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www.leh.org Teachers attend LEH-sponsored history seminars in Washington Public school teachers from Caddo and Calcasieu parishes attended four American history workshops sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanites and financed by two $1 million U.S. Department of Education “Teaching American History” (TAH) grants. The teachers — 12 from Calcasieu and 9 from Caddo — were graduates of last summer’s TAH Institutes at LSU in Shreveport and McNeese State University in Lake Charles. During their three-day visit to the nation’s capitol in late September, teachers attended workshops at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and American Art Gallery. While there, teachers received instruction in how to use original documents and Internet resources at those institutions in teaching American history. This was the third and final year for the grant in Caddo Parish. For more information on the TAH program, log on to: www.leh.org/html/tah.html Our grants support both popular and classical humanities. Since 1971, the LEH has invested more than $43.5 million in cultural programming throughout the state. • More than 3,900 elementary, middle and high school teachers from across Louisiana have attended LEH Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study, bringing back to their collective classrooms of 500,000 students new perspectives on humanities subjects ranging from the Harlem Renaissance to Chinese culture and history. • Louisiana history, Southern folktales, Southeastern Native American culture, and literature of the American West are four of the subjects currently covered in the LEH-funded reading program for adults: Readings in Literature and Culture. RELIC has enrolled 87,000 readers in 62 parishes. • Louisiana Cultural Vistas quarterly magazine brings LEH grant projects to the printed page for 50,000 Louisianians. • Prime Time Family Reading Time, a unique LEH literacy program, brings at-risk families together with storytellers and scholars to improve literacy skills and to share new worlds through reading. • Call 1 (800) 909-7990. View Louisiana Cultural Vistas on-line at 4 By logging on to www.leh.org, readers can now find Louisiana Cultural Vistas available on-line in its entirety in digital format, with each page of the print version vividly captured and easily accessible. The staff at Louisiana Cultural Vistas welcomes feedback from our Web readers. http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org/html/tah.html http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org

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Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Winter 2008 Contents Friends Editor's Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Prospect.1 New Orleans The Historic New Orleans Collection The Enduring Performance of Michael P. Smith Jazz Notes Louisiana Foodways Birds of a Feather: Windfowl Carvings in Southeast Louisiana Louisiana Association of Museums Louisiana Architecture O. Winston Link in Louisiana The Ogden Museum of Southern Art The Colfax Massacre Louisiana State Museum Unlocking the History of Greek Key Architecture Bookstand Sound Advice Forum

Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Winter 2008

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