Program

Education Programs: Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

10/1/2019 - 12/31/2023

Funding Totals

$186,250.00 (approved)
$179,327.98 (awarded)


Saipan's Land and Sea: Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience

FAIN: BH-267091-19

East Carolina University (Greenville, NC 27858-5235)
Anne Swenson Ticknor (Project Director: February 2019 to present)

Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers on the history of military conflicts in Saipan.

The newly proposed Landmarks of American History and Culture program, Saipan’s Land and Sea: Battle Scars & Sites of Resilience, provides 72 teachers an incomparable opportunity to interact with a continuous, intact, and largely undisturbed record of conflict history outside of museum walls on the island of Saipan, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific Ocean. The one-week program will be held twice at Kagman High School by a mostly indigenous project team comprised of educators, historians, archaeologists, authors, and cultural guides. Hosting the institute on Saipan provides a unique opportunity for often under-represented teachers to participate in NEH Landmark programming and for US mainland teachers to interact with a largely undisturbed record of conflict history that is virtually untold in history textbooks and unknown to K-12 students.





Associated Products

Saipan’s Land and Sea: Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Saipan’s Land and Sea: Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience
Abstract: Professor Anne Ticknor will share highlights from the NEH-funded “Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators” program she directed in summer 2023. The program focused on multiple perspectives and voices about the history of the region, its people, and the culture as told through storytelling.
Author: Anne Ticknor
Date: 01/23/2024
Location: Speight 203 and can also be accessed via teams.

Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience
Director: Catherine Perry
Producer: Northern Marianas Humanities Council
Abstract: Project Director Dr. Anne Ticknor shares about the educator symposium Saipan’s Land and Sea: Battle Scars & Sites of Resilience in Saipan. She is joined by lecturers and visiting faculty Dr. Jennifer McKinnon, Nancy Bo Flood, and Fred Camacho.
Date: 07/09/23
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqQ2KTHQKQ
Format: Web