Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

Recipient: Deardorff, Michelle D (Jackson, MS 39272 USA) in affiliation with Jackson State University (Jackson, MS 39217 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty anchored in landmarks of Freedom Summer and the Sanitation Workers' Strike, important episodes in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

Description: The proposed one-week workshop will expose participants to the history and landmarks of the southern Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee. The workshop will include presentations by scholars, exploration of primary source materials, oral history panels featuring a variety of civil rights history-makers and field trips to historical sites throughout Mississippi and Memphis. The project is a collaboration between The Hamer Institute at Jackson State University (Jackson, MS), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), and the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN). The workshop will be conducted twice for two distinct groups of 25 community college faculty.

Grant: 197552 / BI-50105-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

African-American History & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah & The Coastal Islands, 1750 - 1950

Recipient: Deaton, Stan (Savannah, GA 31401 USA) in affiliation with Georgia Historical Society

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on African-American life in rural and urban communities in the Georgia Lowcountry.

Description: The Landmarks workshop for community college faculty has been designed to address the broad themes of race and slavery in American history covered in a U.S. History survey course by focusing on site-specific experiences of communities in and around Savannah from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Through course readings, scholarly lectures, landmark site visits, community presentations, guided tours, and research in primary source documents from the Georgia Historical Society collection participants we will examine the centrality of place in the African-American experience in Georgia's Lowcountry and the larger Atlantic world. Workshop content is intended to help facilitate classroom discussion of general topics such as American slavery, early-American and nineteenth century economies, religion, art, and music, as well as more site-specific subjects such as the impact of geography, environment, time, and place on the development of community values and cultures.

Grant: 197546 / BI-50099-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Plymouth, Massachusetts: Landmark of Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians

Recipient: Paquette, William Arthur (Gainesville, VA 20155 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on landmarks in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Description: CCHA requests funding for NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops on the topic, "Plymouth, Massachusetts: Landmark of Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians," on site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, July 11-17 and July 18-24, 2010. Plymouth is the landmark site for the Pilgrim settlement, the interaction with the Wampanoag Indians, and the enduring political, religious, literary and arts traditions of early American and colonial history. Recent scholarship that emphasizes careful historical interpretation will be emphasized by four major scholars, Dr. Peter J. Gomes, Dr. Kathleen Bragdon, Dr. James Weiss, and Jonathan Leo Fairbanks. The project has the support of three Plymouth, Massachusetts institutions: Plimoth Plantation, Pilgrim Hall Museum, and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Participants will return to their campuses with new curriculum units of study and research projects for future scholarship.

Grant: 197549 / BI-50102-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the Nineteenth Century

Recipient: Delano, Sterling (Blue Bell, PA 19422 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on the Transcendentalists and nineteenth-century reform movements in Concord and its vicinity.

Description: CCHA requests funds to sponsor two Workshops, July 11-17 and July 18-24, 2010, for 50 community college faculty on "Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century." Two one-week workshops (25 teachers/week) will examine how Concord served as a center for antebellum social reform activities, with emphasis on the antislavery movement, the women's movement, and the utopian movement. Five prominent visiting scholars will conduct seminars each week. Guided visits to major historic and literary sites will supplement the seminars. Participants will depart Concord with a wealth of ideas and materials that can be used to reinvigorate their classrooms.

Grant: 197541 / BI-50094-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American Politics and Literature, 1877-1901

Recipient: Culbertson, Steven L (Fremont, OH 43420-2796 USA) in affiliation with Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, OH 43420 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college teachers to study politics and literature in the Gilded Age.

Description: The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio (www.rbhayes.org) proposes two one-week workshops to allow community college instructors from a number of disciplines to analyze and re-evaluate the complexities of the Gilded Age through an examination of its political and literary counter-forces. Community college faculty will examine perceptions of corruption and reform in the period from 1877 through 1901 with an emphasis on the role of key writers including Henry Adams, Henry George, Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain. This outcome will be achieved via presentations by respected scholars; tours of the Hayes Presidential Library, Museum, Home, and grounds; and research activities in archival holdings of artifacts, books, manuscripts, illustrations, and photographs.

Grant: 197539 / BI-50092-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War

Recipient: White, Geoffrey M (Honolulu, HI 96822 USA) in affiliation with East-West Center (Honolulu, HI 96848 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on World War II landmarks in and around Pearl Harbor in Hawai'i.

Description: This submission proposes two one-week workshops for community college faculty on "History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War" (July 25-30; August 1-6, 2010). Utilizing resources associated with Pearl Harbor and Hawaii's World War II historic sites, the workshops will consider the importance of culture(s) of commemoration for understanding and teaching Pacific War history. The program will examine a number of key sites of memory in Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia, and provide an opportunity for participants to pursue individual research and teaching interests relevant to a range of disciplines,including history, anthropology, Asian and Pacific studies, international politics, and religion. The workshops will be cosponsored by the East-West Center, the Arizona Memorial Museum Association and the National Park Service World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument.

Grant: 197556 / BI-50109-09,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Along the Shore: Changing and Preserving the Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront

Recipient: Hanley, Richard (Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on selected Brooklyn waterfront landmarks.

Description: Brooklyn's industrial waterfront was named one of America's eleven most endangered places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2007. Participants will explore five selected landmarks along this waterfront including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Heights, the Newtown Creek, and Coney Island. Starting with the assumption that meaningful landmarks involve preservation not just of buildings and physical fabric but of the lives, work, and play of those associated with the physical place, we will consider the many possible roles of the "landmark" in illuminating and commemorating both the cultural past and the living present. How do we preserve and celebrate the historical past in the face of inevitable change? Where the significance of a landmark is contested, what values and whose voices shape its meaning? Participants will also use emerging media production techniques to document their learning.

Grant: 197555 / BI-50108-09,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia's Place in Early America

Recipient: McDonald, Roderick Alexander (Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531 USA) in affiliation with Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members linking important themes in early American history to key sites in Philadelphia.

Description: The Society for Historians of the Early Republic (SHEAR), a U.S. 501(c) 3 nonprofit headquartered in Philadelphia, requests funds to support two one-week workshops entitled "Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia's Place in Early America," that will explore the pivotal transition from British colonial urban center to republican city. Twenty-five Community College faculty per week will explore Philadelphia's rich history, learn how to incorporate historic landmarks into classroom learning, and initiate or advance personal research interests.

Grant: 197543 / BI-50096-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Legacies and Landmarks of the High Plains Native Americans

Recipient: Parmley, Dianna L (Columbus, NE 68602-1027 USA) in affiliation with Central Community College (Grand Island, NE 68802 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on landmarks important to High Plains Native American tribes in Nebraska.

Description: Central Community College proposes two, one-week long workshops to immerse community college faculty in a scholarly study of High Plains Native American history and culture from the 18th century to modern times. Special emphasis will be placed on infusion of historical and cultural content of the Pawnee, Ponca, and Winnebago tribes. Attempts at assimilation of Native Americans into the main culture and resulting accommodation will be included, but the theme of hope of a people still among us today who are preserving a cultural identity, and lessons learned by all in the process will be highlighted in the workshops. Participants will use a variety of technological resources to integrate scholarly lectures, landmark visits, literature, film media, artwork, and music into individual curriculum projects. Small groups, round table discussions and question and answer sessions will provide participants with opportunities to interact with lecturers, cultural speakers and workshop faculty.

Grant: 197540 / BI-50093-09,   Category: Native American Studies,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Building the New South: The Social and Economic Transformation of the Piedmont after the Civil War

Recipient: Bissett, James S (Elon College, NC 27244 USA) in affiliation with Elon University (Elon, NC 27244-2010 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on industrial landmarks in western North Carolina.

Description: Community college professors will work with scholars in the history of the American South to study and discuss the dramatic economic and social transformation of the South in the decades after the Civil War. The focus of the workshop will be the piedmont area, the portion of the South where the most dramatic change--industrialization--took place. Burlington, North Carolina, the site of the workshop, became one of the South's major textile centers, a distinction it held until the precipitous decline of the textile industry in recent years. Workshop participants will study the social and economic transformation of the Piedmont by reading texts and primary source documents--many of them tied to the Burlington area--and by visiting area historic sites and museums and will work under the tutelage of some of the most prominent historians in this field.

Grant: 197554 / BI-50107-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Encountering John Adams: Boston and Braintree

Recipient: Landy, Marc K (Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA) in affiliation with Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 USA)

Description: Two week long workshops will explore the life and thought of John Adams and his significance in American political and constitutional history. Participants will immerse themselves in the original documents written by or to Adams that are housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society and or the commentaries he wrote into his books that are housed at the Boston Public Library. They will also visit the three houses that Adams lived in that comprise the Adams National Historic Park and tour the landmarks in downtown Boston where he conducted his legal practice and engaged in revolutionary political activities. In order to provide a thread of analytic and chronological continuity and to better able participants to consolidate their learning and and share their findings and ideas, they will participate in four seminars each of which will emphasize a different stage of Adams' life and career.

Grant: 192056 / BI-50082-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

Recipient: McLemore, Leslie B (Jackson, MS 39217 USA) in affiliation with Jackson State University

Description: The proposed one-week workshop will expose participants to the history and landmarks of the southern Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee. The workshop will include presentations by scholars, exploration of primary source materials, oral history panels featuring a variety of civil rights history-makers, and field trips to historical sites throughout Mississippi and Memphis. The project is a collaboration between The Hamer Institute at Jackson State University (Jackson, MS), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), and the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN). The workshop will be conducted twice for two distinct groups of 25 community college faculty.

Grant: 192062 / BI-50088-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

The American Lyceum: The Rhetoric of Idealism, Opportunity, and Abolition

Recipient: Katula, Richard A (Boston, MA 02115-5000 USA) in affiliation with Northeastern University (Boston, MA 02115 USA)

Description: The American Lyceum began in 1826. Organized by Josiah Holbrook, its goal was the spread of practical knowledge to the millions of Americans in the cities and small towns that dotted the landscape. The journey of the Lyceum Movement from a purely informational society to one that became engaged in the political struggles of its day is symbolic of this entire period when Americans began to discover the peculiar character of this new nation, but also to confront its demon: slavery. The workshop proposed here will introduce participants to the Lyceum through a study of its history and key texts (performed by interpreters) that formed its content. The workshops take place in actual Lyceum sites: Millbury, Worcester, Concord, and Salem, Massachusetts. Participants will listen to lectures on the history and oratory of the day, engage in discussions of the texts, and learn how to do research on this important period.

Grant: 192055 / BI-50081-08,   Category: American Studies,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Passages: Community Memory and the Landmarks of Migration

Recipient: Grabowski, John J (Cleveland, OH 44106 USA) in affiliation with Western Reserve Historical Society

Description: In the summer of 2009, the Western Reserve Historical Society will present "Passages: Community Memory and the Landmarks of Migration." Greater Cleveland offers a an ideal site for a workshop about the way we have come to see and can be trained to better understand the landmarks of migration. Today, two centuries after its founding, Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs are layered with landmarks which show its development into a major diverse metropolitan area. What is particularly intriguing and important about the migrant landscape of Cleveland is that one can still clearly discern the various layers of migration history, indeed, dating back to its New England origins, in a number of areas of the community. During these two one-week workshops, community college faculty from across the nation will visit specific landmarks and landscapes to literally see the various strata of migration history that Cleveland uniquely has to offer.

Grant: 192061 / BI-50087-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Landmarks in American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Faculty Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Trans

Recipient: Delano, Sterling (Blue Bell, PA 19422 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Description: CCHA requests funds to sponsor two Workshops, July 12-18 and July 19-25, 2009 for 50 community college faculty on "Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century." Two one-week workshops (25 teachers/week) will examine how Concord served as a center for antebellum social reform activities, with emphasis on the antislavery movement, the women's movement, and the utopian movement. Four prominent visiting scholars will conduct seminars each week. Guided visits to major historic and literary sites will supplement the seminars. Participants will depart Concord with a wealth of ideas and materials that can be used to reinvigorate their classrooms.

Grant: 192054 / BI-50080-08,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American Politics and Literature, 1877-1901

Recipient: Culbertson, Steven L (Fremont, OH 43420-2796 USA) in affiliation with Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, OH 43420 USA)

Description: The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio (www.rbhayes.org) proposes two one-week workshops to allow community college instructors from a number of disciplines to analyze and re-evaluate the complexities of the Gilded Age through an examination of its political and literary counter-forces. Community college faculty will examine perceptions of corruption and reform in the period from 1877 through 1901 with an emphasis on the role of key writers including Henry Adams, Henry George, Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain. This outcome will be achieved via presentations by respected scholars; tours of the Hayes Presidential Library, Museum, Home, and grounds; and research activities in archival holdings of artifacts, books, manuscripts, illustrations, and photographs.

Grant: 192053 / BI-50079-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

Recipient: McLemore, Leslie B (Jackson, MS 39217 USA) in affiliation with Jackson State University

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty anchored in landmarks central to Freedom Summer and the Sanitation Workers' Strike, important episodes in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Description: The proposed one-week workshop will expose participants to the history and landmarks of the southern Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee. The workshop will include presentations by scholars, exploration of primary source materials, oral history panels featuring a variety of civil rights history-makers, and field trips to historical sites throughout Mississippi and Memphis. The project is a collaboration between The Hamer Institute at Jackson State University (Jackson, MS), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), and the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN). The workshop will be conducted twice for two distinct groups of 25 community college faculty.

Grant: 187219 / BI-50062-07,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

Concord Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century

Recipient: Benson, Paul Francis (Dallas, TX 75211 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty on the Transcendentalists and 19th-century reform movements in Concord and its vicinity.

Description: CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS:A CENTER OF TRANSCENDENTALISM AND SOCIAL REFORM IN THE 19TH CENTURY is the title of a pair of workshops to be held in the historically significant Concord, Massachusetts. These workshops are built entirely around the concept that Concord, Massachusetts holds a special place in American culture. The Transcendentalist writers, philosophers, and lecturers who lived, wrote, and lectured in Concord during the 19th Century are among America?s most important creative minds. Another important reason to hold the workshops in this unique setting is in the richness of historic sites and archives within a few miles of the workshops? main meeting sites. Also, the surrounding area, particularly Boston, has many significant opportunities for site visits. And so to more deeply study this very historic locale and appreciate the seminal individuals in American thought who where once there, these workshops are being proposed.

Grant: 187217 / BI-50060-07,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

Henry Ford and the History of American Industry, Labor, and Culture

Recipient: Daher, Michael (Dearborn, MI 48128 USA) in affiliation with Henry Ford Community College

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty to study corporate, labor, and cultural history through primary sources and visits to the River Rouge Plant and other important landmarks.

Description: Henry Ford Community College will conduct two on-week workshops (for 25 participants each) on "Henry Ford and the History of American Industry, Labor, and Culture." The basic daily schedule will include morning workshops presented by guest scholars, followed by a tour of a relevant site, a research session, and a seminar. The participants will be community college faculty. The tours will take them not only to principal settings of materials culture (such as the Ford Rouge Plant and the Detroit Industry Murals of Diego Rivera), but also to major archival sources (such as the Walter Reuther and the Benson Ford libraries). Visiting scholars and presenters will include accomplished specialists in the fields of corporate, labor, and cultural history.

Grant: 187226 / BI-50069-07,   Category: American Studies,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

African-American History & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah & The Coastal Islands, 1750 - 1950

Recipient: Deaton, Stan (Savannah, GA 31401 USA) in affiliation with Georgia Historical Society

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty members on African American life in rural and urban communities in the Georgia Lowcountry.

Description: The landmarks workshop for community college faculty has been designed to address the broad themes of race and slavery in American history covered in a U.S. History survey course by focusing on site-specific experiences of communities in and around Savannah from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Through course readings, scholarly lectures, landmark site visits, community presentations, guided tours, and research in primary source documents from the Georgia Historical Society collection we will examine the centrality of place in the African-American experience in Georgia?s Lowcountry and the larger Atlantic world. Workshop content is intended to help facilitate classroom discussion of general topics such as American slavery, early-American and nineteenth century economies, religion, art, and music as well as more site-specific subjects such as the impact of geography, environment, time, and place on the development of community values and cultures.

Grant: 187229 / BI-50072-07,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007