Common Ground: Americans and Their Land During The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

FAIN: ES-256895-17

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Cortland (Cortland, NY 13045-0900)
Kevin B. Sheets (Project Director: March 2017 to March 2021)
Randi Jill Storch (Co Project Director: July 2017 to March 2021)

A two-week workshop for twenty-five school teachers using the Adirondacks to explore the interconnection of urban and wilderness environments in America from the late-nineteenth through early-twentieth-century.

"Common Ground" is a two-week NEH Summer Institute for twenty-five K-12 teachers focused on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (GAPE), from roughly the end of the Civil War to World War I.