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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>fyi</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:54:18 -0500<br>> From: <a href="mailto:abaxter@sas.upenn.edu">abaxter@sas.upenn.edu</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:mceas-seminar@groups.sas.upenn.edu">mceas-seminar@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>> Subject: [MCEAS seminar] RE: NEH Seminar : “The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice from the Revolution to the Civil War”<br>> <br>> TERRIFIC SUMMER SEMINAR OPPORTUNITY FOR K-12 TEACHERS<br>> <br>> “The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice from <br>> the Revolution to the Civil War”<br>> <br>> **NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers and Graduate Students in July <br>> 2012**<br>> <br>> July 1-27, 2012<br>> <br>> The Library Company of Philadelphia<br>> <br>> Director, Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology<br>> <br>> Email: <a href="mailto:rsngsm@rit.edu">rsngsm@rit.edu</a><br>> <br>> Website:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/description.htm">http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/description.htm</a><br>> <br>> <br>> A reminder that there’s still plenty of time to apply for “The <br>> Abolitionist Movement,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer <br>> Seminar for K-12 school teachers and two graduate students. The seminar <br>> will meet at the Library Company of Philadelphia from July 1-27. I am <br>> delighted to be directing the seminar for the fourth time. Many of the <br>> people who have attended seminars in previous years still keep in touch <br>> with each other and we all share stories of teaching triumphs, new <br>> career paths, and future plans. I very much look forward to working with <br>> a new set of teaching professionals and graduate students in 2012 and <br>> hope that you will consider applying to the seminar. Please feel free to <br>> contact me for more information (including getting continuing education <br>> credits for attending).<br>> <br>> For more information about events, expectations, and applications, you <br>> can go directly to our website:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/application.htm">http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/application.htm</a><br>> <br>> But here’s a brief rundown of the seminar. This is a wonderful moment to <br>> re-examine the abolitionist movement in American history. Not only are <br>> there more terrific books coming out on the subject than ever before but <br>> there are now many new collections of primary sources available for <br>> classroom use -- and many good web-sites too. Moreover, slavery and <br>> abolitionism continue to make headlines in papers around the country, as <br>> museums open new exhibits on the institution of slavery, local <br>> communities re-examine their role in the Underground Railroad, and <br>> television documentaries focus on the importance of slavery and <br>> abolitionist movements in early America.<br>> <br>> This seminar seeks to bring abolitionism alive by surveying an exciting <br>> range of scholarly literature and primary source documents on the <br>> subject. We’ll discuss key themes in the study of abolitionism, <br>> including slave rebellions, the rise of black abolitionism, the <br>> prospects for inter-racial activism, women’s key role as abolitionists, <br>> the Underground Railroad, Lincoln<br>> and emancipation struggles during the Civil War era, religion and the <br>> antislavery movement, and a range of other concerns. We’ll also talk <br>> about teaching strategies and examine films and websites that deal with <br>> abolitionism as a historical topic. To gain further insight on <br>> abolitionism, we’ll welcome several terrific guest scholars to our <br>> seminar – including James Brewer Stewart, Stacey Robertson, Erica <br>> Armstrong Dunbar, and Scott Hancock – each of whom will discuss cutting <br>> edge research in the field.<br>> <br>> Finally, because Philadelphia was an abolitionist hotbed, we’ve planned <br>> several fieldtrips to famous abolitionist sites in the area, including <br>> The Liberty Bell, black abolitionist Richard Allen’s Mother Bethel AME <br>> Church, and Gettysburg. We’ll also study antislavery sources in the <br>> Library Company’s amazing archives – one of the best collections of such <br>> material in the world.<br>> <br>> I hope that the seminar will be both engaging and rewarding. Indeed, I <br>> look forward to another great summer of reading, discussion, and <br>> intellectual camaraderie in one of America’s great cities!<br>> <br>> Once again, I hope you will consider applying. And for more information, <br>> including application details and the March 1, 2012 deadline, please <br>> contact me directly (at <a href="mailto:rsngsm@rit.edu">rsngsm@rit.edu</a>) or go to our website:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/application.htm">http://www.librarycompany.org/abolitionseminar/application.htm</a><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> With Best Wishes,<br>> <br>> Richard Newman<br>> Seminar Director and Professor of History,<br>> Rochester Institute of Technology<br>> <br>> Author, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, The AME Church, and the <br>> Black<br>> Founding Fathers, and The Transformation of American Abolitionism<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.nyupress.org/books/Freedom_s_Prophet-products_id-7704.html">http://www.nyupress.org/books/Freedom_s_Prophet-products_id-7704.html</a><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> This message came to you by way of the MCEAS-seminar mailing list:<br>> <a href="mailto:MCEAS-seminar@groups.sas.upenn.edu">MCEAS-seminar@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>> To manage your subscription, visit this web page:<br>> <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mceas-seminar">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mceas-seminar</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>