2019 Conference

Exercising Power: Individuals and Institutions in History

Washington, DC
March 14-16, 2019

Breakout Sessions

Friday 8:30 AM

How did Birds Gain Political Protection?
Ann Canning, TPS Eastern Region
Sue Wise, Wanesburg University
PowerPoint / Resource / Resource
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“If We Live in the Present, Why Should We Care About the Past?” Connecting Past and Present Struggles for Power
Jessica Ellison, Minnesota Historical Society
PowerPoint

Exercising Power: The Struggle for Citizenship through Historical Sites
Rachel Yaden, Lincoln County School District
Resources

Susan B. Anthony and the Suffrage Movement: Speaking Truth to Power
Gennie Westbrook, Bill of Rights Institute
PowerPoint / Resources

Before Brown v. The Board of Education: The Power of Individuals and Institutions in the Struggle for Equality in Education
Jessica Maul, New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Kristi Fragnoli, The College of Saint Rose
Julie Daniels, New York State Office of Cultural Education
Resources / Resources

Hollywood or History?
Charles Elfer, Clayton State University
Scott L. Roberts, Central Michigan University
PowerPoint / Resources / Resources / Resources

Friday 10:00 AM

The Power of Agent Women and SOURCES
Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education 

PowerPoint / Resources / Resources / Resources

A Civil Rights Investigation: Mississippi Burning
Mallory Lineberger, LBJ Presidential Library
Resources

The Worst Misuse of Executive Power in U.S. History:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Signing of Executive Order 9066, Forcing the Removal of 120,000 Japanese, Mostly U.S. Citizens, into Prisons
Sam Mihara, University of California
Resources

How Can Place Based Education Inform Children of Their Historical Roots
Ted Green and Thomas Zinselmeyer, Webster University
PowerPoint

Friday 2:00 PM

Studying the World’s Most Famous Address: Using the White House as a Lens for Viewing Executive Power in History
Whitney Hayne, White House Historical Association
PowerPoint

Primary Documents for All Learners
Grace Leatherman and Mike Kuethe, Maryland Humanities
Resources

Freedom ‘Riters: John Dolan’s Story
Spiro Bolos: New Trier High School
Handout / Handout / Handout / Handout

The Fight for Women’s Voting Rights in the Records of the National Archives
Katie Munn, Martha Grove, and Corinne Porter, National Archives
PowerPoint / Resources

Civil Rights and the Cold War:
Using Primary Sources to Explore How Texts, Images, and Messaging from the Soviet Union Helped Spur Racial Justice in the United States in the 1960s

Jason Butler, DeKalb County School District
PowerPoint

Primary Sources in the Elementary School
Tom Bober, Clayton School District
PowerPoint

Friday 3:30 PM

The Egyptian Women’s Movement: The Vision of Huda Shaarawi
Joan Brodsky Schur, Curriculum Developer
PowerPoint

Independent Institutions: Understanding Institutional History with Primary Sources
Eva Johnston and Genevieve Podleski, Rederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
PowerPoint / Handout

The Poetry of Decolonization: Pan-Africanism through Poetry
Mark Johnson, University of Notre Dame
PowerPoint / Handout / Handout / Handout

Who Tells Your Story? Shaping (and Reshaping) Historical Narratives
Tally Botzer, American Civil War Museum
Mark Summers, Jamestown Rediscovery
PowerPoint

Remembering War through the Eyes of the Civil War Cameraman
Andrew Dangel, Old Mill Middle North, IB World School
Handout / Handout

Saturday 8:30 AM

Cult of Personality: Individuals Using Institutions to Consolidate Power in China and Russia
Diane Haleas, Saint Ignatius College Prep
PowerPoint
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Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow
Lee Boomer, New-York Historical Society
PowerPoint

Saturday 10:00 AM

George Washington’s Lesson in Leadership
Alissa Oginsky and Sadie Troy, George Washington’s Mount Vernon
PowerPoint

Using Theatre to Teach Historical Thinking
Jake Flack and Alexandria Wood, Ford’s Theatre Society
Angelo Parodi, John Eaton Elementary School
PowerPoint / Handout / Handout

Saturday 2:00 PM

The Soldier’s Tale Online: Veterans’ Oral History in the Digital-Age Classroom
Mark Franklin, Department of Defense, Vietnam War Commemoration
Monica Mohindra, Library of Congress, Veterans History Project
Emily Carlet, Witness to War
PowerPoint / Handout

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
Rylan Sekiguchi, SPICE, Stanford University
Norman Y. Mineta, U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Transportation
PowerPoint

Saturday 3:10 PM

Four Corners: Sourcing and Analyzing Primary Sources for DBQ Success
Rebecca Gomez, Uncommon School
PowerPoint / Handout

Wielding Digital Tools at the Intersection of Civics and American History
Carrie Ray-Hill, Taylor Davis, and Amber Coleman-Mortley, iCivics
PowerPoint

Poster Sessions

You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know
Ruth Busby, Troy University
PowerPoint

Thinking Like a Historian
Tomacine M. Crouch, Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention Center
Handout

First Ladies Exercising Power on Capitol Hill: An Analysis of First Ladies Working with Congress on Promoting Causes and Programs
Jess Gagliardi, Adams State University
Poster

The American Memory is Our Memory
David Hales, Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency
Handout

Forming School/University Partnerships to Learn & Teach with Primary Sources
Anthony Pellegrino and Autumn Magliocca, University of Tennessee
Poster