The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency
of the federal government. As part of the NEH抯 We
the People program, we offer the following Landmarks of American History and
Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty. 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 $750. 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抯 eligibility to
participate in Landmarks programs.
How to Apply
Please telephone or send by U.S. Post or by e-mail a request for application
information and expanded Workshop descriptions to the Landmarks directors listed
here; in some cases, these materials will also be available on project websites.
When making contact, 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 16, 2009 (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: 202/606-8282 (for the hearing impaired only).
Workshops
Encountering John Adams: Boston and Braintree
July 12-18 or July 19-25, 2009
Locations: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Public Library, John Adams National
Historic Park, Massachusetts Archives, Boston Freedom Trail, Boston College
Marc Landy, Department of Political Science, Boston College
Information: Dennis Hale
Department of Political Science
Boston College
Chestnut Hill MA 02467
617-552-4165, FAX 617-552-2435
adamslandmarks@yahoo.com
www.bc.edu/sites/johnadams/index.html
Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism
and Social Action in the 19th Century
July 12-18 or July 19-25, 2009
Locations: Walden Pond, Brook Farm, Fruitlands, various Concord sites: Emerson House, Orchard
House, Old Manse, Wayside, Concord Museum
Sterling F. Delano, Villanova University
Martha Holder, Wytheville Community College
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
Landmarks of American Democracy:
From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
July 6-11 or July 13-18, 2009
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/programs/programs.html
The American Lyceum and Public Culture:
The Rhetoric of Idealism, Abolition, and Opportunity
May 17� or May 24�, 2009
Locations: Sites in Massachusetts, including Asa Waters Mansion, Millbury, First
Parish Church, Concord, Masonic Temple Lodge, Concord, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Lyceum
Hall, Salem, Concord Public Library, Ralph Waldo Emerson house, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,
American Antiquarian Society
Richard A. Katula
Department of Communication Studies
101 Lake Hall
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617/373-5040
R.Katula@neu.edu
www.americanlyceum.neu.edu
Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American
Politics and Literature, 1877-1901
May 17-22 or May 31-June 5, 2009
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
Passages to Cleveland: Community Memory
and the Landmarks of Migration
July 12-17 or July 19-24, 2009
Locations: The Western Reserve Historical Society, with site visits to the Greater
Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Bohemian National Hall and Museum, Cleveland Islamic Center,
Antioch Baptist Church, the Slavic Village and Tremont neighborhoods, West Side Market,
the Shiva Vishnu Temple, Ukrainian Museum and Archives, East Cleveland Public Library,
International Services Center, and the Spanish American Committee Headquarters
John J. Grabowski
The Western Reserve Historical Society
Information: Stefanie Huffman
The Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
john.grabowski@case.edu
shuffman@wrhs.org
