Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week workshops for a national audience of K-12 educators, who receive stipends to help defray expenses. Conducted by scholars, the workshops address central themes and topics in American history, government, literature, art history, and other humanities fields related to historic landmarks.
Guidelines URL:
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html
For participants: www.neh.gov//projects/landmarks-school.html

BH-50237, East-West Center:
Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial.
In the summer of 2008 the East-West Center, an education and research organization in Honolulu, worked with the Arizona Memorial Museum Association, the National Park Service, and the Japan-America Society of Hawaii to organize on-site workshops for middle and high school teachers on the historical context and legacy of the Pearl Harbor attack. Eighty participants heard lectures by leading scholars, talked with World War II veterans, and visited sites such as the Ford Island Naval Air Station, Wheeler Air Field, and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. They discussed the multiple perspectives on the attack reflected in archival materials, such as maps and photographs, and they also studied contemporary historical debates about the attack. New teaching materials created by the participants were posted on the program Web site.
Project URL:
education.eastwestcenter.org/asiapacificed/ph2008/index.htm

BH-50231, Florida Humanities Council:
Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Her Eatonville Roots.
In the summer of 2008 the Florida Humanities Council conducted three one-week workshops for schoolteachers, who explored the work and life of the novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston.  Conducted at Rollins College, the workshops examined Hurston’s works in the context of her childhood in Eatonville, Florida. Eatonville was one of dozens of black communities formed in the period after the Civil War. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, it remains the oldest incorporated African-American town in the United States. Readings included the recent biography Wrapped in Rainbows, by Valerie Boyd; the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; and the introduction to Hurston’s anthropological study, Of Mules and Men, among other works.