Conferences/Workshops

Teaching for Global Understanding in the 21st Century
http://primarysource.org/globaledsummer
Online orientation dates: Approximately 6 hours, completed between June 22 and July 14
Course dates: July 23-27, 2012
Course time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
Follow-up session: October 2012 (date TBA)
PDPs offered: 67.5   --> read more »

The Early Republic and Indian Country, 1812-1833
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
The Newberry Library, Chicago
July 16, 2012 to August 10, 2012

Co-Directors
Scott Manning Stevens, Ph.D., Director, McNickle Center, Newberry Library
Frank Valadez, Executive Director, Chicago Metro History Education Center   --> read more »

The Eisenhower Academy, a summer institute for teachers, will be held July 8 - 13, 2012 at Gettysburg College and Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA. Sponsored by the National Park Service, Gettysburg College, and The Eisenhower Society, the Academy presents an in-depth perspective of Dwight D.   --> read more »

Spanish, Mexican, and American California: Reframing U.S. History at Peralta Hacienda is a stipended, one-week workshop funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Teachers from every state, grade level, and subject area will convene to explore the intertwined histories of these two neighboring countries, past and present.   --> read more »

Announcing an Interdisciplinary Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers on J. S. Bach
Sponsored by Moravian College and The National Endowment for the Humanities

The NEH institute, "Johann Sebastian Bach: Currents and Cross-Currents in
the Baroque Era and in Our Time," is offered for K-12 schoolteachers,
taking place in Eisenach, Leipzig, and Potsdam, Germany, from July 1st to
July 27th, 2012.   --> read more »

This three-week institute, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and Union Theological Seminary, will meet from July 16th to August 3rd, 2012. It will help public, private, and parochial school teachers teach more effectively about American religious diversity by

• distinguishing academic from devotional approaches to the study of religion;

"Asia as the Crossroads of World History, 600-1800"
July 8-13, 2012

Keynote Speakers: Pamela Crossley and Xinru Liu

This Institute is for you if:
You are new to teaching World History and looking for ideas, support, comfort.
You are not new to teaching World History but would like ideas, support, comfort.   --> read more »

The Newberry Library, Chicago
July 16, 2012 to August 10, 2012   --> read more »

The National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Landmarks in American History and Culture Program, will support two week-long workshops celebrating the heritage of the Mississippi Delta.   --> read more »

The Tsongas Industrial History Center invites educators from across the U.S. to Lowell, MA, for "Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution," a week-long summer workshop funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.   --> read more »