Teaching Hard History: New Perspectives and Untold Stories that will Enhance the Way You Teach

Gateway Arch National Park presents a pair of FREE educator workshops. These workshops will focus on new and interesting ways to integrate underrepresented populations and perspectives into your history and social studies curriculum. The workshop is designed to complement K-12 curriculum. Educators will come away with new content knowledge, primary source documents, classroom activities and best practices for teaching difficult or controversial history topics to their students.

September 12th and 13th 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Education Classroom at Gateway Arch National Park	October 23rd and 24th 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Education Classroom at Gateway Arch National Park
Hear about new research and understand new perspectives as we explore African American history and women’s history in nineteenth century St. Louis and beyond. Presenters include:	What did Manifest Destiny mean to the indigenous people of North America? Was it progress or was it oppression? Join us as our presenters lead us through a difficult period in our national story.
Lynne Jackson, Founder and Director of the Dred and Harriet Scott Foundation, and the great-great granddaughter of the Scotts	Dr. Craig Howe, Director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies and a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
LaGarrett King, Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the Founder of the Center for Black History Education K-12.	Sarah O’Donnell and Kilan Jacobs of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office. Ms. O’Donnell is an archaeologist and NAGPRA Coordinator. Mr. Jacobs is a member of the Osage Nation and a Tribal Research Assistant
Dr. Robert Moore, National Park Service Historian at Gateway Arch National Park	Flannery Burke, PH.D. St. Louis University, Dept. of History. Areas: History of the American West, Environmental, Gender, Historical Thinking.

 

Parking is Free
A box lunch is available for purchase
You may register for one or both workshops.
Spaces are limited.

To register or for more details, please call the
Education Office at Gateway Arch National Park at 314-655-1635Spaces are limited.