Presidential Academies for American History & Civics Education
This program supports the establishment of Presidential Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics that offer workshops for both veteran and new teachers of American history and civics to strengthen their knowledge and preparation for teaching these subjects. Higher Education Institutions are eligible applicants for this grant.
Landmarks for American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers grant www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html
This is a grant program aimed at higher ed institutions who want to organize workshops for teachers on how to teach history using historical landmarks.
American History and Civics Initiative: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
www.cpb.org/grants/historyandcivics/
The American History and Civics Initiative represents a major commitment by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to use its educational mandate, reach, and creative capacity to address critical shortfalls in middle and high school students’ knowledge of American history, our political system, and their roles as citizens.
Engaging Democracy Through The Humanities: An Institute for Serious Inquiry into the Connections between Campus and Community Life
Institute Overview and Agenda (48 K pdf) and
Institute Proceedings (88 K word doc)
Civic Scholar Lorrayne Carroll was one of five Institute Faculty who led this event. The Institute, held in May 2004, was sponsored by the Campus Compacts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The proceedings include specific information on how Institute participants used resources from the Our Documents website to inform their work over the three days. Proceedings compiled by Lorrayne Carroll, Campus Compact Civic Scholar.
Keynote Address, Fourth Education Leadership Colloquium on the Civic Mission of American Education (72 K pdf) – Peabody Hotel, Orlando, Florida, July 12, 2004. © by David E. Skaggs.
César E. Chávez’s Birthday
Each year Cesar Chavez’s birthday is to be celebrated as a day of community service on March 31. For information on where teachers and others can access historical data on the life of Cesar Chavez, go to the website above. This site includes a standards-based model curriculum on the history, life, and work of Cesar E. Chavez. The curriculum (while designed for grades K-12, it can be adapted for undergraduate courses) includes biographies, pictures, audio clips, video clips, and other resources designed to help teachers prepare lessons for this state holiday. In addition to the model curriculum and resources for teachers, the site also includes: resources for the public, research center, and Cesar Chavez biographies in various languages (including English, Vietnamese, Cnatonese, Hmong, and Tagalog).
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Hot Topic: Civics & History
Includes items that have been indexed on the website, full text online documents, and items from the NSLC library. See also Civics, Service, and
100 Milestone Documents
A list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
The American Historical Association (AHA)
| This project is funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America — Higher Education. |  |
