Welcome to the home page for the 2004 NEH Institute "Mesoamerica and the Southwest: a New History for an Ancient Land," sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association. From this page you can easily access the three items that make up the Application Packet: our "Dear Colleague" letter; the NEH Guidelines for Applicants; and the Application Cover Sheet. Other links will enable you to access a brief "Project Summary," an essay by the project directors presenting the intellectual rationale for the project, a text list, and a detailed Daily Schedule downloadable as a pdf file. In addition, the "Easy Downloads" link provides all the documents on the home page in the form of pdf files by topic.

Please note that the pdf file version of these documents contains the appropriate Spanish accents, which currently do not display on the web pages.]

Our "Dear Colleague" letter will brief you on the Institute and on how to proceed with an application. Thank you for your interest in this project, and we look forward to hearing from you.

George Scheper and Laraine Fletcher, Project Directors

David Berry, Project Manager