July 25 Field Experience In Conflict & Crises Teaching the Hudson Valley from Civil War to Civil Rights and Beyond The Shifting Context of the Slavery Debate in the North, 1799-1865: Three Generations of Verplancks & James F. Brown TIME: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. GROUP SIZE: 10-35 FEE: $50 includes lunch, coffee, snack, and documents needed to develop lesson plans PLACE: Mount Gulian Historic Site, 145 Sterling Street, Beacon, http://www.mountgulian.org Take the Taconic Parkway to I-84 W or the NYS Thruway to Exit 17 Newburgh to I-84 E. Then take I-84 to Exit 11, Wappingers Falls/Beacon. Take 9D N 2/10ths of a mile. Make a left onto Hudson View Dr. into the Hudson View Park Apt. Complex, and you will see the Mount Gulian sign. Make an immediate left onto Lamplight St., which becomes Sterling. Pass all the way through the apartment complex. Mount Gulian is at end of Sterling; park on the circular drive. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Elaine Hayes,
[email protected], 845-831-8172 AUDIENCE: All are welcome. Teachers of 7th and 8th grade social studies with its focus on U.S. and New York State history, as well as teacher of 11th grade social studies with its focus on U.S. history will especially benefit from this field experience. PARTICIPANT TAKE-AWAYS: An understanding of the complexity of antislavery sentiment in the years prior to the Civil War. They should also come away with an appreciation for the evolution of antislavery sentiment from a moderate, compromising position to one that called for immediate abolition through war, and the reasons for this transformation in opinion among leading reformers.