Project Overview

A three-year Teaching American History grant program was awarded in June of 2007 to the Hudson Public Schools by the United States Department of Education.

Window’s into America’s Past is a partnership program between Hudson and the Assabet Valley Collaborative school districts to provide professional development to its elementary, middle and secondary teachers in the content area of American History.

The main goals of the grant are twofold:

  1. improved teacher preparation in the academic discipline of history and
  2. cultivate a local collegial professional culture to strengthen American history instruction in central Massachusetts.

Window’s into America’s Past focuses on six themes which will be presented by leading historians during three summers of week-long institutes held at Hudson High School—

2008
  • the First Amendment,
  • Northern slavery and the slave trade,
2009
  • turning points in American foreign policy,
  • the expansion of civil rights in the American South,
2010
  • the role of government in the American economy, and
  • the evolution of the relationship between labor and management.

In addition the program will be supported by

  1. Massachusetts historians and institutions at a spring and fall Saturday workshop each year of the grant and
  2. a yearly community-wide History Matters spring lecture.

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