- $6,000
General Preservation Assessment of the Rare Book Collection of the Library of the Leo Baeck Institute
Recipient: Evers, Renate (New York, NY 10011 USA) in affiliation with Leo Baeck Institute, Inc. (New York, NY 10021 USA)
Goal: A preservation assessment of a collection of approximately 5,000 rare books, primarily in the field of German Judaica, and the purchase of protective boxes for 21 16th-century books in the collection.
Description: The grant would support two activities. The first activity would be the overall preservation assessment of the rare book collection of the Leo Baeck Institute. This assessment would be used to prepare short term and long term recommendations and guidance for preservation, housing, and environmental conditions. This assessment will be conducted by the Book Conservator Nelly Balloffet of Paper Star Associates, Inc., Ossining, NY, a company for book and paper conservation and library services. The second activity that the grant would support is the purchase of protective boxes for the rarest books in the collection, which were published between 1501 and 1597, in many cases the only copies in the United States.
Grant: 199500 / PG-50756-10, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2010 - $162,029
The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and a European World Economy
Recipient: Koot, Gerard M (N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA) in affiliation with University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (North Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA)
Goal: A five-week summer seminar for fifteen school teachers, to be held in Great Britain and the Netherlands, on the evolution of modern economic systems in Europe.
Description: The purpose of this five-week NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the Historical Institute in London and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar is to investigate how a region of northwest Europe, centered on the North Sea, acquired the characteristics that historians have labeled modern. We will study how the national economy of the Dutch Republic rose to dominance in the new European world-economy of the seventeenth century, how Britain acquired this supremacy in the eighteenth century, and how it transformed itself to become the first industrial nation. Using a comparative method, we will study contemporary accounts, historical documents, and seminal historical interpretations. We will also visit some of the key places that experienced this world-historical transformation.
Grant: 191928 / FV-50169-08, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2008 - $118,116
Making Sense of the Reformation
Recipient: Maag, Karin Yvonne (Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA) in affiliation with Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI 49506 USA)
Goal: A three-week institute for twenty-five school teachers on the Reformation.
Description: This three week summer institute for high school teachers, to be held at the Meeter Center at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, from June 29 to July 17, 2009, will enable high school instructors from around the country to engage with the best and most accessible scholarship on the Reformation and to develop teaching materials that help their students make sense of the Reformation. The three key topics to be dealt with in the institute are belief systems as expressed by the Reformation's different confessional groups (Catholic, Lutheran, Anabaptist and Reformed); practices (worship, church discipline and outreach); and conflicts and resolutions (between civil and religious powers, different branches of the Christian church, or within confessional groups). Participants will interact with experts in the field and will build portfolios of aural, visual and written primary sources to stimulate class discussion and enrich their students' understanding of the Reformation era's significance.
Grant: 192015 / ES-50253-08, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2008 - $182,245
The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West
Recipient: Catlos, Brian A (Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Cruz
Goal: A four-week institute for twenty-four college and university teachers in Barcelona to examine the formative role of medieval Mediterranean culture in the emergence of the pre-modern West.
Description: This four-week Summer Institute examines the crucial role of the Mediterranean, c. 1100?1500, in the emergence of the West. As the site of intellectual, technological, commercial and cultural interchange between three continents and the three great monotheisms, the medieval Mediterranean has recently been the object of innovative scholarship, in a number of disciplines, shifting focus from the internal structure and development of discrete political states, ethnic or religious groups, and traditions to a study of their interconnectedness and interaction. Sited in Barcelona, an ideal location for such an undertaking, our Institute will focus on the exchange and circulation of people, goods, and ideas, with special attention to questions of religious and ethnic pluralisms, cultural contact, commerce and piracy, hybridity, transculturation, and the negotiation of identities from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Grant: 187151 / EH-50148-07, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 2007 - $123,043
Petrarch and Provence: Between Seclusion and the World
Recipient: Witt, Ronald G (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University
Goal: A four-week seminar for fifteen school teachers to study the writings of Petrarch on site in Provence, France.
Description: This 4-week seminar will study on location a selection of Petrarch's writings composed in Avignon and the Vaucluse. Exploration of the intimate tie between site and text will enhance appreciation of text will enhance appreciation of the texts themselves and understanding of the emotional and intellectual complexity of the father of Italian humanism.
Grant: 187021 / FV-50135-07, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2007 - $600,000
In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire
Recipient: Hunte, Karen R (Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA) in affiliation with Community Television of Southern California
Goal: Production of a three-hour documentary film series chronicling the rise and fall of Spain's global empire from the reign of Isabel and Ferdinand through the reign of Philip II (1475-1598).
Description: “In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire” will tell the story of the Spanish Empire, which at its peak encircled the globe. This documentary series will will look past the oft-told tales of Columbus and the conquistadors and explore the epic challenges empire posed to the Spanish and to the peoples it encountered. We will explore in depth the encounter of the New World and the Old, how they dramatically interacted and changed each other. We will look into the lives of the world-class rulers of the time as well as the stories of a number of people from different social backgrounds. The stories of faith, empire and conquest will combine to form the compelling saga of “In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire.”
Grant: 181433 / TI-50025-06, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production, Year Awarded: 2006 - $190,000
Making the History of 1989: Sources and Narratives of the Fall of Communism
Recipient: Kelly, T. Mills (Fairfax, VA 20110-2805 USA) in affiliation with George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030 USA)
Goal: The development of a website for teaching about 1989 and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe through a collection of primary source documents, materials on how historians use documents to create historical narratives, and teaching modules.
Grant: 181065 / EE-50370-06, Division: Education Programs, Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development, Year Awarded: 2006 - $150,000
History/Geography: Railways, Uneven Development, Cultural Change, and Globalization in France and Great Britain, 1830-1914
Recipient: Schwartz, Robert M (South Hadley, MA 01075 USA) in affiliation with Mount Holyoke College
Goal: Conference papers, scholarly articles, digital publications, and a book on the 19th-century transportation revolution in Britain and France. (36 months)
Description: An historian and two geographers join to create new understandings of the nineteenth-century transport revolution and its effects in France and Great Britain. The first comparative history of its kind, it brings humanistic perspectives to the use of Geographic Information System technology and existing databases. Set within patterns of change at national and international levels, it explains the impact of railways in specific communities, providing a history of lived experience and cultural change in the railway era. Using village archives, census records, newspapers, print images, photographs, poetry, and novels in addition to GIS data, it will prove a major contribution to the humanities, history, and geography.
Grant: 181524 / RZ-50577-06, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2006 - $100,000
Invisible Hands: Self-Organization in the Eighteenth Century
Recipient: Wahrman, Dror (Bloomington, IN 47405 USA) in affiliation with Indiana University, Bloomington
Goal: Preparation of a book on the significance of "self-organization" in the European Enlightenment. (24 months)
Description: Where does order come from? How are seemingly random moments of disorder accounted for? This project maps an 18th-century watershed in Western responses to these questions. It shows a repeated pattern in domains as far apart as religion and philosophy, science and economy, law and politics: a family of new ideas about the origins of order, about causality and chance. The fundamental new insight was that even if God was no longer the active guarantor of order, complex systems generated order immanently through self-organization. Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ was but one of many formulations of this new insight: it was a wide conceptual revolution that provides a new way of synthesizing many seemingly disparate themes in the 18th century.
Grant: 181564 / RZ-50617-06, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2006 - $30,000
The Man with Six Heads
Recipient: Wormser, Richard L (New York, NY 10019 USA) in affiliation with Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710 USA)
Goal: Planning for a two-part, two-hour documentary film chronicling the life and career of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1754-1838.
Description: THE MAN WITH SIX HEADS is a two-part television series that tells the dramatic and compelling story of the extraordinary French diplomat Charles Maurice Talleyrand whose career spanned from the last years of the old regime to the emergence of the modern age in France. Talleyrand served six different governments- Louis XVI, the Revolutionary Convention and Directory, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe. By examining Talleyrand's life, the programs will illuminate some of the most momentous events of European history: last days of the old "regime," the turbulence of the French Revolution, the impact of the Napoleonic era, the Congress of Vienna and the Great Peace of Europe, and the last age of kings.
Grant: 181402 / TP-50048-06, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Planning, Year Awarded: 2006 - $10,000
Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
Recipient: Grossman, Roberta (Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA) in affiliation with Katahdin Foundation (Hollywood, CA USA)
Goal: Consultation with scholars on a 90-minute documentary film about Hannah Senesh (1921-44), a Hungarian-born poet and author.
Description: "Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh" is a 90-minute documentary film about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a soldier, martyr and national heroine in Israel. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the Hungarian Holocaust, the Kibbutz Movement and the early years of Israel, the film combines a dramatic mother-daughter tale with thoughtful analysis of Hannah’s life and times, as well as the historical forces that set in motion Hannah’s perilous mission – the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust.
Grant: 182525 / TC-50016-06, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Consultation, Year Awarded: 2006 - $5,000
General Preservation Assessment of Artifact Collection
Recipient: Blanchard, Edith (Cedar Rapids, IA 52317-5904 USA) in affiliation with National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library (Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 USA)
Goal: A general preservation assessment of the museum's material culture collection, which includes 6,300 objects that enhance the understanding of Czech- and Slovak-American history and culture.
Grant: 179160 / PA-51722-06, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2006 - $266,500
Resistance: A Special Exhibition about Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
Recipient: Levine, Louis D (Scarsdale, NY 10583 USA) in affiliation with Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York, NY 10173 USA)
Goal: Implementation of a multimedia traveling exhibition about the range of Jewish responses to each stage of Nazi oppression from 1933 to 1945.
Grant: 176486 / GM-50497-05, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2005 - $108,088
Petrarch and Provence: Between Seclusion and the World
Recipient: Witt, Ronald G (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University
Goal: A four-week seminar for fifteen school teachers to study the writings of Petrarch on site in Provence, France.
Description: This 4-week seminar will study on location a selection of Petrarch's writings composed in Avignon and the Vaucluse. Exploration of the intimate tie between site and text will enhance appreciation of the texts themselves and understanding of the emotional and intellectual complexity of the father of Italian humanism.
Grant: 176804 / FV-50069-05, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2005 - $72,324
In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire
Recipient: Byker, Carl (Los Angeles, CA 90026 USA) in affiliation with Community Television of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA)
Goal: Scripting of a three-part, three-hour documentary film series chronicling the rise and fall of Spain's global empire from the reign of Isabel and Ferdinand through the reign of Philip II.
Description: "In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire" will explore the story of the first truly global superpower as it struggles with the blessings and burdens of incredible wealth and power. It is a story of lofty moral goals and ruthless pragmatism, of personal triumph and communal tragedy. A few of the themes are how the Spanish Empire was driven by faith, how its discoveries transformed Europe and the New World, the twin rising of religion and nationalism, and the impact of all this on the men and women of the time.
Grant: 176072 / GN-50570-05, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2005 - $10,000
The Man with Six Heads: The Life and Times of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Recipient: Wormser, Richard L (New York, NY 10019 USA) in affiliation with Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710 USA)
Goal: Consultation with scholars to develop Part One of a two-part television documentary chronicling the life and times of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1832).
Description: The Man With Six Heads tells the highly dramatic story of the fall of the ancien regime of France, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and the emergence of modern Europe through the life and adventures of Charles-Maurice Talleyrand, the foremost diplomat of his time. Talleyrand served six different regimes and participated in every major political event that occurred in France during the turbulent period between 1780-1815. Although hated by many as corrupt and amoral, Talleyrand was a visionary who tried to create a liberal, modern Europe, with France at the center, where trade replaced conquest and peace reigned between nations.
Grant: 177089 / GN-50662-05, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2005 - $119,949
Reconsidering Italy's Fascist Past
Recipient: Snowden, Frank M (New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA) in affiliation with American Academy in Rome (New York, NY 10022 USA)
Goal: A six-week seminar for college teachers to examine the full range of scholarly views on Mussolini and Italian Fascism, using the archival and material evidence available in Rome.
Grant: 171931 / FS-50057-04, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2004 - $10,000
In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire
Recipient: Byker, Carl (Los Angeles, CA 90026 USA) in affiliation with Community Television of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA)
Goal: Consultation with scholars on a three-hour television documentary series chronicling the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire, from the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel through the end of Philip II's reign.
Description: “In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire” will explore the Spanish Empire, the first truly global superpower, as it struggles with the blessings and burdens of incredible wealth and power. It is a story of lofty moral goals and ruthless pragmatism, of personal triumph and communal guilt. Above all, it is a timeless tale of human beings wrestling with what it means to be “civilized.” A few of the themes include: the ways in which the economies of Spain and Europe were interlinked to the exploitation of the New World, the twin rising of religion and nationalism, the Inquisition and its effects, and finally the dramatic impact of Spain’s empire on everything from food and clothing to art and architecture.
Grant: 172121 / GN-50486-04, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2004 - $600,000
The Rape of Europa
Recipient: Cohen, Bonni C (San Francisco, CA 94103 USA) in affiliation with Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland, OR 97219 USA)
Goal: Production of a two-hour documentary television program about the systematic theft, deliberate destruction, and survival of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II.
Grant: 164350 / GN-50016-03, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2003 - $101,518
Petrarch and Provence: Between Seclusion and the World
Recipient: Witt, Ronald G (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University
Goal: A four-week summer institute for fifteen school teachers to study Petrarch in Provence, France.
Grant: 165448 / FV-50035-03, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2003 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category European History; items 1-21 of 252 with a total funding of $2,964,812.