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Sunday 7/10, 6:00pm 

Piedmont Conference Center

Opening Banquet

Chara Bohan

Robert Baker

Mary Bilder

  • Obtain remaining books for institute
  • Enjoy Fox Brothers BBQ

Monday 7/11, 9:00-11:30am

Piedmont Conference Center

What was the Original Meaning of the Constitution? Mary Bilder
  • Mary Bilder, Madison’s Hand
Monday 11:30 a.m.-1:30pm CAMPUS TOUR AND PANTHER ID THE TEAM
  • (Lunch on own, Auburn Ave Market)

Monday 7/11, 1:30-4:00pm

Piedmont Conference Center

A Framework for Black History Ras Michael Brown
  • Bohan, Baker, & King, Teaching Enslavement in American History, “Introduction” and ch. 2 “Middle Passage”

Tuesday 7/12, 9:00-11:30am

Piedmont Conference Center

Developing Strategies African Cultural Retention Ras Michael Brown
  • Bohan, Baker, & King, Teaching Enslavement in American History, ch. 3 “African Cultural Retention” and ch. 4 “Slavery and the Constitution”

Tuesday 7/12, 1:30-4:00pm

Piedmont Conference Center

Critical Perspectives: Slavery and the Founders Paul Finkelman
  • Paul Finkelman, Supreme Injustice

Wednesday 7/13, 9:00-11:30am

Piedmont Conference Center

The Supreme Court and Proslavery Thought Paul Finkelman
  • Paul Finkelman, Supreme Injustice

Wednesday 7/13, 1:30-4:00pm

Piedmont Conference Center

Canals, Banks, Tariffs and the Missouri Crisis  Robert Baker
  • H. Robert Baker, Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution

Thursday 7/14, 9:00-10:30am

Piedmont Conference Center

Human Trafficking and Fugitive Slaves  Robert Baker
  • H. Robert Baker, Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution

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Thursday 7/14 11:00-12:30pm APEX Museum THE TEAM  

Thursday 7/15, 1:30-4:00pm

Piedmont Conference Center

Slave Resistance in the Making of American Abolition
Manisha Sinha
  • Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause

Friday 7/15, 9:00-11:30am

Piedmont Conference Center

Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction Manisha Sinha
  • Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause

Friday 7/15, 1:30-4:00pm

Piedmont Conference Center

Women, the Constitution, and Equality

Chara Bohan

Robert Baker

  • Sklar, Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement
Saturday, 7/16/22

Travel to Charleston

Touring: Charles Pinckney House

Robert Baker

Chara Bohan

 

Sunday 7/17/22

Bus leaves 10:15am 

My Three Sons Restaurant 

Touring: Drayton Hall starts 1pm

H. Robert Baker

Chara Bohan

 

Monday 7/18/22, 10:00am-12 pm

Alumni Hall, College of Charleston

Slavery and Race in South Carolina Shannon Eaves
  • Bohan, Baker, King, Teaching Enslavement in American History, ch. 6 “Enslavement & Resistance”
Monday 7/18/22, 2:00-4:00pm Touring: Old Slave Mart

H. Robert Baker

Chara Bohan

 
Tuesday 7/19/22  (time TBD) Touring: AME Church    

Tuesday 7/19/22, 1:00-3:00pm

Alumni Hall, College of Charleston

Denmark Vesey in Charleston Bernard Powers
  • Bohan, Baker, King, Teaching Enslavement in American History, ch. 5 “ Slavery in the Early Republic, 1790-1833”
Wednesday, 7/20 Travel Back to Atlanta    

 

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Thursday 7/21/22 9:00am-noon

Atlanta History Center

9-10am   Group A Farm

Group B Cyclorama

10-11am Group A Cyclorama 

Group B Farm

11-12am Presentation Paula McAvoy  – “Teaching Controversy in the Classroom,” Draper Room

AHC staff

Paula McAvoy

  • Paula McAvoy, Controversy in the Classroom

Thursday 7/21/22 noon-4:00pm

Atlanta History Center

12-1pm Lunch – Draper Room

1-2pm Primary source presentation    

     – Kenan Research Center

2-3pm Teachers on their own

3-4pm Presentation Rob Baker – “From the Compromise of 1850 to Secession Winter,” Draper Room

AHC staff

H. Robert Baker

  • Bohan, Baker, King, Teaching Enslavement in American History, ch. 8 “Slavery & the Coming of the Civil War”

Friday 7/22/22, 9:30 am-11:30am

Piedmont Conference Center

Teaching Controversy in the Classroom Paula McAvoy
  • Paula McAvoy, Controversy in the Classroom

Friday 7/22/22, 1:30pm – 4:00pm 

Piedmont Conference Center

The Civil War Amendments, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow South

Chara Bohan

H. Robert Baker

  • Bohan, Baker, King, Teaching Enslavement in American History, ch. 9 “Civil War & Emancipation”
  • Perotta & Bohan, “Elizabeth Jennings: Nineteenth Century Rosa Parks”
  • Bohan, et al. “Mint Julep Consensus: An Analysis of Late 19th Century Southern & Northern textbooks and their Impact on the History Curriculum”
Friday 7/22/22 6:00pm Closing Banquet: Mary Macs Tea Room David Mills, poet