I am in the at the midpoint of two weeks of work with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History. As some of you know, this last week I was in Mount Vernon, Virginia and Boston filming a 12-week lecture course...
Under “Local History”: (Thanks to Princeton Seminar alum Ann Jay Harrison for taking this picture and sending it along)....
If you read The Way of Improvement Leads Home regularly you know that for the past three summers I have spent a week in Princeton, New Jersey leading a week-long seminar for teachers on the subject of colonial America. The...
Yesterday I spent the day in Philadelphia with thirty-six history teachers from around the country. These teachers were chosen by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History to join me and Nate McAlister, the 2010 National History Teacher of the Year,...
If you are a K-8 teacher and are looking for a professional development opportunity this summer mark your calendars for July 24-30, 2016. Consider applying for our Gilder-Lehrman Institute summer seminar on “The 13 Colonies” at Princeton University.Some blog posts...
Dave McIntire teaches history at the Independent School in Wichita, Kansas. I just learned that he was awarded the Judy Cromwell Excellence in Teaching Award from the Kansas Council for Social Studies. Read all about it here. Why am I bringing...
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History just released its Summer Seminars for 2015. Once again I will be doing a seminar on the 13 colonies at Princeton University for K-8 history teachers. Head over to the Gilder-Lehrman website to learn […]
It is gratifying to see how carefully the teachers in my Gilder-Lehrman Summer Seminar last week read The Way of Improvement Leads Home. This comes from a middle-school teacher at a school in Washington D.C.:...
Friday was the final day of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute seminar for K-8 teachers on “The 13 Colonies.” We had a discussion of The Way of Improvement Leads Home followed by a lecture on the First Great Awakening and a lecture on the anglicization...
Gilder-Lehrman Institute seminar for K-8 teachers on “The 13 Colonies” is winding down. The teachers are hard at work on their lesson plans under the direction of Nate McAlister. Before they leave they are required to post the plans to...
Day four of the Gilder Lehrman “13 Colonies” Summer Seminar is in the books. We spent the entire day in Philadelphia where the one and only George Boudreau gave us a tour of the colonial city. I asked him to lead this tour...
Day three of the Gilder Lehrman “13 Colonies” Summer Seminar was packed with activity. The first morning lecture was on race and labor in colonial Virginia. We then moved north to the New England colonies. Before lunch I gave a...
I can’t escape the history of the American Bible Society! I am in Princeton this week doing a Gilder-Lehrman Seminar on the 13 colonies. The place where I am staying is on Bayard Lane, one block from its intersection with...
Firestone Library–Princeton University It was a full day in Princeton. The Gilder-Lehrman “13 Colonies” seminar is off to a great start (or at least it is from my perspective as the instructor). We started the day problemetizing the “Whig” interpretation...
As many of my readers know, I am at Princeton University this week leading a Gilder-Lehrman Institute seminar for K-8 teachers on “The 13 Colonies.” Last night we had a nice reception/dinner with the teachers and it looks like it...
The seminar will be held in Princeton’s Lewis Library On Sunday I am heading to Princeton University to lead a week-long Gilder-Lehrman Institute summer seminar on “The 13 Colonies.” This weekend K-8 teachers will be arriving at Princeton from schools...
As some of you know, I am leading a week-long Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History seminar this summer at Princeton University. The seminar is geared toward K-8 teachers and will focus on “The Thirteen Colonies.” (Sorry, the application window is...
Nassau Hall, Princeton University, 1760 You may recall a few weeks ago I announced that I will be teaching a Gilder-Lehrman Teacher’s Seminar this summer on “The Thirteen Colonies.” The seminar will run from July 27 to August 2, 2013...
Princeton’s Historic Nassau Hall I am really excited to be doing a Gilder-Lehrman Summer Seminar this summer on the topic of “The Thirteen Colonies.” The seminar will run from July 27 to August 2, 2013 and will be open to K-8...
