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E.g., 06/21/2013
E.g., 06/21/2013
Friday, March 23, 2012 to Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Out of Many: Religious Pluralism in America: An NEH Bridging Cultures in Community Colleges Program

From the ratification of the First Amendment to the conflict over an Islamic community center near Ground Zero, America has been marked by a profound religious diversity. The variety of religious communities in America, and the tensions that often erupt among them, have shaped the nation’s social, cultural, political, and economic development.

Monday, June 17, 2013 to Friday, July 12, 2013
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893-1955 : A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for college and university faculty.

By 1920, Chicago had become “the literary capital of the United States,” according to one of the nation’s influential cultural arbiters, H. L. Mencken. Indeed, American literature of the period bore an aesthetic shaped by a palpable confrontation with the city’s railroads, skyscrapers, and stockyards. Chicago helped produce many of the most important writers of the era.