Deadline: 12-Feb-2025
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the Landmarks of American History and Culture Program.
Landmarks of American History and Culture programs for K-12 educators situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.
Purpose
- Landmarks workshops:
- Offer participants enhanced knowledge of content through humanistic inquiry, experiential learning, discussions, readings, lectures, meetings with community members, and multimedia presentations
- Include place-based learning activities, such as visits to museums, libraries, archives, markers, sites, monuments, memorials, national parks, cultural organizations, historic homes and buildings, walking tours, and public performances
- Consider how monuments, markers, and memorials interpret events, eras, individuals, and/or groups at national, regional, and local levels
- Examine the significance of memory, unmarked sites of cultural and historical significance, and change over time in a place or region
- Explore physical, natural, and/or cultural landscapes while studying art history, literature, environmental humanities, geohumanities, public history, architecture, and related fields
- Engage in the design of public humanities and experiential learning activities such as collecting oral histories, working with digital mapping resources, and developing collaborations with community members or local organizations
Formats
- You must select one of the following formats:
- Residential: All participants attend for the duration of the workshop at the host site.
- Virtual: All participants attend for the duration of the workshop using an online platform. This can include synchronous and asynchronous sessions.
- Combined Format: All participants attend a portion of the workshop virtually and a portion of the workshop at the host site. Virtual and residential portions occur at different times, but all participants must attend the same format simultaneously. Asynchronous and/or synchronous sessions can be held before and/or after the residential portion of the program.
Funding Information
- NEH anticipates awarding approximately $2,500,000 among an estimated 15 recipients.
- You may request up to $190,000. This includes the sum of direct and indirect costs.
- The period of performance is 15 months, with a start date of October 1, 2025, and an end date of December 31, 2026.
Eligible Costs
- Cost sharing refers to project costs that are covered with non-NEH funds. You may contribute voluntary cost share if the total project costs exceed the amount awarded by NEH.
- Voluntary cost share includes:
- Cash contributions made to the project by you or a third party.
- Your unrecovered indirect costs.
- In-kind contributions (non-cash contributions, such as property or services, that benefit the project and are contributed without charge) by you or a third party.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following:
- A nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- An accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- A state or local government or one of their agencies
- A federally recognized Native American Tribal government
- If your organization is eligible, you may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If NEH selects your proposal for funding, you will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
- Landmarks workshop participants must be:
- United States citizens, including those teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions and schools operated by the federal government;
- Residents of U.S. jurisdictions; or
- Foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are not eligible to participate in NEH funded workshops:
- Foreign nationals teaching abroad
- Individuals who are related to the project director(s)
- Individuals who are affiliated with the applicant institution
- Individuals who have been taught or advised in an academic capacity by the project director(s)
- Individuals who have attended a previous NEH professional development project (Institutes, Landmarks, or Seminar) led by the project director(s)
- Individuals who are delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (e.g., taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees)
- Individuals who have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency
- NEH does not require participants to have an advanced degree.
- Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
Application Requirements
- Requirements, unless otherwise indicated:
- Pages no larger than standard letter (8 ½” x 11”)
- At least one-inch margins on all sides for all pages
- A font no smaller than 11 points
- In addition, NEH encourages you to format your attachments consistent with the following:
- Single-spacing
- A readable font such as Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, or Times New Roman
- Any standard citation style (include citations in page counts)
- NEH has assigned each application component one of the following designations:
- Required: You must submit this component.
- Conditionally required: You must submit this component if your proposal meets the specified conditions.
- Conditionally required for recipients: You are encouraged but not required to submit this component when you apply. You must submit it if you receive an award if your proposal meets the specified conditions.
- NEH will not review applications missing any required documents or relevant conditionally required documents.
- Do not include attachments other than those listed in the table in this notice. If you do, NEH will reject your application.
- In addition, NEH has established page limits for some application components:
- Mandatory: You must not exceed the page limit.
- Suggested: NEH encourages, but does not require, you to abide by the page limit.
- Note page limits and formatting instructions in this notice. NEH will not review applications that exceed mandatory page limits or deviate from formatting instructions.
For more information, visit NEH.