The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt: The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism

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From the San Diego State University website:

"The seminar will explore several key works by the political theorist, Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and The Human Condition. These works shed light on the problem of evil and the use of terror in the contemporary age, and provide a philosophical perspective on current debates about the use of violence to settle political conflicts, about the conditions of democracy, and about the scope and importance of human rights."

Contact name
Simone Arias
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, San Diego State University
Phone number
8586638827
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $4500 stipend
Duration
Six weeks
End Date

The Sixties in Historical Perspective

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"This seminar will explore a controversial era shrouded in myths and memories. Among the topics it will examine are the presidencies of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon; the civil rights movement; the Vietnam War; the New Left; the counterculture; the women's movement; the gay movement; the conservative movement; the international dimension of youth protest; and the legacies of the 1960s. The aim of the seminar is to provide a balanced history of a turbulent time that continues to influence American politics, society, and culture.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
One week
End Date

Women's Rights in the United States

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Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
Four days
End Date

New York in the Gilded Age

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"Professors Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe explore one of the most exciting and important periods in American history: the quarter-century between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Lectures focus on the rise of machine politics, the transportation revolution, the development of new social elites, the changing role of women, the literary figures who helped define the age, housing for the rich and poor, and an examination of New York City at the center of the Gilded Age."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
One week
End Date

Social Movements in Modern America: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism

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From Indiana University's website:

"Our NEH summer institute will enhance your teaching curriculum with respect to modern American social movements in a number of ways. Most fundamentally, the institute will help you understand the pivotal role that social movements have played in changing public policy in the United States over the last century. Moreover, the institute will acquaint you with the latest scholarship on these three social movements—labor, civil rights, and feminism—which you are unlikely to have encountered in your teacher training. Recent historical scholarship reveals at least three general ways to enhance these topics for your secondary school students. First, historians now emphasize the diversity and complexity of each of these movements. In each case, a variety of sometimes conflicting organizations, perspectives, and leaders made up each movement. And yet teaching tends to focus only on the dominant current within each movement. Second, the interconnections between these three movements have received renewed attention. Historians are finding more and more ways in which these movements cross-fertilized each other, but the connections are often missed by teachers. For instance, recent scholarship on Betty Friedan, the central founder of the National Organization for Women has found that her work for CIO unions like the United Electrical Workers during the 1940s was a formative experience for the development of her feminist ideas. Third, social movement scholarship has taken note of the extent to which each of these movements faced organized resistance. It is easy for young people today to forget that as reasonable as Martin Luther King, Jr. may seem to us today, in his own day he was viewed as a dangerous agitator."

Contact name
Dr. Barbara Truesdell
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana University
Phone number
8128552856
Target Audience
9-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $2,700 stipend
Course Credit
"Upon successful completion of the summer institute “Social Movements in Modern America: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism,” you will earn professional development points (PDPs or CEUs) according to the guidelines of your own school districts."
Duration
Three weeks
End Date

Women's Bureau

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The Women's Bureau, within the Department of Labor, was created in 1920 in order to "improve the status of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment," according to the bureau mission statement.

While much of the information offered by the bureau covers recent trends and developments in women's employment, the very existence of the bureau and the period in which it was founded speaks to the history of women's rights in the U.S. As such, the statistics offered can serve as a an extension to units on women's suffrage and increasing roles outside of the domestic sphere. Take a look at how the bureau's history reflects changing labor concerns of the 20th and 21st centuries.

A great place to start is the bureau's quick facts and reports. The quick facts, lists of relevant statistical data, include the 20 most common women's occupations as of 2008 and data on female RNs (registered nurses). Also take a look at the data book, Women in the Labor Force.

Women's history is a great way to discuss many of the events of the 20th century (early amendments, WWII, etc.) through a traditionally overlooked historical perspective.

John and Abigail Adams

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website:

"This seminar will focus on the personal and political partnership between Abigail and John Adams during the American Revolution and the creation of the infant republic. Readings will include My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret Hogan and James Taylor, and John Adams by David McCullough. Joseph Ellis will share draft chapters from his forthcoming book on Abigail and John for comments and criticism. Participants will visit the Adams Homestead at Quincy. Students will also create a packet of teaching materials for classroom use on the question: was Abigail a feminist?"

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 travel stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
One week
End Date

Jane Addams and Hull House

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Jane Addams, a wealthy woman who was a pioneer of social reform. She lived and worked in Hull House, a settlement house that assisted poor immigrants with child care and English lessons.

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