Teachers Discovering History As Historians

2006 Summer Seminar

July 10th-20th

The 2006 Summer Seminar was titled "The Constitution, the Growth of Government and the Impact of Turning Points."  The seminar was composed of two areas: 

a).  A survey of United States Constitution from the Revolution through the present day.

b).  A series of professional development sessions covering Digital History Textbook and cross disciplinary methods for history instruction in the classroom.

 

For a terrific review of the 2003 summer seminar, see the article on our program by Lee Formwalt, Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians, published in the OAH Newsletter.  Directions to seminar facilities are at the bottom of this page.

The 2006 NINE day summer seminar schedule included:

 

Opening Day: Murray Banks started off the seminar with a morning of professional development gauged at the dynamics of teacher-student relationships and the power of personalizing the classroom for fun and increased student performance.  The afternoon will be hosted by Tom Flaherty, expert on the U.S. Constitution program called "We the People", designed to bring the Constitution alive through simulations and interactive activities and competitions. 

 

Day Two: Dr. Karen Robbins, Dr. Mark Huddle, and Dr. Phil Payne of St. Bonaventure University's History Department covered the people, events  and documents leading up to the Constitution, through the beginning of Jefferson's Presidency. 

 

Day Three: Dr. Paul Finkelman of the School of Law at the University of Tulsa covered the complex period testing the new union from 1800 through its breakdown at the Civil War.

 

Day Four:  Dr. Philip Payne of St. Bonaventure University explored the time of rebuilding of the union after the Civil War through the Gilded Age up to 1920.

 

Day Five: Dr. Allida M. Black of George Washington University covered the complex territory of the Roaring 20's, the Depression, the New Deal, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt up to 1950.

 

Day Six:  Dr. Sara McNeil of the University of Houston conducted a day of training in the outstanding Digital History Textbook detailing this rich, complex and essential U.S. History free online resource.

 

Day Seven: Dr. Jeremi Suri covered Constitution issues through the 1950s to the 1990s: eleven presidents, three wars, McCarthy, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Clinton impeachment.

 

Day Eight: Dr. Jack Rakove discussed current day Constitutional issues in relation to the Iraqi Constitution, the Patriot Act and the war. 

 

Day Nine: Mark Stephens and Emily Rubinfield of Germantown Academy presented their "Letterman Top Ten Methods" of history classroom instruction.  A lively, pragmatic and delightful day of fun, learning and pedagogy. 

 

Dr. Lee Formwalt, Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians joined us for a talk on how TAH and OAH have been working together.

Speakers:

Murray Banks is an award winning teacher and the consummate professional speaker. He's taught at every level—elementary, middle school, high school and at a major university. He's taught in a city school district and in a small, rural school in Vermont. He was Vermont's TEACHER OF THE YEAR in physical education and was honored nationally with the OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD. His classroom stories and student anecdotes are poignant and hilarious, and because Murray frequently works with Fortune 500 companies, he brings a challenging message about performance, accountability and success.
Dr. Allida M. Black   As project director of the The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University, Allida M. Black examines the impact Eleanor Roosevelt had on public policy, party politics, and the modern human rights movement. She is author of a political history of Roosevelt's post-White House career and is the Finley fellow in history at George Mason University and the author of "Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Post-War Liberalism" (1995), and editor of two volumes of Roosevelt's political writings. She is currently researching Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of the Twentieth Century. Black also teaches courses in recent U.S. political history and works closely with the National Council for History Education's programs for secondary school teachers.
Dr. Paul Finkelman Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law Prior to joining the College of Law faculty in 1999,Paul Finkelman was the John F. Seiberling Professor of Law at the University of Akron Law School. In addition, he previously taught at Cleveland Marshall, Ham-line, the University of Miami, Chicago-Kent, Brooklyn Law, and the University of Texas-Austin. A specialist in American legal history, race and the law, and first amendment issues, Finkelman is the author or editor of numerous articles and books, including A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, Baseball and the American Legal Mind, and American Legal History: Cases and Materials. He was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago. Finkelman teaches constitutional law and American legal history.
Dr. Mark Huddle is a member of the History Department at St. Bonaventure.  He joined the department in August 2003, coming here from the History Department at the University of Georgia.  He teaches U.S. survey courses plus a wide range of upper level courses in U.S. History.
Dr. Sara McNeil is Associate Professor in the Instructional Technology program in the Department of  Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Houston.
Dr. Philip Payne, Dr. Payne will be offering a broad overview of American History with a particular emphasis on the Constitution.  He will focus on major events and turning points from the post Civil War period through 1920.
Dr. Jack Rakove  is W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. His writings focus on the revolutionary origins of American constitutionalism, the political thought and career of James Madison, and the role of history in constitutional adjudication and politics. He is author of four books including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and the editor of four others, including James Madison: Writings (1999) and The Unfinished Election of 2000 (2001).
Dr. Karen Robbins received her Ph.D., from Columbia University.  She is committed to using a knowledge of history to improve American society, and this is reflected in her interests in both political and social history.  Robbins has studied both African-American History and that of American Women.  Her work regarding the latter has also made her Director of the Women's Studies Program.
Dr. Jeremi Suri is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches courses on American interactions with the wider world, social movements, and foreign policy. His research emphasizes the interconnections between grassroots politics and elite policy-making. In his teaching and writing, he seeks to internationalize understanding of American history by focusing on the foreign "others" who have contributed to local and national definitions of identity in the United States. He also examines how American citizens--from ordinary men and women through distinguished politicians and businesspeople--have influenced the world outside the United States. Professor Suri is the author of "Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente" (Harvard University Press, 2003). He is  a 2003-2004 national fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Dr. Lee Formwalt, Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians speaks on Historiography, the study of the multiple ways in which history is written.    Dr. Formwalt will return for the third time to close our seminar.  Formally Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, and President of the Georgia Association of Historians. See his "Seven Rules for Effective History Teaching or Bringing Life to the History Class".

Schedule:  .

Events held at St. Bonaventure University's Quick Arts Center and University Chapel.  The last day will be hald at Holiday Valley.

WEEK I

WEEK II

• Holiday Valley, Ellicottville, NY
• Jamestown Community College Directions and Map 
• Jamestown Public School Directions and Map
• Jamestown City Map with Building Locations
• Olean JCC Campus Directions and Map
• Olean JCC Campus Virtual Tour
• Yodeler Lodge Holiday Valley

Seminar Documents

Reconstruction Amendments Payne

Constitution Power Point Payne

Payne Constitution Outline Payne

United States History: 1865 - 1920 PPT

Outline for TAH Workshop: Huddle

The Articles of Confederation Robbins

The Constitutional Convention Robbins

Slavery and Founders - Pages 143 and 152.pdf Finkelman

Slavery and Founders - Chps. 1 and 6.pdf Finkelman

Cardozoarticle.doc Finkelman

CARDOZO L. REV. 1145-1157 -- 2002.doc Finkelman

PF BARRY L. REVIEW 1-19 - 2004.doc Finkelman

PF 13_Yale JLHuman.doc Finkelman

CIVIL RIGHTS: LOOKING BACK  Article.doc Finkelman

Theoharris article.pdf Suri

Dudziak Suri.pdf Suri

 

 

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