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The Center for the American Idea presents...
War Between the States
at the Jesse Helms Center, NC.
A FREE workshop for middle and high school History and Government teachers.
Topics:
• The Code of Honor and the Civil War
• Blood and Treasure: Confederate Plans for Empire
• War Between (the) States: The Case for a Seperate National Identities
• The Lottery of Death: Weapons, Fighting, and Dying on the Civil
War Battlefield
• Diplomacy in the Civil War
• Civil War Presidents
Speakers
Donald Frazier Born in
Big Spring, Texas, in 1965, Dr. Donald S. Frazier graduated with his Ph.D.
from Texas Christian University in 1992 and is currently chair and professor
in the department of history at McMurray University and executive director
of the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation. He is the author of two books:
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest (Texas A&M,
1995) and Cottonclads!: The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the
Texas Coast (McWhiney Foundation Press, 1996). He is also the general
editor of The U.S. and Mexico at War: Nineteenth Century Expansionism
and Conflict published in 1998 by Macmillan Library Reference. He has
been in three historical documentaries including a radio program for National
Public Radio and on television with The History Channel. Besides his duties
at McMurray and at the McWhiney Foundation, Frazier is working on two
books including a brief military history of the U.S. Civil War and a biographical
treatment of Tom Green.
Dr. Robert F. Pace is Associate Professor of History at McMurry University, in Abilene, Texas, where he teaches classes on the Black Experience in America and the Old South, among others. He is also Senior Director of the McWhiney Foundation, a non-profit history education organization, where he directs the McWhiney Foundation Press. Dr. Pace received a Ph.D. in American history from Texas Christian University and has taught at T.C.U. and Longwood College in Virginia, before moving to Abilene. He has published numerous articles on southern agriculture and society, and he has a forthcoming book on college life in the Old South.
Important Details:
There is no charge to attend American Idea Workshops.
Continental breakfast and lunch included.
TEKS information and useful handouts on subjects presented will be available.
Books will be available for purchase at reduced cost. MasterCard, Visa, Cash & Checks accepted.