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 Teachers will prepare ahead of time for seminars by reading selected historical documents in the provided course packet.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.

Our current reckoning with race and American history asks a fundamental question about the nation’s founding: was the United States Constitution an antislavery or proslavery document? Irreconcilable answers to this question informed the nineteenth-century sectional conflict over slavery and the meaning of the American Civil War. This seminar begins with the Federal Convention of 1787 and culminates with the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868, tracing how the framers of the Constitution and subsequent generations understood the place of slavery in the national constitutional order.

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