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Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities in the humanities for American school teachers. These programs are national, residential, and rigorous. Program participants receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses.
SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES
Application Deadline is March 3, 2008 (postmark)
Seminars and Institutes are 2-6 week projects which take place in the United States and abroad. For a complete list of the 27 projects offered in the summer of 2007, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, go to the NEH website at:
Among the subjects to be studied are:
the works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Petrarch
Latin, Spanish, and Arabic literature
Himalayan and Mesoamerican cultures
the Music of Mozart and Bach
American History through Song
Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill
United States Constitution and Government
the Abolitionist Movement
the American Great Plains
the Industrial Revolution
the Holocaust
Many of these projects will take place on American campuses; others will be held in Austria, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Application Deadline is March 17, 2008 (postmark)
Landmarks of American History and Culture are 1-week workshops which take place at major historical sites across the nation.
For a complete list of the 20 projects offered in the summer of 2008, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, go to the NEH website at:
Among the subjects to be studied are
George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt
the U.S. Constitution
the Blue Ridge Parkway
the African American experience
the Underground Railroad
Benjamin Franklin
Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston
Ellis Island, New Yorks Lower East Side
Womens Suffrage in the West
Project directors will provide details about their projects, along with application guidelines. NEH staff does not send out this information. For general information about these programs, contact NEH by e-mail at sem-inst@neh.gov; for information about other NEH programs, go to the NEH website at .
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