Each workshop will combine classroom and field studies, including archaeology, at The Hermitage. Participants will use as primary source evidence a variety of documents from the time period, the objects in The Hermitage’s collections, the books the Jackson family owned, the archaeological remains left behind by the enslaved black families, the architecture, and even the cultural landscape to examine these six interpretive themes. Friday afternoon will be devoted to planning individual educational projects. The advance reading list includes three books: Daniel Feller’s Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840, Harry Watson’s Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America, and Jack Larkin’s The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840. In addition, we will ask participants to read a selection of primary documents principally drawn from the 100 Milestone Documents on the Our Documents.gov website.