Project for Historical Education

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.

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.