Resource Guide for Educators

Understanding 911

Islamism

Islam and the West

U.S. and the Middle East

America at War

Teaching 911

Understanding Islam

Lesson Plans

Other Resources

Books for Middle and Secondary Schools

Since 2002, FPRI has partnered with Mason Crest Publishers on three book series for middle school and high school students:

The Wachman Center's History Institute for Teachers, co-chaired by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall and FPRI Senior Fellow David Eisenhower, aims to contribute to the more effective teaching of history and to the public discourse over America’s identity and its role in the world. Each year the History Institute for Teachers sponsors two or three weekend-long history institutes for high school teachers and junior college faculty. Teachers from all over the country have attended the weekends, including many leaders of statewide history and social studies councils.

Teaching the Teachers

As Prof. McDougall remarked in October 2006, opening the “Understanding China” program that marked the institutes’ tenth anniversary:

In the mid 1990s, many Americans perceived foreign affairs with a certain complacency, if they paid any attention at all. The end of the Cold War, victory in the first Gulf War, and globalization seemed to suggest that liberal democracy and the market economy were spreading across the world in a dialectical march toward what Francis Fukuyama called the end of history.

We at FPRI were skeptical that world crises were ending, so we never ceased to bring the best scholarship to bear on the challenges we thought likely to confront U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century. Even then, we also pursued its second, educational mission, to help American youth better understand the other cultures and nations with whom we all must coexist. The goal of these history institutes is to assemble the best scholars and secondary school teachers for an intensive, non-partisan discussion of important and controversial subjects. The institutes have over the years grown bigger and better, to the point where now we’re able to stage them not just in Philadelphia but around the country.

Resources from History Institutes

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

Special Partner Event
Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

Special Partner Event
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report