Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Faculty
The Landmarks of American History and Culture grant program supports a series of one-week workshops, conducted by leading scholars, for a national audience of community college educators. Participants receive stipends to help cover expenses of the workshops, in which participants study central issues in American history related to historic landmarks, enhancing both their knowledge and their ability to teach.
Guidelines URL:
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html
For participants:
www.neh.gov//projects/landmarks-college.html

BI-50069, Henry Ford Community College:
Henry Ford and the History of American Industry, Labor and Culture.
In 2008 Henry Ford Community College conducted two week-long workshops, with twenty-five participants in each, on “Henry Ford and the History of American Industry, Labor, and Culture.” The workshops featured presentations by guest scholars, field trips, and opportunities for in-depth study. Participants visited the Ford Rouge Plant, studied Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and consulted collections of primary documents at the Walter Reuther and Benson Ford libraries. Visiting scholars offered insights into corporate, labor, and cultural history.
Project URL: www.hfcc.edu/landmarks/pages/workshop1.htm

BI-50060, Community College Humanities Association:
Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century.
In the summer of 2008 the Community College Humanities Association conducted two one-week workshops on transcendentalist thought and social reform at historic sites in Concord, Massachusetts.  Fifty community college educators studied the literature and philosophy of Thoreau, Emerson, and other seminal thinkers, as well as utopian living experiments and the antislavery and women’s movements. Site visits included Walden Pond, the Concord School of Philosophy, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, where participants examined primary documents.