Each multi-day seminar runs for three days, often from Friday evening to Sunday midday. During those three days, a small group of teachers immerse themselves in discussion sessions, shared meals, and a visit to a local historical site. Each seminar focuses on a specific topic of American history. Depending on the topic, teachers will prepare in advance by reading selected documents provided in the course packet. Once the seminar begins, the discussion leader guides a peer-to-peer, text-based conversation among all participants. Teaching American History can offer meals, materials, hotel rooms, and historical site visits at no cost at no cost to teachers through grants and generous donations. At the end of each course, every teacher receives a letter of participation for 15 contact hours and a $600 stipend to cover travel costs. To learn more about our multi-day seminars, visit our website here.

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Memorial Day.  A three-day weekend that marks the ending of the school year, the beginning of BBQ and pool season, and the unofficial beginning of American summer. However, this federal holiday was created with a different purpose in mind.  Intended to be less a celebratory day off and more of a day of remembrance, Memorial Day is a chance for us to honor the sacrifices of our nation’s soldiers and their families.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the young American republic expanded across the continent at a rapid pace. Purchasing the vast Louisiana territory from France, acquiring Florida from Spain, displacing Native sovereignties in the Southeast, annexing the republic of Texas, and eyeing the far reaches of the Pacific, expansionist-minded Americans considered it their “manifest destiny” to “civilize” North America with democracy, Christianity, and capitalism.