Please join us for the 2015 Teaching of History Conference (TCON) on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Our topic is “Exploration, Encounters and Exchanges,,” which provides an opportunity to hear outstanding scholars discuss how our history has been shaped by the explorations, encounters and exchanges that have informed our world, Texas and U.S. History since 1500. TCON is primarily intended for those who teach grades four through twelve or at the survey level in college. Speakers will emphasize course content and offer suggestions concerning teaching methods. Thus the conference’s objective is to offer a day of informative and stimulating presentations that aid in improving the teaching of History. Teachers who attend will receive 5 hours of continuing education credits.

Our online registration has closed. Walk-in registration is available at the event, and the registration fee will be $35.00.

Speakers and lectures to be featured:
John Moretta, Houston Community College—William Pitt Ballinger and Texas in the 19th Century
Mike Wise, UNT—Explorations of the Red River in Colonial Texas
Richard B. McCaslin — Transformative Encounters: World Wars I and II in Texas

Madeline Hsu, University of Texas—The 1965 Immigration Act
William Nester, St. John’s University—The Explorations of George Rogers Clark
Rebecca Sharpless, TCU—Food and slavery as vehicles for cultural exchange in U. S. history

Mike Farmer, UT-Dallas—The Silk Road in Tang Era China
Nancy Stockdale, UNT—The exchange of Islamic and Christian cultures and ideas in medieval Spain
Olga Velikanova, UNT—Political exchanges and encounters in the Ukraine