In February 2012, Humanities Texas held a series of one-day teacher workshops around the state focusing on slavery, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Teacher Institutes
Past Institutes and Workshops
On February 10, 2012, Humanities Texas and the Texas State Historical Association held a one-day teacher workshop in Austin on Texas history in the twentieth century.
On February 3, 2012, Humanities Texas held a one-day workshop in Austin examining seminal works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing on the Civil War.
In October 2011, Humanities Texas held one-day teacher workshops in Kilgore, Waco, Fort Worth, and Dallas focusing on the U.S. Constitution.
On October 14, 2011, Humanities Texas and the Texas State Historical Association held a one-day workshop for Texas history teachers covering Spanish Texas through the Civil War.
On September 30, 2011, Humanities Texas held a one-day workshop for secondary language arts teachers on teaching the plays of William Shakespeare.
In June 2011, Humanities Texas held institutes in Austin, El Paso, Laredo, and San Antonio examining significant events and themes in U.S. history since Reconstruction. The curriculum tracked to the state standards for eleventh-grade U.S. history.
In June 2011, Humanities Texas held institutes in Fort Worth and Houston examining significant events and themes in U.S. history from the colonial era through Reconstruction.
On February 26, 2011, Humanities Texas and the Texas State Historical Association held a one-day teacher workshop in Austin on Texas history from Reconstruction to the present.
In early 2011, Humanities Texas held a series of one-day teacher workshops around the state focusing on secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
In October 2010, Humanities Texas held a series of one-day teacher workshops around the state focusing on the U.S. Constitution.
With the support of its first-ever state legislative appropriation, Humanities Texas significantly expanded its summer teacher institute program in 2010, holding six summer institutes on university campuses throughout the state. The programs focused on topics in U.S. history and culture from the colonial era through Reconstruction that are central to Texas's eighth-grade social studies curriculum.
In June 2009, Humanities Texas partnered with the College of Liberal Arts of The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum to hold “The U.S. Constitution and American History,” a pair of residential teacher institutes in Austin and San Antonio exploring important constitutional issues in our nation’s history.
In June 2008, Humanities Texas partnered with Trinity University and the University of North Texas to hold "From Disunion to Empire: The United States, 1850–1900," a pair of residential teacher institutes in Denton and San Antonio exploring U.S. history in the second half of the nineteenth century.
In June 2007, Humanities Texas partnered with Texas Christian University, Texas Tech University, and the Amon Carter Museum to hold “The West and the Shaping of America,” a pair of residential teacher institutes in Fort Worth and Lubbock exploring the history and culture of the American West.
In June 2006, Humanities Texas partnered with the University of Houston and the University of Texas at El Paso to hold “Southwest Vistas: The Border in American History,” a pair of residential teacher institutes in Houston and El Paso. Designed for teachers of U.S. history, Texas history, and world history, the institutes explored the U.S.-Mexico border, comparing the histories of the Americas on either side.
In June 2005, Humanities Texas and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum organized a teacher institute based in Galveston, examining the city's place in U.S. immigration history and drawing upon its remarkable array of museums, archives, and historic neighborhoods.
In June 2004, forty-six high school social studies, history, and government teachers from every Congressional district in the state of Texas participated in the five-day “Institute on Congress and American History.” The institute explored the most recent scholarship on Congress and considered innovative classroom methods to translate those findings to high school audiences.
Questions about Teacher Institutes
Call 512.440.1991 or email institutes@humanitiestexas.org.
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon S. Wood (Brown University) discusses the Constitution with teachers at the “Shaping the American Republic” institute held on the campus of The University of Texas at El Paso in 2010.
Teachers study primary source documents with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Oshinksy (UT Austin) at “The Making of Modern America” institute held at Austin’s LBJ Library in 2011. Photo by Charles Bogel.
George Forgie (UT Austin) leads a primary source workshop at the 2010 “Shaping the American Republic” institute in Houston.
Stacy Hricko, Amy Thurman, and Judith Trevino (left to right) participate in a primary source workshop during "The West and the Shaping of America" institute held on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in 2007.
Alex X. Byrd (Rice University) leads a discussion on slavery at the “Shaping the American Republic to 1877” institute held at the University of Houston in 2010.