- $260,004
Kansas Digital Newspaper Project
Recipient: Church, Michael A (Topeka, KS 66615-1099 USA) in affiliation with Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka, KS 66615 USA)
Goal: The digitization of 100,000 pages of Kansas newspaper titles, dating from 1860 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Description: The Kansas Historical Society (KSHS) requests $259,353.60 as part of the fiscal years 2010-2011 cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) to digitize 100,000 pages of English language Kansas newspapers published between 1860 and 1922 for inclusion on the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website. KSHS is the only major repository of Kansas newspapers. An advisory board of scholars, teachers, archivists, and librarians will assist in the selection of titles to be scanned. Selected titles may focus on the Farmers??? Alliance and Populist movements of the 1890s, for which the Kansas Populist leaders were nationally known, or on the settlement of the state during the Free State/Slavery controversy (1860s) and the later cattle drives/cowtown era (1880s). KSHS looks forward to participating in the NDNP project and adding Kansas??? story to Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
Grant: 196356 / PJ-50045-09, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: National Digital Newspaper Program, Year Awarded: 2009 - $200,000
The Wright Connection: Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children
Recipient: Graham, Maryemma (Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 USA) in affiliation with University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc (Lawrence, KS 66045-3101 USA)
Goal: : A two-week high school teacher institute for thirty participants to explore Richard Wright's Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children within their historical contexts.
Description: The institute will read Wright's texts conspicuously absent from many curricula despite the direct connection to contemporary concerns about literacy, tolerance, and diversity central to national dialogue. Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children, two short stories and select poems will link close reading, guided research, and seminars and workshops by scholars, practitioners, and specialists approached from a range of perspectives. New technologies, including a website and virtual seminars, will expand learning opportunities post-institute and offer access to a larger community of educators. Teachers will contribute to the construction of a digital sourcebook, to maximize the use of technology for sharing their course materials. The import lies in the role of education in a civil society, reaffirming a key goal of humanities education: to elicit a keen sense of identity from an examination of past deeds, events, documents, and forms of self-expression from our cultural past.
Grant: 199826 / ES-50320-09, Category: American Literature, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2009 - $139,654
America and The Great War: An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literature and History
Recipient: Sharistanian, Janet (Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 USA) in affiliation with University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc (Lawrence, KS 66045-3101 USA)
Goal: A five-week school teacher summer seminar for sixteen participants on the United States and World War I, focused on the conflict's history and cultural impact.
Description: This NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers will draw on literature, history, and the visual arts to examine America's relationship to the Great War--a major turning point in both American and world history. Co-directed by a literary scholar and an historian, it will involve coordinated readings, trips to the National World War I Museum and Fort Leavenworth, an on-campus art exhibit and play, and work with original documents to provide school teachers with a rich experience of intellectual renewal and development.
Grant: 199827 / FV-50238-09, Category: American Literature, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2009 - $97,470
Kansas 150: Preparing for Statehood
Recipient: Carey-Whalen, Dan (Topeka, KS 66603 USA) in affiliation with Kansas Humanities Council
Goal: Funding will support a range of projects including the development of resources for the Council's speakers bureau, book and film discussions, civic forums on contemporary issues, and grants for community projects that bring people together to examine historical and contemporary Kansas.
Description: Kansas 150: Preparing for Statehood continues the Kansans Tell Their Stories initiative that encourages communities to identify and share their unique, one-of-a-kind histories, especially stories of statehood and the Civil War. Kansas 150 moves beyond the telling of independent stories and seeks ways to bring these stories together for statewide discussions about the last 150 years. Expanding upon an examination of Kansas history, this initiative is intended to examine contemporary Kansas and invite Kansans to share ideas about the future. Kansas 150 will support preparations for Statehood in 2011 including the development of resources for speakers bureau, book discussions, film discussions, and civic forums on contemporary issues. In addition, special Kansas 150 grants will support documentary shorts, research, exhibitions, oral history projects, public forums, podcasts, video podcasts, and other projects that bring people together to examine historical and contemporary Kansas.
Grant: 199886 / BC-50482-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils, Year Awarded: 2009 - $24,987
Lost Kansas: Recovering the Legacy of Kansas Places and People
Recipient: Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie (Manhattan, KS 66506-1002 USA) in affiliation with Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506 USA)
Goal: The development of an online repository that would enable students to use primary sources to document rural Kansas communities.
Description: The Lost Kansas project utilizes our previous experience with undergraduate primary research to create an innovative student-directed digital classroom to create multi-dimensional portraits of lost Kansas communities. Lost Kansas will: foster a new culture of undergraduate research by creating a dynamic learning environment through digital technology; cultivate faculty dialogue about the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching through digital technology and establish engagement between the University and rural Kansans through an open source online repository for sources collected by students. This project will develop tools for preserving digital resources and using those resources for educating students and disconnected community members who will finally have access to their own stories. In short, the Lost Kansas project will become a prototype for an innovative new classroom/community outreach experience that can be adapted to other programs at Kansas State University and beyond.
Grant: 196252 / HD-50630-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Digital Humanities, Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, Year Awarded: 2009 - $4,768
A Preservation Survey of Special Collections
Recipient: Lonergan, Penelope (Leavenworth, KS 66048 USA) in affiliation with St. Mary College, Kansas
Goal: A general preservation survey of the Special Collections, which consist of a collection of Bibles dating from the 15th through the 18th century, a 13th-century illuminated manuscript, and an Americana collection that includes a number of items associated with Lincoln.
Description: The grant would support activities in the Special Collections Department of De Paul Library. This request is for two items. First, we would like to have a professional evaluation of our collection by Heugh-Edmondson Conservation Services. While we have had informal evaluations and recommendations that have guided our efforts to this point, we feel a comprehensive and professional evaluation is necessary before any further projects are undertaken. Additionally, the entire collection is in need of preservation supplies and proper storage. Specifically this grant is requested for a flat storage cabinet with base to store broadsheets, one wire shelving unit to hold document storage boxes, and acid free shelf paper to line wood shelving.
Grant: 193980 / PG-50616-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2009 - $2,500
Soul of a People: Voices from the Writers' Project - Library Outreach Programs
Recipient: Myers, Nancy L (Wichita, KS 67260-0068 USA) in affiliation with Wichita State University (Wichita, KS 67208 USA)
Description: ???Soul of a People: Voices from the Writers' Project??? will assist libraries in presenting public humanities programs that explore the works of the Works Progress Administration Writers' Project, such as the American Guide series of state and regional travel and culture guides, regional cultural studies, oral history, films and photographs, and the works of important authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Saul Bellow, who got their start in the Writers' Project. Libraries will present five programs representing the broad scope of the Writers' Project and encourage scholar-led discussion of major project themes. Library programs will take place in Spring 2009 to complement the national broadcast of a
Grant: 194265 / LR-50031-09, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Small Grants to Libraries: Soul of a People, Year Awarded: 2009 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Heroes of the Sky
Recipient: Davis, Gloria (Atchison, KS 66002 USA) in affiliation with Atchison Art Association, The Muchnic Gallery
Grant: 197614 / MR-50051-09, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2009 - $97,470
Kansans Tell Their Stories
Recipient: Carey-Whalen, Dan (Topeka, KS 66603 USA) in affiliation with Kansas Humanities Council
Goal: grants for projects that tell the Kansas story through a variety of media and formats. The Kansas Humanities Council will enlarge the scope of these successful projects by including a Picturing America initiative, "Kansas Tell Their Stories Through Art."
Description: A continuation of four successful We the People awards, the Kansans Tell Their Stories initiative supports research, exhibit, oral history, heritage tourism, public forums, digital documentaries, podcasts, video podcasts, website, and other projects that explore what it means to be a Kansan.
Grant: 192460 / BC-50435-08, Category: American History, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils, Year Awarded: 2008 - $70,500
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Hixson, Warren (Colby, KS 67701 USA) in affiliation with Kansas Humanities Council (Topeka, KS 66603 USA)
Grant: 189512 / SO-50249-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO), Year Awarded: 2008 - $5,000
Preserving Orphan Train History
Recipient: Haiar, Stephanie (Concordia, KS 66901 USA) in affiliation with National Orphan Train Complex, Inc.
Goal: Purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies to rehouse correspondence, vital records, photographs, books, and other materials that document the history of the Orphan Train Movement in the United States, 1854 to 1930.
Description: This grant will be used to preserve and rehouse the archival and artifact collections of the National Orphan Train Complex. The goals of this project are to provide an archival environment to preserve this collection and make it available for research, education, and exhibition. This will be accomplished through the purchase of storage shelves, boxes, folders, labels, and other similar archival material. These will be used to store and preserve our collection according to appropriate archival standards and procedures.
Grant: 189324 / PG-50327-08, Category: History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $2,500
Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience - A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries
Recipient: Messer, Susan (Fort Scott, KS 66701-9821 USA) in affiliation with Fort Scott Community College Endowment Association (Fort Scott, KS 66701 USA)
Description: The 1,000-square foot panel exhibition examines baseball as a reflection of race relations in the United States, asking how baseball has shaped, and been shaped by, national identity and culture. Photographs, broadsides, team rosters, scorecards, and other baseball memorabilia would tell the story of black participation in baseball from the integrated amateur leagues of the nineteenth century and the creation of segregated Negro Leagues in the Jim Crow era to Jackie Robinson's now-famous breaking of the color barrier in 1947.
Grant: 192340 / LT-50006-08, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Small Grants to Libraries: Pride and Passion, Year Awarded: 2008 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Wrapped in Pride
Recipient: Knox, Anita (Wichita, KS 67203 USA) in affiliation with Kansas African American Museum, Inc. (Wichita, KS USA)
Grant: 191637 / MR-50015-08, Category: African Studies, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2008 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Asian Games
Recipient: Amend, Deborah L (El Dorado, KS 67042 USA) in affiliation with Butler County History Center (El Dorado, KS USA)
Grant: 191642 / MR-50018-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2008 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Asian Games
Recipient: Bohndorf, Sarah Ann (Kansas City, KS 66112 USA) in affiliation with Kansas City, Kansas Public Library - West Wyandotte Branch
Grant: 194086 / MR-50025-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2008 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Farm Life
Recipient: Alexander, Kathleen Ann (Bonner Springs, KS 66012 USA) in affiliation with National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame
Grant: 194089 / MR-50028-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2008 - $150,000
Editing part of Volume 6 (1947-50) of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall
Recipient: Holt, Daniel D (Abilene, KS 67410 USA) in affiliation with George C. Marshall Research Foundation (Lexington, VA 24450 USA)
Goal: Completion of volume 6 and preliminary work on volume 7 of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall.
Description: Edit the sixth of seven volumes of George C. Marshall's papers. The sixth volume includes documents (telegrams, letters, memorandums, speeches, etc.) written during his tenure as U.S. Secretary of State (January 1947-January 1949) and as head of the American Battle Monuments Commission and the American Red Cross (January 1949-September 1950). Nearly all documents published will be by Marshall, as opposed to staff-drafted for Marshall's signature. The decisions taken and activities undertaken in international relations by the United States during the early Cold War period (1945-50) continue to be controversial, much studied by students and professionals in many disciplines, and of influence in recent events.
Grant: 186256 / RQ-50251-07, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2007 - $83,680
Kansans Tell Their Stories
Recipient: Mulvihill, Julie L (Topeka, KS 66603 USA) in affiliation with Kansas Humanities Council
Goal: To support projects initiated by Kansas communities to create exhibits, oral histories and heritage tourism activities about what it means to be a resident of Kansas. A new digital shorts component will allow Kansans to tell a visual story. In addition, a special Kansans Tell Their Stories traveling exhibition will be created.
Description: Kansans Tell Their Stories strengthens community and connects Kansans by sharing stories about today's Kansas.A follow up to the previous three We the People initiatives, these funds will support Kansans in creating exhibit, oral history, and heritage tourism projects about what it means to be a Kansan.A new digital shorts component will allow Kansans to tell a visual story. In addition, a special Kansans Tell Their Stories traveling exhibition will be created.
Grant: 189192 / BC-50391-07, Category: History, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils, Year Awarded: 2007 - $1,000
Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries
Recipient: Moore-Jansen, Cathy L (Wichita, KS 67260-0068 USA) in affiliation with Wichita State University Libraries (Wichita, KS 67260 USA)
Grant: 186997 / LS-50096-07, Category: American Literature, Division: Public Programs, Program: Small Grants to Libraries: John Adams Unbound, Year Awarded: 2007 - $83,680
Kansans Tell Their Stories Chautauqua
Recipient: Mulvihill, Julie L (Topeka, KS 66603 USA) in affiliation with Kansas Humanities Council
Goal: Kansas Chautauqua: Kansans Tell Their Stories. A follow up to the previous two WTP initiatives that encouraged local communities to explore their own history, these funds will support a two-community Chautauqua featuring notable Kansans
Description: Kansas Chautauqua: Kansans Tell Their Stories strengthens community and connects Kansans by sharing stories that tell the history of today's Kansas. A follow up to the previous two We the People initiatives that encouraged local communities to explore their own history, these funds will support a two-community Chautauqua featuring notable Kansans.
Grant: 182697 / BC-50321-06, Category: American History, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils, Year Awarded: 2006 - Endowment for the humanities grants to state KS; items 1-21 of 219 with a total funding of $1,228,213.