Turning Points in History

Keynote: "'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness': New Approaches to the Age of Revolutions (1625-1804)”

Clare Haru Crowston is Chair of the History Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was recently appointed as University Scholar. Dr. Crowston received her B.A. from McGill University in 1988 and her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1996. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (Duke University Press, 2001), which was awarded the Berkshire Prize for the best first book in history by a woman in North America and the Hagley Prize in business history. She is the author of numerous book chapters and articles and is also the co-author of the popular textbooks A History of Western Society (10th edition, Bedford St Martin's) and A History of World Societies (9th edition, Bedford St. Martin's). Her work on the textbooks draws on her own research in early modern history as well as regular teaching of Western Civilization survey classes. She is the recipient of the Queen Prize for excellence in graduate and undergraduate teaching.

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2016
Friday, March 4th
7:30 AM

Welcome, Registration, Coffee and Overview

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Academic Pit

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

8:25 AM

Session A-1: The New Illinois Civics Curriculum: Perils and Pitfalls

Claiborne A. Skinner Jr., Illinois Math and Science Academy
Eric Smith, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: HS

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-2: She Fought for the Fatherland: Gender, War and Memory in the Soviet Union Subject: History

Kitty Lam, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: MS/HS

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-3: 1900: Reinventing Modernity

John Gieger

Grade Levels: HS

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-4: Walker c. Birmingham: The Supreme Court Case Behind Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Tiffany Middleton

Grade Levels: HS

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

9:35 AM

Session B-1: Messing with the “Rise of the West”

John Horton, University of Chicago Laboratory School

Grade Levels: HS

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-2: Why World War I? Being Intelligent about the Causes

Lee Eysturlid, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: MS/HS

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-3: Operation Paperclip and the Rise of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Diane Haleas, Saint Ignatius College Prep
Matthew Miller, Saint Ignatius College Prep

Grade Levels: HS

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-4: Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and the Sources of Social Change

David Heineman, New Trier Township High School

Grade Levels: HS

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

10:45 AM

Keynote Address: "'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness': New Approaches to the Age of Revolutions (1625-1804)”

Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pearson Lecture Hall

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

11:45 AM

Lunch

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Academic Pit

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Session C-1: Crusades: The Bridging of the East and West and the End of the Middle Ages

George Haldaman, Mascoutah High School

Grade Levels: HS

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Session C-2: A War Still Haunts a Planet: World War One, 1914-1918

Howard J. Romanek

Grade Levels: HS

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Session C-3: Science and the Feminine: A Cultural Examination

Robert Kiely, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: HS

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Session C-4: Mary Lincoln’s Journey

Mary Kerr

Grade Levels: MS

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:40 PM

Session D-1: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Students

Spiro Bolos, New Trier Township High School
Jeannie Logan, New Trier Township High School

Grade Levels: HS

1:40 PM - 2:40 PM

Session D-2: Teaching the Russian Revolution 2.0

Steven Buenning, William Fremd High School

Grade Levels: HS

1:40 PM - 2:40 PM

Session D-3: The Haymaker Tragedy: A Turning Point in History, in Chicago, the United States, and Beyond

Stephanie Sewell Fortado

Grade Levels: HS

1:40 PM - 2:40 PM

Session D-4: From Guernica to Nuremberg: Teaching Human Rights Themes in mid-20th-Century History

Peter Carroll, ALBA-VALB and Stanford University
Eric Smith, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Grade Levels: HS

1:40 PM - 2:40 PM