Sunday:   Contested Visions of Freedom

 

Location: Residence Hall Lobby

 

                        Residence Hall Check in

2-4 pm            Session 1: July, 13

4-5 pm            Session 2: July 27

 

                        Location:  Residence Hall Classroom

 

4-5 pm            Workshop Check in

 

5-6:30 pm      Program Orientation: Mary Ann Wynkoop, Director of American Studies Program, UMKC and Edeen Martin, Workshop Coordinator

 

Landmarks Orientation: Reading Markings on the Land, Louis Potts, Professor of History, UMKC

 

Small Groups: Participants break into groups with teacher facilitators

 

7pm-dark       Location: Rockhill Tennis Club (short walk)

                        Kansas City Barbeque Welcoming Dinner

 

Monday:  Fault lines of Freedom: Slavery and Freedom on the Border

 

                        Location: Residence Hall Classroom

 

8–8:30am      Breakfast

 

8:30–10am    Keynote Lecture: What is it to be an American?  Contested Ideas of Liberty on the American Frontier—Nicole Etcheson, Professor of History, Ball State University          

 

10-11:30am   Keynote Lecture: Home, Field and Market: Slavery and Slave Holding in Western Missouri—Diane Mutti Burke, Assistant Professor of History, UMKC

 

11:30am-       Small Groups: Groups meet with faculty and teacher  

1:30pm           facilitators over lunch to discuss and work on lesson plans and                               alternate with visit to Western Historical Manuscripts Collection for                               an orientation by archives director David Boutros.

 

Coached Session at Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, UMKC: How to Use Diaries, Letters, Slave Narratives and Memoirs from Missouri and Kansas as resources for Teachers and Students--Linna Funk Place and Diane Mutti Burke      

 

1:30pm           Walk to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (NAMA)

 

2-5pm             Orientation and Tour of NAMA Collection:  Art as Expression: Growing Conflict on the American Frontier—Margaret Conrads, Curator of American Art

 

Dinner on own

 

5-7:30pm       Optional evening viewing documents at the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection (please sign up at orientation)

                       

                        Location: Residence Hall Classroom

 

8-10pm           Optional Screening of KCPT documentary Bad Blood .   This film explores Bleeding Kansas from the perspectives of people living on both sides of the border.

 

 

Tuesday: Commerce at the Crossroads: The Conflict of Transition

 

Location: Residence Hall Classroom

 

7:30-8am       Breakfast

 

8am                Board bus to Steamboat Arabia Museum

 

8:30-10am     Tour of the museum by owner and excavator David Hawley

 

10am              Board bus to Watkins Woolen Mill State Park

 

Watkins Woolen Mill documents the ambitious and varied activities and achievements of a Kentucky migrant to Western Missouri and provides an important industrial community setting.

 

11am-             Small Groups: Groups meet with faculty and teacher facilitators 12pm                   over Lunch to discuss and work on lesson plans.

 

12-3pm           We will break into three groups and rotate through the mill, house, and church/school sites. 

 

Mill tour: Mike Beckett, Director of Watkins Mill State Park 

 

School/Church tour:  Lou Potts, Professor of History, UMKC

 

House Tour:  Linna Funk Place, Associate Research Professor, UMKC

 

3pm                Board bus to the James Farm and Museum

 

3:15 – 5pm    Tour of the boyhood home of Jesse James by site administrator, Beth Beckett and docents

 

Return to Campus for Free Evening

 

Dinner on own or in small working groups.

 

6-8pm             Optional evening viewing documents at the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection (please sign up at orientation)

 

Location: Residence Hall Classroom

 

8-10pm           Optional Screening of Ride With the Devil . This film follows the lives of a band of teenaged bushwhackers as they move through Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas.  It focuses on two unlikely defenders of the southern cause, a German immigrant and a slave man.  While both men become increasingly disillusioned by the ruthless activities of their group, they retain their hatred for northerners who seek to impose, through invasion, new rules for the old.

 

Wednesday:   Conflicting Visions of Freedom: The    Failure of Popular Sovereignty

                       

Location:  Residence Hall Classroom

 

7:30-8am       Breakfast

 

8am                Board bus for tour of Eastern Kansas guided by Virgil Dean, Director of Education at the Kansas State Historical Society

 

8:15–              Tour of the Shawnee Indian Mission, the meeting place of the 10:15am    “Bogus Legislature” and the site of a Union military       encampment, led by site administrator Anita Faddis and creator of       the Bogus Legislature Website Charles Clark

 

10:15 am        Bus transfer to Lecompton, Kansas

 

11: 15 am-     Tour of First Capital of Kansas Territory and Constitution Hall with 12:15 pm         site administrator Tim Rues 

 

12:15-1pm     Lunch at the Methodist Church

 

1-2pm             Performance of an original play portrays frontier personalities David Rice Atchison, Jim Lane, Clarina Nichols and others.

 

2 – 2:30pm    Bus transfer to Lawrence, Kansas

 

2:30 – 4pm    Tour of free-state stronghold and site of Quantrill’s infamous raid and visit to the Lawrence Visitor’s Center

 

4-6pm             Free time in Lawrence, Kansas

 

Dinner on own or with workshop groups

 

6pm                Bus transfer back to Campus 

 

 

Thursday:       From Contention to Warfare: The Uncivil                            Society

 

                        Location: Residence Hall Classroom

 

8-8:30am       Breakfast

 

8:30-               Keynote Lecture:  Outside War: How the Border Conflict

9:30am           Erupted into the Bigger War—Ethan Rafuse, Associate                                           Professor, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.

                       

9:30-11am     Landmarks:  Walking tour of site of the Battle of Westport — Ethan Rafuse will lead us on a tour of the site of the Battle of Westport, the largest Civil War battle west of the Mississippi (within walking distance of the campus). 

 

11am–1pm    Participants will then walk or be driven to Historic Westport or the Country Club Plaza.

 

Lunch on own or in workshop groups

 

Location: Residence Hall Classroom

 

1-2pm             Keynote Lecture: Inside War: Guerrilla Tactics and Their Impact on Civilians—Diane Mutti Burke, UMKC

 

2-3:30pm       Keynote Lecture: Women and the War: The Role of Gender and the Tragedy of General Order 11—LeeAnn Whites, Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia

 

3:30-4:30pm  Small Groups:  Participants break into groups with teacher facilitators and faculty leaders to discuss workshop projects.

 

5:45                Board shuttle to Wornall House

 

6pm-dark       Evening Landmark:  Wornall House -- The historical site was the home of a Missouri slaveholding family and site of a military hospital during the Battle of Westport.

 

Orientation and Tour of the Wornall House by site administrator, Candice Walker.

 

Fried Chicken Picnic Dinner with workshop participants and faculty

 

Friday:     The Border Wars in History and Memory

 

Location:  Residence Hall Classroom

 

8-9am             Breakfast and Check out

 

9-10:30am     Keynote Lecture:  The Border of Memory:  The Promise and Limits of Postwar Reconciliation —Jeremy Neely, Cottey College

 

10:30-11am   Check out

 

11am – 2pm  Final Lunch and Presentations

 

Small Groups:  Each study group will discuss and report on issues, such as: Why are these sites important in studying the Border Wars and the Civil War? What have we learned about the conflict of cultures and the escalation of disagreement based on differing world views? What is a realistic and appropriate use of landmarks, original resources, the arts and material culture in teaching cultural conflict?   Each group will also share with all participants, faculty and special guests Susan Adler and Cynthia Jones, approaches they have considered as they develop lesson plans on the Border Wars and local topics for their classrooms.