National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Programs

Dates: vary
Application Deadlines: March 3 and March 17, 2008, depending on program
Locations: vary--throughout the U.S. and abroad

Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities in the humanities for American school teachers.  These programs are national, residential, and rigorous. Program participants receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses.

SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES

Application Deadline is March 3, 2008 (postmark)

Seminars and Institutes are 2-6 week projects which take place in the United States and abroad.  For a complete list of the 27 projects offered in the summer of 2007, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, go to the NEH website at:
<www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html
<http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html> >

Among the subjects to be studied are:

* the works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Petrarch
* Latin, Spanish, and Arabic literature
* Himalayan and Mesoamerican cultures 
* the Music of Mozart and Bach
* American History through Song
* Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill
* United States Constitution and Government
* the Abolitionist Movement
* the American Great Plains
* the Industrial Revolution
* the Holocaust

Many of these projects will take place on American campuses; others will be held in Austria, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain. 

LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

Application Deadline is March 17, 2008 (postmark)

Landmarks of American History and Culture are 1-week workshops which take place at major historical sites across the nation. 

For a complete list of the 20 projects offered in the summer of 2008, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, go to the NEH website at:
<www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html
<http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html> >

Among the subjects to be studied are

* George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt
* the U.S. Constitution
* the Blue Ridge Parkway
* the African American experience
* the Underground Railroad
* Benjamin Franklin
* Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston
* Ellis Island, New York's Lower East Side
* Women's Suffrage in the West

Project directors will provide details about their projects, along with application guidelines.  NEH staff does not send out this information.

For general information about these programs, contact NEH by e-mail at sem-inst@neh.gov <mailto:sem-inst@neh.gov> ; for information about other NEH programs, go to the NEH website at <www.neh.gov <http://www.neh.gov/> .