Silver Lake Regional School District
National Endowment for Humanities
We the People Picturing America Bookshelf
The Silver Lake Regional High School and Middle School are two of the 4,000 libraries across the country selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA) to receive free hardcover editions of 22 classic books as part of the
We the People Bookshelf grant program. The theme of this year's Bookshelf is "Picturing America."
The We the People Bookshelf on "Picturing America" contains the following books:
The award is part of the NEH’s We the People initiative, which supports projects that strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Selected public and school libraries in all 50 states each will receive a set of the 22 books (including Spanish translations of three of the titles and two bonus titles), posters, bookmarks, bookplates from the NEH and the ALA, and access to online planning and promotional materials. Since 2003, NEH has awarded 13,000 We the People Bookshelf grants to school and public libraries across the country.
For more information about the We the People Bookshelf project,
please visit http://publicprograms.ala.org/bookshelf. or http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/
April 29, 2009 Silver Lake Regional School District