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Summer 2002

• Video by Frank Slotkus (143 MB -- Media Player -- requires codec, which should download automatically) Currently unavailable

Summer 2003

• Introduction by Lawrence McBride (Day 1)
  • What's new in the 2003 Summer Institute (11 MB)
  • On Frederick Drake and his "philosophical orientation of primary [and] secondary sources (21 MB)
  • On Illinois State University's History Education Program (25 MB)
• Roundtable Discussion (Day 2)
  • Silvana Siddali: From "Antebellum Midwestern State Constitutions: Context of Core Documents and the Issue of Free Black Families" (4 MB)
  • Kyle Ciani, Silvana Siddali, and Lucinda Beier elaborate on the implications of the use of the word "frontier" (18.5 MB)
  • Richard Soderlund responds to a question about engaging issues of American consumerism (28.5 MB)
  • Lucinda Beier and Richard Soderlund respond to Rich Baldwin's criticism of Eric Schlosser's (Fast Food Nation) "simple solution" to the pollution, low wages, and negative overall health of children posed by fast food restaurants.(26 MB)
  • Kyle Ciani, Lucinda Beier, and Silvana Siddali candidly discuss the difficulties and decisions that must be made during the historical research and writing process (49.5 MB)
  • Lucinda Beier responds to Chris Mangun's concern regarding the gap between the practice of professional historians and the reality of standardization faced by high school history teachers (31 MB)
• Research Team Report Kit Presentations (Day 5)
  • American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
    • Dan Zapler summarizes key points in Maier's book (11.5 MB)
    • Kathleen Lunskis explains the intellectual approach taken by her group with their research report kit and presents Maier's account of personal circumstances under which Jefferson drafted the Declaration(11 MB)
    • Dave Witzig announces the group's current effort to conceptualize a Fourth-Order Document, then leads the institute in a group activity (11 MB)
    • Marcia Steward presents the Declaration of Independence as her group's First-Order Document (5 MB)
    • Jennifer Sharp offers a rationale for the Magna Charta as a Second-Order document which corroborates the Declaration of Independence (8 MB)
  • A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
    • Sondra Sisson suggests a reason why major American events were not included in Martha Ballard's diary (9.5 MB)
    • Heidi Johnsen presents Abigail Adams's "Remember the Ladies" as the group's First-Order Document (6 MB)
    • Elizabeth Lupfer and Terri Clemens explains how Martha Ballard's diary, along with Second-Order Documents, offers insight into the economic lives of women during her time (13 MB)
    • Cherlyn McBride asserts that "a woman's work is never done" (9 MB)
  • Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth Century
    • Robert Fitzgerald and Tony Berardi express difficulties the group had with the book (6 MB)
    • Robert Fitzgerald establishes the assumption that Alexis de Tocqueville believed that Americans were very active in political life (8 MB)
    • Matt Jordan responds to questions from Larry McBride (10 MB -- WAV file)
    • The group responds to Richard Soderlund's caution regarding historical context (13 MB)
    • Kyle Ciani advises how art can be useful as Second-Order Documents (10 MB)
    • An explanation for higher voter turnouts in previous times (10.5 MB)
  • The Strange Death of American Liberalism
    • Rich Baldwin introduces his team's report kit and First-Order Document (18 MB)
    • Stacy Flannery offers an account of Abraham Lincoln's response to dissidents during the Civil War (26.5 MB)
    • Jim Kelly uses photos as Second-Order Documents to establish a context for understanding freedom (22.5 MB)
  • Making the Second Ghetto
    • Kevin Suess presents several Second-Order Documents as evidence of a desire to move into urban housing projects (14.5 MB)
    • Glen Petersen uses a political cartoon as a Second-Order Document to challenge his group's First-Order Document (6 MB)
    • Eric Wagner analyzes his group's First-Order Document (4 MB)
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    • The group has the institute participants total up their fast food receipts for the week (5 MB)
    • Jason Artman and Tracy Van Prooyen present their group's First-Order Document (8.5 MB)
    • Sean O'Laughlin guides the institute participants through analysis of a Second-Order Document (16 MB)
    • Sean O'Laughlin leads the participants through an exercise to help them consider the labor that produces their fast food (25 MB)
    • Tracy Van Prooyen and Chris Weaver discuss fast food and child labor (8.55 MB)
    • Jody Wiley explains McDonaldization (8.5 MB)
    • Tracy Van Prooyen suggests some Third-Order Documents students can bring to the classroom (8 MB)
• Celebrating Larry McBride's birthday (32 MB)
• Frederick Drake: Concluding remarks (13 MB)

All video by Charles Ian Chun, unless otherwise noted.

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