Social Movements in Modern America: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism

Social Movements in Modern America: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism
NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers, July 11-31, 2010

Every year the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsors programs for teachers to study a variety of humanities topics. This year Indiana University, Bloomington is again hosting an NEH Summer Institute, entitled "Social Movements in Modern America: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism."  Teacher participants, with staff and faculty from the Center on Congress and the Center for the Study of History and Memory, will examine the pivotal role of three major social movements in America: their history, their interrelationships, and their transformative political and cultural impact over the last century.

The "Social Movements" institute will recruit 25 teachers of social studies or a related discipline (e.g. history, government, etc.) from grades 9 through 12. Full-time teachers from public, private, or church-affiliated schools, including home-schooling parents, are eligible to apply. Full-time graduate students who intend to pursue careers in K-12 teaching are also eligible.

Your application must be postmarked (or received electronically) no later than March 2, 2010.For more information, eligibility requirements, and application instructions, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~inst2010 or contact Dr. Barbara Truesdell, (812) 855-2856 barbara@indiana.edu.


For more information on NEH Institutes, visit: http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html 
and scroll down to "Seminars."