Deadline: 1-Feb-23
The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for its Landmarks of American History and Culture Program to support a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation that enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities.
Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops (Landmarks) 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 about diverse histories, cultures, traditions, languages, 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, and multimedia presentations
- place-based learning activities, such as visits to museums, libraries, archives, monuments, memorials, national parks, historic homes and buildings, walking tours, and public performances
- access to essential source materials, including primary texts, documents, oral histories, artifacts, archival resources, and digital media
- a community of inquiry that encourages dialogue and the exchange of ideas
- opportunities to examine and design implementation strategies; work with digital resources and tools that emphasize place-based teaching, learning, and research in the humanities; and collaborate on the creation of educational materials
- a team of humanities scholars: topic experts, local organizations, community partners, and faculty with K-12 education experience (where required), who contribute to all phases of the program
Funding Information
- Award amounts: You may request up to $190,000.
- The period of performance is 15 months, with a start date of October 1, 2023, and an end date of December 31, 2024.
Activities
Landmarks workshops may examine a range of topics, take a variety of forms, occur in-person and/or virtually, and include multiple place types. They may support activities such as:
- considering how monuments, markers, and memorials interpret events, eras, individuals, and/or groups at national, regional, and local levels
- exploration of physical, natural, and/or cultural landscapes while studying art history, literature, environmental humanities, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, and related fields
- engagement with materials and subject matter experts at archives, museums, and historic sites when studying the events and legacies of America’s conflicts
- designing 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
- site visits, presentations by invited speakers, and work with interactive digital resources to study the places, perspectives, and legacies of American history and culture
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply, you must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- 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 you are an eligible applicant, 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.
- To be eligible, you must make substantive contributions to the success of the project and must not function solely as a fiscal agent for another entity.
- Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
For more information, visit https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshops-school-teachers