VotingRightsandPoliticalParticipationSeminarPage

The Right to Vote: Case Studies in Political Participation and Voting Rights in America //With Alex Keyssar, Harvard University and Tsongas Industrial History Center Museum Educators// December 15, 2009, 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.*, Reading Memorial High School
 * 7:30 a.m. start for participants attending a school day seminar for the first time

Alex Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government will base this interactive lecture on his book, // The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States //, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Topics in this study of suffrage will include: the expansion and contraction of the vote in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, connections between enfranchisement and financial status, the women’s suffrage movement, immigrants, class, and voting rights, and African Americans and the right to vote. Classroom connections will examine political participation by many not eligible for the vote as educational specialists from the Tsongas Industrial History Center discuss the nineteenth century movement for a ten-hour work day. Access a Virtual Book Tour of //The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States:// []

**Resources**


 * Professor Keyssar's Outline and Presentation **

Connections to Standards **
 * Advanced Reading Assignment **

**Schedule**

Memorandum of Understanding & Evaluation Informed Consent Graduate Credit/PDPs Pre-Test History Connected Wiki & Website || Resources Review Technology Tools for Student “Voting” and Responses || Alex Keyssar, Harvard University || Political Participation Case Studies A. Voices of Change B. The Ten Hour Movement With Staff from the Tsongas Industrial History Center ||
 * 7:30 – 7:45 || **Arrival, Breakfast, and Check-in** (for teachers who have not yet attended a school day seminar) ||
 * 7:45 – 8:30 || **Orientation**
 * 8:00 – 8:30 || **Arrival and Breakfast** (for teachers who attended school day seminar #1 in November) ||
 * 8:30 – 9:00 || **Welcome and Introductions (for all)**
 * 9:00 – 11:30 || **The Right to Vote: Examining Political Participation and Voting Rights in America**
 * 11:30 – 12:15 || **Lunch** ||
 * 12:15 – 2:15 || **Classroom Connections**
 * 2:15 – 2:30 || **Classroom Connections Discussion and Evaluations** ||