Professional Development Programs for Educators
American Promises: A Teaching American History Program: Seminars
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Seminar Schedule - August 2008 through May 2009
Seminars run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will be held at the Deerfield Teachers’ Center (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association), 10 Memorial Street, in Old Deerfield.
Seminar #1:
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
Presenting Scholar: Professor Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Location: White Church Community Center
Seminar #2:
New England Slavery in a Transatlantic Context
Presenting Scholar: Professor Joanne Pope Melish, University of
Kentucky
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Location: White Church Community Center
Seminar #3:
Shays' Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
Presenting Scholar: Professor Leonard Richards, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008
Location: White Church Community Center
Seminar #4:
Nineteenth Century Immigration and the Professionalization of Urban Police
and Fire Departments
Presenting Scholar: Professor Amy Greenberg, Penn State University
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008
Location: Blue and White Room, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Seminar #5:
Anti-Slavery and Antebellum Social Movements
Presenting Scholar: Professor Susan Tracy, Hampshire College
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
Location: White Church Community Center
Seminar #6:
Building America: Immigration, Architecture, and Urbanism
Presenting Scholar: Professor Max Page, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008 / SNOW DATE: Friday, December 12, 2008 (Please
note new snow date!)
Location: White Church Community Center
Seminar #7:
The Paradox of the American Promise: Racial Justice at the Turn of the 20th
Century
Presenting Scholar: Professor Gretchen Long, Williams College
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009 / SNOW DATE: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Location: White Church Community Center
Seminar #8:
Vietnam Remembered
Presenting Scholar: Professor Christian Appy, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Date: Friday, May 8, 2009
Location: White Church Community Center