Listed below are two links to tables that describe the suggested readings for the 2008 summer institute and describe the nature of the various plenary and breakout sessions scheduled for the summer institute.  Below them are links to several of the individual suggested readings for those sessions.

Table of Suggested Readings -- 2008 Summer Institute
Table lists the suggested readings and discussion questions for each plenary and breakout session. Some of the readings can be found on listed Internet links, while others are pdf files that can be found on the links following the first two table links on this webpage. Some of the readings have not yet been scanned and posted.
Table - 2008 Summer Institute Schedule & Session Descriptions
Table lists the various plenary and breakout sessions being offered, the time of those schedules, name of presenters and room location, and also provides a more specific description of each of those sessions.
Breakout 0A (Steven Sheehan) - Christopher Lasch article
10 page article entitled "The Culture of Consumption" from Encyclopedia of American Social History
Breakout 0A (Steven Sheehan) - Shelley Nickles article
42 page article entitled "More is Better: Mass Consumption, Gender, and Class Identity in Postwar America", found in American Quarterly.
Breakout 2A (Paisley Harris) - Letters regarding Chappelle Case
7 pages of letter exchanges in 1910.
Breakout 2A (Paisley Harris) - Chappelle v. IL Central Railroad Co.
Full opinion of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Breakout 2A (Paisley Harris) - Calcutt v. Gerig court case
Court opinion from the US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit in 1921.
Breakout 2B (Brett Barker) - James Lorence article
J. Lorence 9-page article entitled "The Impact of Total War: War Powers under the Constitution," found in Chapter 15 of "Enduring Voices".
Breakout 3A (Nancy LoPatin-Lummis) - "Take Your Choice" article
Pdf file entitled "Take Your Choice: The Age of George III."
Breakout 4A (Catherine Kalish) - Just Open the Door
Erin D. Howerton's 4 page essay, ?Just Open the Door: Banned Books (and a Librarian!) in the Classroom,? was published in the Young Adult Library Services' Spring ?07 volume.
Breakout 4A (Catherine Kalish) - Books Cannot be Killed by Fire
Nikola von Merveldt's 13 page essay, ?Books Cannot be Killed by Fire: The German Freedom Library and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books as Agents of Cultural Memory,? was published in Library Trends, Winter 2007.
Breakout 4A (Catherine Kalish) - List of Books Banned in US
Handout entitled ?Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States,? created by Adler Books.
Breakout 5A (Harvey Kaye) - "Paine in His Own Words"
Handout prepared by Harvey Kaye
Breakout 6B (Steve Vincent) - Vincent Essay "From Contested Terrain..."
Stephen Vincent authored a 25-page essay entitled "From Contested Terrain to Free Black Refuge: Slavery and Emancipation in the Upper Ohio Valley,"
Breakout 6B (Steve Vincent) - Handout of Abraham Lincoln's Views
Handout features Abraham Lincoln's views on the rights of African Americans
Breakout 6B (Steve Vincent) - Handout entitled "Racial Ambivalence Among Quakers"
Handout entitled "Racial Ambivalence among Quakers: Excerpts from Two Documents Pertaining to the 1826 Relocation of Several Dozen Slaves from North Carolina to Indiana"
Breakout 6B (Steve Vincent) - Reading from James Brewer Stewart's "Holy Warriors"
pp. 125-148 from "Holy Warriors: Abolitionists and American Slavery," within Chapter entitled "Races, Classes and Freedom."
Breakout 7B (Michael Jacobs) - American Declaration of Independence
Features both the preliminary and final draft.
Breakout 7B (Michael Jacobs) - Brown v. Board of Education
File features the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark court opinion in Brown v. Board of Education.
Breakout 7B (Michael Jacobs) - Jackie Robinson
Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower.
Breakout 7B (Michael Jacobs) - Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln's famous speech, Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Plenary 2 (Jack Rakove) - Declaring Rights, Jefferson-Madison Correspondence
These readings consist of several pages from Jack Rakove's book "Declaring Rights," that deal specifically with correspondence between James Madison and Thomas Jefferson regarding the topic of "rights."
Breakout 10B (John Grider) - A Race So Different
An essay by Hoang Gia Phan published in a 2004 volume of Labor History.