September Council Program Snapshot
In September, the state and jurisdictional humanities councils are hosting nearly 200 programs that address histories of racism, social injustice, racial biases, women’s suffrage and the right to vote, civic engagement, democracy and journalism, history, and more. Each council created or adapted their programming into virtual experiences due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The programs range from lectures to workshops and online exhibits to virtual book clubs.
Check out what’s happening virtually across the country as you read through the programs listed below. Connect and engage in conversations about these programs on social media using #humanitiesconnect. Feel free to submit programs by emailing us at connect@statehumanities.org.
Council Programs at-a-Glance, September
ARIZONA
- Sept. 11: Do You See What I See? Implicit Bias for Better or Worse Virtual Program
- Sept. 17: The History of Police and Policing with Matthew Whitaker Virtual Program
- Sept. 21: Nice is Not Enough: Understanding Systemic Oppression Virtual Program
- Sept. 26: Hands-On Humanities: A Virtual Awards Celebration
CALIFORNIA
- Online through January 2021: ONLINE EXHIBIT―AIDS Treatment / Activism by GLBT Historical Society
- Online through January 2021: ONLINE—Exhibit: 100 Years of the Women’s Vote
- Online through September 30, 2020: PBS—Now Streaming: THE RETURN
- Sept. 2: NORTHERN CENTRAL COAST—Virtual Listening Session
- Sept. 3: Online Webinar—Grant Seeker Workshop
- Sept. 5: Facebook Live—Weaving Yesterdays Virtual Presentations
- Sept. 16: APPLICANT WEBINAR—California Documentary Project
COLORADO
- Sept. 1-30: 1918 Durango: The Pandemic, The War, and The Peace History Live Durango Radio Program
- Sept. 8: Recent Developments in the Settlement of the Americas History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 9: History of the Hispano Churches at Trujillo, Juanita, Pagosa Junction, Allison, and Tiffany History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 10: Fort Lewis College Life-Long Learning Program: Firing Towards the Future: Steam Locomotive Technology History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 17: Fort Lewis College Life-Long Learning Program: Lessons from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 18: Storytelling with Angel Vigil History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 23: Native American Sacred Places with Dr. Andrew Gulliford History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 24: The Preservation of the Historic Tiffany Church History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 24: Fort Lewis College Life-Long Learning Program: Beyond the Postcard: Public Health and Landscape Imagery History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 29: Virtual Book Club: Sabrina & Corina History Live Durango Online Program
- Sept. 30: Silverton Gold Film Screening History Live Durango Online Program
CONNECTICUT
- Sept. 2: Online Lecture: Pretty as a Picture: Nature Observations Then and Now
- Sept. 4: FILM STUDIES CLASS • Background as Foreground: Landscape as Character in Three American Films Online Lecture
- Sept. 11: FILM STUDIES CLASS • Background as Foreground: Landscape as Character in Three American Films Online Lecture
- Sept. 15: Virtual Book Talk and Signing: My Creative Space by Donald M. Rattner, Architect
- Sept. 16: MUSIC PROGRAM: Songs of American Woman Suffrage Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 17: Suffragettes in Corselettes: The Evolution of Underwear and the 19th Amendment Virtual Program
- Sept. 17: African American Suffragettes and Black Women Voters: Making Herstory with Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall Online Program
- Sept. 18: FILM STUDIES CLASS • Background as Foreground: Landscape as Character in Three American Films Online Presentation
DELAWARE
- Sept. 14: Fake News, Fraud, and Honest Error (Online Program)
FLORIDA
- Sept. 2: The 100th Anniversary of the Ocoee, Florida Election Day Massacre Virtual Event
- Sept. 3: “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist” by Eli Saslow Virtual Book Discussion
- Sept. 10: Democracy in Florida: A Work in Progress Virtual Event
- Sept. 14: Local Color Series – Sarasota Virtual Event
- Sept. 15: Democratic Dialogues with Jodi Pushkin Virtual Event
- Sept. 19: Braver Angels: Reuniting America Documentary Virtual Event
- Sept. 24: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Comes to Life Virtual Event
- Sept. 30: Florida Forts: On the Edge of Empire Virtual Event
GEORGIA
- Sept. 2: Virtual Event-Political Protest and the 2020 Elections
- Sept. 4: Jericho Brown, Keynote, Decatur Virtual Book Festival
- Sept. 4-6: Decatur Short Docs Virtual Film Festival
- Sept. 6: Virtual Event-The 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award
- Sept. 9: Flash Here and There Like Falling Stars, Decatur Virtual Book Festival
- Sept. 9: Virtual Event– Health Care Access and the 2020 Elections
HAWAII
- Sept. 1: Try Think: About Resilience Online Conversation
ILLINOIS
- Sept. 1: From Prairie to Farm to City: Illinois History Through Music Online Program
INDIANA
- Sept. 29: Living the Legacy: Making it Local Online Event
KANSAS
- Sept. 2: Online Workshop: Writing Strong Grant Narratives
- Sept. 7: Online Program – Free History: The 1st Kansas Colored Infantry
- Sept. 15: Online Program – DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather
- Sept. 17: Online Program – Free Did Not Mean Welcome
- Sept. 17: Big Idea Interview with Robert Weems Online Presentation
- Sept. 25: Online Program – Meet Amelia Earhart: A Portals to the Past Event
- Sept. 27: Online Program – William Allen White and the KKK in Kansas: “A Real American Goes Hunting”
KENTUCKY
- Sept. 13: VIRTUAL PROGRAM: HC2020-028 Hannah Coulter Book Discussions
- Sept. 16: VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Choosing a President: Understanding the Electoral College
- Sept. 17: VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Mattie Griffith Browne: Kentucky Abolitionist & Suffragist
- Sept. 27: VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Hannah Coulter Book Discussions
- Sept. 29: VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Hannah Coulter Book Discussions
MAINE
- Online through November 2020: Fall Discussion Project sites and Online Events
- Sept. 3: Writing Franco America Online Presentation
- Sept. 22: Poetry Express Online Program
MARYLAND
- Sept. 1: “The Rise of Political Ghosts: Counter-protests of Ultra-Rights in South Korea” Online Research Presentation
- Sept. 8: One Maryland One Book: Hooked on Books (Online Book Discussion)
- Sept. 10: Virtual Author Event: Fredrik Backman Discusses “Anxious People”
- Sept. 15: Virtual Book Discussion: “The Island of Sea Women” by Lisa See
- Sept. 15: Wheaton Adult Online Book Discussion: One Maryland One Book
- Sept. 15: Tuesday Night Online Book Club: One Maryland One Book
- Sept. 16: Davis Book Online Discussion Group: One Maryland One Book
- Sept. 17: Virtual Book Discussion with Harford County Public Library: One Maryland One Book
- Sept. 17: Sea Creature Origami Virtual Program
- Sept. 21: Asian American Lit: One Maryland One Book Virtual Book Discussion
- Sept. 24: Literature with Lunch Discusses “The Island of Sea Women” Virtual Discussion
- Sept. 25: Black Hair-itage, History and Healing: A virtual lecture-discussion series
- Sept. 26: Saturday Book Discussion: One Maryland One Book Online Book Discussion
- Sept. 26: Edmondson Avenue Book Club: One Maryland One Book Online Discussion
- Sept. 29: Virtual Program One Maryland One Book 2020
MASSACHUSETTS
- Sept. 7: 36th Annual Bread and Roses Heritage Festival Virtual Event
- Sept. 10: Pam Fessler with Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice Virtual Event
MICHIGAN
- Sept. 3: Bridging Michigan: Eric Hemenway & Matthew L.M. Fletcher in Conversation Virtual Event
MISSISSIPPI
- Sept. 15: Oxford to the Ballot Box: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections Online Program
MISSOURI
- Sept. 2: Growing Up with the River, Chapter 6: 1932: Washington Virtual Event
- Sept. 3: Virtual Cultural Heritage Workshop Series – Part One: Recording Oral Histories with Sean Rost, State Historical Society of Missouri
- Sept. 3: Virtual Cultural Heritage Series – Part Two: Historic Preservation Advocacy
- Sept. 3: Virtual Cultural Heritage Workshop Series – Part Three: Historic Preservation Strategies for Rural Communities
- Sept. 10: Explore Missouri’s German Heritage: Chapter One Virtual Event
- Sept. 14: Virtual Author Series: Peter Cozzens “Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation”
- Sept. 22: Democracy and the Informed Citizen Virtual Presentation
MONTANA
- Sept. 1: Replacing Nature with a Synthetic World with Christopher Preston Virtual Event
NEBRASKA
- Sept. 8: No Time on My Hands: The Story of Grace Snyder Virtual Program
- Sept. 13: VIRTUAL EVENT: The ’Tradition’ in Traditional Folk Music
- Sept. 18: VIRTUAL EVENT: Czech Folk Costumes (kroje)
NEVADA
- Online through September 24, 2020: H2O 2020 Online Exhibition at CCAI Courthouse Gallery
- Sept. 4: Poetry Matters! Virtual Event
- Sept. 11 & 14: Road Maps: Racial & Social Justice, Equality & Belonging Virtual Event
- Sept. 17: A Virtual Salon: Nevada’s Public Monuments Virtual Event
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Sept. 4: Fierce Females: Women in Art Virtual Event
- Sept. 10: Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England Online Program
- Sept. 15: Ideas on Tap: Voting in America Online Program
- Sept. 22: New Hampshire Roads Taken Or Not Online Program
- Sept. 23: New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them Online Program
- Sept. 24: Votes for Women: A History of the Suffrage Movement Online Program
- Sept. 24: Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares Online Program
NEW JERSEY
- Sept. 1 & 9: NJCH Workshop: Applying for a NJCH Grant
NEW MEXICO
- Sept. 18 & 19: 16th Annual Gila River Virtual Festival by the Gila Conservation Coalition
- Sept. 26: Virtual Reception: Feminisms
NEW YORK
- Sept. 1: Sky Lab Artist in Residence Talk: Ebony Noelle Golden in Conversation with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs Virtual Discussion
- Sept. 2: Amended: Suffrage, and Beyond Online Event
- Sept. 5: Oral History Live! With Dindga McCannon Online Program
- Sept. 8: Facilitating Reading & Discussion Online Programs
- Sept. 9: Hosting Reading & Discussion Online Programs
- Sept. 9: River, Water & Life Online Program
- Sept. 14: James Baldwin’s America Reading & Discussion Online Program
- Sept. 15: Exploring the Erie Canal: Introduction Online Program
- Sept. 16: Food Sovereignty in the time of COVID-19 Online Program
- Sept. 21: Your Silence Will Not Protect You!, A Reading & Discussion
- Sept. 30: Environmental Justice in the North Country Online Program
- Sept. 30: The Environmental Future of the St. Lawrence Watershed Online Program
NORTH DAKOTA
- Sept. 1:Humanities North Dakota’s Online Classes | Media Literacy: Political Rhetoric and Public Deliberation
- Sept. 3: Humanities North Dakota’s Online Classes | Racial Healing: From Awareness to Action
- Sept. 14: Humanities North Dakota’s Online Classes | A Republic If You Can Keep It: Plato and a World on Fire
- Sept. 27: One Book One ND: The Lives of Edie Pritchard by Larry Watson Online Author Presentation
OKLAHOMA
- Sept. 1: The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman | Davis Virtual Program
- Sept. 3: A Case of Lone Star by Kinky Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Love County Virtual Program
- Sept. 8: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | Johnston County Virtual Program
- Sept. 15: Killing Orders by Sara Paretsky | Davis Virtual Program
- Sept. 17: The Private Mary Chestnut edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elizabeth Muhlenfeld | Love County Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 22: The Gendered Politics of Civil Rights | This is Herland Virtual Program
- Sept. 22: Life of Pi by Yann Martel | Ada Virtual Program
- Sept. 24: A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving | Atoka County Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 29: A Case of Lone Star by Kinky Friedman | Davis Virtual Program
RHODE ISLAND
- Sept. 3-7: Museum of Work & Culture Virtual Labor Day Celebration Series
- Sept. 3: Quarantine Creatives: A Virtual Interview with Indigenous Artist Dawn Spears
- Sept. 9: Cocktails and Conversations: Voting Rights, Then and Now Virtual Event
- Sept. 16: Equity in Voting-2020 Virtual Community Discussion Series– Session 1
- Sept. 16: Museum of Work & Culture Slatersville Documentary Preview Screening
- Sept. 18: Quarantine Creatives: A Virtual Interview with Indigenous Artist Deborah Spears-Moorehead
- Sept. 23: Criminal Justice Reform-2020 Virtual Community Discussion Series-Session 2
- Sept. 30: The Fight for a Livable Wage-2020 Virtual Community Discussion Series-Session 3
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Sept. 10: Ron Rash Virtual Book Talk
- Sept. 17: Deb Richardson-Moore Virtual Book Talk
- Sept. 21: Patrick Henry (Virtual Show)
- Sept. 24: Restless Genius of Ben Franklin (Virtual Event)
- Sept. 26: VIRTUAL CLASS – Visual Journal with Becky Jo Steele
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sept. 3: Brainstorming: The Human Connection, Brookings Virtual Program
- Sept. 4: “Unfollow” Discussion, Vermillion Virtual Program
- Sept. 13: OBSD 2020 Tour w/author Megan Phelps-Roper, Watertown Virtual Program
- Sept. 19: A Century Celebration: Woman Suffrage in South Dakota 1868-1918, Sioux Falls Virtual Program
UTAH
- Sept. 3: The Miracle of Dunkirk Online Program
- Sept. 10: The Heritage of Persian Literature Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 12: Westminster Slam Community Poetry Workshop featuring Rachel Eliza Griffiths Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 14: Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 15: UndocuMigration Project Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 16: Eco-Poetry and the Essay: Creative Writing and Pedagogy Conference Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 16: Treasures of World Literature: Labyrinth of Solitude by Mexican Poet Octavio Paz Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 17: Welcoming Week: Youth Artists Conversation Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 17: Sea of Thunder Online Program
- Sept. 18: Hood Criatura: A Queer Poetry Workshop by fei hernandez Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 19: American Polygamy/American Zion: A Conversation with Craig L. Foster and Marianne T. Watson Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 19: Rachel Eliza Griffiths and John Murillo Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 21: Savage Conversations / Crooked Hallelujahs Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 22: Red Ants with Pergentino José Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 23: The Case for Universal Healthcare by David Colton Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 23: Author Panel: Josi Kilpack, Yamile Saied Mendez, J. Scott Savage, and Kathryn Purdie Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 24: The Last Tiger is Somewhere Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 25: Evening Ethics: The Case for Universal Healthcare by David Colton Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 28: An evening with Sadie Hoagland and Siân Griffiths Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 29: A Poetic Evening with Rob Carney and Ken Waldman Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 29: Best Books for Book Clubs Zoom Conference Call
- Sept. 30: Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy Zoom Conference Call
VERMONT
- Sept. 2: *DIGITAL* Democracy Knitting Circle Virtual Program
- Sept. 9: *DIGITAL* Vermont’s Temples of Democracy: A Tour with State Curator David Schutz Virtual Program
- Sept. 14: *DIGITAL* Book Discussion: The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
- Sept. 14: *DIGITAL* Book Discussion: Crossers by Philip Caputo
- Sept. 16: *DIGITAL* Cartoonists: Still Foot Soldiers of Democracy Virtual Program
- Sept. 18: *DIGITAL* How Did Germany’s Weimar Democracy Become the Third Reich? Virtual Program
- Sept. 21: *DIGITAL LECTURE* Indian Wars of New England
- Sept. 22: **DIGITAL ONLY** Book Discussion: I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson Virtual Program
- Sept. 23: *DIGITAL* The Original Model of Athenian Democracy and America Today Virtual Program
- Sept. 30: *DIGITAL* My Brigadista Year: A Democratic Ideal Amidst a Movement Virtual Program
VIRGINIA
- Sept. 3: The New American Zoom Webinar
- Sept. 3: Democracy and the Informed Citizen Panel Virtual Panel Discussion
- Sept. 8: After Virginia Tech Zoom Webinar
- Sept. 9: Have a Drink with Nikki and Tressie Zoom Webinar
- Sept. 10: Does Good Exist? Zoom Webinar
- Sept. 17: Conversational Creatures Zoom Webinar
- Sept. 22: Addressing Hunger in the Midst of Plenty Zoom Webinar
- Sept. 24: The Kinship of Plants and People Zoom Webinar
WASHINGTON
- Sept. 1: ONLINE: What’s Age Got to Do with It? Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 3: ONLINE: From Crime to the Classroom: How Education Changes Lives Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 4: ONLINE: Washington’s Undiscovered Feminists Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 12: ONLINE: Washington on Wheels: Odd and Innovative Transportation Ideas from the Pacific Northwest Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 15: ONLINE: Hacking Democracy: What Social Media is Doing to US Politics Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 15: ONLINE: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Principal’s Office? Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 15: ONLINE: The Poetic Apothecary: Poems for Healing and Comfort Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 16: ONLINE: Storm Warning: Historic Weather in the Evergreen State Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 17: ONLINE: Civil Conversation in an Angry Age Virtual Presentation
- Sept. 22: ONLINE: Tangled: Why Your Hair Matters to Society Virtual Presentation
WASHINGTON DC
- Sept. 5: Online Intro Workshop 2: DC Oral History Collaborative
WYOMING
- Sept. 5, 8, 15: Silent Book Club Online Program
- Sept. 9: Wyoming Connections: Women’s Suffrage and the Sexual Revolution Online Event
US TERRITORIES
GUAM
- Sept. 3: Virtual Family Story Hour