Grant to train teachers of American history

UNT military historians will join with the Denton Independent School District to train teachers to teach American history by focusing on battles and tactics, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The $998,000 three-year grant will fund the Teaching American History initiative, a joint project of UNT's Department of History and the DISD. UNT history professors who focus on military history and teachers from the DISD will develop four institutes that will be offered to educators during the summer of 2005.

The free summer institutes will focus on teaching the diplomatic, political and economic issues that led to American wars and how the wars shaped U.S. constitutional, political, economic and social development. The first institute will include the American Revolution and the origin of American nationalism. The second will cover traditional American history from the Mexican-American War through the Indian wars of the late 1800s and include the Civil War. The third institute will begin with the Spanish-American War and end with World War II, and the fourth will concentrate on the Cold War and its aftermath.

Each institute will run for two weeks and be repeated twice during a six-week period, so teachers will be able to take three institutes during a summer. No more than 20 teachers will be enrolled in each institute.

Participants will be chosen on a first-come, first-serve basis and are expected to come from throughout Texas and also southern Oklahoma.

BY NANCY KOLSTI nkolsti@unt.edu

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