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Summer Seminars
From 2003 to 2005, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will offer
summer seminars focusing on the teaching of American History. Great
care will be given to focus on the latest historical and teaching trends.
- There will be two, non-repeatable seminars offered each summer. You must
choose which of the two seminars that you would like to take.
- Each seminar is offered for three (3) graduate credits.
- The seminars are also offered for a non-credit option.
- Only teachers of American History, grades 5-12, will be allowed to
enroll in the summer seminars.
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Please click
 here for the 2005
syllabus (opens
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There is a follow-up workshop required. (Click
here for general
information and details about the 2005 follow-up workshops.)
You must choose one of
two topics:
- Kriste Lindenmeyer, Professor of American History, University of
Maryland Baltimore County, "Public Policy and American Freedom"
—or—
- Jeremi Suri, Professor of American History, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, "Foreign Policy and American Freedom"
Participants will receive a stipend of $650.
- All meals will be provided free of charge.
- No-cost housing available (on a first-come, first-served basis).
- Participants will receive their books and course materials free of
charge.
- Participants will have access to the University’s library as well as its
computer labs.
Registration information is below.
Pictures From Previous Seminars
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Click
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Click
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2005 Summer
Instructors
Nationally-known historians will lead the seminars and a local
curriculum development expert, Linda Pletcher, will help the
participants fashion new lesson plans and teaching units.
- Paul Buhle, presently a Senior Lecturer in the American
Civilization and History departments at Brown University and a Distinguished
Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, has written or edited,
by himself or with collaborators, 29 volumes on social, intellectual, and
cultural history, more than a third of them based in part upon interviews. Two
of such volumes, C.L.R. James's Caribbean and The New Left Revisited,
have been awarded Choice Scholarly Books of the year (1993 and 2003). He
writes intermittently for the Chronicle of Higher Education, the
Guardian (UK), the San Francisco Chronicle Books section and The
Nation, among other publications. He is also a columnist for Tikkun
magazine and for the environmentalist journal, CNS. He has practiced
and taught oral history for thirty years and created several archives. His
current interests include "Underground Rhode Island," a student-based project
of historic counter-cultures, and developing several graphic histories,
"comic-format" explorations of history. He is a native Midwesterner and took a
Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1975.
- R. David Edmunds, Watson Professor of American History at the
University of Texas at Dallas, has written or edited nine books, including
The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (1987) which won the Francis Parkman
Prize. He has held Ford Foundation, Newberry, and Guggenheim fellowships and
has advised documentary filmmakers, tribal governments, foundations, and
museums. He is currently the president of the American Society for
Ethnohistory.
- Thomas Dublin, professor of history at the State University of New
York at Binghamton, is a U.S. social historian with an interest in gender,
race and ethnicity, and class in the working-class experience. His research
has focused on both the industrial revolution in nineteenth-century New
England and deindustrialization in the Middle Atlantic region in the twentieth
century. He is completing a book with Walter Licht, Facing Industrial
Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1990. For seven years he
has been coeditor of "Women and Social Movements in the United States,
1600-2000," a website that has grown from a modest project, publishing
undergraduate research projects, to an online journal and a major resource in
U.S. women's history. He also works with middle- and high-school teachers as
part of the "Teaching American History" grant program.
- Kathryn Kish Sklar's research centers on women in social movements
in the United States, comparatively considered with British and German women.
Her publications focus on the Antebellum and Progressive eras. She is
particularly interested in how women's participation in social movements
illuminates large questions in U.S. and comparative history, such as those
associated with political culture, class formation, state formation, and the
construction of gender, religious and ethnic identities. She is the author of
many books and articles. Of particular note are her biographies of Florence
Kelley and Catherine Beecher. She is also a co-editor of the “Women and Social
Movements in the United States, 1600-2000,” a website resource for teaching
and research.
- Linda Pletcher, who teaches unit design for CESA 7 and at UW-Green
Bay and St. Norbert College, presently serves as site facilitator for a
Comprehensive School Reform Program at Franklin Middle School in Green Bay.
Pletcher is a past Golden Apple recipient.
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Seminar Registration
To register online for
summer sessions and follow-up workshops, click here:
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Or contact:
Barb van Beek
CESA 7
(920) 492-5960 extension 613
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Frequently Asked Questions
This section presents important information on topics pertaining to
both participants' and instructors' interests. If you need clarification
or have any other questions, please contact Dr. Andrew Kersten (contact
information below).
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