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The Seabrook Cultural and Educational Center began in 1989, just a year after President Ronald Reagan signed legislation formally apologizing for Japanese internment during World War II and initiating a program of reparation payments to survivors and their families, and was funded in part by donations from these reparation payments.  During the war, Seabrook Farms of southern New Jersey supplied the military with fresh, frozen and deyhdrated food.  Plagued by a chronic labor shortage, farm owners recruited agricultural and cannery workers including German prisoners of war, West Indian contract laborers, Japanese Americans, and Japanese Peruvians from wartime detention camps in America.  ONMAP participants will receive an introduction to the site, an opportunity to visit with two women interned as teenagers in California who later relocated to Seabrook, and time to explore the center’s museum and oral history collection.

February 24, 2010

Dr. Virginia Korrol-Sanchez is a professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.  She is the author of From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City (1994), coauthor with Marysa Navarro of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (1999); and coeditor with Vicki L. Ruiz of Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community (2005).  She consults on museum exhibits, television documentaries, and educational projects, and serves on the boards of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage and the New York Academy of History. Her presentation will blend history and technology and is entitled "Latinas in American History: An Innovative Approach to Teaching with Technology."

(Please note: this is Stockton College’s first annual Paul Lyons Memorial Lecture; TAH teachers are invited, but not required, to attend)

Dr. Foner is professor of history at Columbia University and past president of both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians.  His publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history, and the history of American race relations, and include Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) (winner of the Bancroft Prize, Parkman Prize, and Los Angeles Times Book Award); The Story of American Freedom (1998); and Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002).  He will be speaking to the ONMAP Program about how American notions of “freedom” are redefined in moments of crisis—to justify war, protect borders, exclude outsiders, and promote nationalism. 

Thomas Sugrue

Dr. Thomas Sugrue is a professor of history at  the University of Pennsylvania, a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and a prolific writer. His publications concentrate on the intersections between race, urbanism, and citizenship and include Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008), The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996), and the forthcoming Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of History (2010). His presentations will illustrate that the Civil Rights movement occurred in the North as well as the South and will highlight the differences and similarities between the two struggles.

The 2010 Summer Institute combines exciting Guest Faculty lectures on the Civil Rights movement and diversity in America today with cutting-edge technology training and hands-on lesson plan workshops. Proposed Site visits: Stockton College Holocaust Studies Center, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the National Archives, Library of Congress, walking tour of historic U Street neighborhood in Washington, DC, and the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia.