Participate in an NEH Summer Seminar, Institute, or Landmarks Workshop
for K-12 Educators
Application Deadline: March 1, 2020
Summer Seminars and Institutes are 1- to 4-week residential programs that support collegial study of significant topics in the humanities and make use of important scholarship and primary resources such as archival documents, artifacts, or historic sites.
Typically, participants develop a scholarly and/or pedagogical project based on the topic. Programs take place throughout the United States, and participant stipends help cover travel and living expenses.
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
- focus on the study and teaching of significant texts and other resources;
- provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching;
- contribute to the intellectual growth of the participants; and
- build lasting communities of inquiry.
This year’s programs could have you delving into the depths of a wide range of literature, history, and culture. You could go beyond the Mayflower in early America, dig into the long civil rights movement, examine women’s civic involvement following the 19th amendment, or take a fresh look at the Vietnam War. Experience Roman Daily Life through the eyes of Petronius or wade in the tide pools and walk the fields of California like Steinbeck. Other programs explore contemporary writers who cover topics like immigration and disability. Programs also include new perspectives on Shakespeare: the making of America and digital storytelling.
For a complete list of the seminars and institutes offered this summer, along with eligibility and application requirements, please visit our website at the link below.
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops are place-based one-week workshops that take K-12 educators to historic sites to explore central themes in American history and government, literature, art, music, and related humanities topics. Workshops take place throughout the United States, and participant stipends help cover travel and living expenses.
Landmarks Workshops
- employ a place-based approach;
- teach historic sites through critical interpretation; and
- explore central themes in American history and government, literature, art, music, and related humanities subjects.
The 2020 programs include several topics and themes related to Native Americans, from Mesa Verde to New England. Other programs explore civil rights, including school desegregation in Virginia, the Japanese incarceration during World War II, and the 1970 Kent State shootings. Additional opportunities examine the natural and built environment, from industrialization in Lowell to the skyscrapers of Chicago. Those interested in military history could walk the battlefields of Gettysburg or Saipan.
For a complete list of the Landmarks Workshops offered this summer, along with eligibility and application requirements, please visit our website at the link below.
Where will curiosity take you next summer?
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