Division of Education Programs

From elementary to graduate schools, the Division of Education Programs provides national leadership in formal humanities education. Five programs help teachers provide the finest humanities instruction in the classroom.

Through National Education Project grants, the division supports the development of educational materials of national significance and the implementation of effective instruction in the humanities. A recent grant made to the University of Oregon, for example, brought together scholars, teachers, and National Park Service personnel to create a bilingual, interactive website, anza.uoregon.edu, based on the diaries of Juan Bautista De Anza. de Anza was the leader of two expeditions between 1774 and 1776 through what is now northern Mexico, Arizona, and California. This exemplary resource can be used in American history, geography, and Spanish-language classes to help students investigate otherwise inaccessible primary sources on the history of Spanish exploration and settlement of North America.

Smaller Humanities Focus Grants promote improvements in learning among groups of teachers working together in the same or neighboring institutions. The California State University at Long Beach, for example, is collaborating with the Long Beach Unified Schools District -- where students of Southeast Asian origin constitute one-quarter of the population -- to design a new world history curriculum. A Humanities Focus Grant has made it possible for teachers in Long Beach to work with humanities scholars to develop lesson plans and curriculum guides on the history, geography, literature, art, and music of Southeast Asia, which will be shared with educators elsewhere through the Internet.

Schools for a New Millennium, now in its second year, is a special initiative of the Division of Education Programs. The program enables teachers in an elementary or secondary school to engage in the sustained study of a humanities subject and to learn to use technology to enrich their teaching. Thirty-four planning grants have been awarded to a broad range of schools in twenty-two states. One recipient is the Kansas School for the Blind in Kansas City, which is developing a virtual experience of a wagon train journey on the historic Oregon Trail. Special screen-reading software and other digitized adaptations for use by the sight impaired will ensure that students at the school have full access to this resource on the history of Western settlement.

Seminars and Institutes, the nation's leading faculty development program in the humanities, supports projects each summer at colleges, universities, and research centers. For example, Carnegie Mellon University hosted a four-week summer institute on the history of technology. Twenty-five school teachers from fifteen states gathered to read and discuss primary sources on the history of technology in America from preindustrial times to the present. They also made field trips to industrial and historical sites in the Pittsburgh area. Viewing American society through the lens of technology enabled them to deepen their understanding of technology as a force for historical change and to use that knowledge to better effect in the classroom.

Finally, in collaboration with the NEH Office of Enterprise, MCI WorldCom Foundation, and the Council of the Great City Schools, the Division of Education Programs sponsors EDSITEment, edsitement.neh.gov, a popular online resource for humanities educators. EDSITEment comprises seventy-one individual humanities websites, each nominated by a peer review panel for its humanities content, interactive design, and usefulness in the classroom. EDSITEment has received national recognition, including an education award in the Smithsonian Computerworld competition. The site currently logs an average of forty thousand user sessions a month, and includes a search engine, lesson plans for grades six through twelve, and take-home activities for students. EDSITEment training sessions have been held in 973 schools in forty-one school districts. In the future, EDSITEment will expand to include more websites and new lesson plans for kindergarten through sixth grade.

Candace Katz
Director
Division of Education Programs

Education Development and Demonstration

Grants support curriculum and materials development efforts; faculty study programs within and among educational institutions; and dissemination of significant developments in humanities education.

American Councils of International Education
Washington, DC Maria Lekic
$170,000 Regional Russia, Culture and Diversity: Language-Learning Modules

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ Beth E. Luey
$30,826 University-High School Collaborative for Minority History

Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
San Francisco, CA Kathleen Ferenz
$31,500 The IDEAL Project

Beaver Local Board of Education
Lisbon, OH Barrie S. Archer
$31,495 Links across the Curriculum, Culture, and Time

Brown University
Providence, RI Massimo Riva
$170,000 The Decameron Web: Teaching a Classic with Hypertext

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Buffalo, NY William H. Siener
$25,000 Creating a Multi-Instructional Consortium to Improve Humanities Instruction

Cairo-Durham Central School District
Cairo, NY Samuel E. Adrezin
$31,500 Schools for a New Millennium Planning Grant

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA Alison Winter
$50,000 A Hypermedia Environment for Teaching History of Science: The Universal Laboratory

California State University
Long Beach, CA
Arnold P. Kaminsky
$24,886 Cultural Crossroads: Integrating Southeast Asia into the Middle and High School World History Curriculum

California State University
San Bernardino, CA
Frances F. Berdan
$122,573 EthnoQuest: Interactive Multimedia Simulation for Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork

Charles County
Community College
La Plata, MD Wayne Karlin
$23,828 Summer Teachers' Program on Teaching the Experience of the Vietnam War through the Humanities

City Lore: New York Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY Amanda Dargan
$190,000 Local Learning

Community College Humanities Association
Newark, NJ Charles T. Evans
$240,000 Advancing the Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges

Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
Chicago, IL Nisan Chavkin
$150,126 The American Jury: Bulwark of Democracy

District School Board of Collier County
Naples, FL Jan S. Loper
$31,500 The Harmony Project

East-West Center
Honolulu, HI Elizabeth B. Buck
$76,000 New Initiatives: Dialogues for Bridging African and Asian Studies in Undergraduate Education

Franklin Pierce College
Rindge, NH John R. Harris
$24,500 Land, History, and a Sense of Place: A Collaborative Faculty Colloquium

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Hyde Park, NY
Thomas J. Thurston
$50,300* The New Deal Network: An Online Teaching Resource on the Public Works and Arts Projects of the New Deal

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA Charles Scott Keeter
$31,448 Developing Digital Resources for Citizenship Education in a Diverse Urban High School

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA Roy A. Rosenzweig
$20,000* Supplement to Images of the French Revolution: A Guided Tour on One of History's Major Turning Points

Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA
Gregory A. VanHoosier-Carey
$165,000 Griffith in Context: A Multimedia Exploration of The Birth of a Nation

Georgetown University
Washington, DC Gerald M. Mara
$24,670 Faculty Seminars on Social Theory and Culture Studies

Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
New York, NY Joshua Brown
$15,000* The New Media Classroom: Building a National Conversation on Inquiry, Narrative, and Technology in the U.S. History Survey

Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
New York, NY Joshua Brown
$240,000 The New Media Classroom: Expanding Horizons

Granite School District
Salt Lake City, UT Holly L. Allen
$31,500 Fostering Diversity Using Digital Technology

Grinnell-Newburg Community School District
Grinnell, IA David W. Stoakes
$31,500 American Studies: The Great Depression Period

Guilford College
Greensboro, NC Dorothy V. Borei
$24,625 Historical Perspectives in the New Curriculum

Holy Spirit Episcopal School
Houston, TX Beverly B. Aderholt
$31,500 World View

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN Gloria J. Gibson
$10,000* The Archives of Traditional Music and New Technology: Musical Instruments of West Africa

Information and Referral-Volunteer Connection
Coeur d'Alene, ID
Karen L. Michaelson $7,500* Locality, Literature, and Life: Using Electronic Networks to Support History and Language Arts in the K-12 Classroom

Kansas State School for the Blind
Kansas City, KS Eleanor Craig
$31,400 Pioneering Interdisciplinary Studies on the Oregon Trail in the Information Age

Kennebec Valley Technical College
Fairfield, ME Janet F. Tarbuck
$24,640 Communities

Lehman College Art Gallery
Bronx, NY Susan S. Hoeltzel
$15,000* Teaching History through Public Art in the Bronx: A Web-Based Project

Los Angeles Educational Partnership
Los Angeles, CA Barbara Golding
$31,500 Art Collections for Education

Loyola University
Chicago, IL Steven E. Jones
$190,000 Romantic Circles High School: An Outline Educational Resource

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY Robyn L. Rosen
$24,973 Introducing Human Rights and the Humanities to First Year College Students

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Gilberte Furstenberg
$7,500* A Multimedia/Hypermedia Cross-Cultural Project for CD-ROM and Web

Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT James H. Maddox
$7,500* Literature-Based Partnerships between Middle/High School Teachers and Higher Education Faculty

Montgomery College
Rockville, MD
Dianne Ganz Scheper
$25,000 Creating an Honors Humanities Learning Community for Montgomery College Scholars

Motheread, Inc.
Raleigh, NC Linda Capell
$24,986 Abuela Faculty Enrichment Project

Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Margaret L. Switten
$5,386* Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology: New Windows on the Medieval World

National Writing Project
Berkeley, CA Donald McQuade
$10,000* Making American Literatures

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ Kate Burns Ottavino
$25,000 Humanities Interdisciplinary Historic Preservation Course for 12th Grade

New School University
New York, NY Caroline Payson
$23,575 Korean Art History Seminars for Parsons Faculty

Newton Public Schools
Newton, MA Barbara Harrison
$24,105 The Examined Life: Ancient Greek Studies in the Public Schools

North Carolina Central University Foundation
Durham, NC Laurel C. Sneed
$230,000 Thomas Day, Furniture Maker, and the Free Black Experience in the Antebellum South

North Central Regional Educational Services Agency
Fairmont, WV Lynn C. Bennett
$15,000* Tied to the Land: The Impact of Natural Resources on the History, Culture, and Community of a People

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA Timothy C. Neumann
$190,000 "Turns of the Centuries" Website

Primary Source
Watertown, MA Anna Roelofs
$20,400* Teaching Resources on African American Intellectual History and Democratic Leadership

San Diego State University Foundation
San Diego, CA Robert P. Hoffman
$17,500* Spanish Colonial Mission Virtual Museum

Sault Sainte Marie Area Schools
Sault Sainte Marie, MI
Catherine L. Tibbett
$31,500 Connecting Students to Upper Peninsula History

Texas Council for the Humanities
Austin, TX Frances M. Leonard
$10,000* Humanities Exhibits Interactive

Tufts University
Medford, MA Gregory R. Crane
$25,000* A Digital Library on Ancient Roman Culture

Tufts University
Medford, MA Gregory R. Crane
$75,000 A Digital Library on Greco-Roman Culture

Tufts University
Medford, MA Lynda N. Shaffer
$10,000* The Sundiata Project

Unity College
Unity, ME James Horan
$25,000 Creating Environmental Stewards: An Integrative Humanities Curriculum

University of Alaska
Anchorage, AK James Liszka
$24,944 A Series of Seminars on Ethics in the Professions

University of Alaska
Fairbanks, AK Terry P. Dickey
$31,500 Northern Journeys: An Exploration of Alaska's Humanities

University of Arkansas/Arkansas Archaeological Survey
Fayetteville, AR Thomas J. Green
$5,000* Development of Interactive, Multimedia Educational Software for Studying Native American Cultural History and Foreign Language

University of California
Santa Barbara, CA Alan Y. Liu
$1,297* Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information Project

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH John E. Hancock
$12,500* Earth Works: Digital Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley

University of Illinois
Chicago, IL Heidi Roupp
$249,988 Teaching a Global Perspective

University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD Alan S. Rosenthal
$22,933 Caribbean Texts: An Exploration of Cultural History and Identity

University of Montana
Missoula, MT Philip West
$25,000* American Wars in the Pacific: A Digital Resource Library for the Exploration of the Pacific, Korean, and Vietnam Wars

University of North Dakota - Lake Region
Devils Lake, ND Sam A. Johnson
$25,000 Language of the Land: A Journey into Great Plains Life and Literature

University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
Lynne Anderson-Inman
$150,000 The Web de Anza Project

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Edward L. Ayers $100,000 Building Digital Communities University of Washington
Seattle, WA Patricia B. Ebrey
$10,000* A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization

University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA Gregg Camfield
$25,000 Building a Humanities Learning Community: Focus Grant

Valley View Alternative Elementary School
SeaTac, WA Tracey E. Drum
$30,686 Travel through Time and Culture

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
Crandall A. Shifflett
$180,000 Virtual Jamestown: Natives and Newcomers, 2007-1607

Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
Raymond L. Wolpow $24,850 Holocaust-Genocide Studies Reconsidered Workshop for Teachers (Grades 4-12)

Worthington City Schools
Worthigton, OH Rhoda M. Gelles
$21,864 Multicultural American Narrative: A Rhetorical and Cultural Approach

Seminars and Institutes

Grants supported national institutes and seminars to improve the teaching of the humanities in colleges and elementary and secondary schools.

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY Richard J. Talbert
$98,609 Representing Geography and Community in the World of Imperial Rome

American Forum, Inc.
New York, NY Hazel S. Greenberg
$157,997 Muslim Europe: The Changing Cultural Contours of the West

Amherst College
Amherst, MA Austin D. Sarat
$96,842 Law, Justice, and Morality: Readings in Contemporary Jurisprudence

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ Asuncion Lavrin
$169,813 Converging Cultures: Native America, Europe, and the Encounter

Boston University
Boston, MA James W. Schmidt
$93,918 Refugee Intellectuals: Adorno, Mann, and Schoenberg

Brown University
Providence, RI James L. Van Cleve
$90,217 Thomas Reid on Perception, Knowledge, and Action

Center for Applied Linguistics
Washington, DC Joy K. Peyton
$130,000 Building the Knowledge and Expertise of Teachers of Spanish to Heritage Spanish Speakers

Columbia University
New York, NY Carl F. Hovde
$87,298 The Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Community College Humanities Association
Newark, NJ George L. Scheper
$245,000 The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity and Change

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH Elisabeth I. Perry
$65,201 Feminist Classics in American Culture

Duke University
Durham, NC Ronald G. Witt
$104,848 The Humanist as Reformer: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Erasmus

East-West Center
Honolulu, HI Elizabeth B. Buck
$195,000 Religion, Philosophies, and Culture in India: Conflicts and Negotiations

Emory University
Atlanta, GA Harvey Klehr
$102,809 Communism and American Life

Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC
Janet M. Field-Pickering $169,983 Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare 2000 Institute

Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC Kathleen A. Lynch
$158,500 Texts of Imagination and Empire: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Founding of Jamestown

Georgetown University
Washington, DC John Tutino
$98,648 Intersecting Histories of Mexico and the United States: A Focus on Border Regions and Immigration

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA Diana L. Eck
$115,000 World Religions in America

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA Henry L. Gates, Jr.
$209,667 The Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences

Long Island University,
C.W. Post Campus
Brookville, NY Katherine C. Hill-Miller $89,733 Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels

Macalester College
St. Paul, MN Andrew J. Overman
$85,465 India and Rome: Culture and Religion from Classical Middle East to the Hindu Kush

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI Alice B. Kehoe
$143,934 America's First Nations: American Indians in Social Studies Curricula

National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, NC
Richard R. Schramm
$1,000* The Writing of African American Identity: Self, Race, and Gender

National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, NC
Richard R. Schramm
$167,705 Nature Transformed: Imagination and the North American Landscape

North Dakota State University, Main Campus
Fargo, ND Thomas D. Isern
$79,831 The Great Plains from Texas to Canada: Questions of Regionalism and Identity

Ohio State University
Research Foundation
Columbus, OH Susan M. Hartmann
$144,101 Women's Rights and Citizenship in American Thought, Culture, and Practice

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
University Park, PA
Robert R. Edwards
$96,903 Chaucer Ancient and Modern

President and Fellows of Harvard College
Cambridge, MA Susan Suleiman
$115,214 War and Memory: Postwar Representations of the Occupation and World War II in French Literature, History, and Film

Prince George's Community College
Largo, MD Joseph F. Citro
$198,400 Early Slave Cultures in the Tidewater/Chesapeake and Carolina Lowcountry: Learning and Teaching at Historic Sites

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ Carolyn Abbate
$125,330 Opera: Interpretation between Disciplines

Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Piscataway, NJ Bonnie G. Smith
$152,289 World History: New Scholarship on Women and Gender

Saint John's University
Collegeville, MN Eugene Garver
$68,960 Machiavelli's The Prince

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA Paul Longmore
$164,000 Disability Studies

Society for Values in Higher Education
Portland, OR Albert Rabil, Jr.
$157,580 Worlds of the Renaissance

Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, TX Mark B. Busby
$156,000 Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ Alvin I. Goldman
$116,235 Philosophical Foundations of Social Epistemology

University of California
Berkeley, CA David J. Cohen
$102,736 Individual, State, and Law in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL Fred M. Donner
$129,602 Islamic Origins

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT Sandra B. Schreffler
$149,722 New Perspectives on Cultural Transformation in the Spanish Caribbean

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA Barton B. Byg
$6,000* Post-Wall Germany: Integrating Postunification German Culture into the High School Classroom

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, MA
Gerard M. Koot
$89,700 Historical Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution in Britain

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC Siegfried E. Mews
$100,367 Berlin 2000: Literature, Culture, and Politics from Zero Hour to the Berlin Republic

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Katherine O. O'Keeffe
$96,013 Constructing Subjects in Anglo-Saxon England

University of Scranton
Scranton, PA Len G. Gougeon
$82,267 Authors of Reform: Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, and Stowe

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN James L. Nelson
$82,606 Bioethics in Particular

University of Texas
Austin, TX W. Roger Louis
$111,969 Decolonization of the British Empire

University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI Richard C. Monti
$113,350 Campania Felix: Nature, Mythology, and the Works of Man

University of Wisconsin
River Falls, WI Carole J. Gerster
$132,808 Picturing American Diversity: Cinematic Representations of America's Ethnic Minorities

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN Marshall C. Eakin
$86,958 Race, Gender, and National Identity in Brazil

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Charlottesville, VA Joseph C. Miller
$153,098 Roots 2000: The African Dimension of Early American History and Culture (Through the Transatlantic Slave Trade)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA Roger Ariew
$88,300 Descartes and His Contemporaries: Scholastics and Novatores

Yale University
New Haven, CT R. Howard Bloch
$130,844 The Arthurian Illuminated Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages

*Federal Matching Funds