Feb 12
July 29, 2008toJuly 31, 2008

Joyce Berkman, Professor of History, UMASS-Amherst
Bruce Laurie, Professor Emeritus of History, UMASS-Amherst
Robert Forrant, Professor of History, UMASS-Lowell

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Feb 12
July 22, 2008toJuly 24, 2008

Dan Gordon, Professor of History, UMASS-Amherst
Kerry Buckley, Executive Director, Historic Northampton

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Feb 12
July 8, 2008toJuly 10, 2008

Amilcar Shabazz, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies, UMASS-Amherst

Feb 12
July 7, 2008
1:00 pmto4:00 pm

Make-up day for required introduction to Emerging America Teaching American History summer program for 2008.

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Feb 12
June 24, 2008toJune 26, 2008

Scott Wong, Professor of History, Williams College

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Feb 12
June 23, 2008
1:00 pmto4:00 pm

Required introduction to Emerging America Teaching American History summer program for 2008.

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Jan 24
January 30, 2008
3:30 pmto5:30 pm

With: Kevin M. Dwyer, Massachusetts Department of Education (Focused on MCAS at 7th Grade and at Grades 9 or 10)

Mahar Regional School, 507 South Main Street, Orange, MA 01364

*Co-sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies

Jan 24
April 3, 2008
3:30 pmto5:30 pm

With: Leonard Adams, Gov’t Documents/Patents & Trademarks Librarian; Danelle Kovacs, Curator of Collections, Special Collections and Archives; and Melinda McIntosh, Microforms Reference Librarian and Genealogy Specialist

Meet at the Calipari Classroom, Main Floor, W.E.B. DuBois Library, UMASS-Amherst

(Limited to first 25.)

Jan 17
May 17, 2008
8:30 amto3:30 pm

Learn to research immigration history using Passenger Lists 1820-1943 & Naturalization records 1790-present.

AM: Accessing and Using the Archives

PM: Structured individual research on topic of choice.

Jean Nudd, Teacher Liason, National Archives

National Archives, Northeast Region, 10 Conte Drive, Pittsfield, MA

Jan 17
March 15, 2008
8:30 amto3:30 pm

Elizabeth Sharpe, Author of In the Shadow of the Dam

Hilltown Cooperative Charter School, 132 Main Street, Haydenville, MA