Our seminar-style classes encourage you to engage directly with primary source documents, rather than simply listening to lectures. Our faculty treat you as colleagues, respecting your work as teachers, and helping you grow as scholars. Our goal is to bring social studies teachers into a conversation about the American experiment in self-government. Our hope is that America’s students will be brought into this conversation as well.
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Speaking of Professor Scott Yenor, Liz Schley said: “He guided us to do our own thinking. He’d ask us, ‘Why do you think what you’ve just said—can you point to a particular section of the document, or to other readings you’ve done?’” As teachers went back to the text to look for evidence, and as they listened to others who pointed to different evidence, they often revised their thinking.
Read more of Liz's storyUpcoming TAH Programs
One-Day Seminar: Presidents and Political Parties hosted by USS Midway Museum (San Diego, CA)
Study the evolving relations between and respective power of political parties and the president as an individual. This Seminar will look at three eras in... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: Presidents and Political Parties hosted by Kentucky Historical Society [HELD ONLINE]
The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of political parties, yet parties began to form shortly after its ratification. Today, it is hard to see how... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: Presidents and Political Parties hosted by Boise Public Schools (Boise, ID)
Study the evolving relationship between presidents and political parties through case studies of three eras of American history: during the early Republic; in the mid-19th... Read more »