In 2015, the Hampsong Foundation announced a new educational initiative based on Song of America, our multi-faceted project exploring the history of American culture through classic song—-poetry set to music. During the 2015-2016 school year, the Hampsong Foundation led Song of America educator workshops in Ann Arbor, New York City, and Los Angeles, as well as special events in Chicago and San Francisco.

Song of America offers high-quality online resources, including a 13-part radio series and the Song of America database (http://songofamerica.net), a catalogue of information and supplementary materials on American composers, poets, and songs, all free of cost. We are also developing a dedicated “For Educators” section on Song of America.

We invite you to listen to these programs online and to explore how one or all of them could enhance teaching and learning in your K-12 or college-level classrooms. We look forward to working with teachers to develop strategies to integrate these materials into language arts, history, civics, and other humanities classes, using classic song as the gateway for a richer knowledge of the cultures, languages, peoples, and events that have shaped American life.

For more information and updates on this exciting initiative, join our mailing list. You can sign up here: http://hampsongfoundation.org/newsletter/. You can also email us at [email protected] with specific questions.