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NEH Summer Programs in the Humanities for School and College Educators

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Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers

Berlin's Cultural Diversity Across Two Centuries

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 17–July 20 (5 weeks)
Location: Berlin, Germany

African-American Political History

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 10–August 5 (4 weeks)
Location: Chicago, IL

American Frontiers in Global Perspective

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24—July 14 (3 weeks)
Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Central Asia in World History

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 15—27 (2 weeks)
Location: Columbus, OH

Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24—July 21 (4 weeks)
Location: London, UK

Chinese Film and Society

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9--August 3 (4 weeks)
Location: Champaign, IL

Cotton Culture in The South From The Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25--July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Macon, GA

Diversity and Unity in the Pueblo World

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24 – July 14 (3 weeks)
Location: Cortez, CO

Exploring the Past: Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9--27 (3 weeks)
Location: La Crosse, WI

Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 2—27 (4 weeks)
Location: Washington, DC

Four Classics: First Novels of Native America

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 2—August 3 (5 weeks)
Location: Bellingham, WA

Golden Compasses as Moral Compasses: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fairy Tales and Fantasy

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25--July 20 (4 weeks)
Location: Cambridge, MA

Johann Sebastian Bach in The Baroque Era And in Our Time

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 1–July 27 (4 weeks)
Location: Eisenach, Leipzig, and Potsdam, Germany

Punishment, Politics, and Culture

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27, 2012 (5 weeks)
Location: Amherst, MA

Recipe for America: New York, Immigration, and American Identity through Culinary Culture

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 30—August 17 (3 weeks)
Location: New York City, NY

Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 16--August 3 (3 weeks)
Location: New York City, NY

South Africa: History and Culture

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24—July 31 (5 weeks)
Location: South Africa

Stories of the Great Migration

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 16--27 (2 weeks)
Location: Columbia, SC

The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Against Slavery from the American Revolution to the Civil War

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 1—27, 2012 (4 weeks)
Location: Philadelphia, PA

The Early Republic and Indian Country: 1812-1833

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 16—August 10 (4 weeks)
Location: Chicago, IL

The Industrial Revolution in Britain: Historical Intrepretations

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24 – July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: London and Nottingham, UK

The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt: The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers

Communication, Empire, and the City of Rome

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Rome, Italy

Contemporary African American Literature

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9-27, 2012 (3 weeks)
Location: University Park, PA

Experimental Philosophy

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 2-27 (4 weeks)
Location: Tucson, AZ

France's Haunting Past: Recent Debates on Twentieth-Century French History and National Identity

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 5-July 5 (5 weeks)
Location: Paris, France

Health and Disease in the Middle Ages

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24-July 28 (5 weeks)
Location: London, UK

Investigating Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: May 21-June 2 (2 weeks)
Location: Charleston, SC

James Joyce's Ulysses: Text and Contexts

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 18-July 20, 2012 (5 weeks)
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 18-July 20 (5 weeks)
Location: Columbia, MO

Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 13 (3 weeks)
Location: Florence, Italy

Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Philosophical Problems in Domestic and Global Contexts

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 4-29 (4 weeks)
Location: St. Louis, MO

Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 17-July 23 (5 weeks)
Location: Mexico City, Arizona, and New Mexico

Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 2-27 (4 weeks)
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Oscar Wilde and His Circle

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Re-envisioning Asian American Art History

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9-28 (3 weeks)
Location: New York City, NY

Roman Comedy in Performance

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24-July 20 (4 weeks)
Location: Chapel Hill, NC

The American Maritime People

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Mystic, CT

The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscan and Early Roman City

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 5-25 (3 weeks)
Location: Rome and other sites in Italy

The Visual Culture of the American Civil War

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9-20 (2 weeks)
Location: New York, NY

Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 18-July 20 (5 weeks)
Location: London and Oxford, UK; Antwerp, Belgium

World War I in the Middle East

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 9-July 6 (4 weeks)
Location: Washington, DC

Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers

Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern America

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Springfield, IL: June 25–29 or July 16–20
Location: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and sites in Springfield (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, Lincoln Law Office, and Lincoln Home) and New Salem Village

At the Crossroads of Revolution: Lexington and Concord in 1775

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Concord, MA: July 22–27 or August 5–10
Location: (all in Massachusetts): Minute Man National Historical Park; Concord (Colonial Inn and surrounding historic districts, Old Manse, and Concord Museum); Boston (Massachusetts Historical Society and Freedom Trail); Lexington Green

Contested Homelands: Knowledge, History, and Culture of Historic Santa Fe

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Santa Fe, NM: June 17–23 or June 24–30
Location: Santa Fe and surrounding communities, including: Palace of the Governors, Taos Pueblo, Santa Fe Plaza, spots on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior), New Mexico History Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art

Crafting Freedom: Black Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists in the Antebellum Upper South

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Chapel Hill, NC: June 21–26 or July 12–17
Location: The Union Tavern, home and shop of the celebrated free black cabinetmaker Thomas Day (1801–ca. 1861); the Burwell School, girlhood home of the formerly enslaved dressmaker–turned–Lincoln White House–insider Elizabeth Keckly (1817–1907); and Stagville, a major 19th-century tobacco plantation with intact slave quarters and other slave-built structures

Crossroads of Conflict: Contested Visions of Freedom and the Missouri-Kansas Border Wars

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Kansas City, MO: June 24–29 or July 8–13
Location: University of Missouri-Kansas City campus and historic sites including: Historic Lawrence, Kansas; Historic Westport, Missouri; Watkins Woolen Mill; John Wornall House; Jesse James Farm; Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas; Steamboat Arabia Museum; Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site; Bates County Museum; and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Empire City: New York from 1877–2001

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: New York, NY: June 24–30 or July 8–14
Location: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, Central Park, Henry Clay Frick Museum and Mansion, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), the Brooklyn Bridge, Foley Square, Five Points, Chinatown, Little Italy, Madison Square Garden, Harlem and the South Bronx, Site of the World Trade Center, Chelsea and the Meatpacking District

Empires of the Wind: Exploration of the United States Pacific West Coast

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: San Diego, CA: June 24–29 or July 15–20
Location: Maritime Museum of San Diego, Cabrillo National Monument, Old Town State Historic Park

Huck, Jim, and Jim Crow

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Hartford, CT: July 9–13 or July 23–27
Location: The Gilded Age home of Mark Twain

Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Lowell, MA: June 24–29 or July 15–20
Location: Lowell National Historical Park, Old Sturbridge Village, Minute Man National Historical Park (Concord, Massachusetts), and Walden Pond

Renaissance in the Black Metropolis: Chicago, 1930s-1950s

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Chicago, IL: July 8–14 or 22–28
Location: South Side Community Art Center, George Cleveland Hall and Chicago Bee branch libraries, Stockyards Gate, United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1, Supreme Life Insurance and Overton buildings, Victory Monument, Hansberry and Burroughs houses, Metropolitan Community Church, Blues Museum Heaven, DuSable Museum, Vivian Harsh Research Collection, Wabash YMCA, Abraham Lincoln School, Parkway Community House, Michigan Avenue Apartments, Bronzeville Walk of Fame, Eighth Regiment Armory

Spanish, Mexican, and American California: Reframing U. S. History at Peralta Hacienda

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Oakland, CA: June 18–23 or 25–29
Location: Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, San Francisco Presidio, Ceja Vineyards, Sonoma Mission, Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood

The American Skyscraper: Transforming Chicago and the Nation

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Chicago, IL: July 8–14 or July 22–28
Location: Chicago 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

The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, History, and Culture of the Mississippi Delta

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Cleveland, MS: June 24–30 or July 8–14
Location: 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, the Mississippi River, Indianola, Sumner, Money, Clarksdale, Memphis, National Civil Rights Museum, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Highway 61 (the Blues Highway), Robert Johnson’s grave, Fannie Lou Hamer’s grave

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Atlanta, GA: July 15–21 or July 22–28
Location: 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 Capitol

The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Toledo, OH: July 22–27 or August 5–10
Location: The River Raisin Battlefield, Fort Meigs, and Perry’s Victory and International Peace Monument

Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Teachers

African-American History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah and the Coastal Islands, 1750-1950

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Savannah, GA: June 10–16 or June 17–23
Location: Ossabaw Island and Sapelo Island, and several sites in the Savannah Historic District, including the city's Historic Squares, the Beach Institute Neighborhood, the Jepson Center for the Arts, the Telfair Museum, and the Georgia Historical Society

Along the Shore: The Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Brooklyn, NY: June 3–9 or June 17–23
Location: the Brooklyn Bridge; various sites in Brooklyn Heights including the Promenade, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and Plymouth Church; the Brooklyn Navy Yard; the Newtown Creek (from the water); Coney Island; DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass); Greenpoint

Concord, Massachusetts: Feminists, Utopians, and Social Reform in the Age of Emerson and Thoreau

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Concord, MA: July 8–14 or July 15–21
Location: Walden Pond; Brook Farm; Fruitlands; various Concord sites: Emerson House, Louisa May Alcott House, Old Manse, Concord Museum

Georgia O'Keeffe: Santa Fe, Abiquiu, and the New Mexico Landscape

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Santa Fe, Taos, and Abiquiu, NM: June 17–23 or June 24–30
Location: Santa Fe: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the Palace of the Governors, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, New Mexico Museum of Art. Taos: St. Francisco de Asis Church, Taos Pueblo, Millicent Rogers Museum, Mabel Dodge Luhan home. Abiquiu: Ghost Ranch.

Legacies and Landmarks of the Plains Native Americans

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Columbus, NE: June 17–22 or June 24–29
Location: Columbus, NE with site visits to: Pawnee Indian Village, Republic, KS; Genoa U. S. Indian School; Joslyn Art Museum and Historic Old Market, Omaha, NE; and the Omaha Indian Reservation, Macy and Walthill, NE

The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories

Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Toledo, OH: July 22–27 or August 5–10
Location: The River Raisin Battlefield, Fort Meigs, and Perry’s Victory and International Peace Monument