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Eisenhower National Historic Site
2008 Eisenhower Academy Schedule cont...

Wednesday, July 9          

MORNING

Using Primary Source Material in the Classroom - Lee Ann Potter, National Archives.

Eisenhower’s Economic Policy - Dr. David Sicilia, University of Maryland.

 

AFTERNOON        

Film Segment: Suburban America: Park Forest, Illinois, Levittown, NY.  

Discussion with Dr. David Schuyler, Franklin and Marshall College; Dr. Sharon Ullman, Bryn Mawr College Birkner and Hegeman.

 

Film Segment: Film and Cold War Culture in the 1950s.

Discussion with Ullman, Schuyler, Birkner and Hegeman.    

 

Popular Culture Q & A, Schuyler, Ullman, Birkner and Hegeman.

 

EVENING            

Dinner at the Gettysburg Hotel.

Eisenhower as Leader - Susan Eisenhower.

 

Thursday, July 10

MORNING          

Hike with Ike - Explore Eisenhower’s life in Gettysburg – John Joyce, Park Ranger          

Making a film documentary - Dr. George Colburn, Historian, Producer, Filmmaker.

 

Film segment: Eisenhower and Civil Rights.

Discussion with Dr. Keith Olson, University of Maryland; Dr. David Nichols, Southwestern College; Irwin Gellman, Independent Scholar; Colburn and Birkner.

 

AFTERNOON            

Film segment: Eisenhower & McCarthy.

Discussion with Olson, Nichols, Gellman, Colburn, Birkner.

 

Film segment: Eisenhower & Suez.

Discussion with Olson, Nichols, Gellman, Colburn, Birkner.

 

EVENING          

Gala picnic at Eisenhower NHS.

Meet Eisenhower associate Art Kennell.

 

Friday, July 11

MORNING                       

Lesson Plan Ideas for the Classroom - Hegeman.

Eisenhower’s Leadership - Dr. Birkner.

 

AFTERNOON

Gettysburg Battlefield Tour (Optional)

Travel to National Park Service Visitor Center.

Electric Map Orientation program.

Gettysburg Battlefield Tour with Licensed Battlefield Guide.

 

Post Course Assignment

Use the ideas, techniques and knowledge gained at the Academy to prepare a lesson plan for your school curriculum. Lesson plans should be mailed to Carol Hegeman, Eisenhower National Historic Site, 250 Eisenhower Farm Lane, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325. Required for students seeking Pennsylvania Profession Education Credits, suggested for other students.

 

Ike and Nixon at 52 Convention  

Did You Know?
Dwight D. Eisenhower conducted the last of the great whistle stop campaigns, logging over 51,000 miles aboard the Eisenhower Special during the presidential campaign of 1952. In 1956, he became the first presidential nominee to launch a television campaign.

Last Updated: March 25, 2008 at 11:55 EST