Application Deadline: March 15, 2007

Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports a variety of study opportunities in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates. Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops are national, residential, and rigorous. Participants in these 1-week workshops receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses. This program is open to full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty at community colleges. Foreign nationals teaching abroad are not eligible to participate.

The five workshops for 2007 are: Encountering John Adams: Braintree and Boston; Remembering the Alamo; The American Lyceum and Public Culture: The Oratory of Idealism, Opportunity, and Abolition in the 19th Century; War, Death, and Remembrance: The Memory and Commemoration of the American Civil War; and Steel Making in Cleveland: A Case Study of the History and Culture of Industrialization, Immigration, and Labor in America.

This list of Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, is available on the NEH website at:

NEH is also sponsoring 27 Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers at sites across the country and abroad. Community college faculty are eligible to participate in these 2-6 week projects. The list of Seminars and Institutes for 2007, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, is available on the NEH website at:

Project directors for Landmarks and for Seminars and Institutes will provide details about their projects, along with application guidelines. NEH staff does not send out this information.

For general information about these program, contact NEH by e-mail at sem-inst@neh.gov; for information about other NEH programs, go to the NEH website at .