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History Grows in Oakland
History Grows in Oakland
Teaching American History in
an Urban School District

funded by the US Department of Education in partnership with
the University of California, Berkeley, the Oakland Museum
and the Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, California

Visit our previous grant website
DeTocqueville's Ghost
OUSD TAHG 2001 - 2004

Check out our new website
The Oakland History Collaborative
for our third grant (2008-2011)

Events

June 25 - 29
8:30 - 3:30
Summer
Institute
May 31, 2007
8:30 - 3:30
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
May 22, 2007
8:30 - 3:30
Meeting for
Grade 5
April 24, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grade 5
April 19, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
March 22, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
March 20 , 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grade 5
Feb 22, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
Feb 20, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grade 5
Jan. 23, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grade 5
Jan. 18, 2007
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
Dec. 14, 2006
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
Dec. 12, 2006
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grade 5
Nov. 30, 2006
8:30 - 3:30
In-service
Grades 8 & 11
Nov. 14, 2006
8:30 - 3:30
In-service
Grade 5
Nov. 2, 2006
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11
Oct. 17, 2006
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grade 5
Oct. 12, 2006
4-6 p.m.
Meeting for
Grades 8 & 11

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Resources

link to OAH website
member services online for OUSD TAHG participants
Magazine of History
July 2006
AMERICAN IDENTITY


Includes article: "Freedom: America?s Evolving and Enduring Idea" by Eric Foner
OAH members may download a PDF of this entire issue. Please login using your OAH ID number

Onlne Library Resources
paid subscriptions for OUSD teachers

Suggest an Internet Resource
submit a resource to this site

OUSD Historical Thinking Standards
(Kindergarten - Grade Twelve )

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Lectures
(2006 - 2007)

"The Salem Witchcraft Trials" by Monica Fitzgerald (12/12/06)

?The Indian War of 1812?? by David Henkin (11/30/06)

?Why Slavery?? by Clarence Walker (11/14/06)

?Teaching With Historical Fiction ? Challenges, Possibilities, and Questions? by Bruce VanSledright (10/17/06)

"Foreign Policy in the Early Republic" by Robin Einhorn (10/12/06)

 

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JUNE 25 - JUNE 29, 2007

2007 OUSD TAHG Summer Institute
UC Berkeley

Guest speakers, lesson study planning, discussion groups and more at the 2007 OUSD TAHG Summer Institute to be held at UC Berkeley, 370G Dwinelle Hall. (see map)

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Professor John Smolenski,
University of California, Davis
OUSD TAH In-Service
Mills College
May 2007

GUEST SPEAKER
May. 2007

Rethinking the ?French & Indian War?: Native Americans and the Seven-Year War

Professor John Smolenski discusses the role of Native Americans in both the origins and conduct of the Seven Years sWar. He also shows how the outcome of that war impacted Native Americans and led to the diminution of their power.

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Speaker William Wagner
University of California, Berkeley

GUEST SPEAKER
April. 2007

?The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Making of American Imperialism?

Guest speaker,William Wagner, explores the complex legacy of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806).

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Professor Charles Postel
California State University, Sacramento

GUEST SPEAKER
Jan. 2007

"Seminar on the Spanish-American War"

Highlighting the theme of US foreign policy, guest speaker Charles Postel uses primary sources to examine the Spanish American war.

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Professor Monica Fitzgerald
California State University, East Bay

GUEST SPEAKER
Dec. 2006

"The Salem Witchcraft Trials"

Professor Monica Fitzgerald gives background information on Puritanism in support of teachers' upcoming lesson study on Salem Witch Trials using historical fiction, Salem Witch (My Side of the Story) by Patricia Hermes.

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Professor David Henkin
University of California, Berkeley

GUEST SPEAKER
Nov. 2006

"The Indian War of 1812"

Did US foreign policy affect policies and attitutes towrds Native Americans in the early years of the republic? Professor David Henkin examines this question in light of the focus of this year's grant for grade 8 & 11 teachers-- "US foreign policty".

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Guest speaker Bruce VanSledright, University of Maryland.

GUEST SPEAKER
Oct. 2006

"Teaching With Historical Fiction ? Challenges, Possibilities, and Questions"

Guest speaker Bruce VanSledright, University of Maryland gave the opening lecture at the 2006-2007 TAHG grant for grade 5 teachers. The focus for this year's grant is "using historical fiction in the history classroom".

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Guest speaker Clarance Walker at the November 14th in-service for grade 5 teachers.
GUEST SPEAKER
Nov, 2006

"Why Slavery?"

Historian Clarance Walker presents a historiography on the origins of slavery - with an emphasis on Colonial America.

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Guest speaker Robin Einhorn gave the opening lecture at the 2006 TAHG Summer Institute held at UC Berkeley.

GUEST SPEAKER
June, 2006

"What is Federalism?"

Historian Robin Einhorn discusses federalism as a system of government in the United States. Her lecture charts the shifting boundaries as well as the content of the relationship between federal and state powers from both a fiscal and legal perspective.

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Professor Clarence Walker discusses the significance of the 1857 Supreme Court ruling Dred Scott V. Sanford in the period leading up to the US Civil War
GUEST SPEAKER
June, 2006

"Dred Scott & the Coming of the Civil War"

In its 1857 ruling Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court sought to solve the slavery controversy. Instead the decision intensified sectional strife between North and South.

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Professors Eric Foner and Catherine Lewis, two of the featured speakers at the 2006 Spring conference sponsored by OUSD Teaching American History Grant and UC, Berkeley History-Social Science Project

CONFERENCE
May 20, 2006

"Teachers at the Center: Lesson Study and the Teaching of American History" conference held at UC Berkeley attracted over 120 participants and featured two keynote speakers, Eric Foner, Columbia University, and Catherine Lewis, Mills College. In addition, OUSD TAH grant particpants presented a number of workshops highlighting their work with lesson study in grades 5, 8 and 11. To read more about the conference highlights follow the link below.

Conference highlights ..

 
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