From Knowledge Center
City Beautiful Movement in New Haven
This page courtesy of Josiah Brown.
The “City Beautiful Movement” in New Haven was treated in a 2008 Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminar that Edward S. Cooke Jr. of the History of Art and American Studies departments led on New Haven history through its art and material culture: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2008/3/
Other examples of curriculum units that New Haven Public School teachers developed as Institute Fellows in that seminar, as well as a photo of participants on the New Haven Green, can be found in this New Haven Independent account: http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/2008_new_haven_teacher-developed_curriculum_units_online_2009_seminars_set/
Other History Curriculum Resources on New Haven
Below are other examples of curricular resources related to history, including local history.
New Haven and the nation in the 19th century (seminar led by Howard Lamar): http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/3/
“History in the American Landscape: Place, Memory, Poetry” (seminar led by Dolores Hayden, with units by history teachers including Justin Boucher of Career and Judith Goodrich of Troup) http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2005/3/
Civil rights (seminar led by Robert Burt) http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/index.php?url=http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/nationalcurriculum/units/2009/2/
The Supreme Court (seminars led by Robert Burt) http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/index.php?url=http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/nationalcurriculum/units/2006/2/ http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2004/1
Latino cultures and communities (seminars led by Stephen Pitti) http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/index.php?url=http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/nationalcurriculum/units/2007/4/ http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2006/2/
These and many other seminars—on history and numerous other subjects—were led by Yale faculty members, with New Haven teachers participating as Institute Fellows and developing curriculum units for their students. These and other Institute-developed curricular resources are available for non-commercial, educational purposes.
