Bedford Consortium > Description for 2011: A Nation Among Nations: the U.S. in the 19th Century

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Unit/day 1 afternoon:  Manifest Destiny and the Growth of the American Union / Transatlantic Reform Movements in the Early 19th Century

Unit/day 2 morning:  Oppression and Resistance in Slavery:  The Americas / Lincoln, the Civil War, and the Reinvention of America 

Unit/day 2 afternoon:  Accessing and Using Primary Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Institute Collection

Unit/day 3 morning:  The Incorporation of America: Industrialization and the Gilded Age / The Progressive Response and the Making of Modern America

Unit/day 3 afternoon:  Teaching at the Cemetery:  The Public History and Material Culture of America's Cemeteries

Unit/day 4 morning:  American Frontiers: Imperialism at Home and Abroad 

Unit//day 4 afternoon:  Using Technology in the Social Studies Classroom / Using Art in the History Classroom 

Unit/day 5:  Participant Project Presentations and Knowledge Survey

Joel Hodson, Ph.D., the program director, will oversee the course, lead discussions and grade assignments.  Summer lectures will be provided by distinguished scholars, Lawrence B. Goodheart, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and Edward T. O'Donnell, Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross.