Project for Historical Education

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

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!