Monuments Men Foundation Pilot Teacher Training Workshop

Recipient: Edsel, Robert M (Dallas, TX 75207 USA) in affiliation with Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art (Dallas, TX 75219 USA)

Goal: The applicant has requested a Chairman's grant of $30,00 to support the design and implementation of a teacher training workshop, in-person and on-line, focusing on the history of the Monuments Men, who were charged with preserving cultural treasures during World War II. The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which in 2007 received the National Humanities Medal, will build on the PBS documentary film The Rape of Europa and later programs that depict the labors, during time of war, of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, and others trained in preservation of cultural assets. As the World War II generation passes, the Foundation has spearheaded the collection of relevant (and fascinating) memoirs, first-hand accounts, histories, images, and videos. It has already lined up educators who can bring the work of the Monuments Men into the lives of schoolchildren as well as the public. The Foundation will use the Chairman's Grant to run a pilot teacher workshop in Dallas, Texas, which

Description: Establish a pilot program workshop for school educators, grades 6 through college, to learn about the work of the Monuments Men of WWII and demonstrate how their legacy ansd remarkable stories can be utilized in the classroom.

Grant: 194800 / EZ-50278-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Lincoln and Leadership

Recipient: Mitnick, Barbara (Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA) in affiliation with Abraham Lincoln Foundation

Goal: The applicant has requested a Chairman's grant of $30,000 to support symposium, Lincoln and Leadership, as part of a year-long bicentennial celebration of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The symposium will take place on April 18, 2009, at the historic Union League in Center City Philadelphia, which possesses a major collection of Lincolniana that will be displayed through the bicentennial year. The symposium will be free and open to the public and focus on Lincoln's far-reaching moral, political, and military leadership. A full marketing plan assures that the 300-seat auditorium will be filled by advance reservation. The symposium will feature prominent historians of the subject, including James McPherson of Princeton University and Randall Miller of St. Joseph's University (both confirmed). Mark Neely of Penn State University and Harry Stout of Yale University both invited). Barbara Mitnick, a member of the President's Committee on Arts & Humanities, will serve as project manager. The NEH Chairman's Gr

Description: Scholarly Symposium "Lincoln as Leader"

Grant: 196326 / EZ-50280-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Operations Bridge Funding

Recipient: Clark, E. Christopher (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

Goal: The Association of Literary Scholars & Critics requested a Chairman's grant of $30,000 to support bridging funds in the Association's current fiscal year. The applicant's programs support literature, literary scholarship, teaching, literacy, and public outreach. It holds annual conferences and publishes a journal, Literary Imagination, in cooperation with Oxford University Press. The ALSC encourage the reading and study, and also the writing, of literature in a culturally vital, pluralistic manner that will appeal to the public as well as professional spheres. It reports considerable and ongoing successes in realizing its mission. However, recent cutbacks in philanthropic support have jeopardized long-term and even short-term planning. ALSC has, to its credit, used this difficult period to undergo a full systems audit, provided pro-bono by a major law firm. The NEH Chairman's Grant of $30,000 will cover expenses during a critical interim period in which new sources of support are expected to put

Grant: 196927 / EZ-50282-09,   Category: Literary Criticism,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

An Examination of the Literary and Non-Literary Texts and Approaches Used in Public High School Standard English Classes

Recipient: Stotsky, Sandra (Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA) in affiliation with University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $30,000 to fund one component of a planned 18-month humanities research project undertaken at the University of Arkansas in collaboration with the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC). This project therefore has two main purposes: to find out what major fiction and nonfiction works are currently assigned in secondary literature and history curricula in the public schools, and to formulate recommendations for strengthening secondary school literature curricula so that students are well prepared for authentic college-level courses. The NEH Chairman's Grant of $30,000 will defray most of the estimated $35,000 cost of retaining a respected polling firm to contact a random stratified national sample of teachers and gather information in response to a jointly prepared questionnaire.

Description: This proposal has two major purposes: 1. To find out what whole text fiction and non-fiction works are currently assigned in secondary literature curricula in public schools. 2. To formulate recommendations for strengthening secondary school literature curricula so that students are better prepared for authentic college-level English courses.

Grant: 196928 / EZ-50283-09,   Category: Literary Criticism,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Conferences on the State of the Humanities in Higher Education

Recipient: Smith, Christian (Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA) in affiliation with University of Notre Dame

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $29,960 to support a colloquium and planning conference on the reinvigoration of the humanities in higher education, with particular attention to classical, religious, and Renaissance traditions of humanism. The Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Notre Dame will respond to calls from diverse academic constituencies for renewed attention to the common good. The planning conference will bring together humanists, scientists, and religious believers, who seldom communicate. The goals of the conference will be to organize further conferences and symposia on the state of the humanities in higher education and the role of the humanities in democracy and in the development of conceptions of the common good. A publicity strategy through academic and general public venues will be developed, as well as academic outreach to administrators and trustees; and a fundraising plan will be effectuated. The NEH Chairman's Grant of $29,960 will cover the budge

Description: This grant is to fund a colloquium and planning conference intended to stimulate a national debate on the troubled state of the humanities in higher education, the implications for a democratic society and a humane culture and how a humanism rooted in the classical, religious, and Renaissance traditions can be reinvigorated and restored to a central place in higher education.

Grant: 196934 / EZ-50285-09,   Category: Sociology,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

America's Founding Ideas

Recipient: Sheehan, Colleen A (Villanova, PA 19087 USA) in affiliation with Villanova University (Villanova, PA 19085 USA)

Goal: The Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University requested a Chairman's grant of $29,300 to support a special series of lectures on "America's Founding Ideas." The Ryan Center is dedicated to the study of America's founding principles and institutions, the thought of founders and leading political thinkers such as Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Lincoln, and their intellectual forebears such as Aristotle, Montesquieu, and Locke. Central concerns of Ryan Center programs are human rights, constitutionalism, political institutions, civil, economic, and religious freedom, democracy, and moral self-government. The special series envisioned includes a major two-day national conference on Abraham Lincoln in the bicentennial year of his birth, featuring prominent scholars and held at the Union League in Philadelphia and at Villanova University. Also included will be a lecture on George Washington as America's "first progressive" and a roundtable discu

Description: A series on "America's Founding Ideas" will consist of: a major national 2-day conference on Abraham Lincoln, February 12 -13 2009; a public lecture on "George Washington: America's First Progressive" by William B. Allen; public lectures/roundtable discussion on "James Madison: Scholar and Statesman"

Grant: 196932 / EZ-50284-09,   Category: Political Science,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Shakespeare Competition - Humanities Competition

Recipient: Olshaker, Mark (Washington, DC 20037 USA) in affiliation with English-Speaking Union of the United States (Washington, DC 20037-8068 USA)

Goal: The applicant has requested a Chairman's grant of $29,200 to support and expand the humanities content for the English-Speaking Union's (ESU) annual 2009 and 2010 Shakespeare Competition for the Nation's Capital area for high school students. Additionally, the grant would allow the ESU to launch an outreach effort to traditionally underserved student populations. The English-Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition requires performance of a speech or soliloquy and a sonnet by the Bard. To prepare, student read the entire play from which his or her choice is made and do research into Elizabethan times and the context of the play in its day. Preparation for the sonnet is a careful exercise in literary interpretation. Before students can perform, they have to understand. Unlike the Folger's annual Secondary School Shakespeare Festival, the ESU competition is keyed to individuals rather than acting groups, and stresses individual preparation and scholarship. The ESU Shakespeare Competition has succeeded in attract

Description: The project will expand the already successful English Speaking Union Annual Shakespeare competition with humanities programs for students and teachers.

Grant: 196307 / EZ-50279-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Shakespeare Fellows' Project

Recipient: Giardina, Joseph (New York, NY 10014 USA) in affiliation with Theatre for a New Audience (New York, NY 10706 USA)

Goal: A two-week summer workshop for forty New York City classroom teachers (grades 5-12) and four teaching artists, with two follow-up weekend sessions, on Shakespeare's language and dramatic art through study of the theme of love in three plays by the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Description: Theatre for a New Audience seeks support for its Shakespeare Fellows' Project - an intensive development program focusing on Shakespeare and consisting of a two-week summer seminar and two one-day weekend workshops in the fall and spring. The Project was developed to serve public and private school teachers in the New York City area. Guided by Colmubia University professor David Scott Kastan, the program will be led by Julie Crawford (Columbia University), Mario DiGangi (Lehman College/CUNY Graduate Center), William Fisher (Lehman College/CUNY Graduate Center) and Kim Hill (Barnard College). This year the workshop will expand to provide 40 teachers and four teaching artists with advanced skills to identify and understand the language, themes and context of Shakespeare's plays. This year, participants will study three plays ("Romeo and Juliet" "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "Antony and Cleopatra") and compare and constrast how each work treats its central theme of love.

Grant: 189985 / EZ-50245-08,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Teaching Jazz as American Culture

Recipient: Early, Gerald (St. Louis, MO 63130 USA) in affiliation with Washington University

Goal: A workshop series for twenty St. Louis-area high school and middle school teachers on the history and cultural significance of jazz in America.

Description: ?Teaching Jazz as American Culture? Faculty Humanities Workshop is a fresh reconfiguration of the successful NEH institutes that the Center for the Humanities at Washington University administered on the same subject in the summers of 2005 and 2007. It aims to introduce middle and high school teachers to the ways that interdisciplinary approaches to popular music, specifically jazz, can enrich a variety of humanities subjects. The primary goal of the Workshop is to help teachers understand how, through the study of the social, cultural, technical, and aesthetic history of a major American musical genre, jazz, they can reconfigure aspects of teaching American history, literature, art, and music while broadening students? understanding of the political, social, and commercial impact that an artistic movement can have.

Grant: 189987 / EZ-50247-08,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Suffrage Centennial Workshop

Recipient: Durrant, Elisha (Spokane, WA 99201 USA) in affiliation with Inland Northwest Community Access Network (TINCAN)

Goal: An eighteen-month workshop series for twenty secondary school teachers on the history of the women's suffrage movement in Washington State.

Description: The centennial of Washington State's passage of women's sufferage provides an opportunity for teachers and students to understand the factors that led to the adoption of women's right to vote ten years prior to the national adoption of women's suffrage. Twenty teachers will participate in a series of seminars over 18 months. The seminars will be led by visiting scholars. and will explore the relationship between Washington's struggle for suffrage to the national effort, including social, cultural, economic, and political factors.

Grant: 189977 / EZ-50237-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

2008 Tour of Teaching Shakespeare Institutes

Recipient: LoMonico, Michael (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library

Goal: Two regional one-week workshops, serving thirty teachers in Lincoln, Nebraska, and another thirty in the greater Atlanta area, coupling performance-based and primary source approaches to the teaching of two plays of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

Description: In the summer of 2008, the Folger Shakespeare Library will organize and offer week-long faculty humanities workshops on Teaching Shakespeare in Lincoln, Nebraska and Greater Atlanta, Georgia. We are coordinating these workshops for secondary school teachers of English, drama, and humanities with local partners, including the University of Nebraska?Lincoln, the Georgia Council of Teachers of English, and Kennesaw State University in Georgia. The 2008 tour allows us to expand the institutes to the Southeastern and Midwest United States?areas where the Folger has had little reach in the past. We ask the National Endowment for the Humanities to consider a grant of $68,845 to support this regional tour of Teaching Shakespeare institutes.

Grant: 189972 / EZ-50232-08,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Abraham Lincoln and Presidential Power

Recipient: Hawkins, Callie P (Washington, DC 20036 USA) in affiliation with National Trust for Historic Preservation

Goal: A workshop series for twenty Washington, D.C., area school teachers on Abraham Lincoln's exercise of presidential power during the Civil War.

Description: This application will fund a teacher workshop entitled "Abraham Lincoln and Presidential Power", exploring how President Lincoln?s ideas and actions have shaped presidential power. The workshop will bring together twenty Washington, DC area teachers and noted scholars on Lincoln and the Civil War. The central issues to be examined in this workshop are: How did Lincoln?s ideas and actions shape presidential power? Did he shape it consciously or unconsciously? What aspects of presidential power are his lasting legacies? To understand Lincoln?s legacy and his role in shaping the Civil War and emancipation, teachers will explore the areas of civil liberties, civil rights, communication, and American ideals and values. Teachers will gain an understanding of how Lincoln?s ideas and action in these areas have greatly influenced the American presidency as we know it today.

Grant: 189988 / EZ-50248-08,   Category: American Studies,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

"Destination Freedom: Black Chicago, 1934-1954"

Recipient: Oppenheim, Lisa (Chicago, IL 60610 USA) in affiliation with Chicago Metro History Education Center

Goal: A year-long workshop series for twelve elementary and secondary school teachers on social, political, literary, and artistic developments in Chicago's African American community from 1934 to1954.

Description: "Destination Freedom: Black Chicago, 1934-1954" convenes elementary and secondary school teachers, scholars, and archivists in a study of the economic, political, social, and cultural renaissance that took root in the city in the mid-20th century. Through seminars and research sesions in the holdings of the renowed Vivian Harsh Research Collection, partiicpants will ask such questions of the sources as "How and why did the struggle for freedom, equality, and democracy manifest itself in the African American community during this time?" and "What was the significance and impact on the nation of the activities that took place in Black Chicago, 1934-1954 -- and how does it help us understand the second half of the 20th century?"

Grant: 189998 / EZ-50258-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Strategic Planning for the Future of the Historical Society

Recipient: Yerxa, Donald A (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Historical Society

Description: This grant will fund a three-day planning session for the future of the Historical Society. Officers, past presidents, and selected members of the Society's board of governors (along with other key resource people) will develop a strategic plan that will outline the vision for the society's future and include such areas as organization, membership, publications, and finances.

Grant: 194229 / EZ-50275-08,   Category: History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

A Nation of Immigrants: American Democracy and Civics Education

Recipient: Morton, Jeffrey Scott (Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA) in affiliation with Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 USA)

Description: A conference aimed at scholars, private organizations, and individuals with expertise in civics education. This four-day event will be hosted by Florida Atlantic University's Jack Miller Forum.

Grant: 194594 / EZ-50276-08,   Category: Political Science,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

rq50251War and Peace in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The Influence of Texts and Commentaries Throughout History

Recipient: Begler, Elsie (San Diego, CA 92182-6014 USA) in affiliation with San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, CA 92182 USA)

Goal: A series of workshops for fifteen school teachers (6th through 12th grade) in San Diego school districts on the complex role that religion has played in shaping the causes and conduct of war, as well as in laying the foundations for peace.

Description: This project will engage middle and high school history teachers in an intellectually rigorous exploration of the history of religious thinking on war and peace in the three monotheistic tradisions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Grant: 189982 / EZ-50242-08,   Category: History of Religion,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

The 23rd Annual Lincoln Colloguium: Commemorating the 150th Annniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Recipient: Wilson, Douglas L (Galesburg, IL 61401 USA) in affiliation with Knox College

Description: Nationally recognized Lincoln scholars present a colloquium sponsored by Knox College's Lincoln Studies Center on the significance of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. This year's Lincoln Colloquium commemorates the 150th anniversary of those events, and will take place at Knox College, site of the original building remaining from the 1858 debates. The program features two-time Lincoln prize winners Dr. Douglas L. Wilson and Allen Guelzo, Pulitzer Prize winners James M. McPherson and Gary Wills, as well as David Zarefsky and Rodney Davis.

Grant: 194761 / EZ-50277-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Summer Institute for Teachers Anniversary Forum

Recipient: Allums, Claudia (Dallas, TX 75201 USA) in affiliation with Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

Description: A forum of speakers and presentations honoring and exploring the value of the humanities in renewing and deepening the teacher's professional growth.

Grant: 192439 / EZ-50274-08,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

American Cities and Public Spaces

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A residential program at the Library of Congress for ten community college humanities faculty members, during which the latter would undertake guided research and participate in lecture/discussion sessions around the topic of American cities and public spaces.

Description: The Community College Humanities Association, in colloboration with the Office of Scholarly Programs at the Library of Congress, will offer to ten competitively selected community college humanities faculty from across the United States the opportunity to conduct systematic, guided research at the Library of Congress on individual projects within the general topic of "American Cities and Public Spaces." The project will consist of three periods of residence in Washington, D.C.: from June 3 through June 16, 2007; from January 13 rhrough January 19, 2008: and from June 1 through June 6, 2008. Participants will have support for a total of twenty-three research days the Library of Congress over a 13-month period. Three distinguished scholars in the fields of urban history and cultural studes serve as Institute faculty: Thomas Bender (NYU), Clement Price (Rutgers), and Mary Ryan (Johns Hopkins). LOC professional staff will serve as on-site research consultants.

Grant: 185031 / EZ-50196-07,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

The Examined Life Integrating Philosophy into Secondary Education

Recipient: Kapus, Jerry (Menomonie, WI 54751 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Stout

Goal: A weeklong philosophy workshop for twenty high school teachers focusing on the examined life and its value.

Description: The proposed workshop will bring together twenty high school teachers from Northwest Wisconsin to enhance their understanding of philosophy and their ability to address philosophical issues in their courses as these relate to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. The workshop will be organized around the questions of what it means to live the examined life and whether the examined life should be lived. Although these are questions in ethics, the investigation of these questions also raises issues in other areas of philosophy such as political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science. The study of the workshop theme and the various areas of philosophy will take place during a one week period and during two, one-day follow up sessions.

Grant: 185000 / EZ-50165-07,   Category: Philosophy,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007