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The Somos Boricuas Institute uses Puerto Rican migration to the mainland United States as a case study to explore key humanities questions that are at the heart of the American migration/…
Theatre for a New Audience offers Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays, a 2-week Institute for K-12 educators running July 15-26, 2024 in Brooklyn. The…
Employing community-engaged and place-based pedagogies, "Japanese American Post-War Resettlement in Chicago, 1943 - 1950" will host 30 educators from across the U.S. and will be conducted in a…
This 2-week residential workshop for middle and high school teachers will focus on the 1898 Wilmington coup and massacre, the only successful coup d’etat in our nations’ history. In the largest…
This two-week workshop, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will immerse K-12 teachers in the ancient Olympic Games and the local life going on around those games. We'll delve…
American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948 will engage participants in groundbreaking new scholarship, dialogue with leaders in the field, primary source research, and meaningful curriculum…
Pacific Crossings: Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories, 1870 to the Present will illuminate the long history of resistance by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their allies in…
Participant-teachers in this Institute will encounter the dynamic worlds of Moby-Dick to: 1) better understand and appreciate Herman Melville’s literary power and interpret its wonders for their…
"The Missing Stories: Reclaiming History through Community Archives" is a six-day institute for high school educators designed around the methods employed by community-based archives, which not…
Although only 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been ratified, thousands of proposed amendments have been introduced in Congress or circulated in public petitions. The Amendments…
Funded in part by the NEH, Chicago00: A Flight on the 1893 Ferris Wheel is a two-minute virtual reality (VR) video simulating the experience of riding the original Ferris Wheel, built as the…
In this episode of NEH-funded BackStory, learn how the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition showcased exclusion and inequality in addition to the latest achievements in science, technology,…
Esther Krinitz's art and story provide a powerful lens through which young people can view and reflect on important issues and themes raised by the Holocaust.