- $1,000,197
Presidents in Crisis Historical Drama Series
Recipient: Toplin, Robert B (Wilmington, NC 28403 USA) in affiliation with WGBY-TV (Springfield, MA 01103 USA)
Goal: To support production of a two-hour dramatic film about Lincoln's decision to supply Fort Sumter, an action that precipitated the Civil War.
Grant: 156501 / GN-22985-87, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $1,000,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Katz, Stanley N (New York, NY 10015 USA) in affiliation with American Council of Learned Societies (New York, NY 10017 USA)
Goal: To augment the endowment for the Societies' Research Fellowships, Grants-in- Aid, Fellowships for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., and Travel Grants to International Meetings Abroad.
Grant: 141533 / CO-20774-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Professional Organizations & Societies (Challenge) - $950,000
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 two 60-minute dramatizations of American short stories for a series for young people ages 13 to 18: "First Love and Other Stories" by Harold Brodkey and "The Hollow Boy" by Hortense Calisher.
Grant: 156537 / GN-23182-87, Category: American Literature, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $918,297
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Schweitzer, Don A (Fullerton, CA 92634 USA) in affiliation with California Council for the Humanities (San Francisco, CA 94108 USA)
Grant: 162052 / SO-20825-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $900,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Cory, Mark E (Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA) in affiliation with University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Goal: To establish an endowment for the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies and for the College of Arts and Sciences's interdisciplinary Humanities Program; for the renovation of the university's historic central building, Old Main; and for fund-raising expenses.
Grant: 141673 / CU-20159-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Universities - $900,000
Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection of Egyptian Artifacts
Recipient: Watters, David R (Pittsburgh, PA 15206-0000 USA) in affiliation with Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA)
Goal: To support implementation of a permanent exhibition about ancient Egypt explor-ing cultural continuity and cultural change with interpretive programs highlighting these concepts.
Grant: 155467 / GM-23430-87, Category: Anthropology, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in - $875,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Chodorow, Stanley A (LaJolla, CA 92093 - 01 USA) in affiliation with University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093 USA)
Goal: To create an endowment for acquisitions in the humanities, which will increase the library's general holdings in the humanities and its special collections for Pacific Studies, Latin American Studies, and Contemporary Studies.
Grant: 141678 / CU-20176-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Universities - $805,602
Pennsylvania Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming
Recipient: Hoffman, David R (Harrisburg, PA 17105 USA) in affiliation with State Library of Pennsylvania
Goal: To support the completion of cataloguing more than 9,000 newspaper titles held in Pennsylvania libraries and the preservation through microfilming of newspapers important for research in the humanities.
Grant: 158617 / PS-20081-87, Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996 - $785,788
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Field, Geoffrey G (New York, NY 10024 USA) in affiliation with New York Council for the Humanities (New York, NY 10038 USA)
Grant: 161997 / SO-20725-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $687,233
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Franke, Richard J (Chicago, IL 60606 USA) in affiliation with Illinois Humanities Council (Chicago, IL 60602-3296 USA)
Grant: 162034 / SO-20807-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $669,598
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Gubins, Samuel (Rosemont, PA 19010 USA) in affiliation with Pennsylvania Humanities Council (Philadelphia, PA 19106-2607 USA)
Grant: 162000 / SO-20728-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $650,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Gundersheimer, Werner L (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library
Goal: To establish endowments for two curatorships, four senior research fellowships,and library acquisitions in the humanities, and to help complete the renovationof rooms used for humanities programs.
Grant: 141521 / CK-20015-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Research Libraries - $650,000
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Weber, David C (Stanford, CA 94305-6004 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)
Goal: To establish an endowment for faculty fellows at the Humanities Center and, in the university library, endowments supporting a new curator and the conserva- tion and acquisition of materials for its special collections in Jewish Studies.
Grant: 141682 / CU-20195-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Universities - $649,699
Design by Motley: An Interpretive Exhibition
Recipient: Mullin, Michael A (Champaign, IL 61821-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Illinois, Urbana (Urbana, IL 61801 USA)
Goal: To support an interpretive exhibition, educational programs, and publications about set and costume designs from the Motley Collection, examining how these designs interpret dramatic texts and reflect the culture of an age.
Grant: 155520 / GM-23616-87, Category: Theater History and Criticism, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in - $618,724
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Schewel, Rosel (Lychburg, VA 24503 USA) in affiliation with Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 USA)
Grant: 162048 / SO-20821-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $600,420
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Recipient: McGhee, Peter S (Boston, MA 02135 USA) in affiliation with WGBH Educational Foundation
Goal: To support production of seven 60-minute documentaries about Columbus's voyages, the cultural environment in which they took place, and the legacies ofthe European contacts with America.
Grant: 156557 / GN-23278-87, Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $600,000
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 a 60-minute dramatization of "Pigeon Feathers," by John Updike, for a series featuring American short stories for young people ages 13 to 18.
Grant: 156498 / GN-22977-87, Category: American Literature, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $568,750
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Moline, Jon N (Seguin, TX 78155-5999 USA) in affiliation with St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN 55057 USA)
Goal: To support construction of a wing to the library, and to establish endowments for library operating costs and a chair in Norwegian Studies.
Grant: 141211 / CC-20305-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants for Four-Year Colleges - $545,048
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Royce, Anya Peterson (Bloomington, IN 47401 USA) in affiliation with Indiana Humanities Council (Indianapolis, IN 46202-2419 USA)
Grant: 161986 / SO-20714-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $519,188
Challenge Grant
Recipient: Meyers, Eric M (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with American Schools of Oriental Research (Boston, MA 02215 USA)
Goal: To augment endowments for staff positions and operating costs in the humanities, and to improve the schools' physical plants in Jerusalem, Amman, and Nicosia.
Grant: 141536 / CO-20785-87, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Professional Organizations & Societies (Challenge) - Endowment for the humanities grants to year 1987; items 1-21 of 1624 with a total funding of $14,893,544.