Maine Humanities Council

The Maine Humanities Council has been offering and supporting programs for teachers for more than twenty years. Here is a sampling of the programming provided in one ten-year period. For more recent programs, see the Council's Archive of Past Programs. To view current offerings or to suggest a topic, please visit Other Teacher Programs.

• Speaking in Tongues: The African-American Performing Self - four-week seminar, 1996
• Region and the Imagination: New England and the South - summer institute collaboration between Maine and Mississippi, 1996
• Yesterday’s Lessons, Today’s Decisions - educational reform seminar, 1996
• Shaping Identities: Autobiography and the American Experience - five-session writing seminar, 1997
• New Scholarship of the Civil War - course and summer trip to Richmond, Virginia, 1997
• The Odyssey - precursor to Winter Weekend, 1997
• The Civil, Social and Religious Rights of Women - conference, 1998
• After Frost: Poetry in New England - week-long seminar led by Bill Patterson, 1999
• Rachel Carson and the Power of Language - conference and one-woman play by Kaiulani Sewall Lee, 1999
• Black Boys and Native Sons: Protest Fiction and Writing B(l)ack in American Literature 1940-1960 - seminar led by Cedric Bryant, 1999
• China and Japan - precursor to Views of the East, 2000
• Latin America: A Clash of Cultures - seminar led by David Carey, 2001
• Islam: History, Religion, & Culture - three-part seminar led by Mahmud Faksh, 2002
• The Power of Myth: Arthurian Legends, Quest Sagas, and the Harry Potter Phenomenon - seminar led by Virginia Goodlett, 2003
• The Laramie Project - offered in conjunction with the national tour of the play by the same name, 2004
• The Ties That Bind: Discovering Diversity in the Archives - at USM’s Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, 2005
• Hawthorne and Longfellow: A Literary Friendship - summer institute at Bowdoin College, where the two writers were members of the Class of 1825