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  The New Jersey Council for History Education is a non-profit organization promoting the teaching of history in our schools and colleges. The NJCHE links history educators with many activities sponsored by national, state, and local organizations. We have been an active forum for all advocates of history education in schools, colleges, museums, and historical societies since 1993.

 

Upcoming Events

Teaching About Asia K-12 Workshop - Princeton University

Rutgers Univ.: Challenge of Teaching Global History

 

Eisenhower Academy: Gettysburg College  

NEH - Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop

Crafting Freedom: Black Americans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists of the Antebellum South

"Crafting Freedom: Black Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists of the Antebellum South", aka "Crafting Freedom" is a highly acclaimed workshop for K-12 educators  on 19th century African-American history. It will  be offered twice in the summer of 2012: Session I. June 21-26 and Session II. July 12-17. This professional development opportunity  is part of the popular National Endowment for the Humanities (|NEH) Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop series. Accepted participants receive a $1200 expenses stipend. The workshop features seminars by top scholars and teacher mentors, visits to "off-the-beaten-track" historic sites and archives, dramatic performances, collegial learning in a quiet, comfortable setting and much more!  To APPLY or to LEARN MORE  see: http://thomasday.net/crafting-freedom-neh-landmarks-workshop/  OR contact workshop director: Laurel C. Sneed at laurelsneed@gmail.com

Note: March 1 Application deadline

NEH - The Early Republic and Indian Country, 1812-1833
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
The Newberry Library, Chicago
July 16, 2012 to August 10, 2012

Co-Directors
Scott Manning Stevens, Ph.D., Director, McNickle Center, Newberry Library
Frank Valadez, Executive Director, Chicago Metro History Education Center

This summer institute will examine the transformation of the lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River from “Indian Country” to “U.S. territory,” from North to South, between 1812 and 1833. The Newberry Library has long been in the forefront of the study of Native America, in both its collections and sponsored scholarship, and it is the perfect place to host an institute that bridges the divide between American Indian history and traditional narratives of U.S. history by exploring the borderlands and backcountry of the trans-Appalachian west.

Participating teachers and educational professionals will benefit not only by working with top-flight scholars and the resources available at the Newberry Library, and in other archives and museums in the Chicago area, but also by providing an opportunity to investigate more deeply an all-too-often overlooked topic in American history—the cultural, political, social, and economic interactions among the diverse groups of people who occupied and travelled through Indian Country during the era of the Early Republic.

Read the complete institute description from Dear Colleague Letter (PDF).

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