Restoring America's Memory

(2005-2008) serves grades 4, 5, 8

Restoring America's Memory: A Renaissance of Teacher Knowledge (2005-2008)

“We cannot expect that a nation that has lost its memory will keep its vision.”
Dr. Bruce Cole
Chairman, Nation Endowment for the Humanities

2007-2008 Schedule of Lectures - Great Americans Biography Symposia Series

This grant program focuses on fourth, fifth, and eighth grade teachers, the grades at which American history is explicitly taught.  The grant includes professional learning opportunities for teachers to develop the knowledge and skills to teach American history in exciting new ways. 

The following professional development activities have been developed for teachers:

• Annual keynote address from a nationally recognized historian,
• Biographies of great Americans and professional development symposia,
• Age-appropriate American biographies with lesson plans,
• Summer Travel Institutes to historic sites,
• Traveling panel exhibitions on U. S. history themes,
• Mentoring for teacher support and for program evaluation,
• Teaching American History grant website with online resources.