Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Apply for The Lost World of Early America Seminar with John Demos; Attention History and English Teachers

CALL FOR TEACHERS!

2010 NEH Summer Institute: The Lost World of Early America with John Demos

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 2, 2010

This summer, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Summer
Seminars will offer The Lost World of Early America, a two-week NEH Summer
Institute led by historian John Demos at Yale University. Teachers invited
to participate will travel back to the Colonial Era in order to explore the
lives of early Americans=97and, in turn, gain a richer understanding of the
changes that resulted from both the American Revolution and the Industrial
Revolution in the American experience.

All K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers, including those who
attended a Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar in 2009, are now eligible to apply
to this NEH Summer Institute. For further details, visit:
www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_NEH.php.

This is a unique opportunity for Summer Seminar alumni who typically have to=

alternate years for their application.

Selected participants will receive fellowships to offset travel costs to the=

Institute, July 18-31, 2010=97and be eligible to apply to and attend the ful=
l
range of Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars in 2010 and the future.

Apply now: seminar space is limited.=20
Application deadline: March 2, 2010

About John Demos
John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University,
where he has specialized in teaching early American history since 1986. His
most recent work, The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the
Western World (Viking, 2008), culminates a half-century of intense study of
witch-hunting incidents in Europe and America.

For more information about this NEH Summer Institute, email
seminars@gilderlehrman.org or call 646-366-9666.

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