Lectures
Speakers and Topics
2006-2009
Videos for the following lectures and those from 2010 and 2011 will be uploaded and available shortly.
| Speaker | Topic | When and to whom |
| Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“The Future of Economic Justice Through the Lens of History” | WTMA2 Lesson Study Design Teams
5/26/09 (to come) |
| Mark Summers
University of Kentucky |
“Return of the Gilded Age?” (as part of “Presidents in Times of Economic Challenge” series) | Meet the Scholars
5/1/09 (to come) |
| Gerald Henig
CSU-East Bay |
“Lincoln and the Economic Challenges of the Civil War” (as part of “Presidents in Times of Economic Challenge” series) | Meet the Scholars
4/3/09 (to come) |
| Jim Charkins
California Council for Economic Education |
“Economic Justice in the Free Market System” | WTMA2 Lesson Study Design Teams
3/31/09 (to come) |
| Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“President Johnson and Dr. King: The Struggle for Workers’ Rights” (as part of “Presidents in Times of Economic Challenge” series) | Meet the Scholars
3/6/09 |
| Alan Taylor
UC Davis |
“Economics and the Declaration of War: James Madison and the War of 1812” (as part of “Presidents in Times of Economic Challenge” series) | Meet the Scholars
2/6/09 |
| Robin Einhorn
UC Berkeley |
“Understanding Patterns of Economic Inequity and Inequality in American History” | WTMA2 Lesson Study Design Teams
1/6/09 |
| Martha Wallner
Media Justice Social History Project |
“The Civil Rights Movement: Fast Forward to 2008” | WTMA2 Lesson Study Design Teams
10/7/08 |
| Peter Irons
UC San Diego |
“Putting a Human Face on the Constitution: Can Change Be Legislated?” | WTMA2 Lesson Study Design Teams
10/7/08 |
| Linda Ivey
CSU-East Bay |
“FDR and Labor Rights” (as part of panel on “American Presidents and Civil Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship, Part 2”) | WTMA2 Summer Institute
8/5/08 |
| Susan Englander
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“LBJ and the Voting Rights Act” (as part of panel on “American Presidents and Civil Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship, Part 2”) | WTMA2 Summer Institute
8/5/08 |
| Emily Stoper
CSU-East Bay |
“Military Commissions and George W. Bush’s War on Terror” (as part of panel on “American Presidents and Civil Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship, Part 2”) | WTMA2 Summer Institute
8/5/08 |
| Dee Andrews
CSU-East Bay |
“Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom” (as part of panel on “American Presidents and Civil Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship, Part 1”) | WTMA2 Summer Institute
8/4/08 |
| Gerald Henig
CSU-East Bay |
“Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus in the Civil War” (as part of panel on “American Presidents and Civil Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship, Part 1”) | WTMA2 Summer Institute
8/4/08 |
| Bridget Ford
CSU-East Bay |
“Lincoln and Black Citizenship” (as part of panel on “American Presidents and Civil Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship, Part 1”) | WTMA2 Summer Institute
8/4/08 |
| Gerald Henig
CSU-East Bay |
Book Club Facilitator (three sessions): Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin | WTMA2 Book Club
June-August 2008 (3) |
| Reverend Billy Kyles
Monumental Baptist Church |
“King’s Last Days” | WTMA2 Study Tour
7/28/08 |
| Clayborne Carson and Ashni Mohnot
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“Dr. King’s Mountaintop Speech and Economic Justice: Past and Present” | WTMA2 Study Tour
7/28/08 |
| Dee Andrews
CSU-East Bay |
Memorializing History (Parts 1-2) | WTMA2 Study Tour
7/25/08, 7/27/08 |
| Leslie Burl McLemore, Michelle Deardorff and Jeff Kolnick
Fannie Lou Hamer Institute |
“The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement – Then and Now” | WTMA2 Study Tour
7/22/08 |
| Clayborne Carson and Andrea McEvoy Spero
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“Understanding the Little Rock Crisis” | WTMA2 Study Tour
7/21/08 |
| Robert Phelps
CSU-East Bay |
“East Bay Kids: Researching the Lives of Children in US and California History” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
5/29/08 |
| Bridget Ford
CSU-East Bay |
“Objecting to the Mexican-American War” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 2: Peace and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
5/27/08 |
| Khal Schneider
CSU-East Bay |
“Establishing Indian Land Rights” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 2: Peace and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
5/27/08 |
| Robert Phelps
CSU-East Bay |
“Andrew Carnegie and the Anti-Imperialist Movement” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 2: Peace and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
5/27/08 |
| Linda Ivey
CSU-East Bay |
“Cesar Chavez and Farmworkers’ Rights” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 2: Peace and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
5/27/08 |
| Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“Reframing the African American Freedom Struggle: Through TIME” | WTMA Lesson Study Teams
5/21/08 |
| Francisco Jimenez
Santa Clara University |
“The Immigrant Experience: Personal Accounts” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
5/1/08 |
| Bridget Ford
CSU-East Bay |
“John Brown and the Raid on Harper’s Ferry” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 1: War and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
4/24/08 |
| Khal Schneider
CSU-East Bay |
“Geronimo and the end of the U.S.-Indian Wars” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 1: War and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
4/24/08 |
| Richard Speed
CSU-East Bay |
“Jewish Refugees from Nazism and the Manhattan Project” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 1: War and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
4/24/08 |
| Linda Ivey
CSU-East Bay |
“The Trinity Test and American Environmental Rights” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 1: War and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
4/24/08 |
| Jessica Weiss
CSU-East Bay |
“POW Wives in the Era of Vietnam” (as part of panel on “War, Peace, and Civil Rights in American History, Session 1: War and Civil Rights”) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre
4/24/08 |
| Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Author/Historian (A Thousand Pieces of Gold) |
“Research, Writing, and Teaching Historical Fiction” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
4/3/08 |
| James Zarrillo
CSU-East Bay |
“History as a Story Well Told: The Uses of Fiction in the History Curriculum” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
3/6/08 |
| Paula Fass
UC Berkeley |
“The History of Childhood and the World Today: Seeing Things in Perspective” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
2/7/08 |
| Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“Reframing the African American Freedom Struggle: Through SPACE” | WTMA Lesson Study Teams
3/5/08 |
| Bridget Ford
CSU-East Bay |
“Using Children’s Literature to Explore Race and Abolitionism: 1830-1860” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
1/10/08 |
| Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“Reframing the African American Freedom Struggle: Through a HUMAN RIGHTS LENS” | WTMA Lesson Study Teams
1/9/08 |
| Khal Schneider
CSU-East Bay |
“We Are Well But My Brother Moses James Got Arrested: A California Perspective on Indian Children in American History” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
11/29/07 |
| Caroline Cox
University of the Pacific |
“Boy Soldiers in the American Revolution” (as part of “A Children’s History of the United States” series) | Meet the Scholars
10/25/07 |
| Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“The Civil Rights Movement in a Global Context” | WTMA Lesson Study Teams
10/3/07 |
| Cecilia Tsu
UC Davis |
“Themes in Asian American History” | WTMA2 Summer Institute B
8/8/07 |
| Alex Saragoza
UC Berkeley |
“Themes in Latin-American History” | WTMA2 Summer Institute B
8/7/07 |
| Ula Taylor
UC Berkeley |
“Themes in African American History” | WTMA2 Summer Institute B
8/6/07 |
| Bridget Ford, Jessica Weiss, and Linda Ivey
CSU-East Bay |
“Approaches to Japanese Internment in Surveys of U.S. History” panel presentation | WTMA2 Summer Institute A
6/18/07 |
| Jessica Weiss
CSU-East Bay |
“Pursuits of Happiness: Women Shape the Nation Before and After the Ballot” (as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series) | Meet the Scholars
5/24/07 |
| Louis Jackson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Ed. Institute |
“The Man Who Was A Fool: the Acquisition, Transcription, and Annotation of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Sermons” as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series) | Meet the Scholars
4/26/07 |
| Thomas Wellock
Central Washington University |
“Preserving the Nation: Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870-1920” (as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series | Meet the Scholars
3/29/07 |
| Allison Varzally
CSU-Fullerton |
“From Minutemen to Minutemen: Changing Perspectives on Immigration and National Identity” (as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series) | Meet the Scholars
2/22/07 |
| Robert Phelps and Jessica Weiss
CSU-East Bay |
“Red State, Blue State – How Did We Get Here?” (as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series) | Meet the Scholars
2/1/07 |
| John Judis
Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
“Imperialism, Then and Now” (as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series) | Meet the Scholars
1/11/07 |
| Linda Ivey
CSU-East Bay |
“Sharing Space: Cultural Contests and Social Justice in America” (Spring Seminar: six four-hour sessions) | WTMA2 Teacher Leadership Cadre |
| Gary Nash
UCLA |
“Framing Historical Narratives” (as part of “Presenting the Past: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues” series) |
Meet the Scholars
11/30/06 |
