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2013 National Trust Preservation Conference
The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold its 2013 National Preservation Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 29-November 2. The conference encompasses nearly one hundred education and field sessions using Indianapolis and the surrounding area as a living laboratory of preservation examples.
Governor's Conference on Otto Kerner
The Governor's Conference on Otto Kerner (Illinois governor, 1961-1968) will include four panel sessions: Kerner Administration Goals and Accomplishments; Journalists' View of the Kerner Administration; Trial and Conviction of Otto Kerner; and The Public and Private Otto Kerner. The conference will be held at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 112 N. Sixth St., Springfield, IL.
Time for Everyone: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Public Time
Twenty years ago at Harvard University, the Longitude Symposium brought together collectors, restorers, dealers, academics, curators and people from seventeen countries interested in the history of time measurement. "Time for Everyone: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Public Time" will be held on November 7-9, 2013 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Call for Papers: 2013 Gulf South History and Humanities Conference
The 2013 Gulf South History and Humanities Conference will be held October 10-12 in Pensacola, Florida. The program committee seeks papers around the conference theme, "Five Hundred Years After Ponce De Leon: The Gulf South in Change, 1513-2013." Proposals should be postmarked by July 1, 2013.
Native Americans of New England: A Historical Overview
Native Americans of New England: A Historical Overview (July 7-26, 2013) is a summer institute for K-12 teachers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each successful applicant receives a stipend to help with the cost of travel, lodging, and meals.
History of Science Society 2013 Annual Meeting
The History of Science Society will hold its 2013 annual meeting at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting will mark the centennial anniversary of the society's journal Isis, one of the premiere international journals in the history of science. Submissions on all topics are encouraged. All proposals must be submitted via the HSS Web site or on the annual meeting proposal forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office. Deadline for applications is April 1, 2013. Also, anyone wishing to submit a panel or paper idea for the upcoming conference should visit hssmeeting.wikia.com.
C-SPAN 2013 Summer Educators' Conference
This summer, C-SPAN will be hosting two, day-and-a-half long conferences at C-SPAN's headquarters in the heart of Washington, DC. Airfare to and from Washington, two nights' hotel stay, and meals during the conference are all provided by C-SPAN. The dates for the conferences are: Monday, July 8th-Tuesday, July 9th; and Thursday, July 11th-Friday, July 12th. The application deadline is Friday, April 5, 2013.
2013 Midwest Archives Conference
Registration is now open for the Midwest Archives Conference 2013 annual meeting. The meeting will be held in Indianapolis, IN at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis April 18-20.
Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion
The Massachusetts Historical Society invites you to attend its conference on Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion, April 4-6.
Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Capitalism, Democracy, and Progressivisms, 1877 to 1920
The Chicago Metro History Education Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Loyola University Chicago invite K-12 teachers to apply for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Capitalism, Democracy, and Progressivisms, 1877 to 1920," to be held July 8-August 2, 2013. NEH Summer Scholars will spend four weeks in Chicago, a center of Progressive Era reform, engaging in vigorous discussions about this critical time period in American history and creating materials to use in their classrooms.
NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture
The NEH will host a 2013 summer institute, "American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York" for college and university teachers at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, July 1-26, 2013. The institute will focus on the material culture of the nineteenth century and use New York as its case study because of its role as a national center for fashioning cultural commodities and promoting consumer tastes. We will study significant texts in the scholarship of material culture together as well as in tandem with visiting some of the wonderful collections in and around New York City for our hands-on work with artifacts Deadline for applications is March 4, 2013.
Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion
The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street in Boston, will host this conference April 4-6, 2013, which will consider reform activities; military life; politics and the economy; slavery and emancipation; and how citizens dealt with the war's consequences. It will feature new areas of emphasis, including the radical intellectual tradition, health and the environment, and the memory of the war. Preregister to receive conference papers in advance; panelists and commentators will offer brief remarks, and a discussion with the audience will follow.
Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner
The fifteenth annual Women's History Month Conference, March 1-2, 2013, will feature a keynote address by Alice Kessler- Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and author of Difficult Women The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. For more information contact: Tara Elise James tjames@sarahlawrence.edu or call (914) 395-2405.
George C. Marshall International Center Announces 2013 Immersion Workshop
The George C. Marshall International Center announces the 11th Annual Marshall Immersion Workshop, July 22-26, 2013, promising an exciting professional and collegial experience for high school-level American and modern European history teachers, and social studies supervisors. During the workshop, all expenses--food, lodging, and transportation--are paid and participants receive a $200 stipend, free materials, and re-certification points. Persons interested in applying may simply log onto the George C. Marshall International Center website. The application deadline is March 15, 2013.
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
The Society for American Music, is pleased to offer a five-week summer institute for K-12 teachers, "Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song." The institute will be held from June 24 to July 26, 2013 at the University of Pittsburgh. Accepted participants will receive a $3900 stipend to cover travel and housing.
Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is marking this election year by presenting Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections, a symposium that explores the role of invention and technology in electoral politics. Through this lens, we temporarily shift the focus away from today’s candidates and issues to examine the critical role that political “machinery” such as campaign advertisements, voting machines, and automated opinion polls play in our democracy. The symposium will be held at the National Museum of American History on November 2-3, 2012. All events are free and open to the public.
Forum on Education Abroad Announces Curriculum and Teaching Project
The Forum on Education Abroad invites faculty to participate in this new initiatiev to identify best practices in curriculum design and teaching abroad that will help to advance the education abroad field. The project is compiling resources and best practice examples from across the curriculum and identifying the range of approaches to curriculum development and teaching in education abroad.
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference (HOTCUS) invites paper proposals for its sixth annual conference, which will take place at Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom, on July 5-7, 2013. Proposals are requested on all topics concerning the History of the United States from 1890 to the present and proposals from complete panels of scholars as well as those undertaking postgraduate study are especially welcome. Deadline for proposals is December 21, 2012. Read more >
Call for Public History Working Group Discussants
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) invites proposals for working groups at its 2013 annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, April 17-20. Working groups, involving facilitators and up to twelve discussants, allow conferees to explore in depth a subject of shared concern before and during the annual meeting. In these seminar-like conversations, participants have a chance to discuss questions raised by specific programs, problems, or initiatives in their own public history practice with peers grappling with similar issues. Deadline for submissions is October 16.
Call for Posters: 2013 NCPH Annual Meeting
The National Council on Public History invites proposals for its Poster Session at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, April 17-20. The Poster Session is a format for public history presentations about projects that use visual evidence. It offers an alternative for presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion, can be especially useful for work-in-progress, and may be a particularly appropriate format for presentations where visual or material evidence represents a central component of the project. Deadline for proposals is November 1.
Gilder Lehrman Conference on Abolition, Past and Present
Gilder Lehrman Center‘s fourteenth anual international conference, November 8-10, takes as its theme, “Abolition, Past and Present: Scholars, Activists, and the Challenge of Contemporary Slavery.” The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Unfinished Journey: William H. Chafe, Forty Years at Duke, Writing American History
This fall, after having served forty years on the faculty at Duke University, William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, will be retiring. At a conference on October 11-12, 2012, Duke University will honor and celebrate Chafe and the incomparable contributions he has made to the field of history and to the life of the university.
2013 Business History Conference
The Business History Conference invites proposals for its 2013 annual meeting which will be held March 21-23 at the Hyatt Regency Columbus, in Columbus, Ohio. The conference theme is "the Cultures and Institutions of Business." In keeping with its policy, the conference will also consider submissions not directly related to the conference theme.
2012-2013 Massachusetts Historical Society Seminars
The MHS hosts five seminar series: the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston Environmental History Seminar, the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender (cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), and the New England Biography Seminar. Most programs take place at the MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, and revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. A light supper follows each program. The programs are free of charge, and all are welcome to attend. As in the past, we are making seminar essays available to subscribers as .pdfs on the MHS website in advance of each program.
Law and the French Atlantic
On October 5, 2012, the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History will present a conference on "Law and the French Atlantic" at the Newberry Library, Chicago. This conference will explore the legal dimension (broadly conceived) of the French Atlantic empire in the early modern period. Participants and attendees should preregister by contacting the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library at renaissance@newberry.org or at 312-255-3514. For information about the conference, please contact Prof. Richard Ross at Rjross@illinois.edu.
2013 Humanities Advocacy Day
National Humanities Alliance will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting & Humanities Advocacy Day on Monday, March 18 - Tuesday, March 19. Pre-meeting sessions are tentatively scheduled to begin the afternoon of Sunday, March 17. Events will take place in Washington, DC on The George Washington University campus and Capitol Hill. If you have any suggestions or questions regarding the 2013 meeting or advocacy day, I can be reached at duane@arl.org or 202-296-4994 x149. You may also contact Erin Mosley at emosley@nhalliance.org or x150.
American Academy in Rome 2013
The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years. Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy's eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend. Deadline is November 1.
Engaging Students & Teachers: Integrating Primary Sources in K-16 Curricula
Registration is now open for the 2012 Midwest Archives Conference Fall Symposium to be held October 19-20, 2012. The Symposium is titled "Engaging Students & Teachers: Integrating Primary Sources in K-16 Curricula," and it will gather archivists and educators to learn and discuss methods for connecting students with primary sources. Expert speakers will provide hands-on opportunities to work with primary sources, develop assignments and lesson plans using primary sources, and dialogue about best practices.
Topic Modeling for Humanities Research
Topic Modeling for Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start Up Grant-funded workshop, will facilitate a unique opportunity for crossfertilization, information exchange, and collaboration between and among humanities scholars and researchers in natural language processing on the subject of topic modeling applications and methods. The workshop will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, on November 3, 2012. For more information, please visit mith.umd.edu/topicmodeling/.
Digital Humanities Winter Institute
The Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an extension of the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. DHWI provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, and lectures during an intensive, week-long event. The 2012 winter institute will be held January 7-11, 2013 at the University of Maryland, College Park. For more information, please visit mith.umd.edu/dhwi/.
2012 Conference on Illinois History
The annual Conference on Illinois History is scheduled for October 11-12, 2012, at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in downtown Springfield, Illinois. The conference will feature topics that include politics, architecture, community studies, Abraham Lincoln, African American history, and the Civil War. For more information, please visit www.illinoishistory.gov/conference.htm.
Teacher Seminar on Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Leadership, and Legacy
This three day seminar, June 18-21, at the Lincoln Heritage Museum in Lincoln, Illinois combines onsite visits, activities, and stimulating discussion to provide teachers with a deeper awareness of Lincoln, the changing times in which he lived, and how he helped move the nation ahead. For more information and to apply, please contact Ron Keller, Lincoln College, at rkeller@lincolncollege.edu. Deadline to submit an application is May 28, 2012.
Deep Delta Civil War Symposium
The 26th annual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium will be held June 1-2, 2012 in the War Memorial Student Union at Southeastern Louisiana University. Sponsored by the Department of History and Political Science, the theme of this year's symposium is “Lee’s Generals.” For more information, please visit www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/hist_ps/civil_war_symposium/index.html.
Engaging Students and Teachers: Integrating Primary Sources in the K-16 Curricula
The 2012 Midwest Archives Conference Fall Symposium will be held October 19-20 it will gather archivists and educators to learn and discuss methods for connecting students with primary sources. The symposium will be held at the Radisson Hotel Cincinnati Riverfront in Covington, Kentucky. For more information, please visit www.midwestarchives.org.
Reading Artifacts Summer Institute
The 2012 Reading Artifacts Summer Institute will take place August 13-17 at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. For more information, please visit www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/2012-reading-artifacts-summer-institute.cfm.
Leading Scholars Put Civil War on Trial
Albany Law School will host “The Civil War on Trial: Legal Issues that Divided a Nation” a scholarly conference in June 2012 to discuss the legal issues that led to and defined the Civil War and post-war reconstruction. For more information, please visit www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=297&event_id=624.
The Port Huron Statement: Fifty-Year Commemorative Conference
The Port Huron Statement and the Making of the New Left, an open conference at the University of Michigan, October 31-November 2, 2012, will mark fifty years since publication of The Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society. The conference will explore the social, cultural, political, and global contexts for the rise of new radical movements from 1958-1965. For further information, contact Professor Howard Brick ().
Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
The University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, will host the tenth annual symposium April 13-14, 2012. The symposium investigates the potential of object-based research to expand and even reinvent our understanding of culture and history. The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is encouraged. For more information contact
HistoryMakers NEH Summer Institute
The HistoryMakers’ 2012 NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers will be held in Chicago, Illinois from Sunday, July 8, 2012 - Friday, August 3, 2012. In a competitive process, teachers will compete for 25 spots as Summer Scholars. These Summer Scholars will spend the month of July studying the subject of African American political history from the Reconstruction to the present. For more information, please visit www.thehistorymakers.com/edday.
Federal Trials and Great Debates
Secondary school teachers of U.S. history and government are invited to apply for a summer institute, Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History, to be held June 24-29, 2012, in Washington, DC. The institute is cosponsored by the Federal Judicial Center and the American Bar Association Division for Public Education. For more information, please visit www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/initiatives_awards/summer _institute_for_teahers.html.
American Slavery: Bringing Wider Perspectives to Museum Interpretation
This symposium, jointly sponsored by Independence National Historical Park, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, and the Friends of Independence National Historical Park, will take place February 25. For more information, please visit www.friendsofindependence.org/.
War of 1812 NEH Landmarks Workshops
Interested teachers are invited to apply for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Landmarks of American History Workshops focusing on The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories. The workshops will be offered July 22-27 and August 5-10 in Toledo, Ohio. There is no fee to participate in this program and all participants will receive a $1,200 stipend to help defray travel and lodging expenses. Applications are due March 1. For more information, please visit www.1812landmarkscollege.org.
2012 Illinois History Symposium
“Contested Lands: 1763-1840” is the theme of the 2012 Illinois History Symposium, April 26-28 in East Peoria, Illinois. Sponsored by the Illinois State Historical Society, the three-day symposium will include sessions, hands-on workshops, performances, as well as tours and offsite events. For more information, please visit www.historyillinois.org/announcements/announce.php#18.
New Voyages to Carolina
New Voyages to Carolina is a series of conferences on North Carolina history under the aegis of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History, and participating universities. The 2012 conference will be held at East Carolina University, February 2-3. For more information, please visit www.ecu.edu/cs-ecu/calendar.cfm?a=5&e=7743.
2012 NEH Summer Institute: Visual culture of the American Civil War
The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center will host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university teachers in July 2012 on the visual culture of the American Civil War. Applications deadline is March 1, 2012. For more information, please visit ashp.cuny.edu/civil-war-150/nehinstitute/.
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
“American Frontiers in Global Perspective” will explore how the frontier experience in US history compares with frontier experiences in other societies. In addition to considering various meanings of “frontiers,” participants will develop curricular materials for secondary level classrooms, interact with fellow educators from throughout the United States, and study with a faculty of scholars active in the fields of history, environmental studies, and secondary education. The summer institute will be hosted by Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24 through July 13, 2012. For more information, please visit www.calvin.edu/academic/history/katerbergneh/.
2012 OAH Community College Symposium
The OAH Community College Symposium is a three-day professional development experience for community college historians. The sixth annual OAH Community College Symposium will be held in Springfield, Illinois, June 14-16, 2012, on the campus of Lincoln Land Community College. Designed to enrich the teaching of the U.S. history survey, the symposium presents new historical themes-as well as the latest historical research in traditional themes-to those teaching the college survey course. To reach a wide audience of historians, the annual symposium is held in a different U.S. location each year. For more information, please visit cc.oah.org/.
The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War Workshop
The international workshop, “The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses,” at Congress Center ‘Het Pand’ in Ghent will explore the Cold War international history of US labor’s relations with worldwide organized labor. The presentations will demonstrate how the AFL-CIO played a significant and usually overlooked role in Cold War international political history. The workshop will take place October 7-8, 2011. For more information, please visit www.amsab.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=916&Itemid=591.
2011 Peace History Society Conference
“The Interpersonal as Political: Individual Witness for Peace and Justice in a Global Perspective” is the theme of the upcoming seventh international Peace History Society Conference, October 21-22 at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. The two-day conference will include panels on a wide range of topics, a plenary honoring the late Irwin Abrams, a banquet address by a representative of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and more. For more information, please visit www.peacehistorysociety.org.
Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History
The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) invites graduate students enrolled in master’s degree, professional, and PhD programs to participate in the Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History to be held at the 2011 National Conference on Planning History in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 17-20. The workshop will focus on the production and communication of research in planning history and continues SACRPH’s tradition of providing graduate students with an intellectual and social climate to launch their careers and contribute to the scholarship of city and regional planning. For more information, please visit www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph/conference/conference.html.
2012 Arkansas Historical Association Conference
The Arkansas Historical Association (AHA) invites presentation proposals for its 2012 conference in Fayetteville, April 12-14. The conference continues the AHA’s look at the Civil War years in Arkansas. For more information, please contact Carl G. Carlson-Drexler, program chair, at cdrexler@uark.edu. Proposal deadline is October 14, 2011.
2011-2012 Professional Seminars in Historic Preservation
The National Preservation Institute (NPI) is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 series of seminars and workshops in historic preservation and cultural resource management. For full descriptions of seminars, agendas, and faculty biographies, visit the NPI Web site. For more information, please visit www.npi.org/Seminars.
Houston History Conference
The Houston History Association will hold its first annual Houston History Conference October 29, 2011 at the Hilton University of Houston. The conference is being held in conjunction with the 175th anniversary of the founding of Houston and the birth of the Republic of Texas in 1836. For more information, please visit www.houstonhistoryassociation.org.
Centennial Symposium on Franz Boas at Yale University
Two dozen scholars will gather September 15-17 at Yale University to rediscover Franz Boas, the so-called “Father of American anthropology,” and investigate the role of encounters between peoples in the development of our global society, the influence of Boas and his circle upon American modernity, and the impact of indigenous thought upon the revitalization of democracy. For more information, please visit www.yale.edu/glc/boas.
Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History
The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) invites graduate students enrolled in master’s degree, professional, and Ph.D. programs to participate in the Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History to be held at the National Conference on Planning History in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 17-20, 2011. For more information, please visit www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph/conference/conference.html.
Fourteenth Civil War Symposium and Reenactment
The Fourteenth Civil War Symposium and Reenactment will be held Saturday, October 1, 2011 at the First Division Museum at Cantigny, in Wheaton, Illinois. The all-day event will include presentations, living history displays and outdoor activities, and a book sale. For more information contact the National Archives at Chicago, 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60629-5898, telephone: (773) 948-9001, e-mail: .
Hagley Museum and Library Conference
On November 17 and 18, the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Hagley Museum and Library will cosponsor the conference, “The Life of New Materials.” Conference sessions will explore the ways in which the development, use, and re-use of new materials is an embedded feature of industrial society. For more information, please visit www.hagley.org/library/center/conferences.html.
Integrating Women’s History Workshop
The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS) and the National Park Service is conducting a training workshop on integrating women’s history into programs at historic sites. The workshop will be held prior to the 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 7-9 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For more information, please visit www.ncwhs.org/.
American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting
The 2011 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory will be held October 19-22, at the Westin Pasadena. For more information, please visit www.ethnohistory.org.
Summer 2011 Seminar at the Institute for Constitutional History
The Organization of American Historians, cosponsor of the Institute for Constitutional History (ICH), is pleased to announce the twelfth annual residential summer research seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty. Entitled Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and the First Amendment, this year's seminar will take place June 26 through July 2. For further information, please contact Dr. Maeva Marcus at (202) 994-6562, or send an email to MMarcus@nyhistory.org.
Fall 2011 Seminar at the Institute for Constitutional History
The Organization of American Historians, cosponsor of the Institute for Constitutional History (ICH), invites graduate students to the 2011 Robert H. Smith Seminar at the ICH this fall. The seminar is designed for graduate students and junior faculty in history, political science, law, and related disciplines. Application deadline is April 30, 2011. For further information, please contact Dr. Maeva Marcus at (202) 994-6562 or send an email to MMarcus@nyhistory.org.
Critical Thinking in World History Seminar
The National Humanities Center and the National Council for History Education are pleased to present an online professional development seminar on Chronological Reasoning and Critical Thinking in World History, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. This seminar will seek to help teachers pace out the year using a variety of periodization models and timelines, and to consider what level of detail students need to know. For more information: For more information, please visit nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/register/regdates.html.
Summer Seminar for K-12 Educators
Illinois College is now accepting applications from K-12 educators for a four-week summer seminar funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The seminar, specially designated as a “We the People” project of the NEH, encourages and strengthens the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. The theme of the seminar, which will take place at Illinois College from June 26 to July 23, is “The Frontier Experience in the American Midwest.” Applications must be postmarked by March 1. For more information visit: For more information, please visit www2.ic.edu/neh2011.
2011 Civil War Trust Teacher Institute
The 2011 Civil War Trust Teacher Institute is a four-day professional development workshop for K-12 educators focused exclusively on the American Civil War. This year’s workshop will be held July 14-17 in Nashville, Tennessee. For more information, visit: For more information, please visit www.civilwar.org/aboutus/events/teacher-institute/.
2011 Annual Meeting & Humanities Advocacy Day
Join the National Humanities Alliance Monday, March 7 and Tuesday, March 8 for the 2011 Humanities Advocacy Day, a national gathering of the humanities community for an annual conversation on the state of the humanities and to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill. For more information, please visit www.nhalliance.org/events/2011-upcoming-events/index.shtml.
Gilder Lehrman Institute 2011 Summer Seminars
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers to apply to the 2011 Summer Seminar series. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K., these one-week seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history. For more information, please visit www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_overview.php.
NEH 2011 Summer Seminars and Institutes
Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports national residential seminars and institutes for faculty who teach American undergraduates. These two- to six-week study opportunities allow faculty and a select number of graduate to increase their knowledge of current scholarship and advance their own teaching and research. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html.
NEH Summer Seminar for on the Early Republic
A four-week seminar held at The Library Company of Philadelphia entitled “The Early American Republic and the Problem of Governance” will focus on the experience of governance under the U.S. Constitution during the first two generations after independence. Information on eligibility, stipends, and application materials is available on their website. For more information, please visit www.librarycompany.org/governanceseminar/.
The 2011 Albert H. Small Student/Teacher Institute
National History Day announces an exciting and unique summer institute for teachers and students led by World War II historians. In June 2011, fifteen student/teacher teams will participate in a scholarly study of World War II monuments in the D.C. area and walk in the footsteps of history on the beaches of Normandy. Deadline for applications is February 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.nhd.org.
NEH 2011 Workshops for Community College Faculty
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops are national residential workshops for community college faculty. These one-week projects take place at sites of historical or cultural significance across the nation. Participants receive stipends to defray travel and living expenses. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html.
2011 ASALH Black History Luncheon
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is pleased to announce its eighty-fifth annual black history luncheon, February 26, 2011, at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. Lerone Bennett, author and editor emeritus of Ebony Magazine, will provide the keynote address. The deadline to purchase tickets is February 2, 2011. For more information, please visit www.asalh.org.
Call for Papers: Southern Labor Studies Conference
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, the 15th Southern Labor Studies Conference proposes to turn a similar self-critical gaze on the materials labor historians rely on to produce the field of labor history. Read more >
Call for Papers: Popular Music Histories
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music welcomes proposals concerning all facets of popular music in the United States. and abroad, but especially encourage submissions that address the themes: canonical histories; alternative histories; archival approaches; historical methods; and local histories. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2010. Read more >
The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier
The fourth annual National Underground Railroad Conference will be held in Topeka, Kansas from July 28–31, 2010. The four-day conference, entitled “Battleground for Freedom: The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier,” will include renowned speakers, educational workshops, panel discussions, an exhibit hall, a film screening, and tours of local museums and historic sites. Read more >
Interviews with Award Winners from the OAH Annual Meeting
The Organization American Historians sponsors or cosponsors more than twenty annual awards, prizes, fellowships, and grants, presented at the OAH Annual Meeting, to recognize scholarly and professional achievements in American history. In a series of interviews from the 2010 OAH Annual Meeting, Michael Regoli talks with a few of the winners. Read more >
Symposium on Executive Records in the 21st Century on May 20-21, 2010 in Albany, NY
The New York State Archives Partnership Trust and the Albany Law School’s Government Law Center have joined forces on a two-day event focused on the need for effective record keeping by elected government executives. Read more >
“Sixty-five Years of Bearing Witness: Our Commitment to Human Rights”
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Center at Brookdale Community College will host “Sixty-five Years of Bearing Witness: Our Commitment to Human Rights” on May 12, 2010. Read more >
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (UK) Third Annual Conference
The Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) will hold its Third Annual Conference at the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, July 1-3, 2010. Nancy MacLean, of Northwestern University, will deliver the keynote address: “‘To Make Democracy Safe for the World’: The Southern U.S. Sources for the Global Push for Privatization”. Registration is now open. Read more >
“New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism”
The 2010 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, entitled “New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism,” will be held on April 23, 2010, from 9:00am to 5:00pm at the Newberry Library. Attendance is free and open to the public, but participants and attendees should preregister by contacting the Center for Renaissance Studies at renaissance@newberry.org. Read more >
Indiana Association of Historians Annual Meeting
The thirtieth annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Historians (IAH) will take place on February 26 and 27, 2010, at Anderson University’s Flagship Enterprise Center in Anderson, Indiana. Read more >
Dr. Eric Walther to Deliver Fifth Annual Hinson Lecture
On March 11, 2010, Dr. Eric H. Walther, professor of history at the University of Houston, will deliver a lecture entitled “William Lowndes Yancey, the Conventions of 1860, and the Coming of the Civil War?” as this year’s installment of the University of Mobile’s Billy G. Hinson Lecture Series. Read more >
Margaret Fuller and Her Circles
The Massachusetts Historical Society is sponsoring a conference entitled “Margaret Fuller and her Circles” on April 8–10, 2010, in Boston. Read more >
Slave Narratives Seminar for History and English Faculty Members
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of Independent Colleges, with the United Negro College Fund, will cosponsor a seminar on slave narratives to be held at Yale University on June 13–16, 2010. Read more >
Summer Institute for High School Teachers
Secondary school teachers of U.S. history and government are invited to apply for a summer institute, “Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History,” to be held June 27–July 2, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Read more >
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops
Participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty Summer Program in 2010. Read more >
The Role of the West in the Reunification of the US after the Civil War
The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “The Role of the West in the Reunification of the U.S. after the Civil War” on February 25, 2010. Read more >
The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century
The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century” on February 18, 2010. Read more >
Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs
The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs” on February 23, 2010. Read more >
Walt Whitman’s Civil War Poetry—An American Experience Workshop
The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “Walt Whitman’s Civil War Poetry: An American Experience Workshop” on March 18, 2010. Read more >
Hamilton’s America—Jefferson’s America: An American Experience Workshop
The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “Hamilton’s America—Jefferson’s America: An American Experience Workshop” on March 24, 2010. The deadline to register is March 17, 2010. Read more >
NCHE National Conference 2010
Each spring, the National Council for History Education holds a national conference. The national conference is a place where everyone who loves to teach and learn history can come together and share. NCHE encourages conference proposals that illustrate collaboration and history education. The 2010 Conference theme is Crossroads of Peoples and Places Over Time and will be held at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego, CA. For more information, please visit www.nche.net/conference.
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