CONFERENCE PROGRAM: History Education Hawaii Summer 2015

Saturday, June 13, 2015        9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

Aliiolani Hale, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center

417 South King Street, Honolulu, HI 96813

WELCOME! E KOMO MAI! 

History Education Hawaii, Inc., the state council of the National Council for History Education (NCHE) extends its aloha and warm welcome to this year's conference attendees. 

History Education Hawaii expresses its special thanks to the National Council for History Education (NCHE), co-sponsor of this annual conference. 

E Pili Mai: Celebrating History Together as One

History teachers, historians, students and scholars, and the general public are invited to celebrate the subject of history, to highlight the value of history education and its benefits to a diverse, globalized and interconnected world. The conference seeks to foster a new beginning for all who love the subject of history through considerate dialogue, the building of new partnerships, energized relationships, all with the goal of strengthening our understanding of the complexities of as well as the pleasures of studying history in our contemporary world. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Holding a Bachelor of Science from West Point, a Masters in Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a specialty focusing on China and Southeast Asia, Dr. Corcoran is a noted historian and authority on military history, diplomacy, Asian Studies, national and international security issues and strategy. 

Dr. Corcoran is a career U.S. Army officer. He was the director of Asian Studies in the Department of National and International Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the 1980s and 1990s. He published a series  of conference reports on Asian Security as Rapporteur for the National Defense University. He recently authored an article in the newsletter of the Association of Diplomacy and Military Studies. His reviews have been published in the World History Association Journal. His latest article is due to be published in the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs Journal "Vietnam and the World" in June, 2015.

Dr. Corcoran teaches courses on history and Asia in Hawaii Pacific University’s (HPU) Military Campus Program and serves as a Curriculum Area Liaison for History, Diplomacy and Military Studies, and as the contact point for Asian Studies. He is the recipient of the HPU Trustees’ Award for Excellence in Teaching 2012-2013, HPU Teacher of the Year, and recipient of the HPU Faculty Assembly Golden Apple Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2011 Undergraduate/Adjunct. The Hawaii Council for the Humanities and the National History Day Executive Director presented an award to Professor Corcoran on May 9, 2015, at the 25th Anniversary celebration of Hawaii History Day, for his long-time service and dedication to Hawaii History Day. 

“On behalf of History Education Hawaii and the National Council for History Education, we are very excited that Dr. James Corcoran will be our keynote speaker,” said Jeffrey Bingham Mead, History Education Hawaii’s president and co-founder. “His first-hand perspectives and insights on Asian history, diplomacy and security issues in the Asia-Pacific Region come at an especially important time in contemporary history. We urge the public to attend our conference. What Dr. Corcoran has to share effects us all now and in the future.”

2015 History Educator of the Year

Dr. Justin Vance 

Join us in honoring Hawai‘i Pacific University associate professor of History Justin Vance, Ed.D., recently named the 2015 Hawaii History Educator of the Year.

We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Vance was nominated and will be awarded a special medal by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. The SUVCW is a fraternal organization dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of those who fought to save the Union. Organized in 1881 and chartered by Congress in 1954, it is the legal successor to the Grand Army of the Republic. 

PROGRAM OVERVIEW 

9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.: Doors open at Aliiolani Hale, the Hawaii Judiciary Building. 

WELCOMING REMARKS
by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, co-founder and president, History Education Hawaii, Inc. 

INTRODUCTIONS
Attendees are requested to stand and briefly introduce themselves. 

ABOUT THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HISTORY EDUCATION AND HISTORY EDUCATION HAWAII, INC. 
by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, co-founder and president, History Education Hawaii, Inc. 

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Presenter(s): Dr James Corcoran of Hawaii Pacific University.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Presenters: David Cypriano, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center; David Suhs, U.S.S. Missouri Memorial; Dr. James Corcoran, Hawaii Pacific University. Others are invited as well. 


HISTORY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR 2015: Dr. Justin Vance, Hawaii Pacific University and the Hawaii Civil War Roundtable. 
Presenters: David Cypriano, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center; David Suhs, U.S.S. Missouri Memorial; Dr. James Corcoran, Hawaii Pacific University. Others are invited as well. 

HISTORY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR 2015: Dr. Justin Vance, Hawaii Pacific University and the Hawaii Civil War Roundtable. 
Presenters: David Cypriano, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center; David Suhs, U.S.S. Missouri Memorial; Dr. James Corcoran, Hawaii Pacific University. Others are invited as well. 

HISTORY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR 2015: Dr. Justin Vance, Hawaii Pacific University and the Hawaii Civil War Roundtable. 
Presenters: David Cypriano, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center; David Suhs, U.S.S. Missouri Memorial; Dr. James Corcoran, Hawaii Pacific University. Others are invited as well. 

MEDAL PRESENTATION: To Dr. Justin Vance, Hawaii Civil War Roundtable from the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW). 
Presented by Arthur Tulak. 

PRESENTATION: African American History in Hawaii. 
Presented by Dr. Allison J. Gough, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Hawaii Pacific University. 

LUNCH
Noon to 1:30 p.m. The Judiciary History Center's museum will be open for your interest and enjoyment. 

PRESENTATION: Using Children's Books to Teach History. 
Presented by Professor James Tueller, Brigham Young University Hawaii. 

PRESENTATION: A Story of an American China Marine. 
Presented by Jeffrey Bingham Mead. 

HONORING YOUNG HISTORIANS: Hawaii Team representing the Aloha State at the National History Bowl. 
Comments by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, History Education Hawaii, Inc. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS, MEMBERSHIP & CONCLUSION: National Council for History Education and History Education Hawaii, Inc. 
by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, History Education Hawaii, Inc.