What is the A More Perfect Union Seminar?
We are a professional development program and opportunity for public and private school teachers of history and social studies. The Seminar’s purpose is to provide school teachers with an intensive content-based immersion in traditional American history. The Seminar is funded by the U. S. Department of Education’s Teaching American History (TAH) Grant program, which defines “traditional American history content” as the “significant issues, episodes, and turning points in the history of the United States; how the words and deeds of individual Americans have determined the course of our Nation; and how the principles of freedom and democracy articulated in the founding documents of this Nation have shaped America’s struggles and achievements and its social, political, and legal institutions and relations.” Here is the Department of Education’s description of the TAH Grant program:The Teaching American History Grant program is a discretionary grant program funded under Title II-C, Subpart
