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Virtual Teacher Seminar | Presidential Leadership at Historic Crossroads
July 10, 2023 | 5:00 p.m. - July 13, 2023 | 7:00 p.m.
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VIRTUAL TEACHER SEMINAR
Presidential Leadership at Historic Crossroads
July 10-13, 2023 | 5-7 p.m. CST | $25
We are excited to announce the Museum will be partnering in the summer of 2023 with The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History for a virtual teacher seminar led by Dr. Barbara A. Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia. This seminar will feature pre-recorded and live sessions with Dr. Perry, two sessions with Sixth Floor Museum staff and pedagogy sessions for elementary, middle and high school educators.
Course Description
Starting with its inception in the eighteenth century, the American presidency has faced numerous inflection points that have reshaped the office. From its constitutional roots to Washington’s precedents, Jacksonian democracy, Lincoln’s Civil War power assertions, Teddy Roosevelt’s and Woodrow Wilson’s creation of the “rhetorical presidency,” Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Great Depression and World War II presidency, the Cold War’s impact, Nixon and Watergate, the Global War on Terror, and Trump’s unprecedented tenure, the chief executive’s influence has waxed and waned depending on circumstances and presidential leadership. Using classic and new scholarship as well as primary sources, this seminar will examine the challenges and responses of presidents when they have faced and sometimes constructed historic crossroads.
