Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports faculty development through residential projects:  2-6 week Seminars and Institutes and 1-week Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops. These projects are designed to provide American teachers with the opportunity for intensive study of important texts and topics in the humanities. 

Seminars and Institutes
Application Deadline is March 3, 2008

Seminars and Institutes foster excellent teaching by encouraging collegial discussion of humanities topics within close-knit scholarly communities.  They also promote active scholarship in the humanities in ways suited to teachers at all levels from grade school through college. Participants have called the seminars and institutes life changing experiences.  They often note that they view the host institution as an important resource for future scholarly endeavors for themselves and for their students.  The application guidelines for projects to be held in 2009 are posted on the NEH website at:
<www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html> > (for school teachers and college/university teachers).

Landmarks of American History and Culture 
Application Deadline is March 17, 2008

These grant opportunities are part of the "We the People" initiative, which is designed to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops bring groups of K-12 teachers or community college faculty together for intensive, one-week, residence-based workshops at or near significant American sites. Eligible applicants include museums, libraries, cultural and learned societies, state humanities councils, colleges and universities, schools and school districts. Collaborative programs are encouraged. The application guidelines for projects to be held in 2009 are posted on the NEH website at:
<www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html
<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html> > (for school
teachers) or <www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html
<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html> > (for community college faculty).

As part of the NEH's "We the People" program, the new Picturing America program promotes the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture in K-12 schools by introducing young people to some of America's great art treasures. NEH encourages proposals for Summer Seminars or Institutes for School Teachers and Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers that focus on one or more of the Picturing America art works or artists as well as the events or periods of American history depicted and the humanities themes represented. Please see http://PicturingAmerica.neh.gov <http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/> .

Now is the time to draft a proposal or to contact a colleague whom you think might be interested in developing a project.  NEH strongly recommend's that you work with one of the program officers listed below: 

Thomas Adams              202-606-8396  tadams@neh.gov
Douglas Arnold              202-606-8225  darnold@neh.gov
Barbara Ashbrook          202-606-8388  bashbrook@neh.gov
Judith Jeffrey Howard    202-606-8398  jhoward@neh.gov
Julia Nguyen                  202-606-8213  jnguyen@neh.gov
Robert Sayers                202-606-8215  rsayers@neh.gov

Program staff can answer questions, provide samples of successful applications, and comment on an informal draft.  Staff can help anticipate questions that are likely to arise in the review process.

Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov.  Institutions must register with Grants.gov, a process which usually takes about two weeks.