Residential Institute: June 1–13, 2025

Note: Sessions will be held between 9 am and 5 pm, with multiple breaks. The sessions will include seminar style discussions, teaching workshops, and historic site visits. Ample time will be allotted for research and project development.

Sunday, June 1: Participant arrival and welcome reception

Monday, June 2: Introductions

  • Introductions to the Institute
  • Introduction to William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
  • Behind the Scenes tour
  • Environmental Relief Act and Removal of Quapaw People from Little Rock

Tuesday, June 3:

  • Indigenous Relationships to Land and Water
  • Westward Expansion
  • Walking tour of the Arkansas River

Wednesday, June 4:

  • Workshop on teaching with rivers
  • Civil War and the Destruction of the Southern Landscape
  • Institute Faculty Office Hours/ Research and Project Development

Thursday, June 5:

  • Small group discussion of participant project ideas
  • Wilderness and the Conservation Movement
  • Creating the National Park System

Friday, June 6:

  • Site Visit to Arkansas Post National Memorial (National Park Service Site in Gillett, Arkansas)

Saturday–Sunday: Free

Monday, June 9:

  • Social History of the Environmental Justice Movement
  • Walking tour on Displacement and Historical Commemoration in Downtown Little Rock

Tuesday, June 10:

  • Environmental History of New Deal Agricultural Programs
  • US Military and the 20th Century Environment
  • Option:
    • Visit to Murray Lock and Dam or
    • Research and Project Development

Wednesday, June 11:

  • The Environmental Movement
  • The Clinton Era, Part I (Clinton Library Collection)
  • Visit to Clinton Library permanent exhibition on “Protecting the Earth”
  • Faculty Office Hours and Research and Project Development

Thursday, June 12:

  • The Clinton Era, Part II (Clinton Library Collection)
  • Workshop on Teaching Environmental History through Material Culture
  • Option:
    • Visit to Historic Arkansas Museum or
    • Research and Project Development

Friday, June 13

  • Wrap-Up Discussions on Teaching Methods and Content
  • Small group discussion of participant projects

Virtual Institute, June 16–20, 2025

Note: Virtual sessions will be held from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m. ET, and will include multiple breaks

Monday, June 16:

  • Climate Change
  • Researching and Teaching with Presidential Libraries Session I
  • Institute Faculty Office Hours

Tuesday, June 17:

  • Workshop: Teaching with “Energy History Online”
  • Workshop: Writing for Public Audiences

Wednesday, June 18:

  • Researching and Teaching with Presidential Libraries Session II
  • Small Group Workshopping of Projects

Thursday, June 19:

  • Juneteenth, No sessions

Friday: June 20:

  • Small group participant and faculty discussions of submitted projects