More than 50 Statewide History Teachers, Museum Directors and Others at UMaine for Friday Conference
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — The University of Maine Dept. of History will host “Maine and New England: Public Images/Invented Traditions,” a day-long professional development conference for Maine middle school and high school history teachers.
The 13th annual Conference on Teaching History in Maine, the event is scheduled for 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House.
Presenters from around Maine will include UMaine history graduate students and representatives of various history-related UMaine units such as the Maine Folklife Center, the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, the Hudson Museum and the William S. Cohen Papers Archive. Margaret Chase Smith Policy Library Director Greg Gallant and three representatives of the Maine State Museum in Augusta will also participate.
University of Southern Maine professor Kent Ryden, director of the American and New England Studies Program at that university, will present a 12:45 p.m. keynote talk, “The Natural Environment and Maine’s Public Image.”