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Colgate University offers a three-week, summer institute from July 7-26, 2024 on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad (UGRR) in North America from the colonial era through the Civil War. This…
"Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling” is a two-week summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 9-12. The theme of “translation,” as a means to contextualize Shakespeare’s art and to…
The Religious Worlds of New York summer institute helps K-12 teachers teach creatively and effectively about religious diversity, with an emphasis on everyday faith community life. Participants…
As an abiding feature of adolescence, friendship is of special curricular interest in the high school English classroom. During this innovative, residential institute, teachers examine how…
LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States is a two-week summer institute for middle and high school teachers that introduces participants to the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.…
This institute explores the socio-cultural and economic connections between the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration. The first segment of the institute occurs online and provides an…
Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute - Shakespeare: Othello and The Taming of the Shrew in Conversation will focus on two plays that shape the gender and racial paradigms of…
Twenty-five K-12 educators from across the country will gather in San Diego in July 2024 to learn from a faculty team that have developed extensive curriculum around comics; strategize how to…
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.
Students will learn how the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution was shaped by historical events and how it reflected the fundamental values and principles of a newly independent nation.