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The Humanities Council has awarded a mini-grant to the Historical Society of Cheshire County for a teacher workshop on Immigrant Experiences in the Granite State: 1860s - 1930s. This two-day workshop will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, July 1 and 2 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Historical Society of Cheshire County in Keene.
The workshop is open to any educator who wishes to expand his or her understanding of New Hampshire’s immigration history.
Preregistration for this workshop is required. Teachers will receive 12 hours of professional development credit for attending both days. For more information and to register, contact the Historical Society of Cheshire County at 352-1895 or by e-mail.
Teachers from around the nation will gather at the Newberry Library in Chicago in October for a conference on Interpreting the American Landscape through the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Picturing America collection. The Newberry Library has received a grant from the NEH for two Picturing America School Collaboration Conferences to be held October 23 and 24, 2009 and April 16 and 17, 2010. The deadline to apply for the October conference is June 30, 2009. Secondary level teachers of history, language arts and art teachers and secondary level librarians whose schools have already received Picturing America are eligible to apply. Learn more and apply here.
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