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From June 17–20, 2013, forty-eight classroom teachers from around Texas gathered on The University of Texas at El Paso campus for "America at War in the Twentieth Century," an institute examining American military conflicts after 1900. Topics covered included the Spanish American War, World War I, American isolationism and neutrality between the wars, World War II, Latinos and African Americans in World War II, the origins of the Cold War, the Truman Doctrine, and the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

The institute keynote presentation was delivered by George C. Herring of the University of Kentucky, author of From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States).

The institute faculty also featured Senate Historian Emeritus Richard A. Baker; Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and Mark Atwood Lawrence of The University of Texas at Austin; Doran Cart of the National World War I Museum; Stephen M. Duffy of Texas A&M International University; Matthew Dallek of the University of California Washington Center; Joy Rohde of Trinity University; and UTEP scholars Brad Cartwright, Maceo C. Dailey Jr., David Hackett, and Jeffrey P. Shepherd.

Adair Margo, founder of the Tom Lea Institute, gave a lunchtime presentation on Lea's work as an artist-correspondent for Life magazine in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Education specialist Tara Carlisle of the University of North Texas Libraries also gave a lunchtime presentation on educational resources available via the Portal to Texas History.

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El Paso Teacher Institute Photos : Slideshow
  1. Institute participants gather on the University of Texas at El Paso campus. All photographs in slideshow are by Humanities Texas.
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  1. Thumbnail of: Institute participants gather on the University of Texas at El Paso campus. All photographs in slideshow are by Humanities Texas.
  2. Thumbnail of: George C. Herring, Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, delivers the institute's keynote address, "U.S. Foreign Policy: From Colony to Superpower."
  3. Thumbnail of: Teachers discuss George C. Herring's keynote address with Esteban Terrazas (right), who serves on the staff of U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke.
  4. Thumbnail of: Brad Cartwright, visiting assistant professor at UTEP, discusses the Spanish-American War.
  5. Thumbnail of: Teachers examine documents concerning the Spanish-American War with Brad Cartwright during an afternoon workshop.
  6. Thumbnail of: Doran L. Cart, senior curator of the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, discusses the reasons for U.S. entry into World War I.
Institute participants gather on the University of Texas at El Paso campus. All photographs in slideshow are by Humanities Texas.
El Paso Teacher Institute Photos : Thumbnails
  1. Thumbnail of: Institute participants gather on the University of Texas at El Paso campus. All photographs in slideshow are by Humanities Texas.
  2. Thumbnail of: George C. Herring, Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, delivers the institute's keynote address, "U.S. Foreign Policy: From Colony to Superpower."
  3. Thumbnail of: Teachers discuss George C. Herring's keynote address with Esteban Terrazas (right), who serves on the staff of U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke.
  4. Thumbnail of: Brad Cartwright, visiting assistant professor at UTEP, discusses the Spanish-American War.
  5. Thumbnail of: Teachers examine documents concerning the Spanish-American War with Brad Cartwright during an afternoon workshop.
  6. Thumbnail of: Doran L. Cart, senior curator of the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, discusses the reasons for U.S. entry into World War I.
  7. Thumbnail of: Doran L. Cart leads an afternoon workshop with teachers examining World War I documents.
  8. Thumbnail of: Doran L. Cart introduces institute participants to the instructional resources available on the National World War I Museum website.
  9. Thumbnail of: Stephen M. Duffy, associate professor of history and chair of the department of humanities at Texas A&M International University, discusses the League of Nations and Wilson's Fourteen Points.
  10. Thumbnail of: Stephen M. Duffy leads an afternoon workshop with George Torok of El Paso Community College and Vanessa Delgado of El Paso's Franklin High School.
  11. Thumbnail of: George C. Herring delivers a lecture entitled "Vietnam: The War That Never Seems to Go Away."
  12. Thumbnail of: George C. Herring discusses documents related to the Vietnam War with teachers during an afternoon workshop.
  13. Thumbnail of: Magdalena Torres (left) of Houston's Landrum Middle School speaks with Tara Carlisle, project development librarian at the University of North Texas, who introduced teachers to educational resources provided by the Portal to Texas History.
  14. Thumbnail of: David A. Hackett, associate professor emeritus and former chair of the history department at UTEP, discusses important turning points of World War II.
  15. Thumbnail of: Fred Howard of Monahans High School and Magdalena Torres participate in a workshop with David A. Hackett.
  16. Thumbnail of: Matthew Dallek, associate academic director of the University of California Washington Center, delivers a lecture on the home front during World War II.
  17. Thumbnail of: From left to right: El Paso teachers David Ayala of Eastwood High School, and Gregg Carthy and Daniel Leeser of Franklin High School, examine historical documents and images with Matthew Dallek.
  18. Thumbnail of: From left to right: Kristina Mills of Chapin High School in El Paso, Thomas Cooper of Jefferson High School in Dallas, Edwina Ybarra-Vizcaino of McCamey Middle School in McCamey, and Franklin Turner of Eastwood High School in El Paso discuss primary source materials in an afternoon workshop.
  19. Thumbnail of: Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, associate professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, speaks about Latinos in World War II.
  20. Thumbnail of: Franklin Turner and Thomas Cooper discuss Latino participation in World War II with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez.
  21. Thumbnail of: Maceo C. Dailey Jr., associate professor of history and director of African American Studies at UTEP, discusses the experiences of African Americans during World War II. Dailey has served on the Humanities Texas board since 2000.
  22. Thumbnail of: Maceo C. Dailey shares documents related to African Americans' experiences of World War II with Edwina Ybarra-Vizcaino (left) and Kristina Mills.
  23. Thumbnail of: Adair Margo, president of the Tom Lea Institute in El Paso and former Humanities Texas board member, gave a presentation on UTEP artist Tom Lea during the institute. Lea covered World War II for <em>Life</em> magazine.
  24. Thumbnail of: Joy Rohde, assistant professor of history at Trinity University, discusses the Containment Doctrine and the Korean War.
  25. Thumbnail of: World geography teacher Ramiro Mojica of Pecos High School studies documents related to the Containment Doctrine with Joy Rohde.
  26. Thumbnail of: Jeffrey P. Shepherd, associate professor of history at UTEP, lectures on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  27. Thumbnail of: El Paso teachers Keith Morris of Mission Early College High School and Rosangela Miramontes of Parkland High School discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis with Jeffrey P. Shepherd.
  28. Thumbnail of: Senate Historian Emeritus Richard A. Baker discusses war powers and executive-legislative conflicts during the twentieth century.
  29. Thumbnail of: Ramiro Mojica and Franklin Turner listen as Richard A. Baker leads a workshop examining documents related to war powers and executive-legislative conflicts.
  30. Thumbnail of: Mark Atwood Lawrence, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, lectures on the escalation of the Vietnam War.
  31. Thumbnail of: Mark Atwood Lawrence holds an afternoon workshop with El Paso teachers Hazel Tipton (left) of Austin High School and Isabel Peña of Montwood High School examining documents pertaining to the Vietnam War.
  32. Thumbnail of: From left to right: El Paso teachers David Ayala, Kenneth Holzman of Northwest Early College High School, and Amy Holzman of Eastwood High School examine historical documents during Mark Atwood Lawrence's afternoon workshop.
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