Keynote: "How to Go Local?: Teaching Global Context in an Age of America First"

Kristin Hoganson is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of the United States in world context, cultures of U.S. imperialism, and transnational history. She is the author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998) and Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2007). Her current research on the U.S. heartland explores the politics of locality as they unfolded globally. She is particularly concerned with the relations between security and empire.

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2017
Friday, March 3rd
8:25 AM

Session A-1: "When Terrorism Was Cool:" Understanding the Active pre-9/11 World of Terrorism and Terrorists

Lee Eysturlid, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-2: Why Care about the Fair? Exploring the 1893 Columbian Exposition through Inquiry

Rachel Allmen, Chicago Metro History Fair at Chicago History Museum

Grade Levels: HS

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-3: The Yin and Yang of U.S.-China Relations 1840-Present

Diane Haleas, Saint Ignatius College Prep

HS

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

Session A-4: Legacy: Enslaved African Muslims in the Americas

Steven Buenning, William Fremd High School
Elizabeth Buenning

8:25 AM - 9:25 AM

9:35 AM

Session B-1: National Veterans Art Museum: Museum in a Box

Moki Tantoko, National Veterans Art Museum

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-2: Pirates: Past and Present

Kitty Lam, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-3: Whose Reflection? Disney's Mulan and Depictions of Confucian Women

Jeannie Logan, Glenbrook South High School

HS

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

Session B-4: Why Study War? The Importance of Teaching Military History

Justin Riskus, York Community High School

HS

9:35 AM - 10:35 AM

10:45 AM

Keynote Address: "How to Go Local?: Teaching Global Context in an Age of America First"

Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pearson Lecture Hall

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

11:45 AM

Lunch

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Old Cafeteria

11:45 AM - 12:50 PM

12:50 PM

Session C-1: The Pullman Company Legacy in a Global Context

Sue Bennett, Pullman National Monument
Mike Shymanski, Historic Pullman Foundation

HS

12:50 PM - 1:50 PM

Session C-2: The Trial of Galieo

Robert Kiely, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

12:50 PM - 1:50 PM

Session C-3: The Black Hawk War

Eric Smith, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

12:50 PM - 1:50 PM

Session C-4: Racism, Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons

Steve Drajpuch, New Trier High School District 203

HS

12:50 PM - 1:50 PM

2:00 PM

Session D-1: The Ku Klux Klan and White Nationalism in United States History

Paul Horton, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

HS

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Session D-2: Exporting American Culture and Technology

John Gieger, DePaul University

HS

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Session D-3: Trying the Rosenbergs in the International Court of Public Opinion

Tiffany Middleton, American Bar Association

Grade Levels: HS

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Session D-4: Canoes, Men of War, and the Founding of Louisiana

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

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM