National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty 2006

National Endowment for the Humanities

Landmarks of American History and Culture

Workshops for Community College Faculty

2007

Landmarks of American History Workshops
Workshops for
Community College Faculty
Summer 2007
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. As part of the NEH's 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. The application deadline is March 15, 2007 (postmark).
Amount of Award
Faculty selected to participate will receive a stipend of $500. 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's 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. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address, since 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 15, 2007 (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 NEH's EEO policy, write to NEH Equal Opportunity Officer, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD (for the hearing impaired only): 202/606- 8282.

2006

Thank you for your interest in the Landmarks of American History and Culture Program. Here is an advance list of the offerings for community college faculty for 2006. This will be posted on the NEH website in late January at this address: www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html At that time we suggest that you go to this web address and click on the hot-linked e-mail addresses of the directors whose workshops you are interested in. They will send you details about their workshops as well as application materials. Directors will not have their information packages ready to send out before mid-January but we hope that this "Advance List" will spark your interest. Thank you for your patience.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. As part of the NEHÕs We the People initiative, we offer the following Landmarks of American History Workshops for Community College Faculty. Landmarks of American History Workshops provide the opportunity for community college educators to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. These 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.

Faculty selected to participate will receive a stipend of $500. Stipends are intended to help cover living expenses, books, and travel expenses to and from the Workshop location. Travel supplements for those traveling long distances will be available and will be allocated after participants are selected.

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 individualÕs eligibility to participate in Landmarks programs.

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. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address, since 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 15, 2006 (postmark).

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 programs may be directed to the NEH Division of Education Programs. (202/606-8463 or e-mail sem-inst@neh.gov).

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

July 9-15 and July 16-22, 2006

Location: Boston and Quincy, MA

Political Science Department

517 McGuinn Hall, 140 Commonwealth Ave.

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

July 9-15 and July 16-22, 2006

Location: Concord, Canterbury Shaker Village, Brook Farm, Walden Pond, Fruitlands, The School of Philosophy at the Orchard House Museum, Ralph Waldo Emerson Home, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Old Manse Museum

Mountain View College, Texas

Information: David A. Berry

Community College Humanities Association

c/o Essex County College

973/877-357
berry@essex.edu

Henry Ford AND THE HISTORY OF aMERICAN INDUSTRY, LABOR, AND CULTURE

June 18-23, June 25-30, 2006

Locations: 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

Department of English

Henry Ford Community College

Information: Marlene Wojtowicz

Working the Woods: Economies and Cultures of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 1650-1950

May 28-June 2 and June 18-23, 2006

Locations: Kituah Cherokee heritage site, The Vance Birthplace Pioneer Homestead, the Blue Ridge Paper Company's Canton Mill Museum, and the Cradle of Forestry in America
Kathryn Newfont
Mars Hill College
100 Athletic St.
Mars Hill, NC 28754
Information: Heidi Hodges
828/689-1571
landmarks@mhc.edu

July 9-15 and July 23-29, 2006

Locations: The Ohio Historical Society (Columbus), Flint Ridge State Memorial and the Newark Earthworks (Newark), Ft. Ancient Earthworks (Lebanon), the Serpent Mound (Peebles), SunWatch Village (Dayton), and Pickawillany and Piqua Historical Areas (Piqua)

Jody Blankenship-Walden and Martha Otto

Ohio Historical Society

Untarnishing the Gilded Age: AMERICAN POLITICS AND CULTURE,

May 15-19 and May 22-26, 2006

Locations: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, James A. Garfield National Historical Site (Lawnfield), and MillionairesÕ Row (Cleveland)

Steven L. Culbertson

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Mammoth Cave: PEOPLE, PLACE, AND HISTORY

July 16-21 and July 23-28, 2006

Location: Mammoth Cave National Park, KY

Rickard Stanley Toomey, III, Katie Algeo, and Darlene Applegate

Mammoth Cave International Center for Science and Learning

Western Kentucky University

1906 College Heights Blvd. #31066

Bowling Green, KY 42101-1066

neh-landmark@wku.edu

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