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TAHG Program Resources for Freedom Quest |
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| PRACTICUM WORK SESSIONS |
Each school year, four practicum work sessions were held for participating teachers.
The practicum sessions were designed to provide TAHG Fellows with various instructional strategies to engage students in traditional American history.
Click on images for details. 
2008/2009 SESSIONS
Spring II Practicum
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
Presenter: The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village
Spring Practicum
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
Presenter: Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead
Winter Practicum
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
Presenter: Pastor Gwen C. Webb & ASHP
Fall Practicum
Thursday, November 6, 2008
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
Presenter: Teacher Created Materials
2007/2008 SESSIONS
Fall Practicum
Presenter: Harold Jones, African American Civil War Museum
~Click here for Reading List
Winter Practicum
Presenter: Dr. David Pilgrim, Ferris State University
~Click here for Jim Crow Timeline
~Click here for Reading List
~Click here for Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum website
Spring Practicum
Presenter: Dr. David Blight, Yale University
 Spring II Practicum
Presenter: Danielle Linzer, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
"History does not refer merely or even principally to the past.
On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it with us, are unconsciously controlled by it
in many ways, and that history is literally present
in all that we do."
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~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time |
2008 Summer Seminar
June 23-27, 2008
Sarvis Conference Center, Tuskegee Airmen Museum, and Detroit Historical Museum
Scholars/Historians:
(Please note that the images in the PowerPoints below
may take a moment to appear on your screen)
Dr. Nora Faires, Western Michigan University
~Click here for The Great Migration PowerPoint
Mr. Michael Kelly, Mott Community College
~Click here for Political Memorabilia PowerPoint
Off-site learning excursion: Tuskegee Airmen Museum & Detroit Historical Museum
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| 2007 SUMMER SEMINAR |
2007 Summer Seminar
June 18-22, 2007
Weekdays Conference Center and Stockton Historcial House
Scholars/Historians:
(Please note that the images in the PowerPoints below
may take a moment to appear on your screen)
- Dr. Alan Singer, Hofstra University, NY
~Click here for Complicity PowerPoint
~Click here for Resistance PowerPoint
~Click here for Unions PowerPoint
~Click here for Sit Down Strike PowerPoint
Dr. Benjamin Wilson, Western Michigan University
| Jeff Taylor, Alfred P. Sloan Museum |
Tuskegee Institute History Class, circa 1902.
Click on image to learn more. |
Jim Percoco, West Springfield High School, VA
~Click here for African Americans in the Civil War PowerPoint
~Click here for 54th Massachusetts PowerPoint
Gregory Havrilcsak, University of Michigan-Flint
~Click here for Michigan in the Civil War PowerPoint
Michael Smith, Walter P. Reuther Library
~Click here for Michigan Labor History PowerPoint
Off-Site Learning Excursion:
Michigan Historical Center, Lansing
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| 2006 SUMMER SEMINAR |
2006 Summer Seminar
June 19-23, 2006
Sloan Museum’s Buick Gallery and Research Center
Scholars/Historians:
(Please note that the images in the PowerPoints below
may take a moment to appear on your screen)
Gregory Havrilcsak, University of Michigan-Flint
Larry Earl, Colonial Williamsburg
~Click here to view Colonial Slavery PowerPoint
Michael Madden, Flint Public Library
Dr. Guluma Gemeda, University of Michigan-Flint
~Click here to view Northwest Population of Color, 1800-50
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Henry Bibb (above). Click on the image to read Bibb's narrative |
Off-Site Learning Excursion:
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit
Click here to view the agendas.
Click here to view the syllabi.
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| FEATURED READINGS |
Recommended Readings from the Summer Seminars
| Title: |
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Helped Spark the Revolution |
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Alfred Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen |
| Website: |
http://www.slavenation.us/index.htm |
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement |
| Author: |
Fergus Bordewich |
| Website: |
www.fergusbordewich.com |
The image of this enslaved man was used in abolitionist publications, and accompanied the 1837 antislavery poem "Our Countrymen in Chains" by John Greenleaf Whittier. Click on the image to learn more.
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A Compilation of Suggested Readings on African Americans and the Civil War era |
| Author: |
James Percoco (compiled list) |
| Website: |
Click here to view the PowerPoint with images of 23 topical books |
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| SUMMER SEMINAR LECTURE ARCHIVES |
| Scholar: |
Gregory Havrilcsak, University of Michigan-Flint |
| Date: |
June 19, 2006 |
| Topic: |
Foundations of our Founding |
| Click here to view clip! |
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Larry Earl, Colonial Williamsburg |
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June 20, 2006 |
| Topic: |
Slavery in Colonial America |
| Click here to view clip! |
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Michael Madden, Flint Public Library |
| Date: |
June 22, 2006 |
| Topic: |
The Underground Railroad in Michigan and Genesee County |
| Click here to view clip! |
People of color in the South, circa 1862. Click on image to learn more.
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