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Week 1: Hidden Histories

Monday, June 10

Activities and Resources:

• Morning: Steven Mintz, "The 20th Century in a Nutshell"
  • Notes
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
  • Handout
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
• Afternoon: Audrey Crawford, African American and Women’s History Tour of Houston
  • Notes
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
  • Freedmen's Town
  • Nattie's Diary
  • Historic Marker Information and Web Sites for Resources

Tuesday, June 11

Activities and Resources:

• Morning: Untold Stories video and Bill Howze, “The Story Behind Untold Stories”
  • Untold Stories Web Site developed by UH students - under construction
• Lunch speaker: Charles Morrissey, Baylor College of Medicine, “Oral History”
  • Oral History: preserving a Perishable Commodity
    (HTML format)
  • Fundamentals of Oral History from the Texas Historical Commission
    (PDF format)
• Afternoon: Steven Mintz, African American Music
  • Caste Society in Late 19th and Early 20th Century America
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
  • African American Music: The Blues from the Delta to the South Side of Chicago
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
  • Links for Blues Music
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
    

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Wednesday, June 12

Activities and Resources:

• Morning: Martin Melosi, University of Houston, “Urban Development”
  The Rise of the Sunbelt
  • Notes from Dr.Melosi's discussion
    (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format)
  • Dr. Melosi's home page
  • Listen to "Effluent America: Cities, Energy and the Environment"
    (Real Media format)
• Afternoon:
  • Project Row House
    • Information about Project Row House
  • TSU Art Museum: Earlie Hudnell

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Thursday, June 13

Activities and Resources:

• Morning:
  • John Lienhard, University of Houston, “Technology and Modernity”
    Engines of Our Ingenuity Web Site - not available at this time
  • Steven Mintz, "Immigration"
    • Immigration Lecture Notes
      (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
    • Immigration at the Movies
      (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
    • The Language of Immigration
      (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
    • Migration in Fiction and Autobiography
      (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
    • Immigration Bibliography
      (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
    • Comparative Ethnicity
      (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) (HTML format)
• Lunch speaker: Nestor Rodriguez, University of Houston, “Latino Immigration”
  • Introduction to Sociology Web site
  • Center for Immigration Research at UH
• Afternoon: 1:30-5 pm George Ramirez, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
  • George Washington portrait
  • "Americanos"
    • Information about the Exhibition
    • Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
      

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Friday, June 14

Activities:

• Ellen Beasley, Architectural Tour of Galveston
  • Galveston Architecture Guidebook by Ellen Beasley
  • Galveston Historical Foundation
  • National Register of Historic Places: Galveston
  • Pictures of Galveston architecture

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The Project for the Active Teaching of History
http://www.path.coe.uh.edu/

Funded by a major grant from the U.S. Department of Education, PATH seeks to enhance the teaching of American history throughout the Gulf Coast region. A joint project of Region IV Education Service Center, the University of Houston Department of History and College of Education, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, PATH will host a series of summer seminars for teachers and colloquia for the general public.

For additional information: Please contact Debra Williams, Education Specialist in Math, Science, and Social Studies Services at Region IV Education Service Center,
713-744-6846 or dwilliams@esc4.net