NEH Offers Summer Workshops for Teachers

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering K-12 educators a wide range of summer professional development opportunities through its Summer Seminars and Institutes program and its new "Landmarks of American History and Culture" workshops.

This year, NEH will support twenty-eight summer seminars and institutes for the intensive study of important texts and topics in the humanities. Programs are held at locations throughout the United States and abroad. NEH will also support nineteen "Landmarks of American History and Culture" workshops at major historical sites around the nation.

Classroom teachers 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, classroom paraprofessionals and librarians are also eligible to participate, subject to available space. Stipends for participation are available. Additional assistance to help cover travel expenses may be available for those traveling long distances after participants are selected.

Landmarks Workshops for the summer of 2006 include Pearl Harbor; America's Industrial Revolution; James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship; Andrew Jackson; Mark Twain in the Gilded Age; Mt. Vernon and the Shaping of the U.S. Constitution; the United States Capitol; Fort Snelling; Ellis Island, Public Health, and Immigration; Black Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Antebellum North Carolina; the Underground Railroad; Spanish St. Augustine; the Miami Beach Art Deco District; Old Fort Niagara; Silver Mining in the West; Lowell, Massachusetts, and the Industrial Revolution; Women's Suffrage on the Western Frontier; Philadelphia, American Independence, and the Constitution; and Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America.

For full listings, eligibility requirements, and application instructions, please see http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html. The deadline for Landmarks applications is March 15.

Summer Seminars and Institutes topics for this summer include Churchill in America, Thomas Jefferson, Japanese Culture and Values, Political Theory of Hannah Arendt, Paradise Lost, the Abolitionist Movement, the Great Plains, American Song, Mozart, Petrarch, Hawthorne and Longfellow, Latin Literature in Context, Political and Constitutional Theory, World War I, Balzac and Zola, James Joyce, and many others.

For full listings and application instructions, please see http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html. The deadline for Summer Seminars and Institutes applications is March 1.