National Institute of American History & Democracy
A Summer Program in Early American History for High School Students
The College of William & Mary Pre-Collegiate Summer Program in Early American History
for high school juniors and seniors
Dates for Summer of 2008:
Session I: June 22 - July 12, 2008
Session II: July 13 - August 2, 2008
Application Deadline:
April 23, 2008
CLICK HERE FOR A PRE-COLLEGIATE PROGRAM FACT SHEET
As a part of the Pre-Collegiate Summer Program, students maintain online journals that chronicle--with text and images--their academic experiences. To go to the NIAHD Journal Interface, click here.
"From the Founding of Jamestown through the American Revolution"
"From the American Revolution through the American Civil War"
The National Institute of American History and Democracy, a joint project of The College of William and Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, announces its 2008 summer program for rising high school juniors, seniors, and spring 2008 high school graduates. Students will earn four hours of college credit at The College of William and Mary for an introductory-level course that will teach early American history through the use of historic places. The director of the program is Dr. Carolyn S. Whittenburg.
...A reverence for place...
This immersive course will offer a variety of approaches to studying the past, but the chief feature will be classes conducted "on site" at the abundant historic places in the Chesapeake region. Readings and classroom work at the College will set the stage for the site visits by providing essential background on the wider context of American development.
Instructors will use archaeology sites, surviving period structures, historic landscapes, battlefields, and a series of museums to guide students in a search for the American past. "From the Founding of Jamestown through the American Revolution" begins where the old world societies of Europe and Africa collided with the new world society of Native Americans on the banks of the nearby James River early in the seventeenth century and follows the American saga for nearly two hundred years through the Revolutionary Era at the end of the eighteenth century. "From the American Revolution through the American Civil War" picks up with the American victory at nearby Yorktown during the struggle for independence and continues the story through the fall of the Confederate capital at Richmond to Union forces in 1865.
| ©2003 The College of William and Mary