We the People: E ma lama i ka mo‘olelo ("Let Us Care for the History/Story")

FAIN: BC-50434-08

Hawai'i Council for the Humanities (Honolulu, HI 96816-2776)
Robert G. Buss (Project Director: May 2008 to May 2016)

"Talk Story" dialogues on local and national culture, three teacher workshops ("Picturing America," "The Individual in History" and "Teaching about Statehood in the Modern History of Hawaii" ), Literature and Medicine reading and discussion program, and activities for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial.

The Hawai’i Council for the Humanities will coordinate partnership agreements with cultural, historical and educational groups to promote “Talk Story” dialogues on local and national culture and history and facilitate: teacher workshops on American and local history/culture; literary festivals, forums and book discussions; public and teacher programs for the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial; and Literature and Medicine reading-discussion groups exploring humanities issues related to health care.