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Featured Projects: Education Programs

Good Administration Mural

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Enduring Questions Corner

The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the teaching and development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question.

Posted: March 21, 2013

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Spotlight on an NEH Summer Program for College Teachers: Encountering Brazil through its Contemporary Urban Literature

The NEH Division of Education Programs will help bring Brazil’s major writers and works to greater prominence by supporting a seminar led by Professor David William Foster.  “Brazilian Literature: Twentieth Century Urban Fiction” will take place this summer in several Brazilian cities over four weeks.  College and university faculty and graduate students from around the United States will study five major works and gain a deep introduction to Brazilian culture, especially its urban environments

Posted: January 9, 2013
Stockman House

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Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School in the Midwest

Wright on the Park, Inc. received a grant to offer "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School in the Midwest," two one-week workshops for school teachers in summer 2013.

Posted: January 8, 2013
Lobby to Main Reading Room, Library of Congress

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Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Philosophical Problems in Domestic and Global Contexts

"Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Philosophical Problems in Domestic and Global Contexts” is a four-week seminar for college and university teachers held in summer 2012.

Posted: June 26, 2012
 Daibutsu (image of Buddha) at Kamakura, Japan

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Investigating Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

The 2012 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "Investigating Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives," focuses on the convergence of western traditions in philosophy and Buddhist approaches in the field of philosophy of mind.

Posted: June 26, 2012
Battle of Lake Erie

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The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories

The Ohio Historical Society received a grant to offer "The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories," two one-week workshops for school teachers in summer 2012.

Posted: June 22, 2012
Promontory of Florida

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American History, Atlantic and Pacific

The American Historical Association (AHA) helps instructors adopt a new international approach into the U.S. history survey, one of the most widely taught courses on community college campuses.

Posted: March 29, 2012
Co-directors of Alcorn State literature and medicine project

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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.

Posted: September 1, 2011
Shakespeare

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Shakespeare on the Potomac

Schoolteachers come to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, to pursue in-depth study of four plays: Pericles, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice and Othello.

Posted: July 1, 2011