Ninth Annual Teachers History Institute – Invitation to Tennessee Teachers
KNOXVILLE, TN (March 21, 2007) The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites candidates to apply for its ninth annual Teachers History Institute, June 4-8, 2007. To be eligible, teachers must be teaching social studies in either public or private schools in Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE, TN (March 21, 2007) The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites candidates to apply for its ninth annual Teachers History Institute, June 4-8, 2007. To be eligible, teachers must be teaching social studies in either public or private schools in Tennessee.
The title of the 2007 institute is Voices of Opportunity: Industrialization Comes to Tennessee. The week-long study will feature lectures, group and panel discussions, workshops, and museum and historic sites tours. The East Tennessee Historical Society Museum, McClung Historical Collection, Lenoir City Museum, Englewood Textile Museum, L&N Depot and Railroad Museum, Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Little River Railroad Museum, Green-McAdoo School and Civil Rights Museum, and the Beck Cultural Center are among the sites included this year. Noted scholars who will address the group include University of Tennessee historians Dr. Bruce Wheeler, Dr. Cynthia Fleming, and Dr. Ernest Freeberg, Dr. Chad Berry of Berea College, and Mr. Robert Cogswell from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
The institute requires teachers to be in-residence for the week, with lodging, transportation, admissions, and all meals, except breakfast, furnished. The deadline for applications is April 15. For more information, please contact Lisa Oakley, ETHS curator of education, at 865-215-8828 or oakley@east-tennessee-history.org. Details also are available on the ETHS website at www.east-tennessee-history.org.
The East Tennessee Historical Society, whose mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the region’s history, is located at 601 S. Gay Street (across from the Tennessee Theatre) in downtown Knoxville.
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The institute requires teachers to be in-residence for the week, with lodging, transportation, admissions, and all meals, except breakfast, furnished. The deadline for applications is April 15. For more information, please contact Lisa Oakley, ETHS curator of education, at 865-215-8828 or oakley@east-tennessee-history.org. Details also are available on the ETHS website at www.east-tennessee-history.org.
The East Tennessee Historical Society, whose mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the region’s history, is located at 601 S. Gay Street (across from the Tennessee Theatre) in downtown Knoxville.
click here to download press release [81KB, DOC]