HUMANITIES TEXAS TEXAS HUMANITIES for heritage, culture, and education www.humanitiestexas.org AUSTIN | EL PASOAUSTIN | FORT | EL WORTHPASO | |LAREDO HOUSTON | SAN | LAREDO ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA: MODERN OF MAKING THE PARTNERS ! e Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives and Records Administration Amon Carter Museum of American Art ! e Institute of Texan Cultures 1877TOPRESENT MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS A WE THE PEOPLE I N I T I AT I V E OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 2011 2011 INSTITUTES FOR TEXAS TEACHERS Cover image: John Sloan, Six O’Clock, Winter, 1912. Oil on canvas, 1 26 /8 x 32 in., 66.3575 x 81.28 cm SPONSORED BY Acquired 1922, ! e Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. HUMANITIES TEXAS ©2011 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York IN COLLABORATION WITH LEADING TEXAS UNIVERSITIES GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ALL INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS 2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary L. Volcansek (Chair), Fort Worth Michael L. Klein (Vice Chair), Austin/Midland (Treasurer) Catherine L. Robb , Austin Amarillo Larry D. Carver (Secretary), Austin Julius Glickman (Past Chair), Houston Alwyn Barr, Lubbock Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, Austin Leslie D. Blanton, Houston Joy Ann Havran, Fort Worth Shirlene Bridgewater, Marble Falls Ray M. Keck III, Laredo Albert S. Broussard, College Station Virginia Lebermann, Austin J. Bruce Bugg Jr., San Antonio Nancy Cain Marcus, Dallas Vicki Vinson Cantwell, Fort Worth Kit T. Moncrief, Fort Worth Maceo C. Dailey Jr., El Paso Monica Perales, Houston Jesús F. de la Teja, San Marcos Paula Peters, Dallas Elinor Donnell, Corpus Christi Caren H. Prothro, Dallas FORT DALLAS Virginia Dudley, Comanche Ricardo Romo, San Antonio WORTH Juliet V. García, Brownsville Venus F. Strawn, Austin Ty l e r Chase Untermeyer, Houston Midland Board Alumni Co-chairs Odessa San Angelo EL PASO Waco Joseph R. Krier, San Antonio J. Sam Moore Jr., El Paso Ellen C. Temple, Lufkin William P. Wright Jr., Abilene AUSTIN Executive Director Michael L. Gillette HOUSTON Director of Grants and Education Eric Lupfer Galveston SAN ANTONIO “ THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA” UT AUS TIN LAREDO TABLE OF CONTENTS UT EL PASO INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 02 TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL INSIGHTS ....................................................................................................... 12 UT SAN ANTONIO ADVISORS, FACULTY, AND STAFF ........................................................................ 74 INSTITUTE SCHEDULES, PARTICIPANTS, AND PHOTOS “ SHAPING THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC TO 1877” AUSTIN ...................................................................................................... 90 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EL PASO ................................................................................................... 102 McAllen UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAREDO .................................................................................................... 114 SAN ANTONIO ........................................................................................... 126 Brownsville 2011 INSTITUTE DATA STATISTICS ............................................................................................... 138 PARTICIPANTS’ PROGRAM EVALUATIONS ........................................................ 140 PARTICIPANTS’ SCHOOLS ............................................................................ 142 REACHING TEACHERS STATEWIDE .................................................................. 144 ! is report was printed in Texas using soy oil–based, solvent-free, Cert no. XXX-XXX-XXXX zero-VOC ink on paper that contains 10% post-consumer recycled " ber. AUSTIN | EL PASOAUSTIN | FORT| EL PASOWORTH | LAREDO| HOUSTON | SAN | LAREDOANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO 2011 INSTITUTES FOR TEXAS TEACHERS SPONSORED BY Humanities Texas !e College of Liberal Arts at !e University of Texas at Austin Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum !e University of Texas at El Paso Texas A&M International University !e University of Texas at San Antonio MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS A WE THE PEOPLE INITIATIV E OF T HE NATIONAL EN DOWMENT FOR THE HU MANITIES PA RTNERS !e Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives and Records Administration Amon Carter Museum of American Art !e Institute of Texan Cultures Any views, !ndings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily re"ect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION books and digitized images, allowing teachers The Making of Modern America: 1877 to Present to use works of art to enhance their Texas and U.S. history curricula. ! e Museum of Fine Arts, %&'()*)+, T+-',’, *+'./+0 +(0)./&+(* 10230'& is the Houston and the Fort Worth Museum of Science only statewide professional development program in the $ elds of Texas and and History o" ered behind-the-scenes tours of H major exhibitions and introduced teachers to U.S. history. Its premise is that informed, inspiring teachers are critical to student instructional resources that make use of the museums’ collections. performance, and that knowledgeable and dynamic scholars enrich classroom Teachers have consistently given Humanities teachers’ command of signi$ cant topics in Texas and U.S. history, while also Texas programs superlative evaluations, often describing them as the best professional develop- providing them with new insights to engage students. ! e institute experience ment experiences of their careers. energizes participants, who return to their classrooms with heightened E!"#$%&$' ()* P+,'+#- .&() S(#(* S/"",+( enthusiasm, creative teaching strategies, and new documentary materials. Before 2010, Humanities Texas’s teacher programs had been limited to two institutes per summer, ! is program sets the standard for how content knowledge training should be designed. ! ere is no substitute for deep involving a total of eighty teachers. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst e" ected a major expansion H. W. Brands, the Dickson, Allen, content knowledge when teaching history. of the program with state funding in 2009. ! rough his leadership and that of Representative Mike Anderson Centennial Professor OAKLEY BARBER, MCCALLUM HIGH SCHOOL, AUSTIN Villarreal and Speaker Joe Straus, the Texas Legislature appropriated funding for a larger program at UT, addresses teachers at the with an emphasis on new teachers in areas of the state with a high concentration of low-performing LBJ Library. Beginning in 2004, with the “Institute on Congress and American History,” Humanities Texas has schools. Ultimately, it is di# cult to overestimate the dramatic impact that state funding has had collaborated with leading Texas universities and major cultural institutions in sponsoring these rigorous, upon the program’s capacity to serve Texas teachers. Between June 2010 and June 2011, the number I feel like I learned something from every content-rich programs for teachers throughout the state. Universities have provided outstanding faculty of annual participants grew by a factor of ten. Humanities Texas held twelve summer institutes and lecture since I am only a second-year presenters, classroom facilities, dormitories, transportation, and logistical support, as well as technological thirteen one-day workshops in Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, Laredo, San Antonio, teacher. ! e interesting details and stories equipment to record the programs. Cultural institutions have enlisted their educational specialists and Waco. ! e nearly nine hundred teachers who participated teach more than one hundred thousand will help me to get my students engaged and made their documentary resources available. In recent years, the National Archives and Records Texas students each year. At the time of their participation, 21 percent were in their $ rst two years of in learning. Administration (NARA) provided digital facsimiles of milestone documents from the nation’s history, service; an additional 27 percent were in their third through $ fth years of service. Sixty-three percent TINA SENKEL, SALADO JUNIOR HIGH guiding teachers in their classroom use. ! e Amon Carter Museum of American Art furnished teach in areas of the state with a high concentration of low-performing schools. SCHOOL, SALADO H/-#$&(&*0 T*!#0 T*#1)*+ I$0(&(/(*0 2004–2010 2004 2005 20 0 6 2007 20 0 8 20 0 9 2010 “Institute on Congress “Gateway on the Gulf: Galveston and “Southwest Vistas: “The West and the “From Disunion to Empire: “The U.S. Constitution and “Shaping the American and American History” American Immigration, 1845–1915” The Border in American History” Shaping of America” The United States, 1850–1900” American History” Republic to 1877” with the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and with the Bob Bullock Texas State with the University of Houston and with Texas Christian University, with the University of North Texas with the College of Liberal Arts at ! e with the College of Liberal Arts at ! e University of Texas at Austin, Museum, the National Archives and Records History Museum ! e University of Texas at El Paso Texas Tech University, and the and Trinity University University of Texas at Austin, ! e University the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, ! e University of Administration, and the College of Liberal Amon Carter Museum of American Art of Texas at San Antonio, and the Lyndon Texas at El Paso, Texas Christian University, the