Core Themes
All participating American history teachers will receive graduate-level training in the five core themes in traditional American history. Each of the them will be developed with an emphasis on:
- using national and state founding documents;
- determining the course of the nation's heritage through the actions of individuals;
- connecting national historical themes to state and local history;
- understanding economic development;
- analyzing infrastructure and industrial development; and
- examining population movement and growth.
20th Century Conflicts
This theme will address post-World War II military conflicts and United States foreign policy.
Changing Economies and Technologies
This theme will explore the interconnection of people, economies, resources and technologies that propelled massive industrial development within the United States.
Constitution and Governance
This theme will focus on the political history of the United States.
Migration and Immigration
This theme will address the development of the United States' internal infrastructure and how it contributed to successive waves of immigration and progressive stages of economic maturity.
Westward Expansion and Growth
This theme will review scholarship about political and technological developments leading population movements within the United States over time-how transportation changed settlement patterns and how settlement, transportati
