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Louisiana's Role in TRADITIONAL AMERICAN HISTORY (TAH) PROJECT

WORKSHOPS

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY GRANT YEAR TWO (PART 2) AND YEAR THREE JANUARY 2006—JULY 2007
Schedule of Events for Teaching American History
Schedule handout

• Natchitoches Trip June 1-3 • Night Classes May 15-31, 2007. Go There: Know Where: (Re)Considering Poverty Point and Natchitoches • A Teaching American History Travel Class in Louisiana History • Details: pdf.

• Photo Gallery • Gallery Link 1 (Snapfish) • Gallery Link 2 (Snapfish) •

Natchitoches/Poverty Point Travel Class

 

Subject: Teaching American History Grant Saturday Workshops

ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS: Ours and Other Agencies

Current: Click here for the SELU information pdf.

 

• Chalmette Battlefield and Historic New Orleans Collection•
• April 28 , 2007 • Flyer: pdf
• Photo Gallery •

• Reverence, Rebellion, Rabbits, and Reindeer: The History and Meaning of American Holidays •
• March 17, 2007 • Flyer: pdf

• Photo Gallery •

• Southern Politics •
• February 3, 2007 • Flyer: pdf

• Photo Gallery •

• A Visit to the Louisiana State Museum • Flyer: New LA State Museum and USS Kidd Veterans Memorial Teacher Field Trip • November 11, 2006 • Registration doc or pdf •

• Photo Gallery • Gallery 2 •
Scavenger Hunt: • First Floor • Third Floor •

• History 498/598 Civil War Battlefields•
• Details under Courses •

Gallery 1 • Gallery 2 • Gallery 3

Corinth, Shiloh and Vicksburg Slideshow (large)

SATURDAY TEACHERS WORKSHOP AND FIELDTRIP WITH DR. HARRY LAVER
8:00AM-4:00PM, May 6 •
• THE PORT HUDSON BATTLEFIELD EXPERIENCE! •
• Details in pdf • Itinerary & Directions •
• Photo Gallery1 • Photo Gallery 2 • Comments and Book Information

Evaluation Form PDF

SATURDAY TEACHER'S WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
8:00AM-3:00PM, March 18 •
• FOUNDING MOTHERS AND STRUGGLING SISTERS: WOMEN IN UNITED STATES AND LOUISIANA HISTORY •
• Details in pdf •

SATURDAY TEACHER'S WORKSHOP, February 4 • Registration Form: doc | pdf
• THE RISE TO EQUALITY: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN UNITED STATES AND LOUISIANA HISTORY IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES •
• Details in pdf • Handout in pdf format

HURRICANES AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS IN LOUISIANA HISTORY November 19, 2005 . Participants earned 6 hours of continuing learning units and a $65 stipend! Knowledge, resources, and hands-on activities you can take straight to the classroom!

View our photo gallery!

PowerPoint Presentations: Workshop Notes • Workshop Notes in pdf • Memory and Oral History • Oral History as a Teaching Tool •
• "The Geography of Natural Disasters" Slides

• This information is from the Louisiana Geographic Information Center:
http://lagic.lsu.edu/images/hurricanes/2005_LAGIC_HURRICANE_ATLAS.pdf •

Past:
TRICKS FOR TEACHING LOUISIANA HISTORY! February 19. Using primary sources and film to spice up your Louisiana History classes. Information & Registration (in pdf format)

FINE-TUNING YOUR HISTORY TEXTBOOK May 7. Expert analysis of Louisiana’s current American History, World History, Civics, Free Enterprise, and Geography textbooks, with strategies for dealing with the strengths and weaknesses of each. More information: click here for pdf & registration!

Directions to the sites...click here.

Download the materials prior to May 7 & bring to the workshop:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past:
Subject: Teaching American History Grant Saturday Workshop (November 6)

Gentlepersons:

I would like to report that our Teaching American History Grant Saturday Workshop on November 6 was a rousing success. Our subject was "The Roots of American Democracy."

We registered 100 teachers from a majority of the 14 parishes covered by the grant at two locations, McClimans Hall on-campus and the Baton Rouge Nursing Center. Our enrollment cap for each site was 50 participants, so we maxed out.

Ann Trappey did a brilliant job of organizing registration, meals, and all
the attendant paperwork. It has been a pleasure to have her in charge of
logistics.

Gerald Guidroz and Mike Magee made the use of the compressed video labs easy for the team of technophobes who made presentations.

Bill Miller handled the Baton Rouge site and got the workshop off to a good start with his overview of both the grant in general and this workshop in particular. He also made some valuable connections between pedagogy and the subject matter of the day.

The rest of us operated out of the Hammond site (we will divide more evenly in the future, but this time we wanted to keep it simple).

Wade Heaton adopted his Togaman persona to discuss the classical roots of American democracy in Greek democracy and Roman republicanism. Once he completed his presentation, he drove to Baton Rouge and appeared (in costume) during one of the breaks to let the participants there see the toga up close and ask questions. He did his usual excellent job and already has received several invitations to do the Togaman presentation at area schools (a good recruiting gimmick!).

It was my task to follow Togaman and discuss the English roots of American democracy. I am still alive and in one piece, so I guess I was okay.

After lunch Harry Laver discussed the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Doing the just-after-lunch lecture is a tough job, but he pulled it off brilliantly, combining a highly energetic
presentation, excellent scholarship, and some very practical suggestions
for teaching students about these two foundational documents.

Wrapping things up with a different perspective was Charles Elliott, who
talked about the early history of Louisiana, which as a French colony was a very different place in the colonial period from the English colonies on the Atlantic coast. This was very valuable because textbooks tend to virtually ignore the history of Louisiana prior to the purchase and
undervalue the differences between it and the English colonies.

I am happy to report that all of my colleagues were magnificent. If you
have not heard them speak, you owe it to yourself to check them out the
next time there is an opportunity. More HIPSters will be presenting at
these Saturday Workshops and in the Summer Institutes int he future.

All of the participants who spoke with me during or after the workshop were extremely pleased. We also managed to recruit some of them for graduate courses in the spring semester.

Onward we go.

Bill

William B. (Bill) Robison, Ph.D.
Department Head / Professor of History
Department of History and Political Science
Southeastern Louisiana University
SLU 10895
Hammond, LA 70402
Telephone: 985-549-2109 • Fax: 985-549-2012
wrobison@selu.edu
http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Depts/HIPS

 

OTHER AGENCIES:


Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL)

LOUISiana Digital Library http://louisdl.louislibraries.org

Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment Workshop Brochure and Application
Saturday Sessions (9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.):

Region 1, March 5, 2005
Region 2, May 21, 2005
Region 3, April 2, 2005
Region 4, April 16, 2005
Region 5, April 23, 2005
Region 6, April 30, 2005
Region 7, May 7, 2005
Region 8, May 14, 2005
Region 1, September 17, 2005
Region 2, September 24, 2005
Region 3, October 1, 2005
Region 4, October 15, 2005
Region 5, October 22, 2005
Region 6, November 12, 2005
Region 7, November 19, 2005
Region 8, December 3, 2005

 

Funding for the TAH Project is provided through Grant number U215X040231 from the United States Department of Education’s Teaching American History Grant program.

Partners in the project include the Tangipahoa Parish School System, Southeastern Louisiana University; Louisiana Department of Education’s Region II Service Center; Louisiana Public Broadcasting; Louisiana State Archives; Louisiana State Museum; Louisiana State Libraries; Historic New Orleans Collection; and the Louisiana Office of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

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