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EGUSD teachers at Williamsburg


"Men , their rights and nothing more.Women, their rights and nothing less."

- Susan B. Anthony

Events for 2010-11
Grant #3 - The American Citizen: A Study of Liberty and Rights

 

Mastering History Project - Courses resume the week of August 30th.

Talking History Project
The Contested Boundaries of American Citizenship Lecture and Book study series. Location - Trigg Center (District Office), Board Room. Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Date

Topic

Scholar

September 2, 2010

Immigration and American Borders

Dr. Patrick Ettinger, CSUS

October 7, 2010

Native Americans and Colonial American Identity

Dr. John Smolenski, UC Davis

November 4, 2010

African Americans, Slavery, and the American West

Dr. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, CSUS

December 2, 2010

Picturing Labor and American Citizenship

Dr. Chloe Burke, CSUS

February 3, 2011

Progressivism and the Populist Vision

Dr. Charles Postel, SFSU

March 3, 2011

Japanese Internment

Dr. Michael Meloy, CSUS

April 7, 2011

Chicano Movement

Dr. Lorena Oropeza

Doing History Project
The American Citizen: A Study of Liberty and Rights Doing History Workshop Series. Location - Trigg Center (District Office), Room 117. Time: Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Saturdays 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Date

Topic

History Organization

September 24-25, 2010

The DBQ Project I: Method

Document Based Question (DBQ) Project

November 5-6, 2010

Constitutional Court Cases

The National Archives and Records Administration

January 28-29, 2011

Principles of Democracy

The Constitutional Rights Foundation

March 4-5, 2011

The DBQ Project II: Assessement and effective Use

The DBQ Project

May 13, 2011

Deadline for DBQ Lesson Submission

Living History
The American Citizen: A Study of Liberty and Rights Living History Colloquia and Summer Institute Series. Location - Trigg Center (District Office), Room 117. Time: Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Saturdays 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Date

Topic

History Organization

October 22-23, 2010

From Civil War to Civil Rights: Testing American Democracy

The Constitutional Rights Foundation

December 3-4, 2010

Black Americans and Japanese Internment

The National Archives and Records Administration

February 25-26, 2011

“Stony the Road We Trod…”

Out of the Box Consultant Services

April 8-9, 2011

Japanese Internment and Constitutional Rights

California Museum of History, Women, and the Arts

Summer Institute
June 7-13, 2011

A Study of the Civil Rights Movement

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

 

   
For questions or additional information on EGUSD's Teach American History Grant, contact Don Azevada
Note: Image of soldiers in TAH logo was copied with permission from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.