NEH 2010 Workshops

The 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities

Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers

“James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship”


James Madison’s life encompassed the development, establishment, and maintenance of a new constitutional enterprise.  His career was dedicated to establishing the new nation and its constitutional system, and in the process he made the transition from founder to citizen—that is, from the outside to the inside of the political system, from regime-making power to institutionalized governmental authority.

Explore James Madison’s role in the invention of fundamentally new concepts of a constitution, a bill of rights, and citizenship—and explore Montpelier, his lifelong home and plantation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains—in the 2011 NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers, “James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship,” hosted by the Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier.

These six-day summer programs for K-12 educators nationwide will take place at James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange, VA.  Forty educators from across the country will participate in each Workshop, at no cost to themselves or their schools.

Workshop No. 1 will be offered Sunday, June 19, to Friday, June 24, 2011.
Workshop No. 2 will be offered Sunday, June 26, to Friday, July 1, 2011.

The application postmark deadline for both Workshops is March 1, 2011.

 

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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