| BC-50503-09 | Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils | New Jersey Council for the Humanities | A DEMOCRATIC VISION: FORMING A MORE PERFECT UNION | 9/1/2009 - 2/28/2011 | $153,630.00 | Sharon | Ann | Holt | | | | New Jersey Council for the Humanities | Camden | NJ | 08101-3287 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Grants for State Humanities Councils | Federal/State Partnership | 143630 | 10000 | 143630 | 10000 | Funding will support two two-semester Clemente Courses in the Humanities entitled "American Freedom: The History of an Ideal," and two residential summer seminars for K-12 teachers on "Washington and Lincoln: Presidents and Slavery" and "Literature and Democracy."
A DEMOCRATIC VISION: FORMING A MORE PERFECT UNION has 2 parts: AMERICAN FREEDOM: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEAL (a Clemente course) provides low-income individuals in 2 NJ cities the opportunity to explore the concept of freedom through history, philosophy, art history & literature; 2 seminars for K-12 teachers, WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN: PRESIDENTS AND SLAVERY examines these leaders through their private relationships with slavery; LITERATURE & DEMOCRACY explores the idea of citizenship & its expression by writers from the founding to the present. |