Throughout this month, the state and jurisdictional humanities councils are collectively running more than 140 programs across the country that touch on important themes affecting communities across the country, including programs on racial equity, suffrage, Indigenous and Native American women, civic engagement, democracy and journalism, and local histories. The programs range from lectures to workshops and from virtual happy hours to book clubs.
The states are listed in alphabetical order – we encourage you to check out what’s happening in your state and then take a virtual road trip and visit a new one! Attend a program? Tell us about it in the comments or share your takeaways on social media using #humanitiesconnect. Have a program to submit? Email us at connect@statehumanities.org.
Council Programs at-a-Glance, August
ALABAMA
- Aug. 24 Frances Robb: Dating Family and Institutional Photos @ ZOOM – Virtual Program
- Aug. 27 Reflect, Alabama Virtual Panel Discussion on Facebook @ Alabama Humanities Facebook Page – virtual
- Aug. 28 Democracy and the Informed Citizen continues with How to Tell Our Stories: A Writing Workshop @ ZOOM – Virtual
ALASKA
- Aug. 17, 18, 19: Togetherings Podcast Series: “Racism in Alaska: What is our capacity to change?”
- Aug. 25: Celebrating Leadership in Alaska Virtual Program
- Every Friday: Leadership Anchorage Alumni Series
ARIZONA
- Aug. 7: Poetry as Community: A Virtual Event with Laura Tohe
CALIFORNIA
- Online through Aug. 20: Unsettled Documentary
- Online through Aug. 31: Exhibit:100 Years of the Women’s Vote
- Aug. 5: Far North-Virtual Listening Session
- Aug. 12: BROADCAST-Agents of Change on World Channel
- Aug. 13: Sonoma County Museum Virtual Conversations with Alicia Sanchez
- Aug. 22: WEBINAR—Securing the Vote Presentation on the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
- Aug. 25: Untold Perspectives: reinterpreting women’s suffrage from a 21st century lens online lecture and performance
- Aug. 26: UNLADYLIKE2020: Charlotta Spears Bass—Newspaper Editor, Civil Rights Crusader and First African American Woman to Run for Vice President documentary
- Aug. 29: Online Performance & Discussion: White Nights, Black Paradise
COLORADO
- Aug. 16, 30: CO-Veterans Writing Workshops Online
CONNECTICUT
- Aug. 12: New England’s Stone Walls: Stories and Conservation – Virtual Talk
- Aug. 13: The History of Dr. Wadsworth Sanitarium – Virtual Lecture
- Aug. 13: History Happy Hour! Vintage Cocktails Weekly-Virtual Program
- Aug. 18: Votes for Women via Zoom Presentation
- Aug. 18: In Her Own Words: A Dramatic Presentation
- Aug. 21: Book Voyagers Online Literacy Program
- Aug. 25: “Courage in Corsets: The Struggle to Vote” Film Discussion
- Aug. 27: Virtual Lecture: Onions and Sugar: The Connection Between Connecticut Farms and the West Indies
DELAWARE
- Aug. 6: Singing Workers: American Occupational Folk Songs Online Presentation
- Aug. 10: The State of Journalism in Delaware Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 12: Summer Book Club: ‘Olive Kitteridge’ Virtual Presentation
FLORIDA
- Aug. 18: African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement: A Panel Discussion
- Aug. 18: Democratic Dialogues with Dr. Steve Noll
- Aug. 26: NPR: Blocked from the Ballot Podcast Conversation
- Aug. 26: The Vice of Miami during the 80’s Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 26: Thoughts, Colors, and Sounds of Suffrage Virtual Presentation
GEORGIA
- Aug. 11: Bare Essentials Play Reading: “The Sunrise From The Moon” By Hannah Manikowski
- Aug. 13: Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence Documentary Q&A Session
GUAM
- August: Race & Ethnicity in the Public- A Community Conversation Series
- August: Art + Ideas Online Workshop
HAWAII
- Aug. 7-14: HIFF @ Home Summer Fest Virtual Program
- Aug. 14: Try Think: The Kindness Quality Virtual Conversation
- Aug. 28: Try Think: On Beauty Virtual Conversation
IDAHO
- Aug. 4: Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp Virtual Conversation
- Aug. 11: Native Women Writers Virtual Conversation
ILLINOIS
- Aug. 6: IL-Envisioning Justice Rapid Response Virtual Series
INDIANA
- Aug. 27: Rethinking Redlining and Segregation: Prologue to the COVID-19 Crisis Online Program
KANSAS
- Aug. 13: Facebook: Big Idea Watch Party with Ann Dean Virtual Watch Party
- Aug. 18: Online Program – The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage in Kansas
- Aug. 19: Online Grants Chat
- Aug. 21: Online Program:Portals to the Past: Meet a Buffalo Soldier – Online Program
- Aug. 22: Online Program – Researching Your Home and the People Who Lived There
- Aug. 27: Online Program – Family Man by Elinor Lipman
- Aug. 27: Online Program – Poet Laureate of Kansas: May Our Voices Ring True
- Aug. 28: Online Program – Women Wonderworkers: The Self-Made Worlds of Visionary Female Artists
- Aug. 31: Online Program – Free History: American Indians and the U.S. Census
MARYLAND
- Aug. 28: Celebrating While Black: From Juneteenth to Black August Virtual Presentation
MASSACHUSETTS
- Aug. 12: Virtual Writing for Representation Workshop with Nancy Genevieve Kohl
- Aug. 19: Reclaiming Their Voice: The Native American Vote in New Mexico and Beyond Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 19: Belva Lockwood for President: a Living History Performance with Anne Barrett Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 26: Impact of Cyberattacks and Civic Engagement Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 26: She the People: Author Visit with Jen Deaderick Virtual Presentation
MICHIGAN
- Aug. 13: Bridging Michigan: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha & Stephen Henderson in conversation Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 24: Great Michigan Read Virtual Author Tour Event
MINNESOTA
- Aug. 27: How Can We Breathe: The Mamas Virtual Presentation
MISSISSIPPI
- Aug. 6: MHC Virtual Grantwriting Workshop
- Aug. 11: Ideas on Tap: Systemic Racism in America, Part II–Education and Housing Virtual Program
MISSOURI
- Aug. 9: Science and Suffrage: the Family of Eunice Newton Foote Video Series
- Aug. 18: Presidential Elections and Campaigns: What Can We Learn From History? Part 3: Reagan and the Election of 1980 Webinar Series
- Aug. 19:Show Me Frank Lloyd Wright by Kelly Johnston Virtual Program
- Aug. 19: Growing up with the River-Chapter 4 Virtual Presentation
MONTANA
- Aug. 1:Bold Women in Montana History with Beth Judy Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 6:Humanities in the Time of COVID-19: A Virtual Town Hall with Randi Tanglen, Ph.D.
- Aug. 6:Virtual Montana Conversation: Montana Towns Then, Now, and Always with Hal Stearns
- Aug. 27:Finding Montana with Ednor Therriault Virtual Presentation
NEBRASKA
- Aug. 18: VIRTUAL EVENT: Train Songs and Tales of the Westward Rails
- Aug. 29: VIRTUAL EVENT: Fiddle Origins: From Wales to Weeping Water
NEVADA
- Aug. 6: Climate Change Hopes and Fears Online Exhibition Discussion
- Aug. 15: Nevada P.S. I Love You Postcard Workshop
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Aug. 12: Comics in World History and Cultures Online Program
- Aug. 19: New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them Online Program
- Aug. 20: Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of the Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements Online Program
NEW YORK
- Aug. 3: Curator Conversations: Indigenous History & Art Online Program
- Aug. 5: Toni Morrison: Conscience, Seer, Truthteller; A Reading & Discussion Program
- Aug. 5: Indigenous Roots: Explore the Crossroads of African American and Indigenous American Cuisine Virtual Panel Conversation
- Aug. 6: Virtual Tour of Cherry Hill
- Aug. 12: Political Art in Loisaida Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 12: Default Livestream and Q&A
- Aug. 17:Your Silence Will Not Protect You! A Reading & Discussion
- Aug. 19:Online Community Conversations
- Aug. 20:How Podcasting Brings Suffrage History to Life Online Program
- Aug. 26: Amended six-part podcast series on the 19th Amendment and struggle for equality launches
- Aug. 28:Facilitating Reading & Discussion Programs Webinar
NORTH DAKOTA
- Aug. 30: One Book One ND: Where Am I Giving? by Kelsey Timmerman Online Presentation
OKLAHOMA
- Aug. 13: The Fluidity of Power | This Land is Herland Online Program
OREGON
- Aug. 18: What Are Schools for? Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 20: Facilitation Training Online
RHODE ISLAND
- Aug. 1: Fringepvd the Providence Fringe Festival Virtual Event
- Aug. 12: Little Compton Historical Society-Virtual Annual Meeting
- Aug. 13: Ecstatic Ekphrastic Virtual Showcase
- Aug. 14: Aretha, Queen of Soul: Virtual Concert
- Aug. 14: Hand-On History: Summer Spotlight RI (A Virtual Children’s Education Series)
- Aug. 20: Podcasting 101 Online Class
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Aug. 4: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “Travel Winyah Bay: The Historic Waters of Georgetown’s Winyah Bay”
- Aug. 5: Natural History Trivia: Piedmont Edition Webinar
- Aug. 6: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “The History of the Battleship USS South Carolina, America’s First Dreadnought”
- Aug. 11: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “Continuing the March for Social and Economic Justice in Georgetown County”
- Aug. 13: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “The Gullah Dream Keeper”
- Aug. 14: Seeds of Change Virtual Event, presented by Hagood Mill Foundation
- Aug. 18: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “Indigo Girl Eliza Lucas Pinckney: One of the Most Influential Women in American History”
- Aug. 20: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “The History of Wilma’s Cottage on Sandy Island”
- Aug. 20: Middleton Place Foundation 2020 Speaker Series – Virtual Book Talk with Christopher Hendrix, “Old Southern Cookery: Mary Randolf’s Recipes from America’s First Regional Cookbook Adapted for Today’s Kitchen”
- Aug. 24: From Parlor to Politics (Virtual Show)
- Aug. 25: DigiBridge Virtual Lecture Series – “The Legacy of Georgetown’s Committee for African American History Observances (CAAHO)”
- Aug. 25: Carrie Chapman Catt (Virtual Show)
- Aug. 26: UNLADYLIKE2020 – Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass Short Film
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Aug. 18: The 1862 U.S.-Dakota War Through Sarah Wakefield’s Eyes, Spearfish Virtual Program
- Aug. 26: OBSD 2020 Tour w/author Megan Phelps-Roper Virtual Program
UTAH
- Aug. 4: Stories of Utah’s Opioid Crisis- Davis County Virtual Conversation
- Aug. 20: The Greatest Generation Reading Discussion Program
- Aug. 27: Citizen Soldiers Reading Discussion Program
VERMONT
- Aug. 5: *DIGITAL* Bearing Witness and Endurance of Voice: The Legacy of Lucy Terry Prince Virtual Event
- Aug. 6: *DIGITAL* A History of the Concept of Race Virtual Event
- Aug. 13: *DIGITAL* Book Discussion: Berlin, City of Stone by Jason Lutes
- Aug. 19: *DIGITAL* Women’s Suffrage: Moral Advancement or Politics as Usual? Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 25: *DIGITAL* Book Discussion: A Brother’s Blood by Michael White
- Aug. 26: *DIGITAL* Democracy, Social Change, and Representation in N’dakinna (Our Homeland) Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 28: **Digital Only** Book Discussion: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
VIRGINIA
- Aug. 12: Colonial Milling & Brewing Virtual Tour and Lecture
- Aug. 13: Race for Profit Webinar
- Aug. 18: In West Mills Webinar
- Aug. 20: Before We Forget Webinar
- Aug. 25: Winter Counts Webinar
- Aug. 25: African American Foodways Cooking Demonstration Virtual Program
WASHINGTON
- Aug. 3: WA-ONLINE: What Do Sports Teach Our Kids? Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 3: WA-ONLINE: Tangled: Why Your Hair Matters to Society Interactive Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 4: WA-ONLINE: What’s Age Got to Do with It? Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 4: WA-ONLINE: What Your Home Says about the World Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 4: WA-ONLINE: Heating Up: The Ethics of Climate Change Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 9: WA-ONLINE: Let It Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion Virtual Program
- Aug. 11: WA-ONLINE: Washington on Wheels: Odd and Innovative Transportation Ideas from the Pacific Northwest Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 11: WA-ONLINE: From Mexican to Mexican-American: A Family Immigration Story Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 11: WA-ONLINE: Higher Power: The History of Evangelicals in American Politics Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 11: WA-ONLINE: Hacking Democracy: What Social Media is Doing to US Politics Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 13: WA- ONLINE: Sticky Subject: The History and Culture of Sugar Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 17: WA-ONLINE: Comic-Book Reality Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 18: WA-ONLINE: From Homer to #hashtags: Our Changing Language Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 18: WA-ONLINE: Should I Still Watch This Show? Pop Culture in the #MeToo Era Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 25: WA-ONLINE: Is Truth Really Dead in America? Virtual Presentation
WASHINGTON DC
- Aug. 25: Online Intro Workshop 1: DC Oral History Collaborative (must attend all 3 sessions)
WYOMING
- Aug. 11, 18, 25: Silent Book Club Virtual Presentation
- Aug. 20 Think & Drink Virtual Program