City of Brotherly Love:
Religious Freedom and the Founding of the Nation in Philadelphia
Institute for K-12 Educators
Fall 2025
UPDATE: NEH Funding was terminated for the original summer program, but additional funding is being pursued to continue a version of the institute in the fall of 2025. Stay tuned for details!
For information on participant eligibility and expectations, please review the details under our “Apply” tab.
Photo Credit (Top of Page): (Left) “Painting of the Old Academy” (preaching hall and religious school on left, erected in 1740). Original watercolor painting by David McNeely Stauffer, 31.5 x 25.5, 1845, cropped. Free Library of Philadelphia, Castner Scrapbook v.17, Education 1, page 57, Print and Picture Collection. (Middle) Interior altar of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul (Philadelphia, PA), Wikipedia Commons Free use, 2011, cropped for middle third. (Right)