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NEH Summer Seminar at Illinois College:
"The Frontier Experience in the American Midwest: Greater Illinois to 1860"
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Seminar Date: | 2009-06-29 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-12-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
165826 |
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Illinois College in Jacksonville a grant of over $98,000 to host a five-week Summer Seminar for school teachers during the summer of 2009. The Seminar is designated as a “We the People” project of the NEH and encourages and strengthens the teaching, study and understanding of American history and culture. It will include field trips to several southwestern Illinois state-operated historic sites. The seminar will include readings, discussions, videos, guest lectures, presentations by participants and several off-campus trips. The off-campus trips include travel to the “French Country” of southwestern Illinois, including Cahokia Mounds, Fort de Chartres, Fort Kaskaskia, Pierre Menard Home, Cahokia Courthouse and Lewis and Clark State Historic Sites. Also included are sites in St. Louis, New Philadelphia, and in and around Springfield and Jacksonville. Participants will also attend sessions of the annual conference of the Society of Historians for the Early American Republic (SHEAR) which will be held in mid-July in Springfield.
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Dr. James E. Davis, Seminar Director
Professor of History and Geography
1101 West College Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650
217-245-3426
Kindra Steenerson
Assistant to the Director
1101 West College Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650
618-352-0087
Email: nehseminar@ic.edu
Visit the website at http://www.ic.edu/neh
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