NEH on the Road: Grass Roots

Recipient: Davis, Audrey Paulette (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with Alexandria Black History Museum

Goal: Ancillary public humanities programs to accompany the NEH on the Road: Grass Roots traveling exhibition.

Grant: 201074 / MR-50066-10,   Category: Art History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: NEH on the Road,   Year Awarded: 2010

AIHEC American Indian Collections Portal

Recipient: Billy, Carrie Lynn (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Goal: The collaboration among the Autry National Center/Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Anthropological Archives, and the National Museum of Natural History to federate collection databases focused on Native American collections and share the data in new ways with tribal colleges and community members.

Description: The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), representing 37 tribal colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, proposes to collaborate with the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Natural History, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Indiana University Community Grids Laboratory, and a pilot group of Tribal Colleges to develop innovative strategies for using digital technology to make cultural material in major museums and archives available to American Indian people in more meaningful ways, facilitating locally-determined educational and research purposes.

Grant: 192144 / PK-50075-09,   Category: Archival Management and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership,   Year Awarded: 2009

Disaster Preparedness Plan for the Library and Archives at Louisiana State University, Alexandria

Recipient: Riggs, Michelle (Alexandria, LA 71302 USA) in affiliation with Louisiana State University, Alexandria (Alexandria, LA 71301 USA)

Goal: A workshop that will train library staff and campus emergency response personnel in disaster preparedness and enable them to create a disaster response plan tailored to the needs of the library, the collections of which include books, archives, manuscripts, photographs, and works of art. The grant will further support the purchase of supplies needed for the workshop.

Description: Louisiana State University at Alexandria seeks a grant from the NEH to provide funding for a workshop to prepare a disaster preparedness plan for the library and archive. Central Louisiana, and specifically LSUA, suffered damage from the catastrophic hurricanes of 2005. The university has composed an emergency plan, but the library and newly created archive do not feature in the campus' plan. This grant would enable Library Services at LSUA to attend a workshop that would facilitate the creation of a disaster preparedness plan to prevent or mitigate damage to valuable and, in some cases, irreplaceable materials in the event of a disaster, and in the purchase of supplies to aid preservation and recovery of those materials.

Grant: 193866 / PG-50502-09,   Category: Archival Management and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2009

Children's Grant

Recipient: McGrady, Michael (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with National Head Start Association (Alexandria, VA USA)

Description: The National Head Start Association with funding made available through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will enter into a partnership with the NEH and the Office of Head Start focused on a new program of arts and humanities, entitled "Picturing America: American History through Our Nation's Art." This set of 40 renderings of America's finest art include images of famous paintings, photographs, and historical objects that show the breadth of the American experience. This partnership will ensure the artwork and related informational materials will be provided to every Head Start program in the nation.

Grant: 192445 / BA-50011-08,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Fight For Freedom

Recipient: Geraghty, Joseph John (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with Close Up Foundation

Goal: Planning of a three-part documentary film on the participation of African American soldiers in the Civil War.

Grant: 170636 / GN-50323-04,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

House Servant, Carpenter, Waterman, Smith: Enslaved African Americans in 18th-Century Alexandria

Recipient: Gulley, Pamilla J (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with Carlyle House Historic Park

Goal: To support implementation of a temporary exhibition and public programs in Carlyle House that will examine the lives of African Americans in 18th- century Virginia.

Grant: 155965 / GM-25042-93,   Category: Afro-American Studies,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1993

Oral History of Women in Journalism, 1964-80

Recipient: Moorhus, Donita M (Alexandria, VA 22310-1864 USA) in affiliation with Washington Press Club Foundation (Washington, DC 20045 USA)

Goal: To support the creation of 15 memoirs in the oral history project that will document the personal and professional lives of women in journalism whose careers evolved between 1964 and 1980.

Grant: 159305 / RC-22120-92,   Category: History,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1992

Two Centuries of African-American History in Alexandria, Virginia

Recipient: Gulley, Pamilla J (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with Carlyle House Historic Park

Goal: To support collaborative planning for a series of exhibitions and programs on African-American history at 11 institutions in Alexandria, Virginia.

Grant: 155835 / GM-24636-92,   Category: Afro-American Studies,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1992

Civil War Battlefield Guide: America's Hallowed Ground

Recipient: Kennedy, Frances H (Alexandria, VA 22304 USA) in affiliation with Conservation Fund (Arlington, VA 22209 USA)

Goal: To support the publication of a guide to the remaining Civil War battlefields in the United States.

Grant: 160863 / RP-21283-90,   Category: American History,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1990

Kate Chopin: A Woman of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Recipient: Royer, Jenny L (Alexandria, LA 71303 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern State University of Louisiana (Natchitoches, LA 71457 USA)

Goal: To support the planning of reading and discussion programs, resource materials,and an annotated bibliography on the works of Kate Chopin.

Grant: 154864 / GL-20929-89,   Category: American Literature,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1989

Hamilton, Jefferson and the Federalist-Republican Conflict

Recipient: Hackler, Tim (Alexandria, VA 22307 USA) in affiliation with American History Media Center (Washington, DC 20005 USA)

Goal: To support planning for a 60-minute documentary with two one-man dramatic per- formances exploring the philosophical differences between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

Grant: 156536 / GN-23177-87,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1987

Plan to Develop Docent Materials for the Interpretation of Carlyle House (Planning)

Recipient: Borchardt, Susan A (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority

Goal: To support a series of interpretive docent materials, lectures, house tours, and other public programs which will examine the history of the Carlyle House and the life of the Carlyle family, household management in the 18th century, and the roles of a gentleman and his wife in an upper middle class society.

Grant: 134118 / GM-21757-84,   Category: History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1984

Ph.D. in American Literature

Recipient: Wu, Wei-hsiung K (Alexandria, VA 22308-0000 USA) in affiliation with Bowie State University (Bowie, MD 20715 USA)

Grant: 128276 / FG-20033-83,   Category: American Literature,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Faculty Graduate Study Program for HBCUs,   Year Awarded: 1983

Planning for an Exhibition on Alexandria's History: Interpretation of Archaeological Artifacts (Planning)

Recipient: Twitchell, Dory P (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with City of Alexandria (Alexandria, VA 22313 USA)

Goal: To support the planning of a permanent exhibit focusing on the lives of severalfamilies in Alexandria, Virginia, to convey the city's history from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Grant: 134048 / GM-21528-83,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1983

Gadsby's Tavern Museum Interpretive Planning

Recipient: Nold, Carl R (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with City of Alexandria (Alexandria, VA 22313 USA)

Goal: To support planning of an interpretive program on the social history of Gadsby's Tavern from 1770 to 1810, and its role in the city's history.

Grant: 133963 / GM-20713-82,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1982

Art History and Local History as Represented by Local Downtown Buildings

Recipient: Teeter, Linda (Alexandria, LA 71301 USA) in affiliation with Alexandria Museum of Art (Alexandria, LA 71309-1028 USA)

Goal: To support a project in which youth will learn about local and art history through research into the architectural styles of downtown Alexandria buildings. They will also explore how these styles fit into the national picture.

Grant: 136111 / GZ-21273-82,   Category: Architecture,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Humanities Projects for Youth,   Year Awarded: 1982

Gum Springs: Reflections of a Living Legacy

Recipient: Walker, John T (Alexandria, VA 22306 USA) in affiliation with Saunders B. Moon Community Action Assocation, Inc.

Goal: To support planning for a series of activities related to the history of Gum Springs, Virginia, a black community started by the slaves of George Washington, to include research, oral history and preparation of curriculum materials.

Grant: 136150 / GZ-21558-82,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Humanities Projects for Youth,   Year Awarded: 1982

Urban Development in North America: Status, Distance, and Material Differences in Alexandria, Va., 1750-1910.

Recipient: Cressey, Pamela J (Alexandria, VA 22313 USA) in affiliation with City of Alexandria

Goal: To support an interdisciplinary study of urban change, using methods of historical and archaeological research in the city of Alexandria, Virginia.

Grant: 139056 / RS-*1284-81,   Category: Urban Studies,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: State and Local and Regional Studies,   Year Awarded: 1981

Discovering Community through the Humanities

Recipient: Henes, Jack K (Alexandria, VA 22302 USA) in affiliation with Alexandria City Public Schools

Goal: To support training of fifteen teachers in the uses of local history resources in the Alexandria, Virginia community to improve instruction in fifth and seventh grade U.S. history classes. Proj. Director

Grant: 125206 / ES-*1931-81,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1981

Lumbee and Haliwa Oral History and their Leaders

Recipient: Scheirbeck, Helen M (Alexandria, VA 22305 USA) in affiliation with Lumbee Regional Development Association

Goal: To support the writing of the oral history of the Lumbee and Haliwa Indians by students and to develop a display about l5 tribal leaders of the past and present. Indian youth in Maryland and North Carolina will participate.

Grant: 136061 / GZ-*2102-81,   Category: Native American Studies,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Humanities Projects for Youth,   Year Awarded: 1981