Application Deadline: March 16, 2009 (postmark)

Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates.

Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops are rigorous national, residential workshops for community college faculty. The Landmarks workshops are 1-week projects that take place at sites of historical or cultural significance across the nation and provide educators with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history and culture. Participants receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses. This program is open to full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty at community colleges.

The 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:

The six workshops for 2009 are

• Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
• Encountering John Adams: Boston and Braintree
• The American Lyceum and Public Culture: The Rhetoric of Idealism, Abolition, and Opportunity
• Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike
• Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American Politics and Literature, 1877-1901
• Passages to Cleveland: Community Memory and the Landmarks of Migration.

NEH is also sponsoring 19 Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers at sites across the country and abroad. Community college faculty members are eligible to participate in these 3-6 week projects. The list of Seminars and Institutes for 2009, 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 .