Summer Institute - National Humanities Center

From: National Humanities Center [mailto:ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org]


BECOMING MODERN:
AMERICA, 1918-1929

A Summer Institute for
High School Teachers of
History, Literature, and Art

June 21-July 3, 2009

The National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, NC

How did World War I affect politics in the United States?

Why did the prestige and power of American business dramatically increase in the 1920s?

What explains the remarkable cultural ferment of this period?

What place did religious and spiritual values assume in the United States during the Twenties?

How did concepts of citizenship and national identity change in the decade after World War I?

How did women and African Americans struggle to advance social equality?

How did modernizing and traditional forces clash during the decade?


"Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929" will explore these and other questions through history, literature, and art. Under the direction of leading scholars, institute participants will examine such issues as immigration, prohibition, radicalism, changing moral standards, and evolution to discover how the forces of modernity and traditionalism made the Twenties both liberating and repressive.

Participants will assist National Humanities Center staff in identifying texts and defining lines of inquiry for a new addition to the Center's Toolbox Library which provides online resources for teacher professional development
and classroom instruction.

FACULTY

John Kasson
Professor of History and American Studies
University of Northa Carolina at Chapel Hill

Karen Lucic
Professor of Art History
Vassar College

Sean McCann
Professor of English
Wesleyan University

GENERAL INFORMATION

DATES AND LOCATION: "Becoming Modern" will be held from June 21 to July 3, 2009, at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 6, 2009.

ELIGIBILITY: The institute is open to high school teachers of history, literature, and art.

FORMAT: In seminar sessions, participants and faculty will discuss the texts of the institute syllabus. In addition, participants will work with the faculty and Center staff to select texts and develop discussion questions for an online toolbox based on the content of the institute. The toolbox collaboration will not involve work on a computer.To see toolboxes that emerged from previous summer institutes, please visit the Center's Toolbox Library.

STIPENDS AND TRAVEL: Participants will receive a stipend of $1,000.
The National Humanities Center will cover the cost of travel and provide lodging.

TEXTS: Participants will receive the seminar texts, some of which will be online, at least six weeks before the program.

MEALS: The Center will provide snacks and lunch every day.

To apply: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/becomingmod/index.htm

Deadline: March 6, 2009.

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