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 Community College Faculty as part of the NEH's We the People program. Workshops provide the opportunity for community college 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, to advance their own scholarship, and to develop enhanced teaching materials for their classrooms.

Amount of Award
Faculty selected to participate will receive a stipend of $500. Stipends help cover living expenses, books, and travel expenses to and from the workshop location. Travel supplements will be available and will be allocated after participants are selected, and disbursed after the completion of the workshop.

Eligibility
These projects are designed for faculty members at American community colleges. Adjunct and part-time lecturers as well as full-time faculty are eligible to apply. An applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify. Candidates for degrees are only eligible to apply if they are employed by an institution other than the one at which they are degree candidates and if their participation is intended to enhance their teaching of American undergraduates. 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 application 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. 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 of American History and Culture 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 impaired only): 202/606 8282.

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Workshops

Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
July 13-19 or July 20-26, 2008
Locations: Concord, Brook Farm, Walden Pond, Massachusetts Historical Society, and other sites in Boston
Paul Benson, Mountain View College
Dallas, Texas
Information: David A. Berry
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102
973/877-3577
berry@essex.edu
www.ccha-assoc.org

African-American History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah and the Coastal Islands, 1750-1950
July 13-18 or July 20-25, 2008
Locations: Sites in Savannah, including the Beach Institute and the Owens-Thomas House; Ossabaw Island; and Sapelo Island
Stan Deaton, Georgia Historical Society
Information: Charles Snyder
Georgia Historical Society
501 Whitaker St.
Savannah, GA 31401
912/651-2125 x40
csnyder@georgiahistory.com
www.georgiahistory.com

Henry Ford and the History of American Industry,
Labor, and Culture
June 8-13 or June 15-20, 2008
Locations: The Piquette Ford Plant (birthplace of the Model T), The Ford Rouge Factory Complex, The Diego Rivera Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Henry Ford Museum and Village, The Fair Lane Mansion, The Benson Ford Archives, The Burton Archives, The Walter Reuther Archives
Michael Daher
Department of English
Henry Ford Community College
5101 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, Michigan
313/845-6457
Information: Marlene Wojtowicz
neh@hfcc.edu
www.hfcc.edu/landmarks

Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
June 15-21 or June 22-28, 2008
Locations: Jackson, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; The Delta
Leslie Burl McLemore
Jackson State University
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 17081
Jackson, MS 39217
601/979-1561
Hamer.institute@jsums.edu
www.jsums.edu/~hamer.institute

Illustrating the Gilded Age: Political Cartoons and the Press in American Politics and Culture, 1877-1901
May 19-23 or June 2-6, 2008
Location: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Steven L. Culbertson
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Spiegel Grove
Fremont, OH 43420
419/332-2081
steven_culbertson@owens.edu
www.rbhayes.org

Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia's Place in Early America
June 9-14 or June 16-21, 2008
Locations: The Library Company of Philadelphia, with site visits to Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, the National Constitution Center, Elfreth's Alley, Franklin Court, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, and other historic locations
Roderick A. McDonald, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and Rider University, and
Michelle Craig McDonald, Richard Stockton College
Information: Patrick K. Spero
SHEAR NEH Landmarks Workshop
3355 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215/746-5394
nehlandmarks@shear.org
www.shear.org/nehlandmarks