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TCC Faculty Member Named
American History Grant Program Director
Daniel Lewis will
oversee teaching history to K-12 teachers “through a local lens”
NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 17, 2003
— Tidewater Community College faculty member Daniel Lewis, Ph.D.,
has been named director of the new Teaching American History Program
for K-12 teachers at Portsmouth City Public Schools and Norfolk
Public Schools.
Funded by the U.S. Department
of Education with a grant of $975,000 over three years, the groundbreaking
initiative will create quality programming for the schools using
local historical institutions, and will pair TCC faculty as “teacher-scholar
trainers” with the city school teachers.
Lewis, a history instructor
at TCC, looks forward to applying his dual passions for American
history and teaching to this program he helped conceive. “So much
of my work has led me to this program, from my graduate and doctoral
work in the Civil War era to my current job as an historian for
an internet publisher of Harper’s Weekly and other 19th-century
sources . . . With this program, the excitement of bringing history
to life for K-12 teachers through our rich local history is a rare
opportunity.”
From a national standpoint,
Lewis sees a compelling need for the Teaching American History program
in southeastern Virginia. “This professional development program
aims to assert the pivotal importance of our nation’s cities by
bolstering and reinvigorating public schools. By embracing the area’s
local history in the teaching of traditional American history, the
project showcases the vital importance of America’s urban landscape
as a site worthy of sustained historical exploration.”
Lewis earned his Ph.D., M.A.
and B.A. in American Studies from the University of Iowa. A focus
of his studies was 19th-century United States, with special interdisciplinary
emphases in visual arts, history and literature, in addition to
the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. He also has served as
a consultant for the Exhibition on U.S. Historical Prints at the
American Antiquarian Society and the Huntington Library, with a
grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002.
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For more information
about the Growing American History Teacher Scholars, visit: http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/legislation.html
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Tidewater Community College,
the second largest of Virginia’s 23 community colleges, enrolls
more than 34,000 students annually. It is the 37 th largest in the
nation’s 1,600 community college network. TCC enrolled 43 percent
of the region’s residents who attended a college or university in
Virginia last fall. Visit www.tcc.edu.
Media Contact: Laurie
White, Tidewater Community College, 757-822-1085, LWhite@tcc.edu
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