Resources
New Harmony
Session Materials
Boyle-Baise, Marilynne, and Jack Zevin. "Citizenship as a Verb." Young Citizens of the World: Teaching Elementary Social Studies Through Civic Engagement. New York: Routledge, 2009. 11-38. Print.
Session Videos
Dr. James Madison—Thinking Historically at New Harmony: The Rappites, 1814–1824
Dr. Sarah Knott—Ten Ways to Think of the Declaration of Independence
Dr. Kon Dierks—Colonial People in the Atlantic World
Dr. Lynne Boyle-Baise—Elementary Lesson Planning Session
Session PowerPoints
Dr. James Madison—Thinking Historically at New Harmony: The Rappites, 1814–1824
Dr. Sarah Knott—Ten Ways to Think of the Declaration of Independence
Dr. Kon Dierks—Colonial People in the Atlantic World
Links
Check out these Web sites about New Harmony
http://www.usi.edu/hnh/index2.asp
http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/newharmony/home.html
Historian Faculty
Konstantin Dierks—Dr. Dierks will present “Colonial Peoples in an Atlantic World” at the New Harmony seminar. Dr. Dierks is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, and the author of In My Power: Letter Writing in Early America, University of Pennsylvania Press. Dr. Dierks is Associate Editor of the “American Historical Review.” He was also a participant in the NEH 2008 Summer Institute “Rethinking America in a Global Perspective.”
Sarah Knott—Dr. Knott will present “Ten Ways to Think about the Declaration of Independence” at New Harmony. Dr. Knott is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University and the author of Sensibility and the American Revolution, has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow and recipient of the University’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
James H. Madison—Dr. Madison will present “Primary Sources, Local History, and Learning and Teaching American History” at the New Harmony retreat. Dr. Madison is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Indiana University, is former chair of the History Department and recipient of the Holland Teaching Award. His book, The Indiana Way, is the standard one-volume history of the state. He is former editor of the Indiana Magazine of History. His books deal with twentieth-century U.S. history and World War II.