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SUMMER INSTITUTES
ANDEAN
WORLDS 2008: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching —June
29~July 26, 2008.
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Past
and Present in the Study of India'a History and Culture — July
7 ~ August 1, 2008.
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NEH
LANDMARKS of American History and Culture Workshops for Community
College Faculty ~ Visit
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Concord
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Massachusetts and Utopian Thought of Early 19th Century
CONCORD
MASSACHUSETTS:
Concord,
Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in
the 19th Century
The Community College Humanities Association workshop will focus on
the significance of seminal Transcendental and social action groups
and individuals through an interdisciplinary study of the rich cross-currents
of literary, philosophical, religious, and social thinking that marks
a pivotal point in American history.
Participants will enjoy all the advantages of a seminar setting with
five major Transcendental and Concord scholars. Interaction with scholars
and colleagues, readings, and visits to historic sites will constitute
the core of the week-long study. The workshop will provide participants
the opportunity to develop classroom teaching activities or research
projects based on interdisciplinary research conducted at the Massachusetts
Historical Society and other Concord area repositories of primary
sources. See Application
Packet and Application
Instructions
African-American
History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah and the Coastal
Islands, 1750-1950
The Georgia Historical Society’s workshop is designed to address
the broad themes of race and slavery in American history covered in
U.S. History survey courses by focusing on site-specific experiences
of communities in and around Savannah from the late eighteenth through
the early twentieth centuries.
Through course readings, scholarly lectures, landmark site visits,
community presentations, guided tours and research in primary source
documents held in GHS’s Library and Archives Collection, workshop
participants will examine the centrality of place in the African-American
experience in Georgia’s Lowcountry and the larger Atlantic world.
African-American History: http://www.georgiahistory.com
Henry
Ford and the History of American Industry, Labor, and Culture
Henry Ford Community College’s workshop will offer a unique
opportunity to spend the Model T’s centennial and Motown Music's
40th anniversary in their birthplaces.
Reading, dialog with scholars and experts, and opportunity for research
will be offered. In addition, related locations will be visited, including
the Ford Rouge Factory Complex, the Diego Rivera Murals at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, the Henry Ford Museum and Village, the Piquette
(Model T) Ford Plant, the Benson Ford Archives, the Burton Archives,
the Walter Reuther Archives. For information, please visit our website
at Henry Ford: http://www.hfcc.edu/landmarks.
Landmarks
of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation
Workers' Strike
The Hamer Institute’s workshop will introduce the participants
to the material culture and remarkable contributions of local people
in Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee. The workshop’s goal is
to allow teachers to gain a clear understanding of the theoretical
and practical contributions of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project
and the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike.
Participants will be introduced to the historic sites that helped
shape and frame the heart and soul of these important events in the
history of this country. They will interact with some of the principal
actors that made things happen during this period and leave Mississippi
and Memphis with a greater understanding and appreciation of the places
and terrain that played such a remarkable role in the expansion of
citizenship and democracy in America.
Landmarks of American Democracy: http://www.jsums.edu/~hamer.institute
Illustrating
the Gilded Age: Political Cartoons and the Press in American Politics
and Culture, 1877-1901
The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center’s workshop will
Examine the nature and impact of the Gilded Age by exploring how political
cartoons and illustrations helped shape American politics and social
culture in the period from 1877 to 1901
.
Presentations by scholars Dr. Mark Summers, Dr. Joshua Brown, Lucy
Caswell, Dr. John Coward, Dr. Joanne Reitano, Dr. Steven Culbertson
and syndicated cartoonist Chip Bok will be offered. In addition, there
will be a tour of the Hayes Presidential Center Library, Museum, Home
and Grounds and research in the first presidential Library’s
rich collection of political cartoons and materials from the Gilded
Age. Illustrating the Gilded Age: http://www.rbbaves.org
Revolution
to Republic: Philadelphia's Place in Early America
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic‘s
workshop will explore Philadelphia’s historical place in the
American national narrative.
Participants will explore Philadelphia rich history through the lens
of William Penn’s seventeenth-century “green country towne,”
Philadelphia’s eighteenth-century rise to the largest port in
the British North American colonies, the city’s ten years as
the nation’s new capital, and its nineteenth-century transformation
into an industrial metropolis. Participants will learn how to incorporate
such rich historic landmarks into classroom teaching, and initiate
or further personal research interests. Revolution to Republic:
http:// www.shear.org/nehlandmarks
