Gather with a small group of teachers from around the country for three days immersed in discussion and exploration of a single topic in American history. Multi-Day Seminars are a free opportunity for teachers hosted near an important historical site. Teachers will prepare ahead of time for seminars by reading selected historical documents in the provided course packet. Once the seminar begins, the discussion leader guides a peer-to-peer, text-based conversation among all participants. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are 100% covered by Teaching American History. At the end of each course, every teacher receives a letter of participation for fifteen contact hours of continuing education and a stipend to help defer travel costs.

When the American Republic was born, it was already involved in a conflict with Indians, the so-called Northwest Indian War, a conflict that would result in the near total destruction of the United States Army. This three-day seminar will examine the two centuries of Indian Wars between the nation and its Indigenous nations from the Northwest Indian War to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Sometimes that warfare took a different form, from forced relocation to the forced education of boarding schools. The seminar will include a visit to the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, once known as Fort Marion. Located on the Florida Peninsula, who would have thought this fortification, on the relative periphery of America, would be involved in four of the country’s Indian Wars and be the origin of Indian boarding schools?

Please note: The Multi Day Application period is September 9-29, 2024