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The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its first “Landmarks of American History” Grants at 17 historic and cultural sites across the United States. This has been established as part of the “We the People” initiative to encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. These new residence-based, week-long workshops will bring more than 2,000 school teachers together with scholars for a week of intensive study on history and literature associated with each site. Public, private, and home school elementary and secondary educators may apply by March 15, 2004 to one or more of the workshops.
Several of the workshops focus on the elements of the African-American experience or the Civil Rights Movement.
“Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike”
July 25-31 and August 1-7, 2004
Locations: Jackson, Mississippi, the Mississippi Delta, and Memphis, Tennessee
Sponsor: Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
Contact: robbie.j.young@jsums.edu
“Stony the Road We Trod: Using Alabama’s Civil Rights Landmarks to Teach American History”
June 20-26; June 27-July 3; July 11-17; and July 18-24, 2004
Locations: Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, Tuskegee, Alabama
Sponsor: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama
Contact: award@bcri.org
“Slavery and Freedom in Charleston And the Low Country”
July 12-16 and July 19-23, 2004
Locations: Charleston, S.C. and the Sea Islands
Sponsor: Richards Center for the Study of the Civil War Era, Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA
Contact: kae3@psu.edu
If you are interested in these workshops or any of the others offered, please email the contact people or check the NEH website: http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks.html
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