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January 2006
Seminar with Professor Pauline Maier - "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence"
Breakout sessions:
(1) Session with scholar
(2) "What is Macroni, Anyway Status and Mobility in the Revolutionary America?"
(3) "Tea, Tax, and Tempest"

Additional Web site resources:
National archive

Declaration of Independence
Library of Congress
Publishing the Declaration

References Resources on the Declaration

Workshop – Digital Deerfield workshop

Workshop – What was so Great about George Washington?

February 2006
Book Group I (The American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood) session #1

Workshop – Living on the Land, Part 1

Book Group I, session #2

March 2006
Seminar with Dr. Robert Cox - Lewis and Clark and Jefferson’s America

In preparation for the March 2^nd seminar, here is a brief focus statement from Robert S. Cox:

The Lewis and Clark expedition is often considered one of the first significant scientific expeditions undertaken by the US government, and historians and popular writers have lavished attention on Jefferson's scientific vision for the nation, the achievements of the scientists whom he consulted, and Lewis' rigorous scientific training for the tour. Yet the definitions that historians use for what constitutes science and their ideas of the position of science with respect to the new state remain problematic. Among the issues I would like to explore are the varying (and perhaps conflicting) motives of the scientists, politicians, and explorers involved in the Corps of Discovery, the connections of the scientific enterprise to imperial ambition, and the actual scientific results that accrued. More generally, I'd like to consider why is it that contemporary writers continue to invoke science when discussing the origins of the Corps.

This event includes the following breakout sessions:

1) A session with the scholar
Reference site:
Robert Cox presentation at Monticello 2004 "Bernard McMahon's Republican Seeds"
Lewis and Clark Specimens detail plants, animals Corps encountered
At UMass, the Special Collections and University Archives, where Rob Cox is the head, has a nice website. http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/index.htm
Here is the SCUA staff info page:
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/staff.htm

2) Mapping Native Homelands--In this hour, we will look at historical maps of the continent, while considering the concept of native “homelands,” especially those traversed by the Corps of Discovery: Sioux Indians of the Great Plains; Mandan farmers on the Missouri River; Sacagawea’s people, the hunter-gatherer Shoshone; and northwest coast Hidatsa.

3) Noble Brothers, Feckless Children, and Savage Enemies--We will examine through photographs and paired brief textual excerpts from journals & diaries the oscillating and contradicting images of Indigenous peoples held by Americans in the period of Westward Expansion.

4) “Over the Hill and Far Away” New Englanders in the Corps of Discovery--A session with Dennis Picard, Director of the Storrowton Village Museum. When 21st century Americans imagine the members of Lewis and Clark’s expedition, they often picture in their minds’ eye frontiersmen from the wilds of the southern Appalachians or leather clad mountain men of the Missouri River trade. In reality there were eight New Englanders recruited for the journey. One member was born right in Hampden county of Western Massachusetts. Participants will discover more of the lives of these men and what might be seen as a New England’s eye view of the exploration into the new territories.

Book Group II (The Broken Covenant: American civil religion in a time of trial–by Robert Bellah) session #1

Book Group III (The Cold War: A history by John Lewis Gaddis) session #1

Workshop – Digital Deerfield

Workshop – Living on the Land, Part 2

Book Group II – session #2

Workshop – Picturing the Past

Book Group III – session #2

April 2006 - Immersion weekend info -- Schedule
Immersion Weekend -Seminars with Gordon Wood & Michael Vorenberg - Deerfield MA
7th- Wood Seminar breakout sessions
(1) session with scholar

The American Revolution
A History
Written by Gordon S. Wood
ISBN 0-8129-7041-1

ABOUT THIS BOOK

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.”
-Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers

A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic.

When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.

No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood’s mastery of his subject, and of the historian’s craft.

From the Hardcover edition.

“Remarkable, invaluable.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

“Wood is the preeminent historian of the Revolution. . . . Here . . . he manages to boil down to its essence this crucial period in the country’s history without in the process reducing it to History Lite. . . . His account of the emergence and development of rank-and-file political opinion is especially provocative and informative, but then so is just about everything else in this remarkable, invaluable book.” —The Washington Post Book World

“An elegant, concise and lucid summary of the Revolution’s origins, the war itself, and the social and political changes wrought by the struggle for American independence.” —The Wall Street Journal

“This slim book tells a big story: one that invites the reader to contemplate the relationships between liberty, power, rights and the unpredictable outcomes of human action.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.” —Joseph Ellis

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Gordon S. Wood is a professor of history at Brown University. In 1970 his book The Creation of the American Republic 1776–1787 was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes. In 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Brown University profile:

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND CURRENT PROJECTS:

Gordon Wood spent the fall term, 2003, teaching the Revolution and the origins of the Constitution at Northwestern Law School. During the fall term he lectured at the National Conference of Editorial Writers, which was held in Providence; at a conference of Massachusetts school teachers in Worcester; at the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, DC; at the Chicago Humanities Festival; and at Washington University. He taught at Brown during the spring 2004 semester. Professor Wood lectured during the winter and spring at the University of Chicago Law School; at Colonial Williamsburg; at the Aspen Institute; at Portsmouth Abbey; at Princeton University; at the University of Kentucky; at a conference of federal court judges at Tucson; at Northwestern University; at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia; at the New York Historical Society; and at a conference of school teachers in Honolulu. He also acted as a commentator at the Organization of American Historian’s Convention and at the convention of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History. He wrote several reviews for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and The New Republic. In May he published a book entitled The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Professor Wood served as a consultant to the National Constitution Center and to the US Capitol renovation and continues to serve on the Board of Trustees for Colonial Williamsburg.

Source: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/faculty/gwood.html

    (2)   Revolutionary Taverns
    (3)   an architecture walk
    (4)   a library tour
    (5) Evening festivities

8th- Vorenberg Seminar breakout sessions
(1) session with scholar

Michael Vorenberg :

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND CURRENT PROJECTS:

Michael Vorenberg spent the 2003-04 academic year on a leave that was partly funded by the American Council of Learned Societies. During the year, he completed most of the research for his next book project, Reconstructing the People: The Impact of the Civil War on American Citizenship, and he presented some of this new work in academic meetings in Chicago, Baltimore, and Beaufort, South Carolina. He completed a number of essays to be published next year, ranging from a study of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase to a discussion of Abraham Lincoln’s attitudes toward race and retributive justice. Also, he signed a contract to publish The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Books/St. Martin’s Press), which will be available in 2006.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

"Bringing the Constitution Back In: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy during the Civil War Era," in Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and Julian Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: The Promise of American Political History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).

"'The Deformed Child': Slavery and the Election of 1864." Civil War History, vol. 47 (September 2001).

Source: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/faculty/mvoren.html

    (2)           Memorial Hall guided tour
    (3)           teacher center on your own - Creating a lesson plan online
    (4)       Slavery & the Experience of African Americans in Rural New England in the 1700's
    (5)     Indian House - Civil War Soldier

Book Group IV – session #2

Workshop – Living on the Land, Part 3
Judy Chelte - Chicopee
I plan to link whatever I learn from that workshop to any work that I do on Henry David Thoreau and Walden (AP English 1/American literature).
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/walden
http://www.walden.org

Workshop – Digital Deerfield

May 2006
Workshop – Digital Deerfield
Workshop – Invasion of the OTHERS
Workshop – Speak up
Book Group V – session #1
Workshop – What's Wrong with this Colonial picture?
Book Group V – session #2

June 2006
Workshop – Civil War: A Connecticut River Valley Perspective

July 2006
Workshop – Picturing the Past: A Review of Historical Picture Books for Children

July Seminar agenda
July 11, 2006
Seminar # 5 – “The Reforming Impulse in the Progressive Era” Presenting Scholar: Laura Lovett, University of Massachusetts
(1) session with scholar

Laura L. Lovett

Assistant Professor

Office: Herter 635
Telephone: (413) 545-6778
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: lovett@history.umass.edu
Personal web site

Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1998)
Field(s) of interest: Modern US, Women’s History, Cultural History

Graduate Courses Offered:
American Historiography 1865 - Present
U.S. Women & Gender

Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Lovett’s research interests concern gender, race and the family in twentieth century America. Her current book project refigures American pronatalism in terms of family ideals and their role in reform efforts ranging from land reclamation to eugenics. Entitled Conceiving the Future: Nostalgic Modernism, Reproduction and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930, this book is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Her related article, "Rooted in the Soil: Family Ideals, Land Reclamation and Irrigation Resettlement as Welfare in the United States, 1897-1933", recently appeared in Families of a New World: Familialism and the Process of State-Making, edited by Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard (Routledge, 2003). Her article on mixed race and identity, "'African and Cherokee By Choice': Race and Resistance Under Legalized Segregation," was recently reprinted in Confounding the Color Line: the Indian-Black experience in North America, edited by James Brooks (University of Nebraska Press, 2002). During the 2004-205 academic year, Professor Lovett will be at the institute on "Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities" as a Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University.

(2) Breakout session: "Progressive Photography and our Chicago Cousins"
Presenters: Reba Jean and Mary Jean

(3) Breakout session: Child Labor
Presenters: Barbara Mathews and Lynn Manring

July 12, 2006
Seminar # 6: – “Building America: Immigration, Architecture and Urbanism” Presenting Scholar: Max Page, University of Massachusetts
(1) session with scholar

Max Page

Associate Professor

Department: Art & Art History
Room: Fine Arts Center 461
Email: mpage@art.umass.edu
Fon: (413) 545-6952

Max Page is Associate Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban, architectural, and public history. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism.

He writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the popular uses of history. He is also the co-editor (with Steven Conn) of Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), as well as the co-editor (with Randall Mason) of Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
(Routledge, 2003). He is a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Courses:

- The City
- American Urbanism
- History and Theory of Historic Preservation
- History of New York City
- Introduction to Public History
- Philosophy of Architecture

More Info:
Personal Website

(2) Breakout session: "How the Other Half Lived" Tenement Houses
Presenters: Barbara Mathews and Lynn Manring

(3) Breakout session: Homefront Insecurity
Presenters:

July 13, 2006
Seminar # 7: – “World War II: Manufacturing on the Homefront” Presenting Scholar: Michael Konig, Westfield State College
(1) session with scholar

Michael F. Konig - Professor - United States International College B.A.; University of San Diego M.A.; Arizona State University Ph.D.

Courses taught:

U.S. History Since 1865
The City in American History
The American West
U.S. History 1877-1932
U.S. History 1932 to the Present
History of the American Presidency
American Biography Since 1865
Senior Seminar: Recent American History

Dr. Konig coordinates the history internship program. He has a background in urban planning and is the editorial director of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts. Dr. Konig has co-edited several books on Massachusetts history, including Education in Massachusetts: Selected Essays (1989) and Massachusetts Politics: Selected Historical Essays (1998) in which he had an essay on "Federal Defense Politics and the Closing of the Springfield Armory."

References:

Virginia Lee Burton - "The Little House"

Jacob Riis - "How the other half lives"

(2) Breakout session: "Interned for the Duration"
Presenters: Kitty Lowenthal and Beth Gilgun

(3) Breakout session: "Speaking with Your Past: WWII & Oral Histories"
Presenters: Reba Jean

(4) Breakout session: "What makes a hero"
Presenters: Ron Savoy

Seminar # 8: – “The Civil Rights Movement and the Meaning of Freedom” Presenting Scholar: Bruce Nelson, Dartmouth College
(1) session with scholar

Bruce Nelson

Home

The Faculty

Professor of History
Office: 404 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2595
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Bruce.Nelson@Dartmouth.edu

Address:

Department of History
Dartmouth College
6107 Carson Hall
Hanover, NH 03755

Courses

2: History of the United States since 1877
22: Working Class in American Society
23: Recent United States History
60: "A Nation Once Again": Ireland, 1798-1923
95: Black Atlantic/Green Atlantic
96: The Civil Rights Movement

Born and raised on Long Island, Bruce Nelson migrated to California in the 1960s and combined the study of American history at UC Berkeley with participation in the major social movements of that decade. In the seventies he continued his education on a truck assembly line and remained active in the trade union movement for nearly ten years, before returning to Berkeley to complete his Ph.D. in 1982. His principal academic interest is the "making" of class, race, and nation, not only in the United States, but in an "Atlantic World" setting. In addition to teaching the American survey (History 2), recent U.S. history (History 23), the working class in American society (History 22), and a senior seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (History 96), he has become increasingly interested in Irish history in recent years and has added a course on the making of modern Ireland, 1798-1923 (History 60) to the Department's offerings.

(2) Breakout session: "Oral History in the Classroom"
Presenters:

(3) Breakout session: "Hate Groups Today"
Presenters: Professor Nelson

(4) Breakout session: "The Power of Song in the Civil Rights Movement"
Presenters:

August 2006
Workshop - The Truth in Advertising
Workshop – Native Responses to Forced Assimilation: The Stories of Angel De Cora and Zitkala-Sa
Workshop – Early American Textbooks: “Truth or Tall Tales”

American Promises
Curriculum Dept.
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Questions or comments email: blais@chicopee.mec.edu