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.
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