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Individuals in History:
Bringing the Past to Life Through Biography Missouri History Museum - Forest Park, St. louis
September 28-29, 2007
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Conference Description
Three featured presentations:
Major Speakers
In the years after completing her Ph.D. at Indiana University, Professor Linda Reed has established herself as one of the noted scholars in the field of African American history. Her book, Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, concentrates on the forgotten years of the civil rights movement, the period preceding the Montgomery bus boycott. The book examines a small group of southern white and black liberals who challenged the racial politics that denied blacks decent wages and a role in southern politics. Professor Reed is co-editor, along with Darlene Clark Hine and Wilma King, of "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History. Professor Reed is also writing a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, the noted Mississippi civil rights activist who is comparable to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in oratory skills.
Dr. Dennis Denenberg, professor emeritus at Millersville University and a teacher for over 30 years, has brought his dynamic presentation on REAL heroes to 70,000 educators in 36 states. Co- author of 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (named a Notable Trade Book by NCSS and the Children's Book Council and featured in USA Today), Dr. Denenberg has been called one of the best inspirational and motivational speakers in America. He was interviewed on CNN Live last year. His session will provide you with dozens of exciting, practical ideas to make heroes and history come to life. You'll laugh, cry, sing, and leave the session ready to add REAL heroes to your teaching and to your life as well. You can read about Dr. Denenberg and his work at www.heroes4us.com.
Professor William M. Tsutsui is chair of the Department of History and executive director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas. A specialist in the business, economic, and cultural history of twentieth-century Japan, he holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton Universities. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation, Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters and In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage. He received the 2000 John Whitney Hall Prize (for best book on Japan or Korea published in 1998) of the Association for Asian Studies, and the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award for non-fiction. He is currently conducting research on the environmental history of modern Japan and the globalization of Japanese popular culture since World War II. He has served as president of the Kansas State Historical Society and as program chair of the Kansas Humanities Council.
Full Program
In addition to the feature speakers noted above, the conference offers a number of breakout sessions and additional speakers. Please review the conference program for a comprehensive outline of the conference events.
Three featured presentations:
- Linda Reed, University of Houston, "African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement"
- Dennis Denenberg, author of 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet, "Hooray for Heroes"
- William Tsutsui, University of Kansas, "The Tsar, Togo and Teddy"
- Sixteen breakout sessions featuring historians and teacher leaders providing tested strategies for teaching history and biography to k-12 students
- Three special guided theme tours of the exhibits and collections of the Missouri History Museum
- Opportunity to review educational materials and meet publishers
- Cocktail reception on Friday afternoon
- Tour of Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (advance sign-up required)
- Continental breakfasts and box lunches on Friday and Saturday
- Handouts, ideas, lesson plans and curriculum from session speakers and presenters
- Door prizes
Major Speakers
In the years after completing her Ph.D. at Indiana University, Professor Linda Reed has established herself as one of the noted scholars in the field of African American history. Her book, Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, concentrates on the forgotten years of the civil rights movement, the period preceding the Montgomery bus boycott. The book examines a small group of southern white and black liberals who challenged the racial politics that denied blacks decent wages and a role in southern politics. Professor Reed is co-editor, along with Darlene Clark Hine and Wilma King, of "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History. Professor Reed is also writing a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, the noted Mississippi civil rights activist who is comparable to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in oratory skills.
Dr. Dennis Denenberg, professor emeritus at Millersville University and a teacher for over 30 years, has brought his dynamic presentation on REAL heroes to 70,000 educators in 36 states. Co- author of 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (named a Notable Trade Book by NCSS and the Children's Book Council and featured in USA Today), Dr. Denenberg has been called one of the best inspirational and motivational speakers in America. He was interviewed on CNN Live last year. His session will provide you with dozens of exciting, practical ideas to make heroes and history come to life. You'll laugh, cry, sing, and leave the session ready to add REAL heroes to your teaching and to your life as well. You can read about Dr. Denenberg and his work at www.heroes4us.com.
Professor William M. Tsutsui is chair of the Department of History and executive director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas. A specialist in the business, economic, and cultural history of twentieth-century Japan, he holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton Universities. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation, Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters and In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage. He received the 2000 John Whitney Hall Prize (for best book on Japan or Korea published in 1998) of the Association for Asian Studies, and the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award for non-fiction. He is currently conducting research on the environmental history of modern Japan and the globalization of Japanese popular culture since World War II. He has served as president of the Kansas State Historical Society and as program chair of the Kansas Humanities Council.
Full Program
In addition to the feature speakers noted above, the conference offers a number of breakout sessions and additional speakers. Please review the conference program for a comprehensive outline of the conference events.
