The Transcontinental Railroad: Transforming California and the Nation

FAIN: BH-261609-18

Regents of the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA 95618-6153)
Louis S. Warren (Project Director: February 2018 to October 2021)
Stacey Greer (Co Project Director: October 2018 to October 2021)

Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers on the history of the transcontinental railroad.

The History Project at University of California, Davis, in partnership with California State Parks (the California State Railroad Museum, Old Sacramento State Historic Park and the Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park), the Historic Old Sacramento Foundation, Crocker Art Museum, and Stanford University seeks $170,000 to fund two Landmarks of American History workshops for teachers in 2019. The 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad: Transforming California and the Nation will be held at historic sites in Sacramento on June 23 through 28 and July 7 through 12, 2019, with day trips to Donner Pass and the San Francisco Bay Area with visits to Stanford University and landmarks in San Francisco. The goal of the workshop is to assist K-12 educators in acquiring new content knowledge, experiences that will translate to classroom instruction, resources for lesson planning, and tools for using the railroad as a lens for examining the Gilded Age.