Struggles for Liberty

Founding to the Civil War

For Middle School Students

Struggles for Liberty

Founding to the Civil War

For Middle School Students

Seven Days. Six Nights. Interactive. All Inclusive.

Sojourn Project offers two customizable Sojourn Journeys for middle school students. The “Struggles for Liberty: Founding to the Civil War” Journey takes students to Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas.

Much more than a field trip, students get a firsthand glimpse of America’s struggle for liberty, and the fight for human equality and social justice. Sojourn is nationally recognized for captivating, educational, living-history journeys that meet the academic needs of participating middle schools.

Mount Vernon

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Monticello

Mount Vernon
George Washington, our first American president, commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, handing down a legacy of strength, integrity, and national purpose. As we tour Washington’s family home at Mount Vernon, we will learn of his prudence, fairness, and integrity, juxtaposed, as an active slave owner, with his personal struggles around the institution of slavery

Monticello
Step back in time as we slip behind the scenes at Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, one of our Founding Fathers, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and slaveholder (owning more than 600 slaves). We will study his accomplishments and his contradictions.

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Mount Vernon
Monticello

Gettysburg

During this six-hour guided tour of the 6,000-acre Gettysburg battlefield, we’ll experience the tragedy of war with gripping blow-by-blow commentary. Relive the ferocious clashes between Union and Confederate Armies raging across Devil’s Den, Little Round Top, and East Cemetery Hill, and at Pickett’s Charge, where more than 5,000 soldiers perished in one hour.

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Gettysburg

Washington, D.C.

As we tour the Lincoln, Jefferson, King, and Vietnam Memorials, and the National Museum of African American History, we’ll learn of powerful historical events, battles, wars, heroes, statesmen, servicemen and women, and regular citizens who have shaped and built this great nation. Reflecting on the deeper meaning and application to our own lives. Meet Civil Rights icon Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine and a teacher during the Journey.

Get face time with an array of dynamic speakers: Rev. Clark Olsen, longtime Civil Rights activist, speaking to the power of nonviolence; Gary Cross, cultural historian and Civil War expert; and Bill Barker, renowned Thomas Jefferson impersonator.

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Washington, D.C.

Customize Your Sojourn Project Journey

Every Journey is curated to the academic needs of the participating middle school, and is age-appropriate. Our program is in alignment with the Common Core State Standards established by the California Department of Education. The process of designing a Journey is collaborative and reflective of the school’s curriculum.

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