James Madison Graduate Fellowships

Description

From the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation website:

Through a national competition, the Foundation offers James Madison Fellowships to a select group of individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution. The Madison Foundation is committed to providing graduate training in American history, American government, and social studies education that will help our nation's teachers improve and perfect their professional skills by gaining content knowledge of the Constitution.

The Foundation offers two types of fellowships. Junior Fellowships are awarded to students who are about to complete, or have completed, their undergraduate course of study and plan to begin graduate work on a full-time basis. Junior Fellows have two years to complete their degree. Senior Fellowships are awarded to teachers who wish to undertake work for a graduate degree on a part-time basis through summer and evening classes. Senior Fellows have up to five years to complete their degree. The fellowships are intended exclusively for graduate study leading to a master's degree.

James Madison Fellows may attend any accredited institution of higher education in the United States. Each individual entering the James Madison Fellowship Program will be expected to pursue and complete a master's degree in one of the following (listed in order of the Foundation's preference): Master of Arts (MA) in American history or in political science (also referred to as "government and politics" or as "government"); Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) concentrating on either American Constitutional history (in a history department) or American government, political institutions, and political theory (in a political science department); or Master of Education (MEd) or the Master of Arts or Master of Science in Education with a concentration in American history or American government, political institutions, and political theory.

Sponsoring Organization
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
Eligibility Requirements

"The applicant must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national; be a teacher, or plan to become a teacher, of American history, American government, or social studies at the secondary school level (grades 7-12); possess a bachelor's degree or plan to receive a bachelor's degree no later than August 31 of the year in which s/he is applying; and wait at least three years from the time that any previous graduate degree was awarded before applying for a James Madison Fellowship."

Application Deadline
Award Amount
"The maximum amount of each award is $24,000, prorated over the individual period of study. Fellowship payments cover the actual costs of tuition, required fees, books, and room and board but cannot exceed $12,000 per academic year."

The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, Culture, and History in the Mississippi Delta

Description

Participants in this workshop will travel throughout the Delta as they visit sites where significant events occurred. They will discuss and learn about issues involving civil rights and political leadership, immigrants' experiences in the Delta, the Blues, the great migration, agriculture, and the Mississippi River, among other things. They will sample Delta foods, visit local museums, and listen to the Blues. Field trips will roam as far as Greenville, Greenwood, and Memphis, with stops in between.

Contact name
Brown, Luther
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Delta Center for Culture and Learning
Phone number
662-846-4311
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans

Description

During this one-week workshop, workshop fellows will walk the streets and alleys that Benjamin Franklin walked, step through the doorways that he knew, sit in the churches where he worshiped, and stroll around the houses and public buildings where he helped to found the United States. Fellows will also explore the many rooms of Benjamin Franklin's mind: writer, printer, civic leader, politician, diplomat, scientist, revolutionary, founder. They will read Franklin's words—published and personal—and those of other men and women who lived in the era. They will examine the key aspects of gender, of race, of social class, and diverse other topics.

Contact name
Boudreau, George W.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg
Phone number
717-948-6204
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Course Credit
Two types of credit will be available to each educator participating: Institute staff will assist educators in receiving continuing education credit (similar to Pennsylvania's Act-48 requirements). In addition, participants may register for graduate-level credit through the Pennsylvania State University, which will require both participation in all programs of the week-long workshop and additional readings and assignments.
Contact Title
Project Director
Duration
Six days
End Date

Partisans and Redcoats: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry

Description

This one-week workshop provides teachers with fresh perspectives on the complex dynamics of the American Revolution in the Southern backcountry, a place where longstanding hostilities between American settlers erupted into a full-scale civil war between Loyalists and Patriots. This program will make use of the rich historical resources in upstate South Carolina. Participants will visit Walnut Grove Plantation and the living history museum at Historic Brattonsville in order to better understand day-to-day life in the backcountry at the time of the Revolution. Then they will tour the battlefields at Kings Mountain, Cowpens, and Ninety-Six to learn more about the nature of backcountry warfare. They will also explore the ways that art, archaeological evidence, and material culture can help increase student engagement with the subject matter. They will examine the war's impact on the region's white women and on its free and enslaved African Americans. A veteran history teacher will serve as master teacher for the workshop, advising participants on ways they can use the content and resources they gain at the workshop in their own classrooms.

Contact name
Walker, Melissa; Woodfin, Edward
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Converse College
Phone number
864-596-9104
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

Partisans and Redcoats: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry

Description

This one-week workshop provides teachers with fresh perspectives on the complex dynamics of the American Revolution in the Southern backcountry, a place where longstanding hostilities between American settlers erupted into a full-scale civil war between Loyalists and Patriots. This program will make use of the rich historical resources in upstate South Carolina. Participants will visit Walnut Grove Plantation and the living history museum at Historic Brattonsville in order to better understand day-to-day life in the backcountry at the time of the Revolution. Then they will tour the battlefields at Kings Mountain, Cowpens, and Ninety-Six to learn more about the nature of backcountry warfare. They will also explore the ways that art, archaeological evidence, and material culture can help increase student engagement with the subject matter. They will examine the war's impact on the region's white women and on its free and enslaved African Americans. A veteran history teacher will serve as master teacher for the workshop, advising participants on ways they can use the content and resources they gain at the workshop in their own classrooms.

Contact name
Walker, Melissa; Woodfin, Edward
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Converse College
Phone number
864-596-9104
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

Dirt on Their Skirts

Description

This Electronic Field Trip looks at pioneering women baseball players, owners, umpires, and teams from as early as 1866, all the way up to present day women playing and working in baseball. The common thread running through the stories examined is the efforts of women and girls to be a part of America's national pastime: baseball.

Many Americans are surprised to learn that women once played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), from 1943–1954. Founded by Chicago Cubs owner Phil Wrigley as a method to entertain Americans and keep ball parks full during World War II, the league provided an unprecedented opportunity for young women to play professional baseball, see the country, and aspire to careers beyond the traditional female roles of teacher, secretary, nurse, librarian, or housewife.

This entry is a repeat of node #19119.

Slavery in the Rise of New England Commerce, Industry, and Culture to 1860

Description

In this institute, K–12 teachers, in conjunction with a group of leading scholars and public historians, will explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of early American history—the two-and-a-half-century web of connections between the rise of New England as a commercial and industrial center and the enslavement of Africans. New England's extensive and complicated relationship with slavery is a crucial part of the American story that almost never is clearly and comprehensively discussed in American history textbooks. But this is an important story, and there is no better place to explore it, and learn how to teach about it, than in Rhode Island, not only the center of the American slave and provisioning trades, but also the birthplace of the American industrial revolution. The two-week institute will include lectures by experts, tours of historic sites associated with these key developments, and guided explorations of original 18th- and 19th-century print and graphic sources that document this fascinating, often painful history. Teachers will be able to bring back to their classrooms and departments new knowledge, new primary documents and images, and fresh ideas and strategies for teaching this sensitive material, including shared lesson plans.

Contact name
Parys, Marie
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Rhode Island Historical Society
Phone number
401-331-8575
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $2,000 stipend
Course Credit
For Rhode Island teachers, the institute can yield Continuing Education Units (CEUs). For all other participants, the project team will provide a letter of equivalency that states the content of the two-week program and the hours spent at the institute. Participants should determine the requirements for receiving CEUs from their state departments of education and should plan to bring all necessary documentation to the institute so that staff can fill out any additional paperwork.
Duration
Twelve days
End Date

A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans

Description

During this one-week workshop, workshop fellows will walk the streets and alleys that Benjamin Franklin walked, step through the doorways that he knew, sit in the churches where he worshiped, and stroll around the houses and public buildings where he helped to found the United States. Fellows will also explore the many rooms of Benjamin Franklin's mind: writer, printer, civic leader, politician, diplomat, scientist, revolutionary, founder. They will read Franklin's words—published and personal—and those of other men and women who lived in the era. They will examine the key aspects of gender, of race, of social class, and diverse other topics.

Contact name
Boudreau, George W.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg
Phone number
717-948-6204
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Course Credit
Two types of credit will be available to each educator participating: Institute staff will assist educators in receiving continuing education credit (similar to Pennsylvania's Act-48 requirements). In addition, participants may register for graduate-level credit through the Pennsylvania State University, which will require both participation in all programs of the week-long workshop and additional readings and assignments.
Contact Title
Project Director
Duration
Six days
End Date

The Urban Experience

Description

The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date

SCUSD History/CA Reading and Lit Summer Institute

Description

From the California History-Social Science Project website:

"This is offered by the California Reading and Literature Project and the History Project and will focus on:
+Reexamining how to activate and develop background knowledge and vocabulary
+Integrating differentiation into what you already do
+Writing to Learn or Process Thinking strategies
+Utilizing the Process of Historical Investigation to design lessons and examine primary sources
+Building professional learning communities in your departments.

Each day will offer:
+Presentation of new strategies
+Teacher planning time and/or department collaboration time
+Lecture and Discussion facilitated by college professors"

Contact name
Durham, Katie
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
916-228-5844
Target Audience
9-12
Start Date
Duration
Five days
End Date