[Grad_history_students] FW: [MCEAS seminar] RE: NEH Seminar : "The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice from the Revolution to the Civil War"

[Foster, Tom]

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> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:54:18 -0500
> From: abaxter at sas.upenn.edu
> To: mceas-seminar at groups.sas.upenn.edu
> Subject: [MCEAS seminar] RE: NEH Seminar : "The Abolitionist Movement:
Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice from the Revolution to the Civil
War"
> 
> TERRIFIC SUMMER SEMINAR OPPORTUNITY FOR K-12 TEACHERS
> 
> "The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice from

> the Revolution to the Civil War"
> 
> **NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers and Graduate Students in July

> 2012**
> 
> July 1-27, 2012
> 
> The Library Company of Philadelphia
> 
> Director, Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
> 
> Email: rsngsm at rit.edu
> 
> Website:
> 
> http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/description.htm
> 
> 
> A reminder that there's still plenty of time to apply for "The 
> Abolitionist Movement," a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer

> Seminar for K-12 school teachers and two graduate students. The
seminar 
> will meet at the Library Company of Philadelphia from July 1-27. I am 
> delighted to be directing the seminar for the fourth time. Many of the

> people who have attended seminars in previous years still keep in
touch 
> with each other and we all share stories of teaching triumphs, new 
> career paths, and future plans. I very much look forward to working
with 
> a new set of teaching professionals and graduate students in 2012 and 
> hope that you will consider applying to the seminar. Please feel free
to 
> contact me for more information (including getting continuing
education 
> credits for attending).
> 
> For more information about events, expectations, and applications, you

> can go directly to our website:
> 
> http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/application.htm
> 
> But here's a brief rundown of the seminar. This is a wonderful moment
to 
> re-examine the abolitionist movement in American history. Not only are

> there more terrific books coming out on the subject than ever before
but 
> there are now many new collections of primary sources available for 
> classroom use -- and many good web-sites too. Moreover, slavery and 
> abolitionism continue to make headlines in papers around the country,
as 
> museums open new exhibits on the institution of slavery, local 
> communities re-examine their role in the Underground Railroad, and 
> television documentaries focus on the importance of slavery and 
> abolitionist movements in early America.
> 
> This seminar seeks to bring abolitionism alive by surveying an
exciting 
> range of scholarly literature and primary source documents on the 
> subject. We'll discuss key themes in the study of abolitionism, 
> including slave rebellions, the rise of black abolitionism, the 
> prospects for inter-racial activism, women's key role as
abolitionists, 
> the Underground Railroad, Lincoln
> and emancipation struggles during the Civil War era, religion and the 
> antislavery movement, and a range of other concerns. We'll also talk 
> about teaching strategies and examine films and websites that deal
with 
> abolitionism as a historical topic. To gain further insight on 
> abolitionism, we'll welcome several terrific guest scholars to our 
> seminar - including James Brewer Stewart, Stacey Robertson, Erica 
> Armstrong Dunbar, and Scott Hancock - each of whom will discuss
cutting 
> edge research in the field.
> 
> Finally, because Philadelphia was an abolitionist hotbed, we've
planned 
> several fieldtrips to famous abolitionist sites in the area, including

> The Liberty Bell, black abolitionist Richard Allen's Mother Bethel AME

> Church, and Gettysburg. We'll also study antislavery sources in the 
> Library Company's amazing archives - one of the best collections of
such 
> material in the world.
> 
> I hope that the seminar will be both engaging and rewarding. Indeed, I

> look forward to another great summer of reading, discussion, and 
> intellectual camaraderie in one of America's great cities!
> 
> Once again, I hope you will consider applying. And for more
information, 
> including application details and the March 1, 2012 deadline, please 
> contact me directly (at rsngsm at rit.edu) or go to our website:
> 
> http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/application.htm
> 
> 
> 
> With Best Wishes,
> 
> Richard Newman
> Seminar Director and Professor of History,
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> 
> Author, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, The AME Church, and
the 
> Black
> Founding Fathers, and The Transformation of American Abolitionism
> 
> http://www.nyupress.org/books/Freedom_s_Prophet-products_id-7704.html
> 
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