TEXAS HISTORY

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Year 1 (2006-2007) Schedule

“Moving Beyond Texas ‘Exceptionalism’: 

Nationalizing and Globalizing Texas History for the 21st Century Texas Student”

1.    Saturday, September 9, 2006:  Pre-test #1 and Introduction to TAH2 Grant Expectations

2.     Saturday, October 7, 2006:  Seminar on “Texas Historiography”

         Morning:  “The Historiography of Texas and Teaching Texas Students for the 21st Century”

Afternoon:  “Placing Native Americans in Texas Within the Broader Context of American/Mesoamerican History”

3.    Saturday, November 11, 2006:  Seminar on “Placing Texas Within the Broader Context of the             Mexican Borderlands”  

Morning:  “The Colonial and Early Mexican Borderlands”

Afternoon:  “Texas, the Porfiriato, and the Mexican Revolution (1876-1924)”

 

4.    Saturday, December 9, 2006:  Seminar on “Moving Beyond the Alamo:  Placing the Texas               Revolution Within the Broader Context of American/Southern History”  

Morning:  The Texas Revolution (1821-1836)”

Afternoon:  Video  

5.    Saturday, January 13, 2007:  Seminar on “Placing the Texas Role in the American Civil War and             Reconstruction Experience in the Broader Context of American History”

Morning:  “Texas and the Civil War”

Afternoon:  “Texas and Reconstruction”  

6.    Saturday, February 3, 2007:  Seminar on “Placing Texas History Within the Broader Context of             American Indian/Western History”  

Morning:  “The Plains Wars”

Afternoon:  “The Frontier West”  

7.    Thursday, March 1, 2007:  Big Bend Regional History Fair at Sul Ross State University

8.   Saturday, April 14, 2007:  Seminar on “Texas Modern”  

Morning: “Placing the Industrialization of Texas and the Oil Industry in the Broader Context of American/Global History”

Afternoon:   “Placing Progressivism, Prohibition, and Ku Klux Klan Within the Broader Context of American History”  

9.    Saturday, May 5, 2007:  Seminar on “The Struggle for Incorporation of Full Citizenship”  

Morning:  “Placing Texas History in the Broader Context of the American Civil Rights Struggle”

Afternoon:  Course Wrap-Up  

10.    Monday, June 4, 2007 through Friday, June 15, 2007:  Summer Immersion Institute  

11.    Monday, June 18 through Friday, June 29, 2007:  Texas Historic Site Field Trip  (Schedule TBA)