"Teaching American History Grant"

LLHP Summer Institute Brown Chapel
 AME Selma Alabama

For the last two years, Mrs. Kopecki & Ms. Avery have been participants of the "Teaching American History Grant" held at ACES in Hamden. ACES has been awarded $1,000,000 as part of the 2008 Teaching American History federal grant program. ACES will work in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Yale History Department to conduct a multi-year, document-intensive professional development institute for middle school and high school teachers on the history and development of the idea and practice of democracy in America. Each project year, historians and cultural institutions work



After school lecture on Slavery
TAH Grant ACES Hamden

with participants on content, highlighting a period of U.S. history that influenced the development of democracy, with special attention given to key documents related to the specific subject. The five broad themes are: The Foundations of American Democracy, Slavery and Emancipation, The Struggle for Democracy in Twentieth Century American, Women and the Struggle for Inclusion, and Race, Ethnicity, and Civil Rights." The year

long learning on slavery provided by the 'TAH Grant" provided a great deal of knowledge and inspiration for our unit on slavery.  Click here to see lesson plans created by  TAH participants.