All submissions are due by October 26, 2020.
Attention to change over time is, in fact, one of the pillars of the historical discipline. Those of us who research and teach history are particularly attentive to continuity and change: continuities like 230 years of uninterrupted democratic rule in the United States or changes like the gradual and compensated abolition of slavery in the British West Indies or its sudden, uncompensated demise in Haiti. As we seek to help our students make sense of the complex flows of history, we ask them to investigate the simultaneity of continuity and change, to examine chronology and periodization, to consider the complexity of progress and decline, and to identify turning points in history.
The coordinate of place (i.e. geography) is equally important for proper historical understanding and encourages students to ask the question, “Where and why there?” It explains, for example, why Europeans established trading posts like El Mina in coastal West Africa while they developed colonial cities in places such as Mexico City and Philadelphia. It is the interplay between history and geography that allows students to critically analyze John Gast’s painting, “American Progress” to explain the causes and consequences of westward migration. It helps explain why Brigham Young and his followers chose the basin of the Great Salt Lake as a secluded area to practice the Latter-day Saints’ religion away from violence and persecution.
Perhaps better than anyone else, French Annales historian Fernand Braudel recognized the connection between time, place, and historical change as he forged the idea of a “total history” and the longue durée, masterfully displayed in his classic study, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.
It is in a Braudelian spirit that the National Council for History Education invites proposals that investigate questions related to the theme of “Place and Time” for its 2021 National Conference.
All proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their intellectual content, their ability to engage the audience, and their overall contribution to the teaching of history.
Criteria for Program Selection:
These teacher workshops are typically interactive “how to” sessions designed for the K-12 educator and are 60-minutes in length.
Poster Session topics range from teaching ideas to research reports. Poster presenters display their information visually on a PDF and are able to submit a five minute video to accompany the poster.
Thursday, April 8th at 3:00 PM EST
>> National Hispanic Cultural Center
>> National WWI Museum and Memorial
Friday, April 9th at 3:00 PM EST
| Philip Deloria | Annette Gordon-Reed | Anne Kelly Knowles |
| Harvard University | Harvard University | University of Maine |
| Andrés Reséndez | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| Univerity of California, Davis | Harvard University |
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