September 30th
6:00- 7:30 p.m. Road to Now Podcast Event
October 1st
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Registration opens/ Exhibit Hall open
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:45 a.m. Breakout Session 1
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Breakout Session 2
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Poster Session/Exhibit Hall
11:45 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Breakout Session 3
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Presentation of Gilder Lehrman Teacher of the Year Award
2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Keynote: Dr. Lorri Glover
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Giveaways!
Ben is Senior Instructor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, where he has worked since earning his PhD in history from Michigan State University in 2013. Ben has taught history at the university level for over a decade, is a former Fulbright Fellow in Russia (2011-2012). Ben is also a stand-up comedian .
This podcast event will bring together educators from across the K-16 spectrum to discuss how we communicate history with our students. Our discussion will explore questions such as: why study history, why is it useful, what do we do with all this history. The conversation will be recorded for use as a future episode of the podcast.
Bannon Endowed Chair in the History Department at Saint Louis University
Lorri Glover is the Bannon Endowed Chair in the History Department at Saint Louis University. Her books include Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries (2014), The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution (2016), and Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution (2020). Glover has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians and the Southern Historical Association. In 2020 she joined the author team for McGraw-Hill’s high school and middle school U.S. history textbooks, and she regularly works with history and social studies teachers at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and through Humanities Texas.
