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Recent & Upcoming EventsJohn F. Kennedy Presidential Library - March 24, 2010I led a seminar/workshop entitled “History Makers II: Voices From The Past,” held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in partnership with the Boston Public Schools, on March 24, 2010. In an attempt to help teachers make strong connections between social studies and English Language Arts, using primary source materials with a strong personal voice. I focused on the importance of the letters between Abigail and John Adams.
Amsterdam Senior Center, New York - April 3, 2011Letters are the lifeblood of history, the beating heart of biography:
A talk on Abigail Adams as seen through her letters. They are, indeed, her written legacy to us. Daughters of the American Revolution - October 15, 2011A Revolution of Ideas
John Adams: "What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution....The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people...in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington." Ideas were the weapons with which Americans and Englishmen waged a revolution. What were those ideas? Stonybrook University, New York - November 12, 2011A Revolution of Ideas
Sachem Public Library, New York - January 17, 2012Mr. and Mrs. President: John and Abigail Adams
Amsterdam Senior Residence, New York - February 2012Thomas Jefferson: Hero or Villain
Port Washington Public Library, New York - April 13, 2012Robert Frost, Storyteller Poet
How his poetry was an outgrowth of the life he lived Sachem Public Library, New York - April 2012
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