Professional Development

Check out the opportunities for professional development listed below:

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The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Against Slavery and Racial Injustice from the American Revolution to the Civil War
Philadelphia, Pa.
June 21–July 16, 2010 (4 weeks)
Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
Information:
Department of History
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14607
716-597-9860
rsngsm@rit.edu
www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/

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America and the Great War:
An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literature and History
Lawrence, Kan.
June 27–July 30, 2010 (5 weeks)
Janet Sharistanian and Ted Wilson, University of Kansas
Information:
NEH Summer Seminar
c/o Hall Center for the Humanities
900 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7622
785-864-7884
greatwar@ku.edu
www.greatwar.ku.edu

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The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt:
The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism
San Diego, Calif.
June 27–August 5, 2010 (6 weeks)
Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University
Information:
Simone Arias
P.O. Box 17308
San Diego, CA 92117
858-663-8827
sarias2@earthlink.net
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~arendt/

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Punishment, Politics, and Culture

Amherst, Mass.
June 28–July 30, 2010 (5 weeks)
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
Information:
Austin Sarat
Department of Political Science
Clark House
Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002
413-542-2380
adsarat@amherst.edu
www.amherst.edu/go/neh

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Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York
Hamilton, N.Y.
June 27–July 23, 2010 (4 weeks)
Graham Russell Hodges, Colgate University
Faculty: Manisha Sinha, David Gellman, Patrick Rael, Fergus Bordewich, Milton Sernett, Kim and Reggie Harris, James Horton, Lois Horton, Norman Dann, Bruce Laurie, Douglas Egerton, Richard Newman, Julie Jeffrey, John Stauffer, Marcus Rediker
Information:
Professor Graham Hodges
Department of History
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
315-228-7517
ghodges@colgate.edu
www.colgate.edu/Abolitionism/Hodges

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African-American Political History
Chicago, Ill.
July 4–July 30, 2010 (4 weeks)
Julieanna L. Richardson, The HistoryMakers; Charles Branham, DuSable Museum
Faculty: Eric Arnesen, Chris Benson, James Conyers, Leon Dash, Michael Dawson, V.P. Franklin, Ashley Howard, Bruce Laurie, Joseph Lipari, Josh Radinsky, Christopher Reed, Frances Jones Sneed, Kathryn Stine
Information:
Julieanna Richardson, Director
The HistoryMakers
1900 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60616
312-674-1900
jlr@thehistorymakers.com
www.thehistorymakers.com

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Cotton Culture in the South from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Macon, Ga.
June 27–July 301, 2010 (5 weeks)
Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University
Faculty: Charles Aiken, James Giesen, David Carlton, Joseph Crespino, Chester Fontenot, Fitzhugh Brundage, Andrew Manis, James Peacock, Benjamin Wise, Robert Jackson, Allen Tullos, John Vlach, Stan Brown
Information:
Carmen Hicks
Willingham Hall 201
Mercer University
1400 Coleman Ave
Macon, GA 31207-0001
478-301-2562
Hicks_cg@mercer.edu
www.mercer.edu/SST/NEH/

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Dvorák in America
Pittsburgh, Pa.
July 12–30, 2010 (3 weeks)
Joseph Horowitz, independent scholar
Faculty: Tim Barringer, Robert Winter, Michael Beckerman, Stephen Mayer, Mariana Whitmer, Kevin Deas, Jean Snyder, Dale Cockrell, Harry Dawe
Information:
Nicole Longevin-Burroughs
Manager of Education and Community Programs
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Heinz Hall
600 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412-392-8991
institute@pittsburghsymphony.org
www.pittsburghsymphony.org/dvorakinstitute

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Exploring the Past:
Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
La Crosse, Wis.
July 12–30, 2010 (3 weeks)
James Theler, Bonnie Jancik, and Katherine Stevenson, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Faculty: Robert Boszhardt, Loren Cade
Information:
Bonnie Jancik
Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1725 State Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
608-785-6473
jancik.bonn@uwlax.edu
www.uwlax.edu/mvac/neh.htm

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The Lost World of Early America
New Haven, Conn.
July 18–31, 2010 (2 weeks)
John Demos, Yale University
Information:
Seminar Department
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street
Suite 500
New York, NY 10036
646-366-9666
seminars@gilderlehrman.org
www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_NEH.php

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Making the Wright Connection:
Reading Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom’s Children
Lawrence, Kan.
July 11–24, 2010 (2 weeks)
Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas
Faculty: Jerry W. Ward Jr., Howard Rambsy II, Joyce Ann Joyce, James A. Miller, Hazel Rowley, Carmaletta Williams, Julia Wright, Greg Carroll, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Abdul JanMohamed, Toru Kiuchi, Deborah McDowell, Arnold Rampersad, Amritjit Singh, Randel Jelks, Madison Davis Lacy, David Taylor
Information:
Department of English
University of Kansas
1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Rm 3001
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-2565
wrightconnection@ku.edu
www.richardwrightat100.ku.edu

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The Many and the One:
Religion, Pluralism, and American History
Indianapolis, Ind.
July 12–30, 2010 (3 weeks)
Philip Goff, Arthur Farnsley II, and Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Faculty: Darren Dochuk, Sylvester Johnson, Sheila Suess Kennedy, Laura Olsen, Amanda Porterfield, Douglas Winiarski
Information:
Arthur Farnsley II
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
425 University Blvd., CA 417
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-8409
raac@iupui.edu
www.iupui.edu/~raac/projects

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The New Negro Renaissance in America, 1919–1941
St. Louis, Mo.
July 12–30, 2010 (3 weeks)
Gerarld Early, Washington University
Faculty: Harper Barnes, Katharine Capshaw Smith, Amina Gautier, Donald Spivey, Robert G. O’Meally, Gene Dobbs Bradford, Jonathan C. Smith
Information:
Gerald Early or Jian Leng
The Center for the Humanities
Old McMillan Hall, Room S101
Campus Box 1071
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
314-935-5576
cenhum@artsci.wustl.edu
cenhum.artsci.wustl.edu

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Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens
Los Angeles, Calif.
July 10–31, 2010 (3 weeks)
Will Harris, Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier and University of Pennsylvania
Information:
John Hale or Professor Will Harris, Director
NEH Institute/National Academy
Center for Civic Education
5145 Douglas Fir Rd.
Calabasas, CA 91302-1440
818-591-9321 or 800-350-4223
hale@civiced.org
www.civiced.org

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Social Movements in Modern America:
Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism
Bloomington, Ind.
July 11–31, 2010 (3 weeks)
John Bodnar and Edward Carmines, Indiana University
Faculty: Lynn R. Nelson, Jeffrey Ogbar, Carl R. Weinberg, Jennifer Maher
Information:
Barbara Truesdell, Assistant Director
Center for the Study of History and Memory
Weatherly Hall North, Room 122
400 North Sunrise Drive
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-2856; Fax: 812-855-0002
barbara@indiana.edu
www.indiana.edu/~inst2010

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Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship
Cambridge and London, U.K.
July 11–31, 2010 (3 weeks)
James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Faculty: Piers Brendon, David Dilks, Allen Packwood, Kevin Theakston, Sir Max Hastings, Richard Overy
Information:
Daniel N. Myers
The Churchill Centre
P.O. Box 945
Downers Grove, IL 60515-0945
630-512-9341 or 888-972-1874
NEH2010@winstonchurchill.org
www.winstonchurchill.org/support/for-educators/us-educators/neh-teachers-institute

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Professional Development opportunities from the National Humanities Center:

Rethinking Booker T. and W.E.B. » REGISTER Leader: Kenneth R. Janken Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill National Humanities Center Fellow Date: Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Jan. 28, 2010 In one lesson plan after another Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois forever stand opposed. In the late nineteenth century both sought uplift for African Americans, but one believed it came through accommodation and manual training, while the other urged resistance and the liberal arts. Is that the entire story? Was Washington a narrow, uncreative booster of commercialism or a savvy politician who correctly read what late nineteenth-century America would afford its black citizens? Was Du Bois a heroic intellectual activist or a narrow elitist whose path to uplift was open only to the “Talented Tenth”?

The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century » REGISTER Leader: Henry Binford Associate Professor of History Northwestern University National Humanities Center Fellow Date: Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 11, 2010 The United States marked its 100th anniversary in 1876 with the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, a birthday party that celebrated mechanical progress. But in late nineteenth-century America, progress did not simply mean generating more horsepower. It meant cleaning up cities, reforming government, improving the efficiency of workers, and professionalizing endeavors like playing baseball and studying history. The idea of progress reached into every corner of American life. How did Americans define progress at that time? How did progress manifest itself? And how did it shape America?

Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs » REGISTER Leader: Anthony W. Lee Associate Professor of Art Mount Holyoke College Date: Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 16, 2010 The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency founded to combat rural poverty. While it spent millions of dollars between 1935 and 1946 to improve the lives of poor farmers, it is remembered today for its documentary photography program. The photographs of rural America taken by FSA photographers in the 1930s have assumed iconic status and have come to define the look of the Great Depression. What can they teach about America in the 1930s? What can they tell us about the truth of documentary photography? How can we read them as images?

The Role of the West in the Reunification of the U.S. after the Civil War » REGISTER Leader: Heather Cox Richardson Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Date: Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 18, 2010 When we teach Reconstruction, we typically focus on the struggle to reunite the North and the South. But what of the West? What role did it play in national reunification? The late nineteenth century was the zenith of westward expansion. Western images dominated American culture. What did the wide-open spaces of the West represent to the Americans who were crowding into the cities of the Northeast? What did they represent to the ex-Confederates who resented the imposition of federal power in the South? How did the West shape the nation that emerged from the Civil War?

Walt Whitman’s Civil War Poetry An American Experience Seminar » REGISTER Leader: Franny Nudelman Associate Professor of English Carleton University Date: Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Mar. 11, 2010 Reflecting on the Civil War in 1892, Walt Whitman concluded, “The real war will never get in the books.” But Whitman did try to bring the real war into his poems. An anti-slavery Democrat, who dressed the wounds of both Northern and Southern soldiers, Whitman wrote poems that describe the circumstances of war—from the exuberant optimism of 1861 to the blood-soaked exhaustion of 1865. How did he interpret the slaughter and sacrifice of the Civil War? How can we bring students to the “the real war” through his poems? This seminar is a collaboration between the National Humanities Center and public television’s historical documentary film series American Experience. Participants will view the American Experience film Walt Whitman and explore how to use it in the classroom.

Hamilton’s America-Jefferson’s America An American Experience Seminar » REGISTER Leader: Peter Onuf Thomas Jefferson Professor of History University of Virginia Date: Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Mar. 17, 2010 Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson offered distinct visions for the nation they were founding—one urban and industrial, the other rural and agrarian. In twenty-first-century America, a nation of cities and commerce, it is easy to think Hamilton won. But did he? How did the two visions clash in eighteenth-century America? What were their origins, and what have they meant for the United States? This seminar is a collaboration between the National Humanities Center and public television’s historical documentary film series American Experience. Participants will view the American Experience film Alexander Hamilton and explore how to use it in the classroom.

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