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Postwar American Culture //**
 * // September History Forum //**



Shelton Intermediate School 675 Constitution Blvd. North, Shelton, CT //**
 * // Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The Teaching American History program, **// Democratic Vistas //**, invites all interested teachers to attend our September History Forum: “Postwar American Culture.” This forum will be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at the Shelton Intermediate School, 675 Constitution Boulevard North, Shelton, CT.

Our guest is Professor Michael Denning. He is a Professor of American Studies at Yale University and will be talking about US postwar social and cultural history.

Michael Denning is a William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies. He is the author of //Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America// (1987); //Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller// (1987); //The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century// (1997); and //Culture in the Age of Three Worlds// (2004). He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth–century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture.

Professor Denning will discuss Postwar America. Following the lecture, Lois Libby and Greg Hatzis, Professors from the Education Department at Sacred Heart University, will discuss strategies for eliciting critical thinking skills in history content with your students.

Postwar American Culture: A Lecture and Discussion Eliciting critical thinking skills in history content Dinner
 * Program: **
 * 4:00 to 5:30 PM **
 * 5:30 to 6:30 PM **
 * 6:30 to 7:00 PM **

A forty dollar stipend and CEUs are available for participating teachers. We are accepting sixty participants to this forum. Dinner will be included. Registration is required, and the deadline for registration is September 25, 2009. Please complete the online application at this, Democratic Vistas, site. Special consideration will be given to social studies, language arts and special education teachers. You will be notified by September 28th as to whether or not you have been accepted to participate in this monthly forum.

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