions of the Americas.

Dr. Cynthia Radding will lead this workshop. Dr. Radding is the Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of History at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She specializes in colonial borderlands, with an emphasis on the environment, culture, society, and indigenous peoples. Her latest works, Wandering Peoples and Landscapes of Power and Identity explore these themes in a comparative perspective for Latin America and the United States.

The workshop will be held on Saturday, May 2nd from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence located off of Seawell School Road near Smith Middle School in Chapel Hill. There is ample parking at this facility. Click here for directions.

Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please indicate in your registration email if you have any dietary restrictions.

This workshop is free to the public. Attendees can receive 0.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits. Please see download our flyer for more information.

Please let your colleagues know about our workshop by pointing them to this blog entry or sending them our flyer.

To register for this workshop, please respond by April 27th to phe [at] unc [dot] edu.

A few people have asked for more powerpoints. I'll try to get them, but they are big files to upload.

In the meantime, here are a few of the files from our recent workshop, Teaching the Modern Middle East.

Documents

Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris

Globalization in the Middle East

Dishing Democracy Handbook

Accepted into Education City

MTV Arabia Ready to Rock Middle East

How Heavy Metal is Working its Way into Islam

Young Veiled Women

As Taboos Ease, Girl Group Dares to Rock

Images

Mehmetali

First Males

TIME magazine 1958

TIME magazine 1979 Hostage Crisis

Rumsfield and Hussein

Iraqi Woman after Election

Maps

Ottoman Empire 1800

Ottoman Empire 1914e

Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916

English, French, and Italian Influences in the Middle East

Nation-States of Middle East

Topographical Map of the Middle East

Al Basarah

Physical Features and borders of Iraq

Per Capita GDP of Middle East nation-states

I am excited to announce our next workshop, "Teaching the Modern Middle East: Historical Challenges and Future Opportunities," to be held on Saturday January 31st and co-led by Dr. Akram Khater (NCSCU) and Dr. Sarah Shields (UNC-CH).

This workshop will take an in-depth look at the 20th century Middle East and its possibilities in the 21st century. Dr. Khater and Dr. Shields will give us a broader, cultural look at a dynamic region that is too often associated with conflict. By looking at the modern-nation state, global changes, and youth culture, this workshop will challenge both your and your students' understanding of the Middle East.

Dr. Khater and Dr. Shields specialize in the modern Middle East. Dr. Khater is an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University and director of NCSU's International Programs. His most recent work, Inventing Home, takes a look at class and gender in Lebanon. Dr. Sheilds is an Associate Professor and has been at the University of North Carolina History Department since 1993. In Mosul before Iraq, she studies economic and social changes in 19th century Mosul.

The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 31st from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence located off of Seawell School Road near Smith Middle School in Chapel Hill. There is ample parking at this facility. Click here for directions.

Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. In light of the workshop's topic, we will have catering from Mediterranean Deli. Please indicate in your registration email if you have any dietary restrictions.

This workshop is free to the public. Attendees can receive 0.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits.

Please let your colleagues know about it; download our flyer
and email it to them.

To register for this workshop, please respond by January 25th to phe [at] unc [dot] edu.

Thanks to everyone who showed up for this workshop. It was a bit cold, but I think the walking tour was definitely worth it. Below are some of the documents provided in your packet. Enjoy

Landscapes of Race and Power

Historic Places

Cotton Mill World

Rosenwald Schools and Black Education in North Carolina

Frederick Douglass Decoration Day Address 1894

Do you ever think of your surroundings as historical sources? Do you see a mural at a post office or even the exterior of your schools and ask how they came to be created? Do you ever wonder about the nature of the debates involved in the erection of a town monument?

In our next workshop, these questions and more will be addressed as we look at the built environment as a source for teaching history. We will talk about the changing economic landscape of the New South and the contestations over landscapes and memorials. We will also take a walking tour of the UNC campus.

UNC's Dr. James Leloudis will lead us through this workshop. He is an associate professor of History, Associate Dean for Honors, and is the Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence. He specializes in the Modern South with an emphasis on education, race, and labor. 

This next workshop will be on Saturday, December 6th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the UNC campus. It will be held in the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial, Kresge Foundation Common Room GM-RM 039. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.

This workshop is free to the public. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Attendees can receive 0.5 CEUs. Parking will be available in two lots on the UNC campus; more information will be provided closer to the date of the event.

To register for this workshop, please respond by December 1st to phe@unc.edu. Please let your colleagues know about it; download our flyer and email it to them.

Due to the nature of this program, attendance is restricted to 50 people.

Thanks to everyone who turned out this past Saturday. It was a great event. I hope you can use these documents before the election.

Election of 1876

Election of 1896

Election of 1936

Election of 1948

History of Democratic Party

History of Republican Party

Election of 2000 by William E. Leuchtenburg