The History Teaching Alliance (HTA) is a program that brings together individuals and institutions interested in history and history education. The alliance began in 1986 as a project to create connections between the University of Wisconsin - Marathon County and high school teachers in the Wausau area. It now also includes K-8 teachers, the Marathon County Historical Society, and interested community members.

In 2007, the United States Department of Education awarded a Teaching American History grant to three Wisconsin CESAs and UWMC, UW-Green Bay, and UW-Oshkosh.  This grant will support a new regional HTA-- named the Wisconsin Academy for the Study of History (WASAH)-- for the next three years.  Teachers from all three CESAs will participate, and during 2009-2010  the program will be based at UW-Oshkosh and its leadership will include Brett Barker, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County. 

Our 2009 Summer Institute will be held July 19-24.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Brett Barker

(715) 261-6250

Brett.Barker@uwc.edu

Jim Lorence, one of the founders of the HTA, speaks during the Summer 2002 Program.