Teaching Colonial and Early American History,
New Perspectives on the Genesis of the USA

A History Institute for Teachers

Sponsored by the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, a division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

In conjunction with the publication of Walter McDougall’s new book Freedom Just Around the Corner, 1585-1828: A Candid History of the United States, Vol. 1 (HarperCollins, forthcoming 2004), the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education held its 2004 History Institute for Teachers on Teaching Colonial and Early American History. Specially designed for secondary school teachers and curriculum supervisors, the weekend-long program featured a series of lectures by leading scholars in several fields, including a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood.

Papers

New Perspectives on the Genesis of the U.S.: a Report of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers (published as Footnotes, Vol. 9 No. 2, September 2004)
By Trudy Kuehner, rapporteur

The Colonial Origins of American Identity (102K PDF, 13 pages), published in Orbis, Winter 2005, Vol 49. No. 1
By Walter A. McDougall

Liberty and Religion: The End of American Exceptionalism? (102K PDF, 15 pages), published in Orbis, Winter 2005, Vol 49. No. 1
By J. C. D. Clark

America’s Foundations, Foundationalisms, and Fundamentalisms (60K PDF, 8 pages), published in Orbis, Winter 2005, Vol 49. No. 1
By J. G. A. Pocock

Multimedia

Video of “The Origins of American Identity”
Walter A. McDougall, Chairman, History Academy, FPRI

The complete list of topics and speakers as well as other information about the event itself can be found in the original event announcement.

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