2007-08

April 19, 2008
Focus Workshop: The Middle Passage -
The Human Experience on the Triangular Trade Route

January 26, 2008
Focus Workshop: History of American Music

September 29, 2007
Focus Workshop: Kennedy at Home and Abroad

September 15, October 25, November 27, 2007
Book and Film Discussion Series: The Hays Code of 1930

2006-07

July 23-27, 2007
Summer Institute: World War II and the Holocaust

June 8 & 9, 2007
Third Annual Teaching American History Conference
Hilton Garden Inn, Urbana Illinois

April 28, 2007
Focus Workshop: History of American Indians

January 27, 2007
Focus Workshop: Resistance to Slavery

January 25, March 1, April 26, June 20, 2007
Book and Film Discussion Series

November 18, 2006
Focus Workshop: History of American Journalism

August 17 & 18, 2006
Two-Day Learning Trip to Chicago

2007 Summer Fellows

2005-06

July 24-28, 2006
Summer Institute: American Legal History

June 8 & 9, 2006
Two-Day Summer Workshop: Labor History

April 29, 2006
Focus Workshop: Brown v. Board of Education

April 8, 2006
Focus Workshop: Illinois Maps and History

February 23, 2006
Book Discussion: Isaac's Storm
by Erik Larson

January 21, 2006
Focus Workshop: Los Alamos & the Atomic Bomb

October 20, 2005
Book Discussion: Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918
and the search for the virus that caused it
by Gina Kolata

2006 Summer Fellows

2004-05

July 25-29, 2005
Summer Institute: Tools and Medicine: The History of Science and Technology in Daily Life

April 9, 2005
Focus Workshop: Great Depression & Economics History

January 29, 2005
Focus Workshop: Teaching: Then & Now

October 23, 2004
Focus Workshop: Champaign-Urbana History

October 12 & 14, 2004
Book Discussion: Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson

2005 Summer Fellows

2003-04

January 31, 2004
Focus Workshop: Lies My Teacher Told Me, a keynote presentation by James Loewen

April 13, 2004
Book Discussion : Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History
by James Percoco

February 24, 2004
Book Discussion: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong
by James Loewen

May 8, 2004
Focus Workshop: Civil Rights

March 13, 2004
Focus Workshop: Transportation & Local History

July 26-30, 2004
Focus Workshop: Immigration and Immigrant Life

2004 Summer Fellows