Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAq7TwXCXuw
Teaching with Books
A Conference Based on the NEH Summer Institute "The Revolution in Books"
In June 2022, 16 participants in the NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty titled The Revolution in Books spent three weeks at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton learning about printing in the period of the American Revolution. They heard from experts about the history of print, gained hands-on experience at making paper, printing, and binding books, and reflected on how they might teach about books and print in their own classrooms. In this conference, they present their lesson plans and ideas about how to communicate to students and the public about the history of printing.
This mini-conference was held via Zoom from 9am to noon Eastern time on August 4th and 5th. Videos of the presentations can be accessed below.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 4th
Session 1: 9-10:30am
Elizabeth Stice
An Enlightenment Assignment Through Marginalia
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COFd4LQNPPk
Source: https://archaeologyofreading.org/
Jonathan Shelley
Marginal Discourse
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AaG-q-iWc
Assignment sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qIbkR06oJeHoQnwkn4g1CBp8npA5wdEW/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113848066512626171997&rtpof=true&sd=true
Matthew Sutton
From Crisis to Crisis: Reprinting Thomas Paine
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hkgb5r8HHs
Wendy Stephens
Freedom of the Press Before the First Amendment
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYf9hmmJH8
Session 2: 10:30am-12pm
Maureen Cummins
Revolution
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4uotH0G90
Leah Mackin
Looking Sideways
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVybxLRbewM
Marliese Thomas
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJj-bIFVlP0
Meri Page
A Revolution in Print, Design and Activism
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRiq4xSc7_g
Friday, August 5th
Session 3: 9-10:30am
Nicholas Austin
The Pilgrims of Maryland: Catholicism, Memory, and American Religious Freedom
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QPlspNWk4
Darryn Diuguid
How the Weiner Rare Book Collection Impacted a Children’s Literature Course
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSeXsmD298
Rachel Bartgis
American Originals?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6bMJmYef0g
Victoria Barnett-Woods
Revolution in Cycles
Karen Weyler
Creating American Culture Through Literary Periodicals
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjK-1eGttms
Meriah Crawford
Uncle Sam’s TILTed Thanksgiving Dinner
Matthew Sparacio
Teaching Epidemics and Print in Revolutionary America
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuTQcFMJw9I
Presentation and Lesson Packet: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_SWQDkxQfxnAtI5vnAT4ey21t9dqwPri?usp=sharing
William Perez
Life, Liberty, and the Dispute of Happiness
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEXBXZwLGWs
Contact Dr. Adrian Finucane at afinucane@fau.edu with any questions.
