Two-day conferences in October 2009 and April 2010, for fifty-four educators each, to strengthen the use of Picturing America images in the teaching of core subjects, primarily in high schools. (Ashbrook)

The Newberry Library proposes to host two Picturing America School Collaboration Project Conferences, which will provide one hundred and eight teachers with access to each other; to experts in art history, history, literature, and geography; and to Chicago's rich local resources in American art. Our conferences will take "Interpreting the American Landscape" as a capacious and inclusive organizing theme. Our conference sessions will explore the role of landscape imagery in shaping national identity, tracing the shift from a nineteenth-century emphasis on visions of pristine wilderness and rural landscapes to the twentieth-century's urban and industrial scenery. The conferences will be held at the Newberry Library on October 23-24, 2009, and April 16-17, 2010. The nationwide target audience will be secondary-level history, language arts, and art teachers whose schools already have received the Picturing America portfolio.

Two one-week Landmarks workshops for fifty community college faculty members on the company town of Pullman, Illinois, the Pullman Car porters, and the culture of labor and race from 1880 to 1930.

The Newberry Library proposes to host two Landmarks of American History Workshops for Community College Faculty in Summer 2011 on "Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town." The two workshops will serve a total of fifty (50) community college faculty. These workshops will cast Pullman in a broad narrative of American history, using the neighborhood's history to explore the dramatic tensions of urban life in Chicago and the United States between 1880 and 1930. Teachers will benefit from site visits to Pullman and other Chicago neighborhoods and will have access to the Pullman Company Archives, held at the Newberry. Leading scholars on this history of Chicago, and on race, labor, and urban planning, will teach this workshop. Community college faculty who participate will be provided with digitized copies of the rich primary sources related to Pullman at the Newberry Library. The workshop content will be available through a Web site, administered by Newberry staff.

To support endowment for the salary of a Public Programs Director and other staffing and operating costs as well as renovation costs for public humanities programming.

For building construction and renovation, augmenting endowment, and meeting operating costs.

An 8-week summer institute in Renaissance paleography, intensive training in archival sciences and curriculum workshops for advanced graduate and post-doctoral students under the direction of eminent scholars.

To establish a Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in conjunction with a group of participating universities, designed to improve teaching and scholarship in a critical area of curriculum. Training in Archival Sciences will also be stressed.

To support the preparation and dissemination of a hypermedia history of Cheyenne, Lakota, Crow, and Pawnee Indians.

A history workshop on community and work for secondary school teachers and librarians at the Newberry Library's School Center for Community and Family History.

A materials development project to design and initiate a digital archive and website on the history of the Great Lakes region from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.

The project will create a digital archive, interpretive materials, research tools, and downloadable lesson plans based on the collections of the Newberry Library. The materials will support teachers' efforts to place local and regional history in a World History context, focusing on the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada from the 17th to 20th centuries. Teachers and students in grades 8-12 and early college will be able to search the digital image archive, use teacher-written lesson plans, and build their own interpretations.

To support activities of the national center for the study and teaching of American Indian history, which trains Indian and non-Indian teachers at post-secondary and secondary levels, reconceptualizing American history.

To continue the center's work which is devoted to finding new knowledge for scholars and teachers in the field and developing new teaching and library materials.

To continue support for scholarship of American Indian history and Indian-White relations and for efforts to encourage secondary school, college and university teachers to develop new teaching and library resources.

To support a four-week summer institute in cartography for college teachers of history and social science and university map librarians. The twenty participants will learn to make more effective use of maps in their teaching. A curriculum guide will be published.

To support three conferences for the teachers of the U.S. history survey; a modest series of publications; fellowships for Indian and non-Indian teachers and scholars; and the continuation of the Center itself as a promoter of teach-ing, inquiry and dialogue.

To support a series of institutes, seminars, and workshops in various areas of Renaissance studies.

To support two summer institutes, fellowships, and occasional publications on the reciprocal effects of the contacts between Europe and America (1400-1650).

To support 12 four-day workshops for 180 teachers that will focus on the use of documentary sources -- treaties, oral literature, sacred texts, material objects, autobiographies, and maps -- in the study of Native Indian history.

To support a three-year series of institutes, seminars, workshops, and symposiain various areas of Renaissance studies.

To support a three-year project of nine one-week seminars for 20 participants each on native American history at the library and several of the tribal colleges.

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A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on popular mapping practices and their social and cultural contexts.

A four-week institute for college and university teachers to study modernist literary and artistic expression through the collections of the Newberry Library and various sites in Chicago.

The Newberry proposes a 4-week NEH summer institute that will explore Chicago’s contribution to the modernist movement, with particular attention given to literature. The institute will begin with the persistent cultural resonances of the 1893 World’s Fair and will end with mid-century representations of African-American experiences in literature and the visual arts. The institute aims for an inclusive and expansive history of modernist literature and art in Chicago across racial lines. Four themes will be emphasized: the geographic uniqueness of Chicago as both a Midwestern and international hub; the historically overlooked women in Chicago who built the city’s literary and cultural infrastructure; the connections between the “literary renaissance” of the 1910s and early 1920s and the Chicago Black Renaissance; and modernism’s distinctive production and reception history in Chicago. Participants will engage the Newberry’s vast collections and the experience of the city itself.

A four-week institute for 25 college and university teachers to study modernist literary and artistic expression through the collections of the Newberry Library and sites in Chicago.

The Newberry Library proposes a summer institute for college and university faculty that will explore Chicago’s contribution to the modernist movement. The institute will begin by considering the cultural resonances of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and will end with an exploration of work by artists and writers of the Chicago Black Renaissance. It will be led by renowned scholars in the fields of literature, history, art history, print culture, and African-American studies. Four themes will be emphasized: 1) the geographic centrality of Chicago both locally and internationally; 2) modernism’s distinctive reception history in Chicago; 3) the women in Chicago who served as key cultural arbiters; 4) and the connections between the Chicago Renaissance and the Chicago Black Renaissance. Making Modernism will provide summer scholars with a special opportunity to explore Chicago through both the Newberry’s vast collections on this topic and the experience of the city itself.

A three-week, residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to study the modernist movement in Chicago.

The Newberry Library seeks Level I support for a residential, three-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university faculty that will explore Chicago’s vital contribution to the modernist movement. From July 18-August 5, 2022, Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955 proposes to explore the distinct, groundbreaking styles of Chicago modernism as well as the city’s connections to other metropoles. Directed by Dr. Liesl Olson (Director of Chicago Studies, Newberry Library) and Dr. Susan Manning (Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University), Making Modernism will offer an expansive look at creative expression in Chicago across the arts. Participants will have the opportunity to engage actively and critically with the Newberry’s archival collections in order to understand the networks that contributed to the explosion of cultural styles associated with the modernist period.

A five-week college and university teacher institute for twenty-five participants to explore the relationship between art and mapping in the Americas.

The Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography seeks NEH support for a 5-week summer institute for college faculty that will scrutinize the interplay between American art and mapping from the Transatlantic Encounter into the 21st century. The institute, led by James Akerman (Dir. of Smith Center) and Diane Dillon (Asst. Dir. of Research & Education) will feature a guest faculty of 14 specialists in art, cartography, geography, philosophy, American history, map librarianship, and literary studies. The institute's program of lectures, seminars, workshops, and research will encourage 25 participants to cross disciplinary boundaries and move beyond regional and chronological specialties to address the complex history of the relationship between art and mapping in and of the Americas. Participants will also pursue their own projects and explore unfamiliar primary materials, including the Newberry's rich holdings in the humanities.

A four-week institute for twenty-five college and university teachers on modernism in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Newberry Library proposes a 4-week summer 2013 institute for college and university faculty that will explore Chicago’s literary and cultural centrality in the twentieth century. The institute will begin by considering the cultural resonances of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and end by analyzing mid-century literary representations of African-American experience. It will be led by renowned scholars in the fields of literature, history, art history, print culture, and African-American studies. Four themes will be emphasized: the geographic centrality of Chicago both locally and internationally; modernism’s distinctive reception history in Chicago; the women in Chicago who served as key cultural arbiters; and the connections between the Chicago Renaissance and the Chicago Black Renaissance. Participants will engage with Newberry collections in order to understand the hidden networks that contributed to the explosion of cultural styles associated with the modernist period.