Sunday-Friday
June 22-27, 2008 OR
July 27-Aug. 1, 2008

CONTACT
Brian Silver
PH 651-772-4257

MINNESOTA
HUMANITIES CENTER
987 Ivy Avenue East
St. Paul, MN 55106
PH 651-774-0105
TOLL FREE 866-268-7293
FAX 651-774-0205

The history of Minnesota's Iron Range, its contributions, and its people is rarely, if ever, told. It is absent from general treatments of American history, absent from examinations of industrial America, and absent from studies of the U.S. military build-ups in the first and second world wars; the Iron Range appears as only a footnote in historical treatments of the American steel industry.

The history of the people who came to work these mines is the history of America; it is the story of immigrants, of conflict and assimilation, of people creating lives for themselves, their families, and for others.

Minnesota's Iron Range is the historic region or main "landmark" central to the Minnesota Humanities Center's National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop, "Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization, and the Creation of a World Power."

Offered in Summer 2008, the workshop will focus on the history and activities that took place on the Vermilion and the Mesabi Iron Ranges. Participants will be provided with resources and new content knowledge for introducing the history of Minnesota's Iron Range region, its contributions, and its people into their current American history curriculum. In order to make this easier, the workshops will be based on national history standards and the national social studies standards and will be organized around three central themes that align with those standards. These three themes are: 1) Natural History of the Landmark: Geography and Geology; 2) The Mines and their Contributions to American History; 3) and the People and the Mines (indigenous peoples, ethnicity, and immigration).

REGISTRATION AND EXPENSES
Thanks to a generous donation from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), there is no registration fee for this program. Funding from the NEH will cover travel, lodging, and meal expenses for educators from around the nation to attend.

NOTE: Registration for this workshop is FULL; no additional applications will be accepted. Pending grant approval, the Humanities Center will offer another Landmarks workshop in Summer 2009. Check our website this fall for more information.

ABOUT THE LANDMARKS PROGRAM
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Schoolteachers are part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People program. These workshops provide the opportunity for K-12 educators from throughout the U.S. to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. The one-week academies will give participants direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary historical evidence. Landmarks workshops present the best scholarship on a specific landmark or related cluster of landmarks, enabling participants to gain a sense of the importance of historical places, to make connections between what they learn in the workshop and what they teach, and to develop enhanced teaching materials for their classrooms.

ABOUT THE MINNESOTA HUMANITIES CENTER

Through its emphasis on the humanities, the Minnesota Humanities Center works to build a literate and thoughtful society. A Minnesota-based national center and clearing house for the best in the humanities, the Humanities Center:

• conducts professional development opportunities;
• creates and disseminates one-of-a-kind educational resources;
• partners with other organizations to offer humanities programs statewide; and
• operates a full-service conference facility.

QUESTIONS?
Contact Brian Silver, 651-772-4257, or brian@minnesotahumanities.org.