Anna Turnage
An NEH Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development Materials Development Grant. I knew of this project from when Mike Hogan from PSU came to interview for a comm job a couple of years ago. Not much happening there yet, but it is an example of an NEH funded web project.
Voices of Democracy promotes the study of great speeches and public debates in the humanities undergraduate classroom. The project is designed to provide reliable, authenticated primary texts and contextual and interpretive materials under seven deliberative topics: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Religion and Public Life, Social and Economic Justice, U.S. Internationalism, and War and Peace. In the process of reinvigorating the humanistic study of U.S. oratory, the Voices of Democracy project aims to foster understanding of the nation's principles and history and to promote civic engagement among today's undergraduate students. Voices of Democracy represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary project involving scholars from Baylor University, Penn State University, and University of Maryland, College Park.
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