Dates for Workshops and Seminars

Dates for American Promises Workshops and Seminars

January – May 2006 - Descriptions

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Teaching American History (TAH) grant program,
please contact Priscilla Miller at 572-8065, or pmiller@wsc.ma.edu

January 2006

DATE	WORKSHOP	LOCATION
12^th	Seminar with Professor Pauline Maier - "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence"	333 Western Ave.
18^th	Workshop – Digital Deerfield workshop	Woodward Center, Room 240
26th	Workshop – What was so Great about George Washington?	Scanlon Hall Living Room

February 2006

2^nd	Book Group I (The American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood) session #1	Scanlon Hall Parlor
13^th	Workshop – Living on the Land, Part 1	Scanlon Hall Living Room
27^th	Book Group I, session #2	Scanlon Hall Parlor

March 2006

2^nd	Seminar with Robert Cox	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
Breakout sessions: (1) Session with scholar (2) Mapping Native American Homelands (3) "Savages” Amid Civilization
8^th	Book Group II (The Broken Covenant: American civil religion in a time of trial–by Robert Bellah) session #1	Scanlon Hall Parlor
13^th	Book Group III (The Cold War: A history by John Lewis Gaddis) session #1	Scanlon Hall Parlor
13^th	Workshop – Digital Deerfield	Woodward Center Room 240
16^th	Workshop – Living on the Land, Part 2	Scanlon Hall Living Room
20th	Book Group II – session #2	Scanlon Hall Parlor
22^nd	Workshop – Picturing the Past	Scanlon Hall Living Room
29^th	Book Group III – session #2	Scanlon Hall Parlor

April 2006

DATE	WORKSHOP	LOCATION
7^th & 8^th	Immersion Weekend -Seminars with Gordon Wood & Michael Vorenberg	Deerfield, Massachusetts
7th- Wood Seminar breakout sessions (1) session with scholar (2) Revolutionary Taverns (3) an architecture walk (4) a library tour 8th- Vorenberg Seminar breakout sessions (1) session with scholar (2) Memorial Hall guided tour (3) teacher center on your own (4) Slavery & the Experience of African Americans in Rural New England in the 1700's
26^th	Book Group IV – session #2	Scanlon Hall Parlor
26^th	Workshop – Living on the Land, Part 3	333 Western Avenue Room A, basement
26^th	Workshop – Digital Deerfield	Woodward Center Room 240

May 2006

8^th	Workshop – Digital Deerfield	Woodward Center Room 240
24^th	Workshop – Invasion of the OTHERS	Scanlon Hall Living Room
15^th	Workshop – Speak up	Scanlon Hall Living Room
17^th	Book Group V – session #1	Scanlon Hall Parlor
22^nd	Workshop – What's Wrong with this Colonial picture?	Scanlon Hall Living Room
31^st	Book Group V – session #2	Scanlon Hall Parlor

Dates for Workshops and Seminars -Descriptions

June – August 2006

June 2006

DATE	WORKSHOP	LOCATION
14^th	Workshop – Civil War: A Connecticut River Valley Perspective	Scanlon Hall Living Room

July 2006

6^th	Workshop – Picturing the Past: A Review of Historical Picture Books for Children	Scanlon Hall Living Room
11^th	Seminar # 5 – “The Reforming Impulse in the Progressive Era” Presenting Scholar: Laura Lovett, University of Massachusetts	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
12^th	Seminar # 6: – “Building America: Immigration, Architecture and Urbanism” Presenting Scholar: Max Page, University of Massachusetts	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
13^th	Seminar # 7: – “World War II: Manufacturing on the Homefront” Presenting Scholar: Michael Konig, Westfield State College	Garden Room, 333 Western Ave
14^th	Seminar # 8: – “The Civil Rights Movement and the Meaning of Freedom” Presenting Scholar: Bruce Nelson, Dartmouth College	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall

August 2006

21^st

Workshop – “Truth” in Advertising

Scanlon Hall Living Room

22^nd

Workshop – Native Responses to Forced Assimilation: The Stories of Angel De Cora and Zitkala-Sa

Scanlon Hall Living Room

23^rd

Workshop – Early American Textbooks: “Truth or Tall Tales”

Scanlon Hall Living Room

All workshops are 3:30pm – 5:30pm. All seminars are 8:30am – 3:30pm.

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