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Division of Education Programs

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The Problem of Governance in Early U.S. History

The Library Company of Philadelphia received a grant to offer “The Early American Republic and the Problem of Governance,” a four-week summer seminar in 2011 for college and university faculty.

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Studying History Where It Was Made

Schoolteachers attended the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's summer workshop on the history and legacy of the Civil Rights movement in Alabama.

Teachers in Picturing America Workshop

Picturing American Creativity and Leadership

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art offered a conference for Texas teachers on using the Picturing America portfolio in the classroom.

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Enduring Questions: Alternative Cosmologies

NEH has funded a history professor to develop a course on ancient, religious and scientific cosmologies.

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Production and Consumption in World History

A 2011 seminar for schoolteachers, “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1914,” focuses on the historical connections between producers and consumers of basic commodities across the globe.

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Melding Literature and Medicine

Alcorn State University in Mississippi received a grant to engage science, English, and nursing faculty in studying the intersections between literature and medicine.

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Preserving Language and Culture

An NEH grant supports a one-year project in Minnesota to digitize materials at four cultural institutions to support the preservation and revitalization of Ojibwe language and culture.

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Posted: April 12, 2012

The East-West Center Names Participants in NEH Bridging Cultures Project

The East-West Center in Honolulu, HI, received a $360,000 award to work with community colleges in five states on Asian Studies curricula.

Posted: March 28, 2012

Enduring Questions Awards, March 2012

The Division of Education Programs announced 22 awards in the Enduring Questions program in March 2012.

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Posted: March 28, 2012

Staff Travel

Division staff travels to professional meetings and projects we support.

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