Historic Southern Indiana

The 6th Annual Lincoln Institute for Teachers
"The Lincoln Legacy"
University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana
June 18-19, 2009

Join Historic Southern Indiana as we present the 6th Annual Lincoln Institute for Teachers, June 18 and 19, 2009 on the University of Southern Indiana campus. This year’s institute will focus on the lasting legacy of Abraham Lincoln. He is commemorated in music, poetry, film, and sculpture. His words are quoted by poets and politicians. His face appears on stamps, coins, and currency. Mountains, cities, highways, and schools bearing his name dot the land. Lincoln’s legacy is most alive in our continuous search for freedom, equality, and opportunity.

The Lincoln Institute will examine how his image and the interpretation of his life have changed over the years and what the legacy of the 2009 bicentennial commemoration means to the country. Teachers from all grade levels and disciplines are invited to attend. Brian Dirck, assistant professor of history at Anderson University, will present an overview of the legacy of Lincoln and also address the differing views on Lincoln, race, and slavery. A panel of interpreters from three National Park Service sites will discuss how the interpretation of Lincoln has changed over time. Members of the federal and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commissions will serve on a panel and address the lasting legacy of these groups and the resources they have made available to teachers. This year’s institute will also include a field trip to Historic New Harmony, a unified program of the University of Southern Indiana and the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. http://www.usi.edu/hnh/index2.asp

Speaker Biographies:
Brian Dirck
Brian Dirck is a professor of history at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Kansas, where he focused on the history of the American Civil War era. His first book, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 offered a comparative analysis of the two Civil War presidents. He has since published Lincoln the Lawyer, a study of Lincoln’s legal career which received the Barondess Award from the New York Civil War Roundtable as the best book on Abraham Lincoln published in 2007, and he has edited Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, a collection of essays on Lincoln and emancipation. He is currently working on a new study of Lincoln and race, which will be published in 2010.

Bill Bartelt
William E. "Bill" Bartelt is a retired educator who, for more than fifteen summers, was employed as a ranger and historian at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. He is a member of the Federal Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission's Advisory and Education Committees and serves as vice chair of the Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Darrel Bigham
Darrel E. Bigham is the emeritus director of Historic Southern Indiana and professor of History, University of Southern Indiana. He is the author of a number of books, most of which examine urbanization and race in the Midwest and upper South. His most recent book is On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley. Bigham is a member of the federal Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He chairs its Education Committee and coordinates the bicentennial task forces in Indiana and the "Lincoln States"--Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. He also serves on the Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Sandy Brue
Sandy Brue serves as chief of interpretation and resource management at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park. She began working for the National Park Service in 1988 and at the Birthplace in 2004. With an undergraduate history degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus, she obtained her MA in history from Alaska Pacific University.

Mike Capps
Mike Capps, chief of interpretation and resource management at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, has been with the park service for almost a quarter of a century. He lives and works in the area that Abraham Lincoln called home for 14 years and often speaks about Lincoln in southern Indiana.

Joan Flinspach
Joan Flinspach serves as secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. She is CEO of Presenting the Past, a firm providing historical resources to individuals, organizations, and institutions. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of Iowa with a BA in History in 1980 and Summa Cum Laude from Middle Tennessee State University with an MA in Historic Preservation and Museum Studies in 1983.

Sandy Fowler
Sandy Fowler is an artist and educator from Evansville. She is the founder of Harmony by Hand, a program that express the arts in sciences and simplicity in a creative format that uses music, sign language, stories, and sketches. Susan attended Purdue University where she received a B.S. and a M.S. in Agronomy-crops and soils. Her career includes having been an Earth Science teacher, a horticulturist for a botanical garden, a naturalist at a wetlands/wastewater project and the education coordinator for The Land & The Living Seas, EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World.

Tim Townsend
Tim Townsend is the historian at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois. He earned his BA degree in history from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, and holds a Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He began his career with the National Park Service as a Lincoln Home Park Ranger in 1991.

Agenda

Thursday, June 18 (subject to change)
8:30 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions – Leslie Townsend
9:15 a.m.	The Legacy of Lincoln – Brian Dirck
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Interpreting Lincoln: From Memorialization to Active Involvement - National Park Service Panel
11:30 a.m.	Lunch
12:30 p.m.	Depart campus for New Harmony
1:15 p.m.	Lincoln Emancipated: Race Relations and Lincoln’s Legacy – Brian Dirck
2:15 p.m.	Film and Tour of Historic New Harmony
4:30 p.m.	Return to USI
5:15 p.m.	Social Hour and Dinner
7:00 p.m.	Free public program, “Abraham Lincoln on Screen” – Mike Capps

Friday, June 19
8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m.	Plans for the Day – Leslie Townsend
8:30 a.m.	The Legacy of the federal and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commissions – Panel discussion with federal and state commission members
9:30 a.m.	Break
9:45 a.m.	Breakout Sessions: Elementary and Secondary (Susan Fowler will present to Elementary teachers during part of this time)
12:30 p.m.	Lunch and Adjournment

	A bookstore will be available on day 2. Cash and checks are accepted.

The registration deadline is May 29, 2009. Due to the nature of this workshop, space is limited.

REGISTRATION

Registration Form:

Name
Organization
Address
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Phone
Email
NOTE:	If you are a teacher, please include your home address for mailings after your school has closed: ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Method of Payment:
⁯ Check payable to the University of Southern Indiana
⁯ Please invoice my organization
⁯ Visa _______________________________ Exp. Date __________
⁯ Master Card _________________________ Exp. Date __________
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Select Workshop Package:

⁯ HSI-900A	$85.00
Registration includes lunch and dinner on 6/18, breakfast and lunch on 6/19, and workshop materials.
⁯ HSI-901A	$110.00	Roommate's name:
Registration includes entire package from HSI-900A, plus one night of double occupancy accommodations in USI Housing on 6/18. (includes linen service)
⁯ HSI-902A	$135.00	Roommate's name:
Registration includes entire package from HSI-900A, plus two nights of double occupancy accommodations in USI Housing on 6/17 & 6/18. (Includes linen service)
⁯ HSI-903A	$125.00
Registration includes entire package from HSI-900A, plus one night of single occupancy accommodations in USI Housing on 6/18. (Includes linen service)
⁯ HSI-904A	$160.00
Registration includes entire package from HSI-900A plus two nights of single occupancy accommodations in USI Housing on 6/17 & 6/18. (Includes linen service)

Return this form to:
Historic Southern Indiana
University of Southern Indiana
8600 University Blvd.
Evansville, IN 47712

For telephone registration, call 800/467-8600 or 812/464-1989

For e-mail registration, e-mail the above information to extserv@usi.edu.

For on-line registration, click on the following link and fill in registration form: https://www.usi.edu/extserv/ssl/regform.asp

Institute Information:
Graduate Credit:
Workshop participants may receive one hour of graduate credit by attending the Lincoln Institute and completing additional coursework. Participants would pay the regular registration fee and the appropriate graduate tuition and fees for summer 2009. For more information, call Leslie Townsend at 812-465-7013.

Overnight Accommodations:
University Housing is available for workshop participants needing overnight accommodations. Double and single occupancy rooms are available for one night (June 18) or two nights (June 17 and 18). University Housing units are composed of two bedrooms with two beds and a common entry hall area between. Single occupancy means that one person will be in each bedroom and share the common suite area (2 people per unit). Double occupancy means that two people will share each bedroom and the common living area (4 people per unit). To see a floor plan, visit www.usi.edu/virtualtour/hallsmore.asp. Linen service consisting of sheets, pillowcase, and towels is included with the room. Registrants will need to bring their own pillow, blanket, and toiletries (including soap).

About Historic Southern Indiana:
Historic Southern Indiana is a heritage-based community outreach program of the University of Southern Indiana committed to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the historic, natural, and recreational resources of southern Indiana.

8600 University Boulevard - Evansville, IN 47712-3596 - 812/464-8600