2004 Summer Institutes

Era 3: Revolution and New Nation (1754-1820)

Era 8: Great Depression and WWII (1929-1945)

For more information or registration, visit www.mtsu.edu/~tah

or call Perky Beisel at (615) 904-8334

Photo Credits: Bradley Academy courtesy of Bradley Academy Historical and Cultural Center, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Horseshoe Bend courtesy of University of Chicago and the Library of Congress; small photos and Declaration of
Independence courtesy of the American Memory project of the Library of Congress; schoolroom photo courtesy of TVA archives. Design and production by Angela Smith. AA134-1203

Teaching American History

Cumberland River Valley Consortium
Department of History
P.O. Box 23
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

5-31431
 Teaching American History
Cumberland River Valley Consortium
2004 Summer Institutes

Era 3: Revolution and New Nation (1754-1820)

June 13-18, 2004
Faculty Guest Lecturers
David Rowe Peter Kolchin
Middle Tennessee State University, Lead Instructor University of Delaware

Rebecca Conard “Interpreting and Reinterpreting Slavery”

Middle Tennessee State University, Academic Director

Jan Leone Martha Harroun Foster

Middle Tennessee State University, Graduate Studies Director Middle Tennessee State University

Chad McGee “Native American Economy

Warren County High School, Project Director and Community in the Southeast”
Angela Smith Timothy Silver
Middle Tennessee State University
Appalachian State University

Historic Sites and Other Venues “The American Frontier in 1800:

Perspectives on Land and People”
Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village, Murfreesboro
Fort Loudoun State Park, Vonore
Fort Southwest Point, Kingston
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Travellers Rest, Nashville

Era 8: Great Depression and WWII (1929-1945)

June 20-25, 2004
Faculty Guest Lecturers
Amy Staples Reavis Mitchell
Middle Tennessee State University, Lead Instructor Fisk University
Rebecca Conard “The Harlem Renaissance,
Middle Tennessee State University, Academic Director Aaron Douglas, and Fisk University”
Jan Leone
Middle Tennessee State University, Graduate Studies Director Patricia B. Ezzell
Tennessee Valley Authority
Chad McGee
Warren County High School, Project Director “TVA Changes
Angela Smith the Southern Landscape”
Middle Tennessee State University
Kriste Lindenmeyer
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Historic Sites and Other Venues “America’s Greatest Generation
American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge Grows Up, 1929-1945”
Cumberland Mountain State Park, Crossville
Fisk University, Nashville George White, Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Norris Dam State Park, Lake City
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville “WWII: A Perspective on Race and War
from Rev. Robert Boston Dokes, Chaplain”
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
The Cumberland River Valley Consortium is sponsored by a Teaching American History Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Summer Institutes are open to K-12 teachers in
Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Marshall, Maury, and Warren counties.
MTSU, a Tennessee Board of Regents University, is an equal opportunity, non-racially identifiable, educational institution that does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities.

For more information or registration, visit www.mtsu.edu/~tah or call Perky Beisel at (615) 904-8334