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: TR, Wilson, and the Progressives hosted by Missouri Humanities Council (ONLINE)
How did the Progressives differ from the Founders in their understanding of what government should do, and be empowered to do? How did key Progressives... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: Populists and Progressives hosted by Lodi School District (Lodi, CA) [CANCELLED]
Study in depth the reasons behind the surge in populism in the late 19th Century, how it affected and was in turn shaped by political... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: Causes of the Civil War hosted by Lodi School District (Lodi, CA) [CANCELLED]
Study in depth the long- and short-term social, economic, legal, and political causes of the Civil War, with special attention to the ideas and words... Read more »