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A Summer Institute for High School Teachers
of History, Literature, and Art
June 21-July 3, 2009
National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- How did World War I affect politics in the United States?
- Why did the prestige and power of American business dramatically increase in the 1920s?
- What explains the remarkable cultural ferment of this period?
- What place did religious and spiritual values assume in the United States during the Twenties?
- How did concepts of citizenship and national identity change in the decade after World War I?
- How did women and African Americans struggle to advance social equality?
- How did modernizing and traditional forces clash during the decade?
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John Kasson
Professor of History and
American Studies
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Karen Lucic
Professor of Art History
Vassar College
Sean McCann
Professor of English
Wesleyan University |
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"Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929" will explore these and other questions through history, literature, and art. Under the direction of leading scholars, participants will examine such issues as immigration, prohibition, radicalism, changing moral standards, and evolution to discover how the forces of modernity and traditionalism made the Twenties both liberating and repressive.
Participants will assist National Humanities Center staff in identifying texts and defining lines of inquiry for a new addition to the Center’s Toolbox Library, which provides online resources for teacher professional development and classroom instruction. |
Applications must be postmarked by March 6, 2009.
"Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929" is made possible through a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Image: John Held, Jr. "The girl who gave him the cold shoulder," Life magazine cover, August 26, 1926. Reproduced with permission of Illustration House and the estate of Margaret Held (permission pending).
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