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Authors to speak at teacher conference WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Second Annual Where It's AT! Conference, a symposium exploring children's and adolescent literature that relates to citizenship and history education, will be July 19-21 in Stewart Center at Purdue University. This year's theme is "America's Past: Personal Accounts and Public Documents as U.S. History," and the public is invited to attend presentations by the featured speakers, including Howard Jones, author of "Mutiny on the Amistad" and consultant to the film "The Amistad"; Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, author of "The Bear That Heard Crying" and other books for children; and Brandon Miller, author of "Buffalo Girls" and other books that bring history to children. Miller's keynote address will be at 10:30 a.m. July 19 in Stewart Center Room 302. All three authors will conduct afternoon workshops both July 19 and 20. The conference program also will include presentations by historians on researching history, using the Internet as a resource for history inquiry in the classroom, and workshops on reading, writing and researching various historical sources for use by students. The conference is co-sponsored by the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship and Teachers Encouraging a Love for Literature (TELL) and is open to educators at all levels as well as children's literature scholars, writers and teachers. Registrations will be accepted the day of the event. Fees are $50 for members of TELL, $60 for nonmembers, and $35 for students. For more information, call the Ackerman Center at (765) 494-4755 or visit the Ackerman Center Web site. To the Purdue News and Photos Page