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 to support a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.
Purpose
- Landmarks workshops 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.
- 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
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.
Project Design
- Landmarks workshops designed for K-12 educators must include two separate sessions of five to seven days each for two different groups of participants (week one and week two).
- Landmarks workshops designed for higher education faculty, advanced graduate students, and humanities professionals can include two separate sessions of five to seven days for two different groups of participants (week one and week two) or one session of eight to ten days for one group of participants.
- The content, presenters, site visits, activities, and readings should be substantively the same for each session.
- 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.
Program Outputs and Outcomes
- The output of a Landmarks for K-12 educators award must be two sessions of one-week workshops for 60-72 K-12 educators.
- The output of a Landmarks for higher education faculty can be two sessions of one-week workshops for 40-48 participants or one eight to ten-day workshop for 25-30 higher education faculty or humanities professionals.
- The outcome of a Landmarks project will be to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.
Project Audience
- You must design your Landmarks workshops and recruitment plan for a national audience of participants from across humanities disciplines and professions who work in K-12 education, post-secondary education, and/or at humanities organizations. You must identify a primary audience for your workshop of either K-12 educators or higher education faculty and/or humanities professionals.
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
- Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
For more information, visit NEH.