An NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers

July 14–26, 2024 at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (University of Southern Maine) and the Leventhal Map and Education Center (Boston Public Library)

Using historic and contemporary maps in the collections of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (University of Southern Maine) and the Leventhal Map and Education Center (Boston Public Library) as a starting point, participants will explore how both maps and landscapes reflect, erase, obscure, and celebrate Black and Indigenous geographies and histories along New England’s maritime coast. Through deep, critical work with maps, guided museum explorations and learning journeys in rural and urban landscapes, scholar talks and creative workshops, and critical readings and discussions, participants will consider and reflect upon representations of community and resilience in maritime New England, and bring new ways of looking through maps back to their own classrooms and local landscapes

Lessons and Articles

Institute Staff

Monday, Jun 24, 2024

Libby Bischof and Garrett Dash Nelson

Sunday, Nov 5, 2023

Explore Collection Groups

Collection Groups will be available in advance of the workshop.

Contact

Please direct any questions about the 2024 Teaching with Maps Summer Institute to the Project Director, Libby Bischof: oml-usm@maine.edu or 207-780-4281. Please include the subject line "NEH Summer Institute Inquiry" in all emails.