Gather with a small group of teachers from around the country for three days immersed in discussion and exploration of a single topic in American history. Multi-Day Seminars are a free opportunity for teachers hosted near an important historical site. Teachers will prepare ahead of time for seminars by reading selected historical documents in the provided course packet. Once the seminar begins, the discussion leader guides a peer-to-peer, text-based conversation among all participants. Meals, materials, single-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are 100% covered by Teaching American History. At the end of each course, every teacher receives a letter of participation for fifteen contact hours of continuing education and a stipend of $600 to help defray travel costs.

After defeating Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, the American people looked forward to a long period of peace and cooperation with their former allies in the Soviet Union. What they got instead was 45 years of simmering international hostility, occasionally breaking out in proxy wars, and on several occasions bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. This seminar will examine roughly the first half of the Cold War, from its origins through the Cuban Missile Crisis, with an emphasis on the different ways that the ongoing contest with the Soviet Union was handled by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

Applications are closed for this seminar. Summer 2026 applications are coming soon!