TAHPDX: Project Team
In an innovative urban/suburban consortium, the TAHPDX: Great Decisions in U.S. History (A Teaching American History Project) connects K-12 teachers with the resources of Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society. The project’s multidisciplinary consulting and administrative team includes renowned historians, a curriculum development specialist, a dramaturge, geographers and an independent program evaluator. For information about the TAH partners, historians, staff and consultants use the links below.
TAHPDX Partners
Click on the heading to get to the webpage that contains information about the Teaching American History Project partners including the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University, the Beaverton, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, and Portland School Districts, and the Oregon Historical Society.
TAHPDX Historians and Guest Historians
Click on the heading to get to the webpage that contains information about the TAH historian consultants and the guest speakers. Portland State University historian consultants provide content training through a series of professional development courses offered for graduate credit through the Department of History at Portland State University. The goal of the project is to provide participating social studies/history teachers with indepth content knowledge and innovative inquiry tools that will help them link national historical themes with the Pacific Northwest’s significant people, special places and pivotal events. In addition, a series of Saturday symposiums bring in nationally renowned guest historians that offer teacher participants further insight into how historians think and work.
The Historical Imagination: The historical imagination is the mental equipment with which practitioners of history approach the craft. Anyone who thinks about history needs to be sensitive to the varieties of historical thought and to the methods of analysis and the habits of mind that inform sound and productive historical inquiry. Download this short paper on The Historical Imagination: "Thinking" and "Doing" History, written by Dr. Craig Wollner, project director, for more details.
TAH Staff and Consultants
Click on the heading to get to the webpage that contains information that highlights the project’s creative multi-disciplinary administrative and consulting team. In addition to project administration handled by our TAH coordinator, the project team also includes a curriculum development specialist who assists teachers in creating the curricula that you will find on this website, a dramaturge who is instrumental in the unique integration of drama as a tool for historical interpretation, geographers who create historical geographic datasets for the project topics, and an independent program evaluator.
