The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. We offer the following Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Schoolteachers as part of the NEH's We the People program. Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops provide the opportunity for K-12 educators to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. These one-week academies will give participants direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary historical evidence. Landmarks Workshops present the best scholarship on a specific landmark or related cluster of landmarks, enabling participants to gain a sense of the importance of historical places, to make connections between what they learn in the workshop and what they teach, and to develop enhanced teaching materials for their classrooms.

Amount of Award
Teachers selected to participate will receive a stipend of $500 at the end of the residential workshop session. Stipends are intended to help cover living expenses, books, and travel expenses to and from the workshop location. Travel supplements will be available, but will be allocated on a case-by-case basis after the workshop session is over.

Eligibility
Classroom teachers in public, private, parochial, and charter schools, as well as home-schooling parents are eligible to participate. Other K-12 school personnel, including administrators, substitute teachers, classroom paraprofessionals, and librarians, are also eligible to participate, subject to available space.

Teachers at schools in the United States or its territorial possessions or Americans teaching in foreign schools where at least 50 percent of the students are American nationals are eligible for this program. Applicants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the a pplication deadline. Foreign nationals teaching abroad are not eligible to apply.

Applicants must complete the NEH application and provide all of the information requested to be considered eligible. An individual may apply to and participate in a maximum of two (2) workshops and may not apply to a program previously attended. Past or present participation in the NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes program does not affect an individual's eligibility to participate in Landmarks programs.

How to Apply
Please telephone or send by U.S. mail or by e-mail a request for application information and expanded workshop descriptions to the Landmarks directors listed here. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address because directors may send application material through the mail. You may request information about as many workshops as you like, and, as noted above, you may apply to and participate in no more than two programs, providing that the dates do not overlap. The application deadline is March 17, 2008 (postmark).

Information
Please direct all questions concerning individual Landmarks Workshops, as well as all requests for application materials, to the appropriate director(s). General questions concerning NEH Landmarks programs may be directed to the NEH Division of Education Programs (202/606-8463 or e-mail sem-inst@neh.gov).

Equal Opportunity
Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information about the NEH EEO policy, write to NEH Equal Opportunity Officer, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD (for the hearing imparied only): 202/606-8282.

Workshops

Not Just a Scenic Road: The Blue Ridge Parkway and Its History
July 7-12 or July 14-19, 2008
Locations: Appalachian State University; Blue Ridge Parkway
Neva Jean Specht
Department of History
Old Library Classroom Bldg.
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828.262.6879
brpasu@appstate.edu
www.history.appstate.edu/NEH/NEH.html

Shaping the Constitution: A View from Mount Vernon, 1783-1789
June 16-20 or July 28-August 1, 2008
Location: Mount Vernon, Alexandria, Virginia
Claire McCaffery Griffin and Nancy Hayward
The Bill of Rights Institute
200 N. Glebe Rd.
Arlington, VA 22203
Information: Marianne Scott
703/894-1776, ext. 10
events@billofrightsinstitute.org
www.billofrightsinstitute.org/

Landmarks of the Underground Railroad:
From Christiana to Harpers Ferry
July 14-18 or July 21-25, 2008
Locations: South-Central Pennsylvania and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Matthew Pinsker
Department of History
Dickinson College
P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
Information: Elaine Mellen
717/245-1521
history@dickinson.edu
www.dickinson.edu/departments/hist/NEHworkshops/

Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial
July 26-August 1 or August 2-8, 2008
Locations: East-West Center and U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
Namji Steinemann
AsiaPacificEd Program
East-West Center
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
Information: Rosita MacDonald
808/944-7378
808/944-7070 (fax)
macdonar@eastwestcenter.org
www.AsiaPacificEd.org

Immigration, Religion, and Culture
on New York's Lower East Side
July 14-18 or August 4-8, 2008
Locations: Historic Sites in the Lower East Side of New York City, including the Eldridge Street Synagogue, Chinatown, the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, Little Italy, the African Burial Ground, and the Schomburg Institute
Annie Polland
Information: Phyllis Freed
Eldridge Street Project
12 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002
212/219-0888
Pfreed@eldridgestreet.org

Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Her Eatonville Roots
June 15-21, June 22-28, or June 29-July 5, 2008
Locations: Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida; historical sites around Eatonville, Florida; Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail, Ft. Pierce, Florida; and Maitland Art Center, Maitland, Florida
Ann Simas Schoenacher
Florida Center for Teachers
Florida Humanities Council
599 2nd Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
727/873-2010
aschoenacher@flahum.org
www.flahum.org/zora

FDR and the World Crisis, 1933-1945: Roosevelt and Hyde Park
July 13-18 or July 20-25, 2008
Locations: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Springwood (FDR's home), Top Cottage (FDR's retreat), and Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill, Hyde Park, New York; and Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York
David Woolner
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
4079 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538
845/486-7774
845/486-1151 (fax)
info@feri.org
www.feri.org

The Problem of the Color Line:
Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History
July 13-19 or July 20-26, 2008
Locations: Martin Luther King National Historic Site, the Atlanta University Center Historic District, the Auburn Avenue Landmark District, the Fox Theater, Piedmont Park—Site of the 1895 Cotton States Exposition, the Georgia State Capitol
Timothy J. Crimmins
Department of History
Georgia State University
837 General Classroom Building
Atlanta, GA 30303
404/413-6356
tcrimmin@gsu.edu
www2.gsu.edu/~wwwnms/initiatives/AtlantaLandmarks.pdf

The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson, and America, 1801-1861
June 22-27 or July 6-11, 2008
Location: The Hermitage—Home of Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee
Janice Leone, Middle Tennessee State University,
and Marsha Mullin, The Hermitage
Information: Janice Leone
Department of History
P.O. Box 217, 1301 E. Main
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615/898-5580 or -5798
lahmtsu@mtsu.edu

Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer:
The Outside World and the Writer's Imagination
July 6-11 or July 20-25, 2008
Locations: Eudora Welty House, Millsaps College, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, plus visits to three other sites (Medgar Evers House, Smith Robertson Museum, Agriculture and Forestry Museum), Jackson, Mississippi
Suzanne Marrs, Millsaps College
Information: Wanda Manor
Office of Continuing Education
Millsaps College
1701 North State St.
Jackson, MS 39210
601/974-1130
manorwl@millsaps.edu
www.eudorawelty.org/neh.html

Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization, and the Creation of a World Power
June 23-27 or July 28-August 1, 2008
Locations: Duluth, Ely, and Virginia, Minnesota
Matthew Brandt
Information: Rebecca Eilers
Minnesota Humanities Center
987 East Ivy Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55106
866/268-7293, ext. 257
Rebecca@minnesotahumanities.org
www.minnesotahumanities.org

James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship
June 14-21 or June 22-29, 2008
Location: James Madison's Montpelier, Orange, Virginia
Will Harris
Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier
13385 Farm Rd.
P.O. Box 67
Montpelier Station, VA 22957
Information: Andrew Washburn
540/672-2728 x201
awashburn@montpelier.org
www.montpelier.org

A Revolution in Government: Philadelphia, American Independence, and the Constitution, 1765-1791
July 7-11 or July 21-25, 2008
Locations: National Constitution Center, Independence Hall, Declaration House, Franklin Court, Carpenter's Hall, and other historic sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Steve Frank and Eli Lesser
National Constitution Center
525 Arch St.
Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215/409-6628
teacher@constitutioncenter.org

Race and Place: African Americans
in Washington, D.C., from 1800-1954
July 13-18 or August 3-8, 2008
Locations: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, LeDroit Park, Howard University, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, The National Archives, Decatur House Museum, and Lafayette Square
Katherine Malone-France
Decatur House Museum, a National Trust Historic Site
1610 H St., NW
Washington, DC 20006
202/842-0920
raceandplace@nthp.org
www.decaturhouse.org/workshop/

Ellis Island 1891-1924: Immigration, Public Health, and the American Workforce
July 20-25 or July 27-August 1, 2008
Locations: Ellis Island; Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City; and Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York City
Dorothy White Hartman
Information: Jan Frazier
Save Ellis Island, Inc.
500 International Drive, Suite 350
Mt. Olive, NJ 07828-1381
jfrazier@saveellisisland.org
www.ellisislandinstitute.org

Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern America
June 22-27 or July 20-25, 2008
Locations: Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and Historic Sites in Illinois, including the Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, the Lincoln Home, the Lincoln Law Office in Springfield, and New Salem Village
Caroline Pryor and Susan Breck
Information: Susan Breck
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
P.O. Box 1122
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1122
618/650-3444
sbreck@siue.edu
www.siue.edu/education/neh/index.shtml

Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution
June 22-27, July 13-18, or July 27-August 1, 2008
Locations: Lowell National Historical Park, Old Sturbridge Village, and various sites in Concord, Massachusetts
Sheila Kirschbaum and Chad Montrie
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Tsongas Industrial History Center
115 John St.
Lowell, MA 01852
Information: Ellen Anstey
978/970-5080
Ellen_Anstey@uml.edu
www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH

Crossroads of Conflict: Contested Visions of Freedom
and the Missouri-Kansas Border Wars
July 13-19 or July 27-August 2, 2008
Locations: University of Missouri-Kansas City campus and historic sites, including historic Lawrence, Kansas; historic Westport, Missouri; Watkins Woolen Mill; John Wornall House; Black Jack and Westport battlefields; Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas; Steamboat Arabia Museum; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Diane Mutti Burke and Edeen Martin
Center for Regional Studies at UMKC
203 Cockefair Hall
5100 Rockhill Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64110
Information: Mary Ann Wynkoop
816/235-1137
wynkoopm@umkc.edu
cas.umkc.edu/history/NEH_Landmarks/Index.htm

Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America
June 30-July 4 or July 7-11, 2008, 2008
Locations: Villanova University and historic sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the American Philosophical Society,
Independence Hall, Physick House, Bartram's Garden, and the National Constitution Center
Marylu Hill
Villanova Center for Liberal Education
Rm. 104, Saint Augustine Center
Villanova University
Villanova, PA 19085
610/519-6936
marylu.hill@villanova.edu
www.benfranklinworkshop.org/

Women's Suffrage on the Western Frontier
July 20-25 or July 27-August 1, 2008
Locations: University of Wyoming, South Pass National Historic Landmark, South Pass City State Historic Site, and sites surrounding Laramie and Lander, Wyoming
Carol Bryant, College of Education, University of Wyoming, and
Marcia Wolter Britton, Wyoming Humanities Council
Information: Marcia Wolter Britton
Wyoming Humanities Council
1315 East Lewis Street
Laramie, WY 82072
307/721-9244
marciab@uwyo.edu