Summer Institute 2005: American Industialization
Upon its ratification, the United States Constitution became an enduring monument to Global Modernity. In effect, a system of political economy that embodies the guiding ideals of a "Revolutionary Generation's" struggle for Independence, liberty, equality, prosperity. It has, since the 1790s, engendered, shaped, and oriented the growth and evolution of the United States from its humble beginnings as a tenuous, Colonial Confederation to becoming the world's leading power by the end of World War I.
Between these watersheds of the late 18th and early 20th centuries, however, we find complex and competing narratives that belie our progressive inclinations toward historical inevitability. In this, our final and most ambitious HistoryWORKS Summer Institute, we will employ each of our six core themes in analyzing these actors and events as they emerge from within discussions of the Market Revolution, Agricultural & Mechanical Industrialization, Civil War, Urbanization, Immigration, and US Imperialism.
The 2005 Summer Institute will take place at the Ohio Historical Society and CPS Northgate Center from June 13-24.
Click here to download the 2005 Summer Institute schedule.
The Summer Institute is a graduate-level two-week seminar that offers participating teachers the opportunity to work closely with a number of the nation's leading scholars.
OSU faculty members will lecture, lead discussions of common readings, examine primary source documents, and engage teachers in debate and interpretation of recent scholarship and historical methods.
At the conclusion of the institute, teachers complete individual or group research projects. Drawing upon their increased content knowledge, participants will prepare materials for their classrooms and share these materials with their colleagues in print and electronic format.
Participating teachers receive two hours of graduate credit in history for satisfactory participation.
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