Several sessions at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 19-22, 2006 involve NEH-supported projects. NEH staff members will be present at many of the sessions and available throughout the meeting to discuss grant opportunities.

"Clashing Identities: Arrow Rock, Missouri, Where South Meets West"
Thursday, April 20, 8:30-10:00 P.M.
The session will highlight a Landmarks of American History workshop that considered the political, economic, and social history of antebellum America in a frontier town where the competing traditions of West and south coalesced before the Civil War.

"NEH Grant Programs Information Session"
Friday, April 21, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
An overview of NEH grant programs and the review process.

“Remembering the Alamo: Report from the NEH American Landmark Workshop”
Friday, April 21, 4:00-5:30
The session will consider a Landmarks of American History workshop held at the Alamo in the summer of 2005 which immersed community college faculty in the history and memory of the Alamo.

“The War that Made America” Saturday,
April 22, 8:30-10:00
The session will focus on questions central to this film such as what America was before the time of the French and Indian War and how and why it changed radically in the second half of the 18th century. The session will also consider general questions of how to present periods of history from which few visual images exist.

“A Sense of Place: NEH Teacher Workshops at Mount Vernon and The Hermitage”
Saturday, April 22, 10:30-12:00
The session will feature two Landmarks of American History workshops held at presidential homes: an examination of George Washington and the Constitution at Mount Vernon, and a study of Andrew Jackson and antebellum America at The Hermitage.

“Remembering Pearl Harbor: The Teachers’ Workshop Experience”
Saturday, April 22, 10:30-12:00
Come hear about the 2004 Landmarks of American History Workshop that was held at the East West Center of the University of Hawaii. The project director, Geoff White, will be joined by Dan Martinez, who guided teachers around numerous sites on behalf of the National Park Service staff of the USS Arizona Memorial, Hasse Halley, a participating teacher, visiting scholar Yujin Yaguchi of the University of Tokyo, and NEH staff member Thomas M. Adams.

For more information, please contact:

Julia Huston Nguyen, Senior Program Officer
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Washington, DC 20506
jnguyen@neh.gov
(202) 606-8213