We live in extraordinary times! Please rest assured I am currently safe and healthy, as is my husband Simon who joined me in Washington DC on Tuesday night. We are continuing to monitor official updates and are taking the evolving situation day by day. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust are providing excellent support.
My official Churchill program has come to a close, with my commitments for Cleveland, Salt Lake City and San Francisco cancelled. I was lucky to complete all my appointments in Washington DC earlier this week, and will write a separate post about that in the coming days. At this stage we will still depart the US on 3 April as planned. Instead of going to Cleveland next week, the plan is for me to join my husband Simon in travelling to Moab in southern Utah instead. The National Council on History Education (NCHE) is moving its conference online at short notice and I wish them all the best with this constructive approach. I hope to take them up on their offer of attending the 2021 NCHE Conference instead, as it happens to be in Salt Lake City. This would enable me to fulfill the exciting program I had planned with first class help from Utah Humanities and still meet with the Stanford History Education Group in California. Below are the sessions I was going to attend, in addition to presenting a poster about my Fellowship. You can see why I'm keen to come back next year! But for now, it's all about making prudent decisions with the latest and most trustworthy information available. I hope you and all the fabulous people I've met over the last five weeks are safe and healthy. |
National Council for History Education conference
Keynote Speakers
Teaching History in a Divided America
Jill Lepore
Harvard University
scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore
Framing the Vote: Curating
Votes for Women at the NPG
Kate Lemay
National Portrait Gallery
npg.si.edu/staff/kate-lemay
Looking Back at the First World War
– and what it did to the United States
Adam Hochschild
University of California Berkeley
journalism.berkeley.edu/person/adam_hochschild
Breakout Sessions
Teaching History in a Divided America
Jill Lepore
Harvard University
scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore
Framing the Vote: Curating
Votes for Women at the NPG
Kate Lemay
National Portrait Gallery
npg.si.edu/staff/kate-lemay
Looking Back at the First World War
– and what it did to the United States
Adam Hochschild
University of California Berkeley
journalism.berkeley.edu/person/adam_hochschild
Breakout Sessions
Catalyst for Change: The Government or the People? Jordan Maul New York State Archives Partnership Trust nysarchivestrust.org Kristi Fragnoli The College of Saint Rose strose.edu Julie Daniels New York State Office of Cultural Education oce.nysed.gov No Easy Answers: Addressing Difficult History Jennifer Lagasse and Megan Jones 9/11 Memorial and Museum 911memorial.org Reimagining Historical Events: The Past, Present and Future of ‘The Textbook’ Sari Rosenberg and Judith Jeremie New York City Department of Education schools.nyc.gov Catherine Denial Knox College knox.edu Too Young? Teaching Hard History: American Slavery to Elementary Students Hoyt Phillips Teaching Tolerance tolerance.org Building Student Reflection with Primary Sources Peggy O’Neill-Jones, TPS Western Region Amy Wilkinson, Southern Illinois University Judy Bee, TPS Midwest Region Elizabeth James, Marshall University Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium loc.gov/teachers/tps | Exploring, Learning, Teaching and Taking Action with the New American History Team Annie Evans New American History newamericanhistory.org Teaching Early American History like World History: Integrating Native History into the Classroom Michael Kraemer Ohio State University osu.edu The March Continues: The Civil Rights Movement in Public Memory, Monuments, and Memorials Michael Naragon Winchester Thurston School winchesterthurston.org Peter DiNardo Mount Lebanon School District mtlsd.org Workshop The DBQ Project dbqproject.com Excursions
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