NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers

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 2010 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 20, to Friday, June 25, 2010.
Workshop No. 2 will be offered Sunday, June 27, to Friday, July 2, 2010.

The application postmark deadline for both Workshops is March 23, 2010.