Exploring American Identity

FAIN: BC-50518-10

Idaho Humanities Council (Boise, ID 83702-6053)
Richard K. Ardinger (Project Director: March 2010 to September 2014)

To support 40 presentations by the Speakers Bureau; the annual teacher institute, the evening presentations of which are open to the public; reading and discussion programs; programming to complement the MOMs exhibits (Journey Stories" and "The Way We Worked"; the 2010 lectures in Idaho Falls and Boise; and regrants.

The IHC proposes several programs to explore WTP themes: (1) at least 40 Speaker’s Bureau presentations examining WTP topics; (2) interdisciplinary summer teacher institutes; (3) a reading/discussion series in at least 6 libraries exploring American identity; (4) programs complementing Smithsonian traveling exhibits; (5) special lectures; and (6) regrant projects related to WTP themes.