PROGRAMS
For High School Teachers
Summer Symposium for High School Teachers at UT Austin
July 28-30, 2025 at the Littlefield Home
The seminar will focus on the key ideas, debates, and principles from the American civic tradition through the close study of primary sources. Topics will include natural rights, the Constitution, and slavery, and participants will read and discuss primary sources such as the Federalist Papers, Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.”
Sessions will be led by faculty including Drs. Matthew Reising and Benjamin Kleinerman.
The seminar is free to attend and participants will receive a $300 stipend for completing the program.
