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: Documents & Debates - Revolution, Citizenship, and Self-Government, hosted by the Arizona Department of Education (Phoenix, AZ)
What did Americans of the Revolutionary Era see as the purpose of government, and its proper role in the life of the individual? How... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: Cold War on the Home Front hosted Florida CHE and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Miami Branch (Miami, FL)
The ‘Red Scare’ that gripped America after the end of World War II, and the development and implications of the Cold War at home, including... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: American Foreign Policy hosted by Roanoke County Schools (Roanoke, VA)
The ideas behind and challenges to American views on foreign policy, from the administration of George Washington through the Cold War era. Registration: 8:30 am... Read more »
