- $1,298,617
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Temple, Ellen m (Lufkin, TX 75901 USA) in affiliation with Humanities Texas (Austin, TX 78701-1506 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public, including an exemplary award for a three-part program focusing on the state's Mexican heritage, in order to illuminate the cultural and historical dimensions of this legacy for Texans.
Grant: 161941 / SO-20504-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $1,200,000
Masterworks of American Fiction (Production, TV, Drama)
Recipient: Geller, Robert (Larchmont, NY 10538 USA) in affiliation with Learning in Focus, Inc. (New York, NY 10017 USA)
Goal: To support the production of three feature-length television films adapted fromHenry James's THE AMERICAN, Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING, and Saul Bellow's SEIZE THE DAY. These films will be the first three programs in a series of adaptations of major American novels.
Grant: 156447 / GN-22321-85, Category: American Literature, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $1,074,930
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Rothstein, Morton (Davis, CA 95616 USA) in affiliation with California Council for the Humanities (San Francisco, CA 94108 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.
Grant: 161922 / SO-20484-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $1,000,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Skramstad, Harold K (Las Cruces, NM 88011-0000 USA) in affiliation with Edison Institute (Dearborn, MI 48121 USA)
Goal: To support capital repairs to five historically important buildings at Greenfield Village and to the Henry Ford Museum buildings as well as to replenish the repository's endowment.
Grant: 141122 / CA-20947-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Museums - $1,000,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: White, Robert O (Carlisle, PA 17013 USA) in affiliation with Dickinson College
Goal: To support the establishment of an endowment for a language and area studies program, to support visiting professorships in international and cross-culturalstudies and to strengthen Judaic studies; to support library collections.
Grant: 141192 / CC-20155-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Four-Year Colleges - $1,000,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Ryskamp, Charles (New York, NY 10016 USA) in affiliation with Pierpont Morgan Library
Goal: To support the augmenting of the library's endowment; to support reader services, publications, and conservation programs, and to support the increase of hours of operation and public programs.
Grant: 141518 / CK-20006-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Research Libraries - $1,000,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Curry, Anna (Baltimore, MD 21201 USA) in affiliation with Enoch Pratt Free Library
Goal: To support the initiation of a capital campaign for the renovation of the Central Library and several branches and to augment endowment for humanities collections and services.
Grant: 141607 / CQ-20045-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Public Libraries - $970,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Starr, Stephen F (Oberlin, OH 44074 USA) in affiliation with Oberlin College
Goal: To support the establishment of five endowments for humanities professorships, fellowships for humanities faculty, and library acquisitions.
Grant: 141190 / CC-20149-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Four-Year Colleges - $962,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Costello, Thomas Murray (Cooperstown, NY 13326 USA) in affiliation with Springfield Library and Museums Association (Springfield, MA 01103 USA)
Goal: To support the renovation and restoration of the historic Quadrangle buildings, which house a library and four museums.
Grant: 141606 / CQ-20041-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Public Libraries - $917,833
Exhibitions and Public Programs on William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism
Recipient: Jaye, Michael C (Newark, NJ 07107-0000 USA) in affiliation with Rutgers University, Newark (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)
Goal: To support a major traveling exhibition, photographic panel exhibitions and supplemental printed materials on Wordsworth and the age of English Romanticism.
Grant: 155328 / GM-22362-85, Category: Art History and Criticism, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in - $915,012
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Janeway, Elizabeth (New York, NY 10021 USA) in affiliation with New York Council for the Humanities (New York, NY 10038 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public, including an exemplary award for 60 film and discussion programs parti-culary designed to reach the six regions of the upstate New York, each program involving a scholar-filmmaker team to set the film in its humanities context.
Grant: 161934 / SO-20497-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $827,000
The Shakespeare Hour (Production: TV Documentary)
Recipient: Squerciati, Marie T (New York, NY 10001 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Goal: To support the production of a series of programs based on a re-formatting of five complete dramas drawn from the best of the BBC/Time-Life Shakespeare Playsinto 60-minute segments with interpretive introductions by Shakespearean scholars, five thematic commentaries, and two filmed round-table discussions.
Grant: 156445 / GN-22233-85, Category: British Literature, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $767,110
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Montgomery, Martha B (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA) in affiliation with Pennsylvania Humanities Council (Philadelphia, PA 19106-2607 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.
Grant: 161937 / SO-20500-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $740,000
A House Divided
Recipient: Morgan, R. Shepherd (North Miami, FL 33161 USA) in affiliation with Past America, Inc. (Miami, FL 33161 USA)
Goal: To support production of "John Punch and the Servants of Colonial Virginia," a 90-minute drama which is the fourth program in the series A HOUSE DIVIDED, A HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA. The program examines the origins of slavery in Virginia through the case of John Punch.
Grant: 134914 / GN-22536-85, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $718,195
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Debevec, Dennis (Bakersfield, VT 05441 USA) in affiliation with Vermont Humanities Council (Montpelier, VT 05602 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.
Grant: 161943 / SO-20506-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $675,000
Rites of Passage: American Short Stories
Recipient: Geller, Robert (Larchmont, NY 10538 USA) in affiliation with Learning in Focus, Inc. (New York, NY 10017 USA)
Goal: To support the production of 60-minute television adaptations of four American short stories for young people ages 13 to 18. The stories have been selected for their literary merit, their relevance to the theme of coming of age, and their diversity in presenting aspects of American culture.
Grant: 156464 / GN-22594-85, Category: American Literature, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $603,510
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Wright, John (Dearborn, MI 48121 USA) in affiliation with Michigan Humanities Council (Lansing, MI 48912-1270 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.
Grant: 161928 / SO-20491-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $603,041
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Royce, Anya Peterson (Bloomington, IN 47401 USA) in affiliation with Indiana Humanities Council (Indianapolis, IN 46202-2419 USA)
Goal: To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.
Grant: 161923 / SO-20486-85, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $600,000
The Africans
Recipient: Hobson, Charles B (Washington, DC 20008 USA) in affiliation with GWETA, Inc. (Washington, DC 20013 USA)
Goal: To support THE AFRICANS, a nine-hour documentary series on Africa for public television.
Grant: 156439 / GN-22109-85, Category: African History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $575,000
Tokyo: Form and Spirit, a Major Interpretive Exhibition
Recipient: Friedman, Martin (Minneapolis, MN 55403 USA) in affiliation with Walker Art Center
Goal: To support implementation of a major interpretive exhibition and various accom-panying educational events on the topic "Tokyo: Form and Spirit."
Grant: 134263 / GM-22223-85, Category: Art History and Criticism, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in - Endowment for the humanities grants to year 1985; items 1-21 of 888 with a total funding of $17,447,248.