Schedule*

WEEK ONE: JULY 8-12, 2024

  • Guiding question: How do we read Pine Forest Cemetery as a narrative of homegoing and memorialization?

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections 
    Participants

    9:30-11:30                  
    Field trip to Pine Forest Cemetery
    Wayne Lofton 

    12:00-2:00             
    Lunch 

    2:00-3:15                    
    Panel: Teaching History through Student Research
    Tara White, “Pine Forest Cemetery Registry Digitization Project” and Leyna Varnum and Joel Finsel/Third Person Project, “Engaging Middle Schoolers: The Daily Record Project”  

    3:30-5:30                    
    Project development
    Leyna Varnum available for individual consultations

    Required reading:

    • John Beardsley, “Sacred to the Memory”

    • Jay Winter, “Sites of Memory”

    Suggested reading:

    • Imani Perry, “Tobacco Road in the Bible Belt: North Carolina,” in South to America: A

  • Guiding question: What constitutes a crime against democracy? 

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections 

    9:30-10:30                  
    Day of Blood
    LeRae Umfleet 

    10:30-12:00         
    Project development session
    with participants and LeRae Umfleet, Researcher, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources 

    12:30-2:00                  
    Lunch

    2:00-3:15   
    The Competing Narratives of 1898
    Meg Mulrooney, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Professor of History, James Madison University        

    3:30-5:30
    Walking History: Tour of 1898 Sites Meg Mulrooney, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Professor of History, James Madison University

    6 - 8:00
    Group dinner downtown (pay on your own)

    Required reading:

    • “Mrs. Fulton Speaks,” August 18, 1898. Reprinted in Umfleet, A Day of Blood, 62

    • Alexander Manly editorial published in the Daily Record, Aug. 18, 1898. Reprinted in Umfleet, A Day of Blood, 77

    • “White Declaration of Independence,” Wilmington Messenger, Nov. 10, 1898. Reprinted in Umfleet, A Day of Blood, 76-77

    • David Cecelski, “The Other Coup d’Etat”

    Suggested reading:

    • Chestnutt, Marrow of Tradition (distributed in advance)

  • WilmingtoNColor heritage tour with Cedric Harrison – sign up for time slot

    Tour Bellamy Mansion and Museum, open Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 4 pm – sign up for ticket

WEEK TWO: JULY 15-19, 2024

  • Guiding question: How are history and memory embedded in place? 

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections

    9:30-10:45                  
    Aftermath: The White Supremacy Movement after 1898
    David Cecelski 

    11-12:30                    
    Project development session
    with participants and David Cecelski, Historian, author of The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War and The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

    12:30-2:00                  
    Lunch

    2:00-3:00                    
    Project consultations
    Leyna Varnum

    3:30-5:00                    
    On Teaching One’s Own Past (Zoom)
    Elaine Brown, Bayhill High School, History teacher and descendant of Joshua Halsey
    Gwendolyn Alexis, Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Cal State Fullerton, and descendant of Joshua Halsey

    7:00-9:00                    
    Screening Wilmington on Fire
    with filmmaker Chris Everett 

    Required reading:

    • Catherine Bishir, “Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915"

    • Clint Smith, “Why Confederate Lies Live On”

    Suggested reading:

    • Margaret Mulrooney, Deep Currents: Race, Place, and Memory in Wilmington NC, Ch. 4

    • Dell Upton, “The Long Shadow of the Civil War”


  • Guiding question: How do we teach democracy in our own communities?

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections 

    9:30-10:45                 
    History Inquiry: “Alex Manly: Black Agency and Resistance”
    Lisa Buchanan, Associate Professor of Education, Elon University

    11:00-12:30                 
    Carolina K-12: Teaching Democracy
    Christie Norris, Director of Education, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

    12:30-2:00                  
    Lunch  

    2:00-3:15                    
    Teaching History through Literature
    Barbara Wright, author of Crow

    3:30-5:00                    
    Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
    Dr. Kim Cook, Professor of Criminology, UNCW 

    7:00-9:00                    
    PBS documentary screening
    with filmmakers

    Required reading:

    • Barbara Wright, Crow (distributed in advance)

    • Video: “Practicing Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom”

    Suggested reading:

    • Diana E. Hess, "Why Democracy Demands Controversy," in Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion

  • Guiding question: What sustains community, connection, and democratic participation?

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections

    9:30-12:00                  
    Giblem Lodge Presentation
    Dr. Terry Jackson, Worshipful Master, Giblem Lodge No. 2
    Dr. Julius Jones, Assistant Professor of History, UNCW

    12:30-2:00                  
    Lunch

    2:00-5:30                    
    Small group share and final project development sessions
    Leyna Varnum available for individual consultations

    Required reading:

    • Henry Louis Gates, “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song,” PBS Documentary, Episode 2

  • Guiding question: How will we introduce what we learned in this institute to our classrooms?

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections/debriefing

    9:30-11:00                  
    Healing Forward
    Bertha Boykin Todd, activist, educator, and author of Reflections on a Massacre and a Coup (among other works)

    11:30-1:00                  
    Farewell Luncheon

*Schedule subject to change