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Mapping Nature across the Americas: A 2021 NEH Summer Seminar for Schoolteachers from the Newberry Library
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is pleased to announce Mapping Nature Across the Americas, a four-week NEH seminar for schoolteachers. Based at the library, due to the ongoing pandemic, the seminar will be held entirely online from 12 July to 6 August 2021.
The seminar directors, Dr. James Akerman (a geographer and the Newberry’s Curator of Maps) and Dr. Kathleen Brosnan (an environmental historian and the Travis Chair of Modern American History, University of Oklahoma) will lead 16 schoolteachers on a course of reading, discussion, and research.
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