Below is the audio recording of historian John Fea's address at the Junior Historian's Forum held last month at Marquette University.
The slide show presentation that Fea used is here.
About 400 students participated in the event, sponsored by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History. The students, from Hamilton, Riverside, Wedgewood Park, Humboldt Park, Victory, US Grant, Milwaukee School of Languages and Fritsche, listened to noted historian John Fea talk about being a kid in colonial America, which wasn't always fun.
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History is an MPS partner in implementation of the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History grant. The grant is designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history. . In MPS, implementation of the Teaching American History grant supports goals one and three of the district's Working Together, Achieving More strategic plan: Students meet and exceed Wisconsin academic standards and graduate prepared for higher education, careers and citizenship and Leaders and staff demonstrate continuous improvement through focused professional development.
