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The National Endowment for the Humanities supports tuition-free professional development programs each summer for American school teachers. Participants receive stipends to help cover travel and living expenses. The application deadline is March 4, 2013.
For more information and a complete list of programs, please visit www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs.
NEH SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes last two to five weeks. Among the subjects offered for schoolteachers in 2013 are:
• African history
• African-American literature
• Diversity, unity in the Pueblo world
• China and India
• Mind, meaning, and morality
• Turkish history and culture
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Steinbeck
• Native Americans of New England
• Political and constitutional theory
• Appalachian culture
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Roots of the Arab Spring
• South African history and culture
• American history through song
Most programs take place on American campuses; others are held in Belgium, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, the Isle of Man, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa, and Turkey.
NEH LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE WORKSHOPS
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops last one week and take place at sites of historical or cultural significance across the nation. Among the subjects to be studied are:
• The American skyscraper
• Civil Rights movement
• Erie Canal
• African-American artisans, entrepreneurs, abolitionists
• Exploration of U.S. Pacific coast
• The Adirondacks in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Early California settlement
• Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
• Gullah culture
• The Shakers
• The Hudson River in American history
• Industrial Revolution
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Colonial New England
• Mississippi Delta history and culture
• Mining in the Far West
• Underground Railroad
• Kentucky during the Civil War
• Transcontinental railroad
• War of 1812
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