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NEH Summer Programs in the Humanities for School and College Educators
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers
Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern America
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Springfield, IL: June 25–29 or July 16–20
Location: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and sites in Springfield (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, Lincoln Law Office, and Lincoln Home) and New Salem Village
At the Crossroads of Revolution: Lexington and Concord in 1775
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Concord, MA: July 22–27 or August 5–10
Location: (all in Massachusetts): Minute Man National Historical Park; Concord (Colonial Inn and surrounding historic districts, Old Manse, and Concord Museum); Boston (Massachusetts Historical Society and Freedom Trail); Lexington Green
Contested Homelands: Knowledge, History, and Culture of Historic Santa Fe
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Santa Fe, NM: June 17–23 or June 24–30
Location: Santa Fe and surrounding communities, including: Palace of the Governors, Taos Pueblo, Santa Fe Plaza, spots on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior), New Mexico History Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art
Crafting Freedom: Black Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists in the Antebellum Upper South
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Chapel Hill, NC: June 21–26 or July 12–17
Location: The Union Tavern, home and shop of the celebrated free black cabinetmaker Thomas Day (1801–ca. 1861); the Burwell School, girlhood home of the formerly enslaved dressmaker–turned–Lincoln White House–insider Elizabeth Keckly (1817–1907); and Stagville, a major 19th-century tobacco plantation with intact slave quarters and other slave-built structures
Crossroads of Conflict: Contested Visions of Freedom and the Missouri-Kansas Border Wars
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Kansas City, MO: June 24–29 or July 8–13
Location: University of Missouri-Kansas City campus and historic sites including: Historic Lawrence, Kansas; Historic Westport, Missouri; Watkins Woolen Mill; John Wornall House; Jesse James Farm; Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas; Steamboat Arabia Museum; Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site; Bates County Museum; and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Empire City: New York from 1877–2001
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: New York, NY: June 24–30 or July 8–14
Location: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, Central Park, Henry Clay Frick Museum and Mansion, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), the Brooklyn Bridge, Foley Square, Five Points, Chinatown, Little Italy, Madison Square Garden, Harlem and the South Bronx, Site of the World Trade Center, Chelsea and the Meatpacking District
Empires of the Wind: Exploration of the United States Pacific West Coast
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: San Diego, CA: June 24–29 or July 15–20
Location: Maritime Museum of San Diego, Cabrillo National Monument, Old Town State Historic Park
Huck, Jim, and Jim Crow
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Hartford, CT: July 9–13 or July 23–27
Location: The Gilded Age home of Mark Twain
Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Lowell, MA: June 24–29 or July 15–20
Location: Lowell National Historical Park, Old Sturbridge Village, Minute Man National Historical Park (Concord, Massachusetts), and Walden Pond
Renaissance in the Black Metropolis: Chicago, 1930s-1950s
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Chicago, IL: July 8–14 or 22–28
Location: South Side Community Art Center, George Cleveland Hall and Chicago Bee branch libraries, Stockyards Gate, United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1, Supreme Life Insurance and Overton buildings, Victory Monument, Hansberry and Burroughs houses, Metropolitan Community Church, Blues Museum Heaven, DuSable Museum, Vivian Harsh Research Collection, Wabash YMCA, Abraham Lincoln School, Parkway Community House, Michigan Avenue Apartments, Bronzeville Walk of Fame, Eighth Regiment Armory
Spanish, Mexican, and American California: Reframing U. S. History at Peralta Hacienda
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Oakland, CA: June 18–23 or 25–29
Location: Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, San Francisco Presidio, Ceja Vineyards, Sonoma Mission, Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood
The American Skyscraper: Transforming Chicago and the Nation
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Chicago, IL: July 8–14 or July 22–28
Location: Chicago Loop including: Santa Fe Building, Sears Tower, Fisher Building, Marquette Building, Monadnock Building, Manhattan Building, Field Building, the Rookery, the Auditorium Building, Sullivan Center (formerly Carson Pirie Scott), Tribune Tower, the Reliance Building, and Federal Center
The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, History, and Culture of the Mississippi Delta
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Cleveland, MS: June 24–30 or July 8–14
Location: Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, the heart of the Mississippi Delta, with regular trips throughout the region and one trip to Memphis; Greenville, Dockery Farms (birthplace of the blues), the B.B. King Museum, the Mississippi River, Indianola, Sumner, Money, Clarksdale, Memphis, National Civil Rights Museum, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Highway 61 (the Blues Highway), Robert Johnson’s grave, Fannie Lou Hamer’s grave
The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Atlanta, GA: July 15–21 or July 22–28
Location: Martin Luther King National Historic Site, the Atlanta University Center Historic District, the Auburn Avenue Landmark District, the Fox Theater, Piedmont Park—Site of the 1895 Cotton States Exposition, the Georgia Capitol
The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Toledo, OH: July 22–27 or August 5–10
Location: The River Raisin Battlefield, Fort Meigs, and Perry’s Victory and International Peace Monument
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Teachers
African-American History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah and the Coastal Islands, 1750-1950
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Savannah, GA: June 10–16 or June 17–23
Location: Ossabaw Island and Sapelo Island, and several sites in the Savannah Historic District, including the city's Historic Squares, the Beach Institute Neighborhood, the Jepson Center for the Arts, the Telfair Museum, and the Georgia Historical Society
Along the Shore: The Landmarks of Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Brooklyn, NY: June 3–9 or June 17–23
Location: the Brooklyn Bridge; various sites in Brooklyn Heights including the Promenade, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and Plymouth Church; the Brooklyn Navy Yard; the Newtown Creek (from the water); Coney Island; DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass); Greenpoint
Concord, Massachusetts: Feminists, Utopians, and Social Reform in the Age of Emerson and Thoreau
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Concord, MA: July 8–14 or July 15–21
Location: Walden Pond; Brook Farm; Fruitlands; various Concord sites: Emerson House, Louisa May Alcott House, Old Manse, Concord Museum
Georgia O’Keeffe: Santa Fe, Abiquiu, and the New Mexico Landscape
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Santa Fe, Taos, and Abiquiu, NM: June 17–23 or June 24–30
Location: Santa Fe: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the Palace of the Governors, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, New Mexico Museum of Art. Taos: St. Francisco de Asis Church, Taos Pueblo, Millicent Rogers Museum, Mabel Dodge Luhan home. Abiquiu: Ghost Ranch.
Legacies and Landmarks of the Plains Native Americans
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Columbus, NE: June 17–22 or June 24–29
Location: Columbus, NE with site visits to: Pawnee Indian Village, Republic, KS; Genoa U. S. Indian School; Joslyn Art Museum and Historic Old Market, Omaha, NE; and the Omaha Indian Reservation, Macy and Walthill, NE
The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: Toledo, OH: July 22–27 or August 5–10
Location: The River Raisin Battlefield, Fort Meigs, and Perry’s Victory and International Peace Monument
Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers
Communication, Empire, and the City of Rome
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Rome, Italy
Contemporary African American Literature
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9-27, 2012 (3 weeks)
Location: University Park, PA
Experimental Philosophy
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 2-27 (4 weeks)
Location: Tucson, AZ
France's Haunting Past: Recent Debates on Twentieth-Century French History and National Identity
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 5-July 5 (5 weeks)
Location: Paris, France
Health and Disease in the Middle Ages
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24-July 28 (5 weeks)
Location: London, UK
Investigating Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: May 21-June 2 (2 weeks)
Location: Charleston, SC
James Joyce’s Ulysses: Text and Contexts
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 18-July 20, 2012 (5 weeks)
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 18-July 20 (5 weeks)
Location: Columbia, MO
Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 13 (3 weeks)
Location: Florence, Italy
Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Philosophical Problems in Domestic and Global Contexts
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 4-29 (4 weeks)
Location: St. Louis, MO
Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 17-July 23 (5 weeks)
Location: Mexico City, Arizona, and New Mexico
Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 2-27 (4 weeks)
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Oscar Wilde and His Circle
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Re-envisioning Asian American Art History
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9-28 (3 weeks)
Location: New York City, NY
Roman Comedy in Performance
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 24-July 20 (4 weeks)
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
The American Maritime People
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 25-July 27 (5 weeks)
Location: Mystic, CT
The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscan and Early Roman City
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 5-25 (3 weeks)
Location: Rome and other sites in Italy
The Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: July 9-20 (2 weeks)
Location: New York, NY
Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 18-July 20 (5 weeks)
Location: London and Oxford, UK; Antwerp, Belgium
World War I in the Middle East
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dates: June 9-July 6 (4 weeks)
Location: Washington, DC