Keynote Speaker: Robert D. Johnston, Professor of History and Director of the Teaching of History Program, UIC Department of History

This year's keynote address will be delivered immediately following the morning sessions. Dr. Johnston specializes in the Progressive Era, post-1970 U.S. history, the history of medicine, and the politics of historiography.

Schedule

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2015
Friday, February 27th
8:15 AM

Keynote Address

Robert D. Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM

8:25 AM

Session A-1: Interpreting COLD WAR Origins: Past, Present, Future

Lee Eysturlid, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: Any

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-2: Encountering Ourselves: American Indians and the Age of Revolution

Claiborne A. Skinner Jr., Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: 11-12

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading and the Consequences of those Encounters

George Haldaman, Mascoutah High School

Grade Levels: Any

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

9:35 AM

Session B-1: Teaching Russian Political History: From Czars to General Secretaries to Oligarchs

Diane Haleas Hines, Saint Ignatius College Prep

Grade Levels: 9-10

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-2: Much Ado about Trousers: Exploring Intercultural Contact through Artifacts

Kitty Lam, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: Any

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-3: Modern Germany: Social Responsibility & Environmental Sustainability

Rachel Sykora, Plainfield North High School

Grade Levels: 9-12

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

12:30 PM

Session C-1: Indian Independence and the Question of Partition

Steven Buenning, William Fremd High School

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Session C-2: DBQ Writing in Your World History Curriculum

George Haldaman, Mascoutah High School

Grade Levels: Any

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Session E-1: Dining at the Warlord’s Banquet: Science and Warfare in Modern History

Robert Kiely, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: 7-12

NOTE: This session is 2hr 15 min

12:30 PM - 2:45 PM

1:45 PM

Session D-1: Encounters in the Chesapeake: Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginian Taxation, and the Making of an American Political Tradition

Eric Smith, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Session D-2: Encountering the Past and the Future; the Columbian Exposition of 1893

Howard Romanek, Glenbrook High School/Illinois State University

Grade Levels: Any

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM