Schedule*

WEEK ONE: JULY 8-12, 2024

  • Guiding question: How has access to democracy been challenged?

    9-9:30                
    Welcome
    UNCW Deans & CDO

    9:30-10:15
    Introductions
    Participants

    10:30-12:30                 
    Wilmington 1898
    David Zucchino, author of Wilmington’s Lie

    12:30-2:00          
    Lunch

    2:00-3:30   
    Introduction of K-12 Leader and Explanation of Institute Projects
    Leyna Varnum  

    3:30-4:30
    Develop work products
    Leyna Varnum available for consultation

    5:00-6:30
    Reception at Madeline Suite

  • Guiding question: How did the expansion of democracy
    after the Civil War affect American society?

    8:30-12:30
    Field Trip to St. Stephen AME and "Boundless," Cameron Art Museum Exhibit on US Colored Troops
    Dawn McClammy, St. Stephen AME

    Daniel Jones, Cameron Art Museum, curator of “Boundless,” an outdoor installation commemorating the United States Colored Troops      

    12:30-2:00                 
    Lunch

    2:00-3:30 
    Wilmington, 1897
    Joel Finsel, co-founder of Third Person Project

    3:45-5:30        
    Develop work products
    Leyna Varnum available for individual consultations

  • 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

  • Guiding question: How do we teach about American democracy?

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections

    9:30-10:30                  
    Teaching Truth, Learning Justice
    Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

    10:45-12:30                 
    Project development
    Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University  

    12:30-2:00                  
    Lunch

    2:00-3:30                    
    Panel: “Hard History”
    Donyell Roseboro, Chief Diversity Officer, UNCW
    Felix Brooks, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, UNCW
    Leslie Randall-Morton, Site Historian, Bellamy Mansion and Museum 

    3:30-5:30                     
    Building a Community of Practice
    Melissa Rihm Thibault, Chief Education and Innovation Officer, PBS North Carolina

  • 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)

  • 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 

  • Guiding questions: What is the role of journalism in the democratic process?

    9:00-9:30                    
    Reflections

    9:30-10:00                  
    The Daily Record in the Archives/Cape Fear Museum
    Cape Fear Museum staff

    10:45-12:15                 
    Resistance and The Daily Record
    Kieran Haile, multimedia engineer and descendant of Alexander Manly
    Roux Haile, activist and descendant of Alexander Manly  

    12:30-2:00                  
    Lunch

    2:00-3:30                    
    The Role of the Black Press: Mary Alice Jervay Thatch and the Wilmington Journal
    Cash Michaels, documentary filmmaker 

    3:45-5:30                    
    Project development sessions
    Leyna Varnum available for individual consultations

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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