American Crossroads: Teaching History on the Great Plains
Year Three: Developing Democracy at Home and Abroad, 1914-present
2011 Summer Institute held at Minnesota State University Moorhead
All activities in CMU 227 unless otherwise described:
Monday June 6
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Dr. Paul Harris, The Civil Rights Movement
10:15-11:00 Game Orientation (Taylor), Faction Meetings
11:00-12:00 First Game Session
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:30 Continue First Game Session
1:45-3:00 Steve Hoffbeck, Cold War
Tuesday June 7
8-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Dr. Mark Harvey, NDSU, “The Twists and Turns of Environmentalism in the Postwar United States”
10:15-11:30 Second Game Session
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30-Sean Taylor: review of 19th century stops we will make on the trip (Civil War, especially Vicksburg; The Battle of New Orleans)
1:45-3:00 Steve Hoffbeck, Vietnam
Wednesday June 8
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00-Otter Tail County Historical Society- "The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System: Impact and Effect on Otter Tail County" Chris Schuelke
10:15-11:30 Professor Erik Gooding-American Indians
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Anthony Adah: MSUM Film Department
1:45-3:00 Third Game Session
Thursday June 9
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Greg Stutes- “Strong Growth or Troubles Brewing Below
An Economist's View of the 1950s”
10:15-11:30 Fourth Game Session
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Dr. Taylor-"Family and Women’s roles in Post-War America: Back to the Kitchen?"
1:45-3:00 Discussion of upcoming trip, logistics.