The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan: Place, Memory, Identity

Description

This seminar will examine the creation of identity and a sense of place by inhabitants and visitors to the Great Plains throughout the history of the U.S. Discussions and lectures will focus on four books: author and historian Walter P. Webb's 1931 "The Great Plains"; author Willa Cather's 1918 "My Antonia"; author N. Scott Momaday's 1969 "The Way to Rainy Mountain"; and author, historian, and environmentalist Wallace Stegner's 1955 autobiography "Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier."

Contact name
Isern, Tom
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 701-799-2942
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None ($3,600 stipend)
Course Credit
"Those seminarians desiring to earn graduate credit or continuing education units will be enabled to do so – arrangements in progress." Participants will also receive a certificate indicating participation.
Contact Title
Seminar Director
Duration
Five weeks
End Date

An Evening with Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson

Description

"The National C'onstitution Center welcomes Valerie Plame Wilson to discuss her new autobiography, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.' Plame Wilson provides her perspective on the public disclosure of her identity as a CIA officer and the federal investigation that led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby."

Sponsoring Organization
National Constitution Center
Phone number
1 215-409-6700
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
$12 members | $15 non-members | $6 K-12 teachers and students | (reservations required)
Duration
One to two hours

Retracing the Civil Rights Movement with Senator Richard Cohen

Description

Senator Richard Cohen discusses his interest in the Civil Rights Movement and tells stories about his visits to cities core to the movement, including Jackson, Birmingham, Philadelphia, and Selma and his interviews with civil rights activists and opponents.

Sponsoring Organization
Minnesota Humanities Center
Target Audience
General Public
Start Date
Cost
$25.00
Contact Title
Public Affairs Director
Duration
One hour

Teaching Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings

Description

This seminar will examine the teaching of Eudora Welly's memoir "One Writer's Beginnings," including how social studies teachers can "draw upon its vivid portrait of a distinctive era in Mississippi history."

Contact name
Manor, Wanda
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Eudora Welty Foundation
Phone number
1 601-974-1130
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Duration
One day

Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer: The Outside World and the Writer's Imagination

Description

This workshop will explore the life and times of author and photographer Eudora Welty (1909-2001). Hosted at the Welty House, the workshop will include visits to archives and historic sites, lectures, discussions, and curriculum development.

Contact name
Manor, Wanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 601-974-1130
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Six days
End Date

Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer: The Outside World and the Writer's Imagination

Description

This workshop will explore the life and times of author and photographer Eudora Welty (1909-2001). Hosted at the Welty House, the workshop will include visits to archives and historic sites, lectures, discussions, and curriculum development.

Contact name
Manor, Wanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 601-974-1130
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
Six days
End Date

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

Description

"The workshop will use sites in Atlanta to tell the powerful and provocative stories of the imposition and demolition of the Color Line. The workshop participants will explore the Fox Theater, where the physical barriers of a segregated facility are still visible. They will walk the streets of the two principal historic districts that trace the history of the color line, the Martin Luther King National Historic Site and the Atlanta University National Register District. They will visit sites throughout the city where Civil Rights history is memorialized. The participants will have background readings and primary historic documents, access to historic site documentation on the websites of the Library of Congress (American Memory), the National Park Service, and the Landmark sites themselves in their study of the color line. They will hear lectures in their meeting places and at the sites they visit. Participants will receive resource packets with primary and secondary source materials for principal historical figures and the landmark sites with which they are associated in Atlanta."

Contact name
Crimmins, Tim
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 404-413-6356
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
One week
End Date

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

Description

"The workshop will use sites in Atlanta to tell the powerful and provocative stories of the imposition and demolition of the Color Line. The workshop participants will explore the Fox Theater, where the physical barriers of a segregated facility are still visible. They will walk the streets of the two principal historic districts that trace the history of the color line, the Martin Luther King National Historic Site and the Atlanta University National Register District. They will visit sites throughout the city where Civil Rights history is memorialized. The participants will have background readings and primary historic documents, access to historic site documentation on the websites of the Library of Congress (American Memory), the National Park Service, and the Landmark sites themselves in their study of the color line. They will hear lectures in their meeting places and at the sites they visit. Participants will receive resource packets with primary and secondary source materials for principal historical figures and the landmark sites with which they are associated in Atlanta."

Contact name
Crimmins, Tim
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 404-413-6356
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Duration
One week
End Date

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: Florida in the 20th Century

Description

This workshop will discuss issues important in Florida 20th-century history, which may include "The Harlem Renaissance: Critical Issues in Black Literature and Culture," "Spanish Florida," "Democracy in Florida," "World War II: Florida Home Front," African-American communities and experience in Florida, or an overview of the archaeological record and cultural history of Florida. Contact the given number for more information.

Contact name
Smith, Elizabeth
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 941-301-1499
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Social Studies Supervisor
Duration
One day

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: Florida in the 20th Century

Description

This workshop will discuss issues important in Florida 20th-century history, which may include "The Harlem Renaissance: Critical Issues in Black Literature and Culture," "Spanish Florida," "Democracy in Florida," "World War II: Florida Home Front," African-American communities and experience in Florida, or an overview of the archaeological record and cultural history of Florida. Contact the given number for more information.

Contact name
Gory, Shellie
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Center for Teachers
Phone number
1 754-321-1873
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Contact Title
Curriculum Specialist
Duration
One day