American Crossroads: Teaching History on the Great Plains

All activities in CMU 227 unless otherwise described:

Monday June 7

8-8.30 Breakfast 

8.30-10 Dr. Taylor, Origins of the Civil War

10.15-11 Game Orientation, Faction Meetings

11-12 First Game Session

12-1 Lunch

1-3.30 Meet at Clay County Archives (Hjemkomst Center, Moorhead)

Tuesday June 8

8-8.30 Breakfast

8.30-10 Otter Tail County Archives, The Civil War's Long Reach into Minnesota

10.15-11.30 Second Game Session

11.30-12.30 Lunch

12.30-1.30 Professor Camilla Wilson, Making the Civil War Relevant for Young Adults/Civil War Spies

1.45-3 Dr. Konrad Czynski, Civil War Narratives of Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman

Wednesday June 9

8-8.30 Breakfast

8.30-10 Sankey, Military Outline of the Civil War

10.15-11.30 Third Game Session

11.30-12.30 Lunch

12.30-1.30 Using Civil War Era Media/Song/Newspapers (Taylor/Sankey)

1.45-3 Professor Erik Gooding, 1830-1890 on the Northern Great Plains

Thursday June 10

8-8.30 Breakfast

8.30-10 Dr. Taylor, Reconstruction

10.15-11.30 Fourth Game Session

11.30-12.30 Lunch

12.30-1.30 Dr. Paul Harris, Progressivism

1.45-3 Dr. Paul Kramer, 19th Century Supreme Court and Business

Friday June 11

8-8.30 Breakfast

8.30-10 Dr. Sankey, American Imperialism

10.15-11.30 Final Game Session

11.30-12 Lunch

12-1 Evaluation Exam

1-3.30 Field Trip to Rollag, Transportation Provided