Revolution: Places and Traces
A hybrid course that explores late-eighteenth century life in Philadelphia through reading, visits to historical sites, and experience working with archival materials
In this experiential course, students will learn about Philadelphia in the Revolutionary era. To prepare for the class trip to the city, students will first meet online to discuss assigned readings. While in Philadelphia, the class will work in archives such as the American Philosophical Society Library, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Guided by the curators at those repositories, students will take materials slated for digitization and draft lesson plans around the sources.
In the week following the trip, course participants will complete their lesson plans and supporting materials, which will be vetted for inclusion in The Revolutionary City, a website that explores Revolutionary Philadelphia through primary sources. In addition to lesson plans, students will write a reflective essay on Philadelphia and the preservation of its Revolutionary past in its architecture and institutions.
This hybrid experiential course is taught by Dr. Karim M. Tiro, Professor of History at Xavier University.
This course is open to teachers in any state. Teachers will receive 3 graduate credits from Xavier University upon completion of the course.
Credit from this course can transfer or apply:
- 3 credits to the UVU M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law
AFAC 590: Revolution: Traces and Places
- June 1 – June 21
- Course participants will travel to Philadelphia from June 7 – June 14
This course is full. If you are interested in taking an experiential course like this one in the future, students enrolled in the Xavier University Graduate Certificate in the American Founding and Constitution receive priority for limited spots.
This course is a part of the Jack Miller Center’s Civics Foundations Graduate Consortium, which seeks to provide K-12 teachers with high-impact graduate education centered around American civics and history. Click the link below to read more about the consortium and explore other available courses.