ABA Summer Institute – HS Teachers

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition. 1921?

Secondary school teachers of United States history and government are invited to apply for a summer institute, Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History, to be held June 27-July 2, 2010, in Washington, DC. The institute is co-sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center and the American Bar Association Division for Public Education.

The institute will provide teachers with the training and resources to engage students in the history of landmark federal cases. This year’s institute will study trials under the Sedition Act of 1798, Ex parte Merryman and debates on habeas corpus during the Civil War, and a trial of bootleggers during Prohibition.

Faculty will include David Cole of the Georgetown Law School, Saul Cornell of Fordham University, Linda Greenhouse of Yale Law School and formerly Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, and Michael Vorenberg of Brown University. Teachers will also visit the Supreme Court and the U.S. Courthouse for the District of Columbia.

Participation will be limited to 20 teachers. Travel, lodging, and meal expenses will be reimbursed.

Further information and application materials are available on line at http://www.abanet.org/publiced/summerinstitute/home.shtml

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2010.

Papers – The Movie – 12/8

Laurie Mercier invites you to a showing of Papers – The Movie at WSUV Admin Building 110, 12/8 at 3:00.  The showing will be followed by a discussion with El Grupo Juventil, the co-producers of the film.  You can learn about the movie here and view a CNN clip about the movie here.

Positive History

“It is wrong to write a textbook that will fill the children who learn from it with horror and disgust about their past and their people. A generally positive tone for the teaching of history will build optimism and self-assurance in the growing young generation and make them feel as if they are part of their country’s bright future. A history in which there is good and bad, things to be proud of and things that are regrettable. But the general tone for a school textbook should still be positive.”

Russian Textbooks Attempt to Rewrite History

Words, Water and Work – 2/20/10 Workshop

Good stuff from our friends at the Center for Columbia River History:

Inlet scroll of one of the Francis turbines of the Grand Coulee Dam, during construction.

WORDS, WATER AND WORK

TEACHER WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 20, 2010

COST: FREE

LOCATION: TEX RANKIN THEATER, PEARSON AIR MUSEUM, 1115 E. 5TH ST., VANCOUVER, WA

CONTACT: DONNA SINCLAIR, CENTER FOR COLUMBIA RIVER HISTORY

360-258-3289 or INFO@CCRH.ORG

The Center for Columbia River History’s 2008 James B. Castles Fellow, Chad Wriglesworth, will present a free workshop for history, English, social studies and language arts teachers from 9 a.m.-noon Feb. 20 at the Pearson Air Museum in Vancouver.  “Words, Water, and Work: Literature and History in the Columbia River Basin” will introduce educators to poets, novelists and essayists who have written about the social and ecological transformation of the Columbia River Basin, from the 1930s to the present.

Participants will be provided with illustrative examples of ways that regional history and literature can be integrated into the classroom by investigating places such as Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville Dam, The Dalles Dam, and Hanford Engineering Works. Teachers will leave the session with a practical teaching bibliography and online resources for future projects and curriculum development. This workshop is open to everyone, but will be of particular interest to language arts and social studies teachers.

Wriglesworth is a former public school teacher with a master’s degree in English from Portland State University and an interdisciplinary master’s degree from Regent College in British Columbia. Wriglesworth has published on Wallace Stegner, Frederick Buechner, Raymond Carver, and C.S. Lewis, with recent publications focused on Pacific Northwest literature and history.  This workshop is based on the research he conducted during his fellowship year with the Center for Columbia River History.

To register, contact Donna Sinclair, info@ccrh.org, 360-258-3289

“Come Together Home” 12/4 at 5th Avenue Cinemas

It’s a busy week out there!  From the press release:

As part of their commemoration of the Oregon 150th celebration, the PSU Friends of History will sponsor a showing of Ivy Lin’s 2009 documentary on Portland’s earliest Chinese immigrants “Come Together Home” on Friday, Dec 4 at the 5th Avenue Cinema starting at 7pm. A discussion with the director, Ivy Lin, will follow the showing of the film which is free and open to the public. The 5th Avenue Cinema is located at 510 SW Hall St.

The first wave of Chinese immigrants started to arrive in Portland in 1850, working as railroad workers, launderers, loggers, and cannery workers. Their hard work and industry helped to build the city of Portland and the state of Oregon. The documentary “Come Together Home” retraces the final journey of disinterred remains of early Chinese immigrants from Portland to Hong Kong, as taken by Ivy Lin herself.

The first Chinese burial ground in Portland, and the site of the 1500 burials was situated in Block 14 in Lone Fir Cemetery It was hidden for years under a (now demolished) Multnomah County office building that was built over the hallowed ground. Now Block 14 stands as a fenced-off void of gravel and dirt after most of the remains were exhumed and shipped back to China in 1928 and 1949.

Come view the extraordinary pilgimage Ivy Lin herself made 81 years after the first major disinternment and shipment made its way to China via Hong Kong and learn a little more about the valuable contributions made to Oregon by these early Chinese immigrants.

The Friends of History is a group of volunteers who believe that the Department of History at PSU offers a strong program worthy of community attention and support. We promote excellence in the teaching and the study of history within the University and through our balanced and free programs which are produced as part of our outreach to the city and the community Portland State University serves.

WHAT: Free showing of Ivy Lin’s historical docmentary “Come Together Home.”

WHEN: Friday, December 4, 2009 starting at 7pm

WHERE: PSU’s Fifth Avenue Cinema, located at 510 SW Hall in downtown Portland.

PHONE NUMBER: for information please call (503)725-3917

COST: Free and open to the ublic

WEBSITE for FIFTH AVENUE CINEMA: http://www.5thavenuecinema.org/upcoming-films/

WEBSITE FOR PSU FRIENDS OF HISTORY: www.history.pdx.edu/foh

VIDEO CLIP of DOCUMENTARY: http://www.vimeo.com/6226018