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The recommended links below represent some of the best professional development sites in the humanities available on the web.
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops provide opportunities for K-12 educators to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. These week-long workshops give participants direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary historical evidence.
NEH summer seminars for school teachers enable fifteen participants per seminar to explore a topic or set of readings with a scholar having special interest and expertise in the field. The core material of the seminar need not relate directly to the school curriculum; the principal goal of the seminar is to engage teachers in scholarly enterprise and to expand and deepen their understanding of the humanities through reading, discussion, writing, and reflection.
EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities. EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public.
The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages, and archival collections for historical research.
The National Humanities Center is a private, nonprofit institution for advanced study in the humanities. Their programs provide teachers with new materials and instructional strategies to make them more effective in the classroom and rekindle their enthusiasm for the subjects they teach.
The Digital History site provides a plethora of resources to teachers in American history including, lesson plans, primary documents, lectures, videos, music, guides for creating multimedia exhibits, and more.
The purpose of the University of Central Florida Hurston Archive is to create an academic web site that will provide a repository of biographical, critical, and contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work.
This site uses digital reproductions of maps from monographs and private collections held locally in South Florida. The maps show how Florida came to be represented in the current familiar geographic form.
This site offers Teaching Materials, Best Practices, and Lesson Plans for elementary, middle and high school teachers.
This project explores the relationships between jazz and democracy. Two iconic Americans are at the heart of Let Freedom Swing: retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and musician, composer, educator and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis. Their discussion provides the stimulus for the short videos and educational materials presented here.
Using the work of Zora Neale Hurston as a central theme, Project Mosaic infuses African-American subject matter into a wide array of academic disciplines.
To suggest additional websites for this resource list, please email dwakeman@flahum.org.
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