This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $181,039 to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Inc. to support a new series of two one-week, residential workshops for middle and high school educators. The workshops, titled "Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History Through the NYC Tenements," will take place in July and August 2025 and engage 60 educators in examining the stories and experiences of immigrant and Black families and communities during the Civil War/Reconstruction era and the Ellis Island era of immigration. Through guided museum tours, conversations with scholars, and visits to historic sites, participants will identify ways to explore themes of race and identity in their curricula and relate Black and immigrant history in their teaching.
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