Program

Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

10/1/2019 - 12/31/2021

Funding Totals

$184,114.00 (approved)
$152,736.97 (awarded)


America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

FAIN: ES-267039-19

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)
Joseph Brent Morris (Project Director: February 2019 to October 2022)

A three-week summer institute for 25 K-12 teachers on the history and legacy of Reconstruction in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

“America’s Reconstruction: The Untold Story” is a three week summer institute for K-12 teachers from July 7-27, 2020. Through seminars led by top scholars, study trips to locations in the SC Lowcountry, and directed archival research, educators will learn more about one of the most neglected and misunderstood periods in US history, the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction, and how that history began in and was influenced by people and events in the Sea Islands. We will closely examine three broad themes over the course of the institute, including: (1) the Old South and wartime “prelude” to Reconstruction (2) the political, social, and economic facets of the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, and (3) American historical memory, the “Second Reconstruction” (modern Civil Rights Movement) and the place of Reconstruction memory in modern America. Each theme will offer unique insight into the most significant issues, events, personalities, and watershed moments of the postwar era.





Associated Products

Teaching Reconstruction: Lesson Plans for the Untold Stories (Book)
Title: Teaching Reconstruction: Lesson Plans for the Untold Stories
Editor: J. Brent Morris
Editor: Thomas Thurston
Abstract: These twenty peer reviewed lesson plans were produced by the scholar-participants of the 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for K-12 teachers America’s Reconstruction: The Untold Story, hosted by the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era. They represent the most substantial collection of Reconstruction-themed lesson plans to date.
Year: 2021
Access Model: hard copy and soon to be online, digital access
Publisher: Lowcountry Scholars Press
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: No