Grants and Outreach

 Work with Grants:


  • Co-author, “The Embodied Presidency: Eight Men, the Office, the Moment” and Teaching and Learning Specialist--(serving Durham Public Schools and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools), a $998,000 educational program for teachers funded by U.S. Department of Education  2006-2010

  • Co-author  and Director of Ancillary Materials, “Learn More/Teach More” (2002-2006), (serving North Carolina Public School Teachers, K-12); a $996,000 educational program for teachers funded by the U.S. Department of Education,

    • Outreach: Papers, Projects, and Publications


     “The Long Conversation: Lewis Simpson and the Archaeology of Mind,” The Southern Review, Spring 2006, 323-329


     “The Writing Program at NCSSM: A Social-Cultural Approach,” NCSSM program document, written with James A. Litle and Elizabeth Moose, 2005


     Templates and Design for External Reviews and Course Evaluations for the NCSSM Curriculum Review Committee, NCSSM program documents, designed with James A. Litle, 2006-2009


     Writer for Ancillary Materials (Comprehensive Bibliographies and Glossaries for content units in the ten eras of the National Standards for Teaching History), “Learn More/Teach More” educational program funded by U.S. Department of Education, 2002-2006


     “The Learn More/Teach More Grant,” National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, D.C., November 2006


     “Teaching Cartography and Slave Culture within the American Studies Writing Curriculum,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation, National Consortium of Specialized Schools of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, San Antonio, TX, March 2006


    “Images of Africans in British American Slave Law and Historic Maps, 1704-1773,” North Carolina Council for the Social Studies, Greensboro, NC, February 2006


     “Video Stream Content Modules and Ancillary Materials for Teaching U.S. History,” with James Litle and Virginia S. Wilson,  National Council for the Social Studies, Kansas City, MO, November 2005


     “American Studies Teaching Modules: Combining the Teaching of the History and Literature of the U.S.,” National Council for the Social Studies, Kansas City, MO, November 2005


     “The Idea of America: The Frontier in American Landscape Painting and  Historiography,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation, National Council for the Social Studies, Kansas City, KS, November 2005


     “Transforming Teaching and Learning: The ‘Learn More/Teach More’ Grant,” National Council for the Social Studies, Kansas City, KS, November 2005


     “The Legacy of Industrialism in the Economy of American Imagination, 1855-1937,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation on Industrialism in America, North Carolina Council for the Social Studies, Greensboro, NC, February 2005


     “Painting and Writing Women in the Age of Reform,” part of a joint presentation on women in the Age of Reform, North Carolina Council for the Social Studies, Greensboro, NC, February 2005


     “’Learn More/Teach More’: A Three-Year U.S. History Project,” joint presentation with James A Litle and Virginia S. Wilson, North Carolina Council for the Social Studies, Greensboro, NC, February 2005


     “Defining America:  Historiography, and the Frontier,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation, National Council for Social Studies, Baltimore, MD, November 2004


     “Learn More-Teach More,” joint presentation with James A. Litle and Virginia S. Wilson National council for Social Studies, Baltimore, MD, November 2004


     “Manifest Destiny: The Search for Adventure and Fame in U.S. History,” North Carolina Council for Social Studies,” Greensboro, NC, February 2004


     “Learn More/Teach More: 100 United States History Content Modules,” joint presentation with James A. Litle and Virginia S. Wilson, North Carolina Council of Social Studies Teachers,  Greensboro, NC, February 2004


     “Writing in the U.S. and World History Classroom,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation, North Carolina Council of Social Studies Teachers, Greensboro, NC, February 2003


     “South Africa in Crisis: Economic and Social Perspectives on the AIDS Epidemic,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation on South Africa, North Carolina Council of Social Studies Teachers, Greensboro, NC, February 2002


     “American Landscape Painting, American Historiography and the Ideology of Manifest Destiny,” part of NCSSM History Discipline’s joint presentation on Manifest Destiny, National Council of Social Studies Teachers, Washington, D.C., November 2001


     “Grain, Gold, and Gigabytes: Student Inquiry, Economics, and Integrated Cultural Studies,” with Michael W. DeHaven, National Consortium of Specialized Schools of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, McLean, VA,  March 1998


     Book-length manuscript Murderous Historian: Henry Adams, Modernity, and the Problem of Subjectivity, LSU Press. Received endorsements for publication from two outside readers, 1996-present


     "The Brooklyn Bridge as Cultural Icon and Emblem of Modernism: Modeling an Integrated Intersession, " Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Consortium, New Orleans, LA, March 1996


     "The IMSA Perspectives Project: A Three-Year Pilot," Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Consortium, San Francisco, CA, March 1995


     "The Perspectives Project at IMSA," Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Consortium, Atlanta, GA, October 1994


     "Rojas' Celestina, Machiavelli's Mandrágola, and the Sacralization of the Secular," Council for Hispanic Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, March, 1994


     "The All-Fragmenting Word: Henry Adams, Postmodernism, and the Nomadology of the Self", Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario, December 1993


     "Autobiography as Suicide: Women and the Confessional Mode," Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 1990


     "Murderous Historian: Henry Adams and the Forms of Autobiographical History," Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 1989


     "The Forms of Autobiographical History," South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, October 1986


     "Some Current Publications," Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700,  8 (1984), 30-42