2021 Online Conference

Place and Time

April 8-11, 2021

Connection Sessions

Teaching Inquiry and Writing During the Pandemic:
What We Have Learned

Chip Brady, The DBQ Project
Sponsored by The DBQ Project
Session Video
Remembering the Past, Changing the Future:
Lessons from the Tulsa Race Massacre

Shanedra Nowell, Oklahoma State University
Session Video
Preparing Young People to Govern our Constitutional Democracy:
A Historian’s Perspective

Jane Kamensky, Harvard University
Sponsored by Educating for American Democracy
Session Video

Conference Workshops

Unladylike2020 Presents: The Stories of Women History Makers 
Charlotte Mangin, Creator/Executive Producer/Director,
Sandy Rattley, 
Executive Producer/Director,
and Sandy Goldberg, Director of Education
Session Video
Space, Place, & the Pursuit of Mappiness:
Using WebGIS to Enhance the History Classroom

Chris Bunin and Christine Esposito, The Virginia Geographic Alliance
Session Video

Keynote Sessions

Retelling Indigenous Histories in Time and Place 
Philip Deloria, Harvard University
Session Video
Recovering a Forgotten Moment in an Overlooked Place:
Women Suffrage in the Rocky Mountain West 
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
Session Video
Placing the Holocaust
Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine
Session Video
Making Race Through Science
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
Session Video
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez, University of California, Davis
Session Video

Breakout Sessions

Thursday 4:30 PM

The Historiscope: What a Nineteenth Century Toy Can
Teach Us About Place,
Time and Historical Memory
Stacia Smith, American Revolution Institute and Rikki Davenport, Moultrie Middle School
Session Video
Teaching About the Japanese American Incarceration and Redress Movement:
Case Studies for Civil Liberties and Justice

Rylan Sekiguchi, SPICE, Stanford University, Amy Watanabe and Debra Nakatomi, Mineta Legacy Project
Session Video
Chosen Places
Eva Johnston and Genevieve Podleski, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Session Video
Using Place as a Primary Source
Anne Hester, East Lee County High School
Session Video
It’s Elementary, My Dear:
Teaching with Primary Sources in the Elementary Classroom

Tammara Purdin and Kacie Nadeau, Florida Council for History Education
Session Video
100+ Years of Women’s History and Other News Stories That Shaped America
Lisa Fink, National Council of Teachers of English, Victoria Pasquantonio, PBS NewsHour EXTRA, and
Liz Ramos, Alta Loma High School
Session Video
Bring a “Mathematics Lens” to Your Historical Primary Source Analysis!
Mike Apfeldorf and Peter DeCraene,
Library of Congress Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office
Session Video
The OER Project: Usable History for Today’s World
Kathy Hays, OER Project
Session Video

Friday 4:30 PM

Lessons Learned from WWII Mass Imprisonment and Application to Today’s Problems
Sam Mihara, UCLA
Session Video
Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies
Mimi Stephens, The Choices Program
Session Video
Accounts of the Mongol Empire Across Place and Time
Jeffery D. Nokes, Brigham Young University
Session Video
Disrupting Their Thinking: An Inquiry into the Impact of Redlining on Politics and Race Over Time
Molly Schneider and Amy Myers, Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin and
Elizabeth Walsh-Moorman, 
Lake Erie College
Session Video
Designing Critical Inquiries to Teach Ancient Civilizations in the Elementary Classroom
Vicki Hobson, John Hobson, Marian McCullough, and Elizabeth Bunin, Albemarle County Public Schools
and Rachel Caldwell, Charlottesville City Public Schools
Session Video
Civic Education and Action through Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis
Lia Atanat, Maryland Humanities, Karla Thompson, Maryland Public Television,
Leigh Hallisey, 
FableVision,
Elizabeth R. Osborn, Indiana University Center on Representative Government, and
Julie Schaul, Citizen U, Barat Education Foundation
Session Video
The Continuing Significance of the Long Struggle for Civil Rights
Daniella Ann Cook and Kara Gavigan, University of South Carolina, Tom Destino and
Bridget Morton, 
Mars Hill University, and Kira Duke, Middle Tennessee State University
Session Video
Can Historical Thinking Be Assessed on a Statewide Summative Assessment?
Bruce Lesh and Leah Renzi, Maryland State Department of Education
Session Video

Saturday 10:45 AM

George Washington: Turning Points
Alissa Oginsky and Sadie Troy, George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Session Video
One Renaissance or Many?
Paul Horton, University of Chicago Lab School
Session Video
The Commerce Clause in American Legal History
Tiffany Middleton, American Bar Association
Session Video
Buffalo Soldiers – Military Presence in the West During Post Slavery America
Deborah Carter, Joseph H Brensinger School, Jersey City and Jennifer Bartley, Shaw Elementary School
Session Video
Song of Myself: Exploring the Language of Protest with OER
Andy Mink, National Humanities Center
Session Video
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Primary Sources
Jessica Ellison, Minnesota Historical Society, Chris Peterson, Richfield High School, and
Kate Van Haren, Pittsville Elementary School
Session Video
Evaluating Primary Sources: Is Seeing Believing?
Cheryl Lederle and Danna Bell, Library of Congress Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office
Session Video

Saturday 2:30 PM

Mapping History with the National Archives and DocsTeach
Andrea Reidell, Stephanie Greenhut, Christopher Zarr, and
Kathleen Munn, National Archives and Records Administration
Session Video
Exploring U.S. Environmental History – Hands-On Activities and Digital Tools
Carol Bliese, Population Education and Lauren Lansdowne-Johnson, Granite School District
Session Video
World War I Explains the Middle East:
Engaging Lesson Plans for High School/Community College Students

Alex Schweig, University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Session Video
Virtual Reality? Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Civil War, and Stereographs
Kenneth V. Anthony, Mississippi State University and Emma O’Connor, Dunwoody Elementary School
Session Video
Women and Activism, 1948-1977
Leslie Hayes, New-York Historical Society
Session Video
Explore, Engage, Create: Using Primary Sources with Students and Teachers in Alaska
Karen Beranek and Laura Huggins, Bering Strait School District, Marie Acemah, See Storiesand
Emily Lucy, Alaska Humanities Forum
Session Video
Fostering Visual Inquiry and Geohistorical Thinking in
Students from Elementary through Middle School

Ilene Berson and Michael J. Berson, University of South Florida,
Bert Snow, 
Snow & Co.,  and Brad Fogo, San Francisco State University
Session Video

Saturday 4:00 PM

“A Wholesome Verdict:”Using Historical Empathy Strategies to Analyze
Elizabeth Jennings v. The Third Avenue Railway Company
 of 1855
Katherine Perrotta, Mercer University
Session Video
Escape from the Ordinary with Digital Escape Rooms
Amanda M. Cowgill, Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center
Session Video
Teaching with the Latino Americans Documentary Series
Eric Lupfer, Humanities Texas, John J. Valadez, Michigan State University, and
Carlos Blanton, Texas A&M University
Session Video
Mapping Skills in the Online Learning Environment for Middle Grades Educators
Elizabeth Woodward, Georgia Connections Academy and Doug Oetter, Georgia College and State University
Session Video
Unemployment Insurance: A Tried and True Safety Net
Jeannette Bennett, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis—Memphis Branch
Session Video
Introducing History’s Mysteries: Historical Inquiry in Elementary Classrooms
Laurie Risler, Westfield State University and Kelley Brown, Easthampton Public Schools
Session Video
Supporting Culture Change: Developing and Assessing Primary Source-Based Writing Curricula
Emily Mattingly, Alexis Apfelbaum and Michele Kishita, The University of the Arts, and
Trey Smith  and Diane Waff, Philadelphia Writing Project
Session Video

Sunday 10:45 AM

Recipes: Primary Source Smorgasbords
Cynthia W. Resor, Teaching With Themes
Session Video
REACH for the Sky: Free IDM Resources on the Social History of the Skyscraper
Michael Geselowitz and Kelly McKenna, IEEE History Center
Session Video
Boston 1737: A Local News Network Case Study
Kayla Hopper, American Antiquarian Society
Session Video
Jim Crow America and the Black Travelers’ Experience
Joshua Kenna and Dylan Edmonson, University of Tennessee
Session Video
Great Empires Through a Document-Based Approach: Case Study the Aztecs
Beth Montgomery and Chip Brady, The DBQ Project
Session Video
Teaching Complex Histories with Visual and Textual Primary Sources: 
European Antisemitism and the U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War
Andrew Askuvich, Institute for Curriculum Services, Adnan Dzumhur and
Curtis Richardson, 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session Video
Teaching the Diversity of Native American Cultures
with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

Cynthia Szwajkowski and Sherry Levitt, TPS Virginia Partnership, Kathleen Barker and
Debra Fowler, 
History UnErased
Session Video

Sunday 1:30 PM

Using Primary Sources and Inquiry Learning to Engage Students:
Examining the American Revolution Through Multiple Perspectives

Cathy G. Powell, Bulloch County Schools
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The Historiographic Perspective:
The Battlefield of Waterloo Reinterpreted Over Time in RAFT Assignments

Joan Brodsky Schur, Consultant and Writer
Session Video
Long Primary Sources for Understanding the Long Civil Rights Movement:
Examining the 1919 Race Riots and Chicago Commission Report

Anne Aydinian-Perry, University of Houston, Dean P. Vesperman, University of Wisconsin River Falls,
Whitney G. Blankenship, Meridian World School and Matt Missias, National Council for History Education
Session Video
Opportunities & Obstacles: Women of the American West
Michelle Reidel, Georgia Southern University
Session Video
Existence as Resistance: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Linda Doornbos, Oakland University
Session Video
Ten Strategies for Driving Inquiry in the Social Studies Classroom
Lynne O’Hara, National History Day, and Scott Waring, University of Central Florida
Session Video
TPS Teachers Network: Peer-to-Peer Support Across Place and Time
Mary Johnson, TPS Teachers Network
Session Video

Sunday 3:00 PM

The Demise of Print Media and the Right to be Forgotten:
Teaching Digital Literacy in a 21st Century History Class

Liam Concannon, Notre Dame Academy
Session Video
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Primary Sources
Andrew Askuvich, Institute for Curriculum Services
Session Video
Exploring History Through Maps
Samantha Matalone Cook, Educator and Author
Session Video
Digging in the Backyard – Immersion in Intensive Study of
Local History Taps Students’ Natural Curiosity

Douglas Hopkins, Buffalo Seminary
Session Video
Is Voting a Privilege That Can Be Taken Away?: 
How One Middle Grades Social Studies Methods Class
Investigated the History of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Elizabeth C. Barrow, Georgia Southern University
Session Video
Using Digital Primary Sources to Teach Data Literacy
Elizabeth James, Marshall University
Session Video
Using Visual Literacy and Writing-Based Teaching
Strategies to Explore and Make Primary Sources Accessible

Roland Schendel, Kile Clabaugh, and Keith Patterson, Metropolitan State University of Denverand
Celia Bland, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking

Session Video

Evening Events

History Matters (… And So Do Cocktails!)
Joanne Freeman, Yale University
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Cooking Historically: Influential Chefs
Kate Csepegi, International Culinary Arts and Sciences Institute
Session Video

Virtual Field Trips

National Center for Civil and Human Rights Session Video
National Hispanic Cultural Center Session Video
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Session Video
National WWI Museum and Memorial
Session Video
9/11 Memorial & Museum
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Ford’s Theatre
Session Video
George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Session Video
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Session Video

Exhibitor Sessions

Civics Matters: Building a Better Curriculum
Ellen Iwamoto, Civics Renewal Network, Meg Heubeck, Youth Leadership Initiative,
Lynne O’Hara, 
National History Day, Stephen Masyada, Florida Joint Center for Citizenship,
Anthony Pennay, 
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute,
Elizabeth Osborn, Indiana University Center on Representative Government,
Frank Valadez, 
ABA Division of Public Education,
Rebecca Fanning, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts,
Rachel Davison Humphries, 
Bill of Rights Institute, Kerry Sautner, National Constitution Center,
Sarah Yezzi, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, and
Hannah Song, ABOTA Foundation
Session Video
Gamifying History for the Classroom
Alan Fishel and Robin Hayutin, LearningPlunge
Session Video
A Brief History of Antisemitism
Adam Blue, StandWithUs
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Bringing the White House to Your Classroom
Ken O’Regan and Sam Hunter-Gibbs, White House Historical Association
Session Video
Explore U.S. History with HistoryMaker VR
Dwayne Waite Jr., Schell Games
Session Video
Pandemics and Quacks: Connecting the Past to the Present with Primary Sources
Cynthia W. Resor, Teaching with Themes and Eastern Kentucky University
Session Video
Westward Expansion: A New History: A Curriculum from the Choices Program
Mimi Stephens, The Choices Program
Session Video
Saturday Civics School
Elizabeth R. Osborn, Indiana University Center on Representative Government
Session Video
Teaching with Multicultural Perspectives: Canadian History Examples
Betsy Arntzen, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine and
Amy Sotherden, Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh
Session Video
Money as Primary Historical Documents
Rod Gillis, American Numismatic Association
Session Video