History Teachers Go Back to School at C.W. Post
Dr. Richard D. Brown of the University of Connecticut delivers first in series
of professional development seminars for Nassau County secondary school teachers

Brookville, N.Y. -- Teachers of American history from Nassau County school districts sat down for class at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University on Monday, Oct. 22, as guest lecturer Dr. Richard Brown of the University of Connecticut led a day-long seminar on the American Revolution.

Dr. Brown’s talk, “A Nation is Created: Causes of the American Revolution (1754-1820),” is the first in a series of 12 professional development seminars for Nassau County teachers sponsored by the C.W. Post School of Education and the Nassau Board of Cooperative Education Services.

Dr. Brown is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at UConn and the director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. He is a 1961 graduate of Oberlin College who attended Harvard on a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, earning his Ph.D. in 1966. His research and teaching interests have been in the political, social and cultural history of early America. His current project, "The Challenge of Equality in the Early Republic," employs microhistory and narrative.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded a grant of $999,999 to C.W. Post and Nassau BOCES to fund the Teaching American History program. Along with lectures by historians from Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and other top universities, the program includes follow-up workshops and summer institutes.

From left, Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, Associate Professor of Education; Dr. Robert Manheimer, Dean of the School of Education; University of Connecticut historian Dr. Richard D. Brown; Dr. Jeffrey Kane, Long Island University Vice President for Academic Affairs.		Dr. Richard D. Brown addresses approximately 45 Nassau County middle and high school teachers at first lecture in the Teaching American History series of professional development seminars.

Posted: October 23, 2007