The Thoreau Society Inc. received a $175,967 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program. Specifically, the funding will support a two-week residential summer institute for 25 college and university teachers held in Concord, Massachusetts from June 26 to July 9, 2022. The institute aims to promote better teaching and research on the topics of transcendentalism and social reform in the age of American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. The Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program administered by NEH supports this type of professional development opportunity for higher education faculty through its Institutes program, which seeks to enhance history and culture teaching in the humanities field.
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