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 Schoolteachers. 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 $750 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 and librarians 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, and classroom paraprofessionals, 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 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, 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 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 imparied only).

Workshops

Emily Dickinson: Person, Poetry and Place
July 5-10 or July 12-17, 2009
Locations: Sites in Amherst, Massachusetts, including the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst History Museum, Jones Library
Cindy Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst, MA 01002
413/542-8429
csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
www.nehworkshopemilydickinson.org

Shaping the Constitution: A View from Mount Vernon,
1783-1789
June 15-19 or August 10-14, 2009
Location: Mount Vernon, Alexandria, Virginia
Jason Ross and Nancy Hayward
The Bill of Rights Institute
200 N. Glebe Rd., Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22203
Information: Susan Hodges
703/894-1776, ext. 23
landmarks@billofrightsinstitute.org
www.billofrightsinstitute.org/Teach/Programs/summerinstitute/

“Stony the Road We Trod”: Alabama抯 Role
in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
JJune 21-27 or July 12-18, 2009
Locations: Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, and Tuskegee, Alabama
Martha Bouyer
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
520 Sixteenth Street
North Birmingham, AL 35203
Information: Priscilla Hancock Cooper
205/328-9696, ext. 233
nehworkshop@bcri.org

Remembering the Alamo:
Landmark of American History and Culture
June 21-26 or June 28-July 3, 2009
Location: The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
Carole N. Lester, Richland College, 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

The American Skyscraper:
Transforming Chicago and the Nation
July 12-18 or July 26-August 1, 2009
Locations: Chicago抯 Loop including: Santa Fe Building, Sears Tower, Fisher Building, Marquette Building, Monadnock Building, Manhattan Building, Field Building, The Rookery, The Auditorium Building, Sullivan Center (formerly Carson Pirie Scott), Tribune Tower, The Reliance Building, and Federal Center
Jean Linsner
Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604
312/922-3432
NEHLandmarks@architecture.org
www.architecture.org/teacherworkshops/NEHlandmarks.html

Partisans and Redcoats: The American Revolution
in the Southern Backcountry
July 19-24 or August 2-7, 2009
Locations: Revolutionary War battlefields in South Carolina: Historic Brattonsville, Cowpens National Battlefield, Kings Mountain National Military Park, and Ninety Six National Historic Site, as well as Walnut Grove Plantation and Greenville County Museum of Art
Melissa Walker and Edward Woodfin
Department of History and Politics
Converse College
580 East Main Street
Spartanburg, SC 29302
864/596-9104
nehworkshop@converse.edu
www.converse.edu/neh/

The Most Southern Place on Earth:
Music, Culture, and History in the Mississippi Delta
June 15-20 or July 13-18, 2009
Locations: Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, the heart of the Mississippi Delta, with regular trips throughout the region and one trip to Memphis. Greenville, Dockery Farms (birthplace of the Blues), the B.B. King Museum, Indianola, Sumner, Money, Memphis, National Civil Rights Museum, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Rock and Soul Museum, Highway 61
Luther Brown and Lee Aylward
Delta Center for Culture and Learning
Delta State University
Box 3152
Cleveland, MS 38733
662/846-4311
Lbrown@deltastate.edu
Laylward@deltastate.edu

Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial
July 25-July 31 or August 1-7, 2009
Locations: East-West Center, U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and special boat tour of Pearl Harbor, U.S.S. Missouri, Hickam Field and Headquarters, Ford Island and other Pearl Harbor attack sites, and Punchbowl Cemetery
Namji Steinemann, AsiaPacificEd Program
East-West Center
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
Information: Bryan Smith
808/944-7378
808/944-7070 (fax)
smithb@eastwestcenter.org
www.AsiaPacificEd.org

Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and
Her Eatonville Roots
June 14� or June 21�, 2009
Locations: Eatonville, Winter Park, Maitland, Ft. Pierce
Ann Schoenacher
Florida Humanities Council
599 2nd Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
727/873-2009
zora@flahum.org
www.flahum.org/zora

America抯 Industrial Revolution at the Henry Ford
June 21-26 or July 19-24, 2009
Locations: Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center, Ford Rouge Factory Tour
Paula Gangopadhyay, Director of Education
The Henry Ford
20900 Oakwood Boulevard
Dearborn, Michigan 48124
313/982-6063
paulag@thehenryford.org
Information: Ryan Spencer, Education Coordinator桽pecial Projects
313/982-6100, ext. 2261 (direct)
RyanSp@thehenryford.org
www.thehenryford.org/neh

Huckleberry Finn in Post-Reconstruction America:
Mark Twain抯 Hartford Years, 1871-1891
July 13� or July 27�, 2009
Locations: Mark Twain抯 Hartford home, Harriet Beecher Stowe抯 Hartford home, the Old (Connecticut) State House, and a driving tour of Hartford抯 historic neighborhoods representing nearly 400 years of Connecticut heritage
Craig Hotchkiss
Education Programs Manager
The Mark Twain House & Museum
351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
860/280-3146
craig.hotchkiss@marktwainhouse.org

War of Invasion—War of Liberation: Occupied Nashville
and the Civil War and Emancipation in the Upper South
June 14-19 or June 21-26, 2009
Locations: Travellers Rest Historic Site (Nashville), Fort Negley Historic Site (Nashville), Stones River National Battlefield and National Cemetery, Chickamauga National Battlefield
Robert Hunt
Middle Tennessee State University
Department of History, Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615/898-5519
rehunt@mtsu.edu

A Revolution in Government: Philadelphia, American Independence, and the Constitution, 1765-1791
July 6-10 or July 20-24, 2009
Locations: National Constitution Center, Independence Hall, Franklin Court, Carpenter's Hall, and other sites in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stephen Frank and Eli Lesser
National Constitution Center
525 Arch St.
Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215/409-6628
teacher@constitutioncenter.org

Crossroads of Empire: Cultural Contact and Imperial Rivalry at Old Fort Niagara
July 13-17 or July 20-24, 2009
Locations: Niagara University, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Old Fort Niagara
Thomas A. Chambers
Department of History
Niagara University
P.O. Box 1932
Niagara University, NY 14109-1932
Information: Dana Bagwell
716/286-8696
crossroads@niagara.edu
www.niagara.edu/crossroads

A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans
June 28-July 3 or July 5 to 10, 2009
Locations: Independence Hall; Franklin Court; Franklin Institute; American Philosophical Society; Old City, Philadelphia; Society Hill Historic District; and historic houses in the Germantown Historic Area, including Stenton and Cliveden
George W. Boudreau
School of Humanities
Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg
Mailing/Workshop Address:
NEH/Franklin NEH Summer Teachers' Workshop
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
3355 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
717/948-6204
franklinworkshop@hotmail.com
www.harrisburg.psu.edu/teachingfranklin

Ellis Island: Public Health, and the American Workforce,
1891–1924
July 20-24 or July 27-31, 2009
Locations: Ellis Island and New York City; Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Museum at Eldridge Street and the Museum of Chinese in America
Dorothy Hartman, Save Ellis Island, Inc.
Information: Jan Frazier
500 International Drive, Suite 350
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
973/347-8400, ext. 22
jfrazier@saveellisisland.org
www.ellisislandinstitute.org and www.workshopfiles.com

Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern America
June 14-19 or July 19-24, 2009
Locations: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and sites in Springfield (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, Lincoln Law Office, Home) and New Salem Village
Caroline Pryor
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
P.O. Box 1122
Edwardsville, IL 62025
618/650-3439
nehlincoln@siue.edu
www.siue.edu/education/neh

Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution
June 28-July 3, July 12-July 17, or August 2-August 7, 2009
Locations: Lowell National Historical Park, Old Sturbridge Village, and various sites in Concord, Massachusetts
Sheila Kirschbaum
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

“Aiming for Pensacola”: Riding the Underground Railroad
in the Deep South
July 13-17 or July 20-24, 2009
Locations: Arcadia Mills, Fort Barrancas, Fort Pickens, Historic Pensacola Village, Julee Cottage, Negro Fort, Old Pensacola Navy Yard, Plaza Ferdinand, St. Michael抯 Cemetery, Seville Square, Tivoli High House
Matthew J. Clavin
Department of History
University of West Florida
11000 University Drive
Pensacola, FL 32514
850/474-2680
NEHworkshops@uwf.edu.edu

Women's Suffrage on the Western Frontier
July 19-24 or July 26-31, 2009
Locations: University of Wyoming, South Pass National Historic Landmark, South Pass City State Historic Site, and sites surrounding Laramie and Lander, Wyoming
Marcia Wolter Britton, Wyoming Humanities Council, and
Carol Bryant, College of Education, University of Wyoming
Information: Sheila Bricher-Wade
Wyoming Humanities Council
1315 East Lewis Street
Laramie, WY 82072
307/721-9246
sbricher@uwyo.edu