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Linda Sargent Wood
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2002
Interests: Cultural History, History Education, African American and Native American Education

Linda Sargent Wood specializes in American cultural history and history education. Her book, A More Perfect Union: Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II was recently published by Oxford University Press. From 2003-2005, she served as NAU's instructor/mentor for Page, Arizona teachers through a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant. Since then she has worked on a variety of TAH projects in the Phoenix area and is now beginning work on another TAH grant that partners NAU with teachers across northern Arizona. In addition to teaching and working on collaborative K-16 partnerships, Wood has participated in several public history projects. One involved the restoration of the Laurel Grove Colored School in Fairfax County, Virginia, which is now a part of the African American Heritage Trail. Currently, she is finishing a project on the Grand Canyon.

Announcements:

NAU History Department and Library partners with Flagstaff Unified School District, the Western History Association, the Arizona Historical Society, and other School Districts around Northern Arizona to win Teaching American History Grant. Read article

National History Day 2011 theme: "Debate and Diplomacy in History

National History Day

Arizona National History Day Includes information on this year's theme, Arizona teacher workshops, podcasts, and more...

American Society for Environmental History meets in Phoenix for its annual conference, April 12-15. Register online.

Western History Association Conference October 13-16, 2011 in Oakland. Register

Page TAH Grant participants tour the Nation's Capital
In June 2005, 13 teachers from Page, Arizona traveled to Washington, D.C. to learn more about the nation's history. These lifelong learners are studying for their MA in Education with a History Emphasis through a Page, Arizona/Northern Arizona University Teaching American History Grant. This trip was the history capstone of their MA experience. Special educational tours were arranged at many of the stops. Teachers visited Arlington Cemetery; Kennedy Center; Manassas National Battlefield; Memorials on the Mall; Mount Vernon; National Archives; Smithsonian Museums including the National Museum of the American Indian and the American History Museum; the Pentagon; United States Senate Committee meetings; United States Capitol; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and the White House. The trip proved to be a life-changing experience. It helped bring history alive to the teachers and what they learned will benefit their students for years to come.

Teachers on the steps of the National Archives.
(for the full image, click here)

Front row: Robin Greymountain; Second Row: Candice Horrocks, Rachael West, Adam Johnson, Holly Schauer-Johnson, Sandra Lomeland; Third Row: Jeanene Luster, Roxanne Wilmes, Mark Oman; Back Row: Kevin Anderson, Chuck Serventi, Janean McDonald (Not Pictured TAH directors Lynn Thompson Baca and Linda Sargent Wood) Photo Credit: Robin Greymountain

"As a teacher of American History, it pleases me to report that the trip to Washington, D.C.-my first visit there-has become a watershed in my life. The visit changed me. I walked in the paths of Lincoln and Washington and my heart swelled with patriotism. I heard voices from the Holocaust and sensed the suffering and sacrifice at the war memorials, and I wept with the families who felt their losses. On the battlefield at Manassas, I heard shouts as the soldiers attacked brothers, stepped where they fell, and struggled with my own composure again. In the Senate, I watched as the present overwhelmed the past-the power so thick in the air I could taste it-as men and women of our great Republic, those still living, were making history as I looked on. In Washington, D.C., I experienced history differently than ever before. This time I touched it and it touched me back."

Jeanene Luster, 5th grade teacher, Lake View Elementary School, Page, Arizona

© 2005 Linda Sargent Wood
All pictures used with permission from the Cline Library Special Collection
Webpage created and updated by Bill Knoblauch

Linda Sargent Wood, Ph.D. Northern Arizona University

Home Syllabi Teaching American History Grant Program Page Summer Academies U.S. Dept of Ed TAH Program Flagstaff TAH 2010 Environmental History History Education Laurel Grove School Curriculum Vitae Contact Information NAU History Department Homepage	Three views of the Grand Canyon Linda Sargent Wood Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2002 Interests: Cultural History, History Education, African American and Native American Education Linda Sargent Wood specializes in American cultural history and history education. Her book, A More Perfect Union: Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II was recently published by Oxford University Press. From 2003-2005, she served as NAU's instructor/mentor for Page, Arizona teachers through a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant. Since then she has worked on a variety of TAH projects in the Phoenix area and is now beginning work on another TAH grant that partners NAU with teachers across northern Arizona. In addition to teaching and working on collaborative K-16 partnerships, Wood has participated in several public history projects. One involved the restoration of the Laurel Grove Colored School in Fairfax County, Virginia, which is now a part of the African American Heritage Trail. Currently, she is finishing a project on the Grand Canyon. Announcements: NAU History Department and Library partners with Flagstaff Unified School District, the Western History Association, the Arizona Historical Society, and other School Districts around Northern Arizona to win Teaching American History Grant. Read article National History Day 2011 theme: "Debate and Diplomacy in History National History Day Arizona National History Day Includes information on this year's theme, Arizona teacher workshops, podcasts, and more... American Society for Environmental History meets in Phoenix for its annual conference, April 12-15. Register online. Western History Association Conference October 13-16, 2011 in Oakland. Register Page TAH Grant participants tour the Nation's Capital In June 2005, 13 teachers from Page, Arizona traveled to Washington, D.C. to learn more about the nation's history. These lifelong learners are studying for their MA in Education with a History Emphasis through a Page, Arizona/Northern Arizona University Teaching American History Grant. This trip was the history capstone of their MA experience. Special educational tours were arranged at many of the stops. Teachers visited Arlington Cemetery; Kennedy Center; Manassas National Battlefield; Memorials on the Mall; Mount Vernon; National Archives; Smithsonian Museums including the National Museum of the American Indian and the American History Museum; the Pentagon; United States Senate Committee meetings; United States Capitol; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and the White House. The trip proved to be a life-changing experience. It helped bring history alive to the teachers and what they learned will benefit their students for years to come. Teachers on the steps of the National Archives. (for the full image, click here) Front row: Robin Greymountain; Second Row: Candice Horrocks, Rachael West, Adam Johnson, Holly Schauer-Johnson, Sandra Lomeland; Third Row: Jeanene Luster, Roxanne Wilmes, Mark Oman; Back Row: Kevin Anderson, Chuck Serventi, Janean McDonald (Not Pictured TAH directors Lynn Thompson Baca and Linda Sargent Wood) Photo Credit: Robin Greymountain "As a teacher of American History, it pleases me to report that the trip to Washington, D.C.-my first visit there-has become a watershed in my life. The visit changed me. I walked in the paths of Lincoln and Washington and my heart swelled with patriotism. I heard voices from the Holocaust and sensed the suffering and sacrifice at the war memorials, and I wept with the families who felt their losses. On the battlefield at Manassas, I heard shouts as the soldiers attacked brothers, stepped where they fell, and struggled with my own composure again. In the Senate, I watched as the present overwhelmed the past-the power so thick in the air I could taste it-as men and women of our great Republic, those still living, were making history as I looked on. In Washington, D.C., I experienced history differently than ever before. This time I touched it and it touched me back." Jeanene Luster, 5th grade teacher, Lake View Elementary School, Page, Arizona
© 2005 Linda Sargent Wood All pictures used with permission from the Cline Library Special Collection Webpage created and updated by Bill Knoblauch