Teaching History on the Internet Program

The Teaching History on the Internet Program was presented in a Winter Workshop and graduate Summer Institute during the 2000-2001 school year. The program introduced middle and high school educators to historical research and techniques for incorporating Web-based primary sources into instruction – as well as an overview of the many possibilities and limitations of using the Internet a teaching tool. UMBC historians, master teachers, visiting history professionals, and Web specialists provided workshop sessions and in-depth graduate courses in U.S. and World History, which included:

• Discussions of content and historiography
  
• Instruction on conducting primary source research on the Internet
  
• Effective teaching methodology

Winter Workshop January 9, 2001 – January 11, 2001
Lectures were given on selected historical topics, along with ideas for preparing lesson plans and student research assignments, using history Web sites and primary sources. Teachers developed a portfolio of topics and online sources for their history classrooms. World History Workshop Topics:

“History of the Book”
Professor Sabrina Baron
UMBC Department of History

“European Witch Hunts”
Ms. Mary Carroll
UMBC Department of History

“Contemporary Accounts of the Irish Famine, 1846-1851”
Professor Dan Ritschel, UMBC Center for History Education

“Researching the Holocaust”
Ms. Anne Rothfeld, Archivist
United States Mint

“The Atomic Bomb: the Japanese Experience and Perspective”
Professor Constantine Vaporis
UMBC Department of History

“The Chinese Revolution”
Professor Ka-che Yip
UMBC Department of History

“Natives and Newcomers in North America”
“Multiculturalism in Early Maryland”
Professor Marjoleine Kars
UMBC Department of History

“The Civil War On-Line: The Valley of the Shadows Archive"
Professor Anne Rubin
UMBC Center for History Education

“The Great Depression and the Home Front during the Second World War”
Professor John Jeffries
UMBC Department of History

“Women in American History”
Professor Kriste Lindenmeyer
UMBC Department of History

“The Maryland State Archives: Electronic Sources for Local History”
Ms. Nancy Bramucci, Director
Special Collections, Maryland State Archives

Summer Institute June 25, 2001 – July 9, 2001
“Teaching Historical Research on the Internet”

Two graduate courses were offered in U.S. and World History. UMBC historians discussed content, historiography and available online resource materials during seminar sessions. A master teacher from the Maryland Council for History Education presented effective approaches to using the Internet in secondary history instruction. The participants also worked with technology specialists to develop Web-based secondary lessons plans for their students. Special topics:

“Pedagogy for the Internet”
Mr. Bruce Lesh, Director
Maryland Council for History Education“Constructing and Designing an Historical Web Site”
Mr. Nick Fry, UMBC Center for History Education“Electronic Instruction and Library Research”
Mr. Michael Romary, Coordinator of Electronic Instruction,
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery

• “Cold War America: Containment, Conformity, Consumption,”
• “Cuban Missile Crisis,”
• “Civil Rights Movement;”
• “America the 60s: The Great Society,”
• “America in the 60s: Protest & Reform,”
• “America in the 60s: The Violent Decade”

"Defining 'American' in the Aftermath of WW II: Whittaker Chambers vs. Alger Hiss"
Professor Edward Papenfuse, Director
Maryland State Archives“The Vietnam War”
Professor Jeff Coster
University of Maryland “Women in Contemporary American History”
Professor Kriste Lindenmeyer
UMBC Center for History Education
“Sources for Local Maryland History”
Ms. Nancy Bramucci, Director, Special Collections
Maryland State Archives

The Making of the Modern World (HIST 726B)Professor Constantine Vaporis
UMBC Department of History
World History--East Asia

Lecture Topics:

• “Traditional East Asia”
• “Restoration and Revolution in East Asia”
• "Japanese Imperialism Before the First World War”

• “The Social Impact of the Early Factory System,”
• “Child Labor in Britain”
• “The Irish Famine”
• “Social Investigation and the ‘Discovery’ of Poverty in Victorian England”

“The Chinese Revolution”
Professor Ka-che Yip
UMBC Department of History“Africa Interactive Maps”
Professor Willie B. Lamouse-Smith
UMBC Department of Africana Studies “The Condition of Women in the 19th Century,”
“The Balkans and the Origins of the First World War”
Professor Sabrina Baron
UMBC Department of History