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Summer Institute 2004
Dates: July 12-July 30, 2004
(Click on date for readings and discussion questions.)


Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Meet at Newberry

Welcome and Orientation

The Uses of History

Contemporary Contests Over History: A Civil Conversation
Meet at Newberry

Using the Newberry Library

Primary Source Scavenger Hunt

Navigating Our Current Educational Context
Meet at Newberry

How Do You Teach the Constitution?

Chicago in 1787

Drafting a New Nation
Meet at CHS

We the People and Documents of Freedom exhibits

Changing Perspectives of the Constitution Through Images
Meet at CHS

How Do You Teach the History of Slavery?

A House Divided exhibit

Behind the Scenes Collections Tour

From the Northwest Ordinance to Dred Scott

Bringing CHS Into the Classroom
Meet at Newberry

Responding to Slavery

The Struggle for Freedom in Illinois
Meet at Newberry

How Do You Teach the Progressive Era?

Representing Industrialization

One Problem, Two Answers: Approaching Progressivism
Meet at UIC

How Do You Teach the 1920s? Roaring or Otherwise?

Reactions to Progressive Reform

Working with the Web to do History
Meet at Newberry

Local History as American History


Bus Tour: City as History
Meet at Newberry

How Do You Teach the New Deal?

Critiquing the New Deal
Meet at Newberry

How Do You Teach the History of the Civil Rights Movement?

Brown vs. Board of Education

Pioneers in the Struggle: Civil Rights in Illinois
Meet at Newberry

The History of the Present

Into the Future