History Through Diplomacy 1945 to Present Day

There will be 3 seminars with each seminar having two scheduling options. Total of 6 separate events. The first round would include the introduction of the module on Working with Primary Sources. Working with Primary Sources will discuss how to approach analysis of primary sources in the classroom, with a special focus on oral histories. This module will draw heavily from TPS’s “Getting Started with Primary Sources” page. We will also use sources such as Stanford’s video on reading laterally. 

We will then share an overview of our collection and outline the plan for the second seminar. The second round would include working with teachers to draft classroom workshops and lesson plans. The final round would be a collaborative discussion with teachers on how to best present materials developed together in the previous workshops. During round three, we will have teachers take part in presentations and a roundtable. The presentations will be short and focus on their syllabi and how they plan to work with primary sources for the coming school year or semester. We will discuss how we can share some options online for other teachers to utilize. This will increase the awareness of ADST’s Primary Source oral history collection for teachers and students around the country. ADST staff will post resources to our website and to other locations such as the Humanities in Class Digital Library at the National Humanities Center. ADST already has resources available to educators through that library.