| Each Year: | 70 hours of session time |
| 16 Hours of Field Study | |
| 18 Hours of Videoconference time | |
| Total Hours: | 104 hours per year |
Teachers will research and then create two historical narratives a year on assigned topics. They will also create a lesson to teach each narrative’s content. The narratives & lessons will be submitted to AIHE for review and approval. They will run the lessons in class with coaches observing on a thereNowtm telepresence-enabled classroom-coaching system. After reviewing the lesson’s effectiveness with the coaches, teachers will submit the narratives and lessons to the review of their Fellowship peers. Teachers will then rewrite the narratives and lessons and submit them for grades. The narratives and lessons will be published on the Fellowship website.
YEAR ONE |
17th & 18th centuries: The British Empire vs. the American Colonies |
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SUMMER |
“The Roots of the American Nation” |
5-day summer institute |
Fellows explore colonial life in the American colonies, English precedents, the governments, the religions, ethnicities, classes, slavery. Fellows will discuss Natural law and Common Law. Discussions will contrast the English American colonies with the French and Spanish colonies in the New World. Fellows will also examine the French and Indian War. |
FALL |
“The Declaration of Independence” |
2-day colloquium |
Fellows will partake in a detailed examination of the Declaration of Independence. We will discuss the legacy of the Declaration and the effects it has had on subsequent American history. |
WINTER |
“The American Revolution” |
3-day colloquium |
Fellows will study the causes, politics, plans, and diplomacy of the American Revolution. They will examine the various levels of support for Revolution or for the English government in America. Fellows will explore the Revolutionary War. |
SPRING |
“18th Century Field Study” |
2-day field study |
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YEAR TWO |
Early 19th Century: |
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SUMMER |
“The Constitutional-Federalist Years” |
5-day summer |
Fellows will study the Constitution, the compromises, slavery, the Federalist/Anti-institute federalist debate, the people involved, the institutions, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist years, Republican opposition and the people’s reaction. |
FALL |
“The Old South and the Changing North” |
2-day colloquium |
Fellows will investigate the Antebellum period, the American Industrial Revolution, tariffs, new transportation, and expanding slavery, along with abolitionism, free-soilers; land economy vs. market economy, inter alia. |
WINTER |
“Immigration, Nativism, and the Modern City” |
3-day colloquium |
Fellows will explore the great Irish and German immigration to the United States during the 1840s. They will study the American reaction to waves of new inhabitants and the meteoric growth of American cities. |
SPRING |
“Early 19th Century Field Study” |
2-day field study |
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YEAR THREE |
Late 19th Century: |
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SUMMER |
“The Civil War and Reconstruction” |
5-day summer institute |
Fellows will study the causes of the Civil War, compare and contrast leadership, investigate the soldiers’ backgrounds: ethnicities, religion, race, etc. Fellows will explore the aftermath and consequences. |
FALL |
“Rebuilding America: ‘The Last Best Hope’” |
2-day colloquium |
Fellows will help teachers explore Reconstruction and how the industrial North continued its economic growth. |
WINTER |
“America opens to the World: Immigration and World Power |
3-day colloquium |
Fellows will investigate the formation of the urban working class and the explosion of immigration. They will contrast the objectives that caused bitter tensions between business and labor. The colloquium will end with an examination of the United States’ entrance onto the world stage in 1898. |
SPRING |
“19th Century Field Study” |
2-day field study |
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YEAR FOUR |
Early 20th Century: International Liberalism vs. The Totalitarians |
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SUMMER |
“Progressives, The Great War and Wilsonian Internationalism” |
5-day summer institute |
Fellows will study Progressivism in a national context. They will then explore World War I, and the subsequent concept of Wilsonian internationalism. Fellows will investigate the major changes that took place during the 1920s and the unprecedented prosperity. |
FALL |
“The Great Depression” |
2-day colloquium |
Fellows will investigate the Great Depression, investigate its possible causes and contrast possible alternative interpretations of causes and the effectiveness of New Deal policies. |
WINTER |
“The Fascists, the Communists, and the Free” |
3-day colloquium |
Fellows will investigate that by the late 1930s, the United States again looked to spread liberal democracy as a reaction to totalitarianism in the forms of German National Socialism, Japanese imperialism, and Italian fascist aggression. Fellows will then explore the war and the World War II home front. |
SPRING |
“Early 20th Century Field Study” |
2-day field study |
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YEAR FIVE |
Late 20th and 21st Centuries: International Liberalism vs. the Totalitarians, cont. |
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SUMMER |
“The Early Cold War” |
5-day summer institute |
Fellows will explore the defeat of Nazi Germany and the beginnings of the Cold War. They will examine the Atomic Age, the Korean War, the Space Age, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.. |
FALL |
“Civil Rights to Vietnam” |
2-day colloquium |
Fellows will investigate the Civil Rights movement that began to intensify after African-American soldiers returned from World War II. Next, the Fellows will study the revolutions of the 1960s and the Vietnam War. |
WINTER |
“The End of the Cold War to the War on Terror” |
3-day colloquium |
Fellows will examine the Cold War during the 1980s, and the fall of the Soviet Union. They will then explore the current War on Terror. |
SPRING |
“Late 20th Century Field Study” |
2-day field study |
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Once a month, Fellows will further explore the previous content topic and their assigned books for 90 minutes with professors and discuss the topics with teachers throughout the nation on the AIHE “Talking History Network.”