The Voices of America Teaching American History Grant Program is a three-year professional development program for history and social studies teachers in the Hamilton City Schools, Lakota Local Schools, and Mason City Schools in Southwest Ohio.  Each year of the program, fifty elementary and secondary teachers will work with distinguished professors from Miami University, curators and archivists from the Ohio Historical Society, and project leaders to learn more about our nation’s history, historical research methods, and instructional strategies in historical thinking.  In addition to their participation in seminars and a summer institute, the teachers are required to participate in online discussion forums and to produce a historical thinking lesson and scholarly research paper.  Once finalized, lesson plans will be available on the VOA website for teachers to access and use in their own classroom.