Teachers gather on the campus of The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ricardo Romo, president of The University of Texas at San Antonio and Humanities Texas board member, welcomes participants to the institute.

Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and professor emeritus of history at Brown University, delivers the institute's keynote address, "Empire of Liberty."

Gordon S. Wood (center) with Humanities Texas board members Ricardo Romo and Joseph R. Krier.

Francis X. GalÃ¡n, visiting professor of history at Our Lady of the Lake University, speaks about the Spanish colonial period.

Francis X. GalÃ¡n leads a primary source workshop.

Gordon S. Wood discusses the making of the U.S. Constitution.

Bernice de Luna, a Texas history teacher at San Antonio's Garcia Middle School (left), and Anilu Gonzalez, a U.S. history teacher at San Antonio's Brentwood Middle School, discuss the Constitution with Gordon S. Wood in an afternoon workshop.

Charles Flanagan, director of educational programs at the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives, speaks about strategies for teaching the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Jennifer Hall (left), who teaches U.S. history at San Antonio's Krueger Middle School, and Laurie Schipper, a U.S. history teacher at Portland's Gregory-Portland Junior High School, join Charles Flanagan in a primary source workshop.

Stacy Fuller, director of education at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, shares insights on teaching U.S. history through art.

Stacy Fuller leads a primary source workshop.

Steven R. Boyd, professor of history at The University of Texas at San Antonio, delivers a lecture on the Marshall Court.

Steven R. Boyd shares primary sources with teachers.

Daniel Feller, professor of history at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, shares insights on Jacksonian democracy. Feller is also the editor/director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson.

Daniel Feller examines historical documents with Diana Brister (left), a Texas and U.S. history teacher at Midland's San Jacinto Junior High School, and Katrina Johnson, a U.S. and Texas history teacher at Burleson's Kerr Middle School.

Daina Ramey Berry, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, speaks about slavery and the slave trade.

Heather Holt (left), a U.S. history teacher at Gainesville Middle School, and Jennifer Bass, who teaches U.S. history at Keller's Timberview Middle School, participate in a primary source workshop with Daina Ramey Berry.

Jennifer L. Weber, assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas, discusses sectionalism and the Civil War.

Jennifer L. Weber discusses the Civil War in an afternoon workshop.

Kirsten Gardner, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at San Antonio, shares insights on women and suffrage.

Kirsten Gardner and Mary Lagleder, a U.S. history teacher at San Antonio's Warren High School, analyze historical documents related to the woman suffrage movement.

Kenneth Weiher, associate professor of economics at The University of Texas at San Antonio, gives a lecture on American economic growth and development in the nineteenth century.

Kenneth Weiher and Anilu Gonzalez examine primary sources in an afternoon workshop.

Patrick J. Kelly, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at San Antonio, discusses Lincoln and Emancipation.

Michael Les Benedict, professor emeritus of history at The Ohio State University, speaks about Reconstruction.

Tiffany McKinney (center), a Texas and U.S. history teacher at San Antonio's Dwight Middle School, and Ruben Tejeda, a U.S. history teacher at San Antonio's Kazen Middle School, examine historical documents related to Reconstruction with Michael Les Benedict.