2003 EISENHOWER LIBRARY SUMMER INSTITUTE
Abilene, Kansas, July 13-25, 2003
Sunday, July 13
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 – Registration – Visitors Center Auditorium
5:30-8:30 p.m. – Welcoming Reception at the Home of Dan and Marilyn Holt
Monday, July 14
Morning Session: Introduction -- Overview of the library, view film at the Visitors Center, and Museum Tour.
Afternoon Session: Archives Orientation -- Behind Scenes Tour of the Library, Research process, Hands-on experience with photos and documents.
Tuesday, July 15
Morning Session: Presentations and Brief Overviews -- 8:30-10:30 -- Eisenhower: The Boyhood Years to West Point, Eisenhower: West Point to World War II; Eisenhower: The Presidency; Eisenhower: The Cold War. Discussion (11:12:00).
Afternoon Session: Presentations and Curriculum Development -- 1:00-5:00 -- How to use cultural resources; Photos, films, and audiotapes; Collegial work on Curriculum Projects.
Wednesday, July 16
Morning Session: Lecture/Discussion -- 8:30-11:30 -- Carlo D'Este, Eisenhower: West Point to Supreme Commander; Collegial work in groups to discuss methods/approaches best to teach the material from the morning lecture/discussion.
Afternoon Session: Research [Check Topics on available before your arrive from either the 101 Research Topics or Eisenhower Presidential Topics by using the appropriate hyperlink. Once you select a topic contact Kim Barbieri at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and let her know as soon as possible]
Evening Session: Lecture/Discussion 7:00-8:30 -- Professor Sue Zschoche, KSU: America in the 1950s.
Thursday, July 17
Morning Session: Lecture Discussion -- 8:30-11:00 -- Carlo D’Este—Eisenhower: Supreme Allied Commander as Leader, Decision-maker, and Diplomat; Collegial work in groups to discuss ideas on methods/approaches to best teach the material presented from the morning lecture.
Afternoon Session: Research -- 1:00-4:30.
Friday, July 18
Morning Session: Lectures/Discussion -- 9:00-11:30 -- Professor Jack Holl, KSU (1) Ike and Religion and (2) Ike and His Paintings.
Afternoon Session: Lecture/Discussion -- 1:00-4:30 -- Tom Heuertz and Kim Barbieri – Teaching with Primary Sources
Monday, July 21
Afternoon Session: Lecture/Discussion -- 1:00-4:00 -- Professor Fred Greenstein, Princeton University – Eisenhower and His Times; Collegial work in groups to discuss ideas on methods/approaches to best teach the material from the lecture
Tuesday, July 22
Morning Session: Lecture and Discussion -- 8:30-11:00 -- Professor Greenstein – The Hidden-Hand Presidency; Collegial work in groups.
Afternoon Session: Lecture and Discussion -- 1:00-3:00 -- Professor William H. Brands, Texas A&M – Eisenhower and Domestic Politics; Pickett, Greenstein, and Brands -- 3:30-5:30 -- Eisenhower and His Times.
Wednesday, July 23
Morning Session: Lecture/Discussion -- 8:30-11:30 -- Professor Brands – Eisenhower and the Cold War.
Afternoon Session: Collegial work in groups to discuss ideas on methods to best teach the material from the morning’s session.
Evening Session: Lecture -- 7:00-8:00 -- Professor Charles Sanders, KSU – Eisenhower and Little Rock [Desegregation Crisis]
Thursday, July 24
Morning Session: Seminar/Curriculum Development -- Meet the archivists (a panel of DDE archival staff for Informal “off-the-record” questions and answers; Curriculum development
Afternoon Session: Research
Morning Session: Conclusions/Wrap-Up “Show and Tell” by TASK Fellows Status Report on the Summer Institute and Institute Evaluation; Gala Lunch.
Afternoon Session: Wrap-Up and Farwell -- Presentations of Photographs and Certificates
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