Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship

Recipient: Muller, James W (Anchorage, AK 99508-4037 USA) in affiliation with Churchill Centre (Washington, DC 20036 USA)

Goal: A three-week school teacher summer institute for twenty-four participants on Winston Churchill's role in twentieth-century history, to be held in Cambridge and London, England.

Description: This Institute, a repeat of our 2008 program, is a three-pronged approach to examining the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill: a classroom experience of lectures, discussions and personal responses to the readings and films; individual research by teachers using primary documents from the Churchill Archives, Churchill College, Cambridge; and visits to major Churchill sites in Britain. Churchill was himself the product of an Anglo-American relationship: his mother was the American Jennie Jerome and his father was Lord Randolph Churchill, a son of the Duke of Marlborough. The Institute will primarily focus on Churchill's role in the major events of the twentieth century, but because he was a lifelong student of Americans and American history, his views on our country from its earliest settlers and the American Revolution to Eisenhower's role in the Suez Crisis of 1956 are pertinent to the relationship.

Grant: 197474 / ES-50306-09,   Category: British History,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

We the People Alaska

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Goal: To support grant competition, publications, lectures and public meetings related to Alaska's history and cultural heritage.

Description: We the People Alaska. Abstract:The Alaska Humanities Forum invites Alaskans to the learned teaching, study, and greater public understanding of U.S. history, culture, and democratic principles in We the People Alaska. In this project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities We the People program, the Forum encourages creative exploration of any of the many aspects of Alaska's history, culture and democracy, especially as part of the U.S. experience. Project narrative. Alaska, We the People will allow participants to explore subjects such as civic engagement, Alaska's civic history, the development and/or future of our democratic principles and participatory government, Alaska's defining experiences and heritage (espeically surrounding statehood), and the diversity of our shared political and historical culture. School-and library-based collaborative projects involving NEH's We the People 'Picturing America' program will also be considered.

Grant: 197615 / BC-50479-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America: Alaska

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Description: To provide resources to develop further programming and activities based upon the national "Pcturing America" project in Alaska. The focus of 'Picturing America: Alaska' will be to incorporate elements of regional and distinctively Alaska material (i.e. Picturing Alaska) into 'Picturing America" and will involve collaboration between the Alaska Humanities Forum and urban and rural school districts to produce materials.

Grant: 196855 / SP-50009-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: State Projects,   Year Awarded: 2009

State Humanities Program

Recipient: Hughes, Mary K (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Grant: 189492 / SO-50232-08,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: State Programs (SO),   Year Awarded: 2008

Alaska's Statehood Experience

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Goal: Historically-based projects and activities that mark Alaska's fiftieth anniversary as a state.

Description: Alaska's Statehood Experience marks Alaska's fiftieth anniversary as a state. It includes a variety of historically-based projects and activities and projects forward to today and the next fifty years of Alaska's statehood. It brings Alaskans together from all corners of the state, from diverse communities and cultures, to share our American stories and learn from each other about the meaning of being Alaskan and American.

Grant: 192150 / BC-50403-08,   Category: History,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2008

Endowment for Professional Conservator at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art

Recipient: Wolf, Patricia B (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Anchorage Museum Association

Goal: Endowment to support a full-time conservator.

Description: The Anchorage Museum Foundation requests a $300,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to be matched 3:1. The Challenge Grant and its match total $1.2 million, augmenting an existing endowed conservation fund of $500,000. The earnings from this fund will underwrite a full-time conservator in perpetuity thereby providing the financial stability to ensure the long-term impact of the position. A professional conservator will work as part of an interdisciplinary curatorial team to interpret and care for our collection, ensuring that irreplaceable items are available for the education, scholarship, advancement and enrichment of generations of museum visitors.

Grant: 181319 / CH-50344-07,   Category: Anthropology,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 2007

Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship

Recipient: Muller, James W (Anchorage, AK 99508-4037 USA) in affiliation with Churchill Centre (Washington, DC 20036 USA)

Goal: A three-week summer institute in Great Britain for twenty-four teachers on the Anglo-American relationship in the 20th century as seen through the life of Winston Churchill.

Description: This three-week Institute for twenty-four teachers, organized by The Churchill Centre in Washington, D.C., meets for two weeks in Cambridge, England, at the Churchill Archives Centre and for one week in London at Goodenough College. Participants examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute includes lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites. Churchill was the product of an Anglo-American relationship: his mother was the American Jennie Jerome and his father was Lord Randolph Churchill, son of the Duke of Marlborough. The Institute focuses on Churchill's role in major events of the twentieth century, but his views as a lifelong student of American history, from our earliest settlers and the American Revolution to Eisenhower's role in the Suez Crisis, illuminate the relationship.

Grant: 187114 / ES-50208-07,   Category: History,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

We the People: the March to Alaska Statehood

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Goal: To support radio programming, institutes for teachers, and grants for local projects, all related to important themes and topics in Alaska's history in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of Alaska's statehood.

Description: ‘Alaska’s March to Statehood’ marks Alaska’s fiftieth anniversary as a state, programming civic and historical projects around that event. It will increase awareness of the history of Alaska and statehood, encouraging civic reflection on this evolving identity. It will bring together Alaskans from all corners, from diverse cultures and communities, calling on scholars and laypeople, sourdoughs and cheechakos, Native and new, to share their American stories and learn history from each other.

Grant: 189186 / BC-50385-07,   Category: History,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2007

Alaska's March To Statehood:

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Goal: an exploration of Alaskan statehood by research and study, a partnership with Alaska Public Radio to gather and broadcast personal narratives, and an interactive game to complement the Alaska History and Cultural Studies curriculum

Description: Alaska celebrates its 50th Anniversary of Statehood July 7, 2008 through January 3, 2009. This program supports research and scholarship; builds a tool for improving Alaskan understanding of their history; and gives everyday Alaskans a chance to tell their personal story and hear the stories of other Alaskans. It explores the Statehood experience in three ways. It examines the statehood experience; starts a statewide discussion about being Alaskan; and builds a tool to explore Alaska history.

Grant: 182689 / BC-50313-06,   Category: History,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2006

Jazz Legacy: An American Art Form

Recipient: Courtney, Ralph (Anchorage, AK 99508 USA) in affiliation with University of Alaska, Anchorage (Anchorage, AK 99504 USA)

Goal: Implementation of a film viewing and discussion program about the history and interpretation of jazz.

Grant: 182405 / LI-50176-06,   Category: Arts History & Criticism,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries Implementation,   Year Awarded: 2006

State Humanities Program

Recipient: Hughes, Mary K (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Grant: 174193 / SO-50061-05,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: State Programs (SO),   Year Awarded: 2005

Churchill and America

Recipient: Muller, James W (Anchorage, AK 99508-4037 USA) in affiliation with Ashland University (Ashland, OH 44805 USA)

Goal: A two-week institute for thirty high school teachers on Winston S. Churchill, his political career, his relationship with America, and his continuing legacy.

Description: The Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University and the Churchill Centre will collaborate to conduct an intensive two-week institute, providing 30 high school teachers with an understanding of the major political and historical events in which Churchill was involved and the ongoing influence of his words and deeds. Through a combination of lectures and seminar discussions based on primary sources, the participants will explore Churchill’s ongoing relationship with the U.S. and ways in which they can employ the primary sources in their own classrooms, not only to understand twentieth-century history and historical methods, but also to illuminate Anglo-American political principles and to convey their importance to students.

Grant: 176849 / ES-50105-05,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2005

Alaska's March to Statehood: Celebrating the Constitution

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Goal: Projects that mark the 50th Anniversary of Alaska statehood including the Alaska Constitutional Convention Almanac Radio Broadcast series, a convention for high-school and college students and a re-grant program.

Description: The year 2009 marks the 50th Anniversary of Alaska Statehood. A landmark event preceeding Statehood was the Alaska Constitutional Convention. It spanned 76 days from November 8, 1955 until February 6, 1956. Plans to celebrate this landmark occasion are cropping up across the state. Through the 2005 We The People Initiative, the Alaska Humanities Forum aims to insure that these celebrations enjoy rich historical content in many formats, targeting Alaskans of all ages.

Grant: 177255 / BC-50260-05,   Category: History,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2005

Planning for a New Alaska Gallery

Recipient: Knapp, Marilyn R (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Anchorage Museum Association

Goal: Planning for a reinstallation of the museum's galleries that deal with Alaska history, with a special focus on the relationship between the people and the geographic place.

Grant: 174669 / GM-50398-05,   Category: History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2005

Alaska's Built Environment: The Enduring Impact of World War II Quonset Huts

Recipient: Chiei, Christopher M (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Anchorage Museum Association

Goal: Implementation of an exhibition, publication, and website interpreting the impact of Quonset huts on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Grant: 171660 / GM-50256-04,   Category: Architecture,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

Alaska's March to Statehood: The Crafting of a Constitution

Recipient: Kimura, Gregory W (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Goal: A series of activities that explore the history of Alaska's 50 years of statehood including a teacher's institute, a history curriculum unit, a public lecture series, radio broadcasts and a grant program.

Description: In 2009 Alaska celebrates 50 years of Statehood. Over the next five years the Alaska Humanities Forum will re-educate Alaskans about “The March to Statehood”: the story of how a vast, trackless territory with a tiny, determined diverse population joins America. We begin in 2004 with an exploration of the Alaska Constitution. Many scholars claim it is the nation’s culminating state governance document. This education effort will engage, perhaps in their final public service, the energies of a dwindling number of Alaska’s founders, the living "Heroes of History" still with us today.

Grant: 172398 / BC-50211-04,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2004

State Humanities Program

Recipient: Owens, Tadd (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum

Grant: 162551 / SO-21753-02,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: State Programs (SO),   Year Awarded: 2002

Native Program Fund.

Recipient: Sallee, Jaclyn (Anchorage, AK 99508 USA) in affiliation with Koahnic Broadcast Corporation

Goal: Endowment for Native American audio programming to be distributed nationally.

Grant: 141507 / CH-20868-02,   Category: Native American Studies,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 2002

Quonset: The Ongoing History of Quonset Huts in Alaska

Recipient: Chiei, Christopher M (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Design Forum (Anchorage, AK 99510 USA)

Goal: Consultation with scholars and a museum curator to plan a traveling exhibition, Web site and book exploring the impact of Quonset huts on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Grant: 157791 / HP-30002-02,   Category: Architecture,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Consultation Grants (ER Title Ib),   Year Awarded: 2002

Tanax Amaix: Interpretive Exhibit Development Project for Aleut Community of Saint Paul

Recipient: Bourdukofsky, Chauncina (Anchorage, AK 99503 USA) in affiliation with TDX Foundation

Goal: Planning for a local exhibition, traveling exhibition, and a website on the history and heritage of the Aleuts of Saint Paul, in the Pribiloff Islands.

Grant: 156366 / GM-26316-01,   Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2001