2006 Summer Institutes
Due to the nature of the Teaching American History Grant, there is only
enough funding to pay for twenty teachers to take each offered
course/institute. Millbury and Sutton are allotted two spots each for
each offering. In the event that either district opts not to utilize one
or both spots for a particular offering, the spot(s) will go back to
Worcester. Since the number of participants in the program is limited,
preference will be given in the following order: people enrolled in the
M.Ed. History program through TAH at Worcester State College, high school
teachers who teach United States History, grade 3 and 5 teachers who teach
Massachusetts/US History, and then other teachers who have applied.
Because participants can only use up to 21 credits of history courses from
the TAH grant towards the M.Ed. program offered by Worcester State College
(the additional 12 credits for the degree are specific classes required by
WSC), people who need the 21 credits will get preference over people who
have already earned 21 credits through the TAH grant.
Each institute is worth 3 graduate credits through Worcester State
College. The TAH grant will pay for the credits earned by the participant
for each institute, and books and other readings will be supplied.
Accepted participants will receive more information.
The Declaration of Independence
Led by Dr. Jay Fliegelman from Stanford University
June 26-30, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day
Held at the American Antiquarian Society
This institute will explore the Declaration of Independence in
conversation with Americans across the history of the country. Beginning
with colonists and ending with contemporary Americans, participants will
trace how the precursors of the document and how the document echoes
throughout a variety of writings, from Cotton Mather to Henry David
Thoreau, Judith Sargent Murry to Martin Luther King, Jr. Where did the
ideas reflected in the Declaration come from? What are the relationships
between the Declaration of Independence and each generation of Americans?
How has it been interpreted and reinterpreted by different people at
different times? And how do historians and literary scholars make sense
of these conversations? Participants will read a wide range of primary
source documents in order to find answers to these questions, as well as
monographs by Fliegelman, Michael Kammen, and Pauline Maier.
The Constitution and The Federalist
Led by Dr. Donald R. Brand from the College of the Holy
Cross
August 21-25, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day
Held at the College of the Holy Cross
This course will provide an overview of the American Constitution and its
authoritative explication in The Federalist. We will examine the
historical context in which the Constitution was drafted, the
Constitutional Convention, the ratification debates, and the text of the
Constitution. We will devote particular attention to a close reading of
Federalist 10 and Federalist 51, but will also deal with
other important papers in The Federalist. We will be examining selected excerpts
from Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, selected
writings of the Anti-federalists, and selected excerpts from the ratification
debates, most notably the debates here in Massachusetts. The following
questions will be addressed: What is the relationship of the Constitution
to the Declaration of Independence? How democratic is the American
Constitution? What is the relationship of slavery to the American
Constitution? What were the conceptions of human nature that influenced
the American Founding? How did the American Framers understand the
principle of separation of powers and checks and balances? Is the
Constitution a living document, and what role was assigned to the
judiciary in interpreting the Constitution? What is the relationship of
religion to the American Constitution?
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Applications are due by May 1, 2007
Print an application
(as a Word document)
For more informtaion, please contact Amy Sopcak at (508) 471-2129 or
asopcak[at]mwa.org.
Preference will be given to teachers from the
Worcester, Millbury, and Sutton school districts, but teachers from other
districts who are interested are encouraged to contact Amy to be placed on
a waiting list.
TAH Courses, Saturday Seminars,
and Summer Institutes,
2006-2008
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