Designed especially for teachers of U.S. History, the Federal Trials and Great Debates Summer Institute deepens participants’ knowledge of the federal judiciary and of the role the federal courts have played in key public controversies that have defined our constitutional and other legal rights.

The institute will provide secondary school educators with the training and resources they need to engage students in the history of these landmark federal trials:

• The Aaron Burr Treason Trial
• In re Debs and the Pullman Strike
• The Trial of the Chicago Seven

Participants will work closely throughout the institute with leading historians, federal judges, and curriculum consultants. The institute is co-sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center and the American Bar Association Division for Public Education.

The application postmark deadline is March 1, 2008. For more information and application materials, visit http://www.abanet.org/publiced/conference/summer08.shtml