Adams Teacher Fellows:

Judith Powers, Nantucket Elementary School, The Adams Family in France and England, 1785-1788. Using Adams' family letters and diaries, Ms. Powers will reveal to students the everyday life and politics of the period.

Jason Raia, Pope John XXIII High School, Medford, Massachusetts, The Adams Family and American Foreign Policy. Mr. Raia will examine American foreign policy from the American Revolution through the Civil War using the letters and diaries of John, John Quincy, and Charles Francis Adams. His students will create their own blogs.

Duncan Wood, Newton North High School, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: The Development of the Two-Party System. Mr. Wood will use the correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 1812-1826, to help his students understand America's two-party political system, then and now.

Swensrud Teacher Fellows:

Beth Calderone, Boston Collegiate Charter School, Are All Politics Really Local? Contrasting Views of Boston Politicians. Ms. Calderone will explore the politics of the Irish-American experience in Boston through the papers and scrapbooks of Martin Lomasney, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Good Government Association.

Victor Henningsen, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Shays's Rebellion and the Meaning of Republicanism. Using the papers of John Temple, James Bowdoin, Robert Treat Paine, Theodore Sedgwick, and others, Mr. Henningsen's project will delve into Shays's Rebellion and the late-18th-century debate over the meaning of republicanism.