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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. Read more >
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