Join educators and historians in conversation as we discuss how to
teach the complex history of race and ethnicity in America.
Summit Schedule
All listed times are EST.
August 4
11:00am - 12:00pm
Virtual Field Trip: Mount Vernon
1:00 - 3:00pm
Panel: Diverse Histories, Diverse Learners
4:00 - 5:00pm
Keynote Session: Seizing the Moment: Teaching Race and Racism Today
Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University
7:00 - 9:00pm
Panel: Teaching the Legacy of Slavery
August 5
10:00 - 11:00am
Virtual Field Trip: Interpreting Northern Slavery at Philipsburg Manor
11:00am - 12:00pm
More to the Movement: Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement
Elizabeth Novara, Library of Congress
1:00 - 3:00pm
Panel: Systems of Race and Ethnicity
4:00 - 5:00pm
Keynote Session: Making it Easier to Teach Hard History
Kate Shuster, Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History
7:00 - 9:00pm
Panel: A History of Resistance
August 6
10:00 - 11:00am
History Matters (...and so does coffee!)
Joanne Freeman, Yale University
11:00am - 12:00pm
Keynote Session: Black Founding Fathers of the United States of America
LaGarrett King, University of Missouri
1:00 - 3:00pm
Panel: Monuments and Memory
4:00 - 5:00pm
Keynote Session: Simply Because People Refuse to See Me:
Black Lives Matter in Historical Context
Yohuru Williams, University of St. Thomas
7:00 - 8:00pm
Student Voices: National History Day Project on Race and Ethnicity
**Schedule is subject to change.