Teaching American History

Brooklyn/Staten Island Program

Brooklyn/Staten Island Teaching American History Program

Exploring the American Past:
A Partnership to Improve Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning

Fall 2007 Schedule

Colonial New York
with David Jaffee, Bard Graduate Center
October 22, 2007
Brooklyn Museum,
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
(click here for directions)

Mid-19th Century Immigration
with Kevin Kenny, Boston College
December 14, 2007

CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
(click here for directions)

 

Spring 2008 Schedule

The Transatlantic Slave Trade
with Fritz Umbach & Kojo Dei, CUNY
February 8, 2008
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
(click here for directions)

Immigration: Angel Island
April 4, 2008

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
(click here for directions)

Immigration: Ellis Island
with Matthew Jacobson, Yale University
May 15, 2008

Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn
(click here for directions)

 

ASHP Summer Institute
July 7-11, 2008
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
(click here for directions)


Eligibility

Teachers who are currently teaching U.S. History from the following schools are eligible to participate:

I.S. 303 Herbert S. Eisenberg School
I.S. 98 Bay Academy of Arts and Sciences
P.S. 99 Isaac Asimov School
P.S. 238 Anne E. Sullivan School
I.S. 228 David A Boody School
I.S. 239 Mark Twain School
I.S. 281 Joseph B. Cavallaro School
I.S. 96 Seth Low School
I.S. 288 Shirley Tanyhill School
P.S. 209 Margaret Mead School
P.S. 225 Eileen Zaglin School
I.S. 27 Annings S. Prall School
I.S. 7 Elias Bernstein School
I.S. 49 Dreyfus School
I.S. 75 Frank D. Paulo School
P.S. 80 Michael Petrides School

Brooklyn Studio High School
John Dewey High School
Abraham Lincoln High School
Edward R. Murrow High School
William Grady High School
Lafayette High School
Franklin D. Roosevelt High School
Ralph McKee High School
New Dorp High School
Staten Island Technical High School

For more on the program, please contact Ellen Noonan at (212) 817-1969 or enoonan@gc.cuny.edu