- $1,890,840
Preservation Microfilming of Collections on the History, Culture, and Social Life of the Americas
Recipient: Fasana, Paul J (New York, NY 10018 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library
Goal: To support the preservation microfilming of 13,000 volumes and the repair of 6,200 additional volumes on the history and culture of the United States and the Caribbean.
Grant: 158888 / PS-20877-94, Category: History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996 - $1,202,300
The Great War and the Shaping of Our Century
Recipient: Baggett, Blaine (Los Angeles, CA 90027-0000 USA) in affiliation with Community Television of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA)
Goal: To support production of an eight-part television series on World War I, 1914-18.
Grant: 156827 / GN-24859-94, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $985,832
Improvement of Environmental Conditions for Preservation of Material Culture Collections
Recipient: McCabe, James C (Dearborn, MI 48124-4088 USA) in affiliation with Henry Ford, The (Dearborn, MI 48121 USA)
Goal: To support the improvement of environmental conditions in the Henry Ford Museum's exhibition hall, a National Historic Landmark building with more than 404,000 square feet under a single roof.
Grant: 158482 / PH-20659-94, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: National Heritage Preservation Projects - $985,832
Installation of Climate Control for the Preservation of Near Eastern Artifact Collection
Recipient: Sumner, William M (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago
Goal: To support the installation of a new climate control system to provide a stable environment for the institute's Near Eastern and North African archaeo- logical collections.
Grant: 158492 / PH-20685-94, Category: Near Eastern History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: National Heritage Preservation Projects - $964,772
Renovation of a Storage Facility and Purchase of Storage Furniture for Paintings and Furniture
Recipient: Phippen, William L (Salem, MA 01970 USA) in affiliation with Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA 01970-3783 USA)
Goal: To support the installation of storage, climate control, fire protection, and security systems, and the purchase of an automated collections management pro- gram for the museum's painting and furniture holdings.
Grant: 158487 / PH-20676-94, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: National Heritage Preservation Projects - $963,015
Dance Heritage Coalition: Access to Resources for the History of Dance in Seven Repositories
Recipient: Kordish, Heike C (New York, NY 10018-0000 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: To support a cooperative project to arrange, describe, catalog, and preserve primary resources held in seven repositories that document the history of dance, entering 5,000 records into the national bibliographic utilities.
Grant: 158856 / PS-20797-94, Category: Dance History and Criticism, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996 - $925,000
Purchase of Storage Furniture and Rehousing of Textile Collections
Recipient: Bardel, Penelope K (New York, NY 10028 USA) in affiliation with Metropolitan Museum of Art
Goal: To support the purchase of storage furniture for the rehousing of 30,908 objects from the museum's textile collections.
Grant: 158484 / PH-20664-94, Category: Art History and Criticism, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: National Heritage Preservation Projects - $864,330
Installation of Climate Control and Purchase of Storage Furniture for Preservation of Decorative Arts Collections
Recipient: Stanley, John S (Boston, MA 02115 USA) in affiliation with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Goal: To support the renovation of a storage facility for the American and European decorative arts and sculpture collections, and the installation of climate control and compact storage systems.
Grant: 158494 / PH-20689-94, Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: National Heritage Preservation Projects - $850,000
Business, Technology, and Society: Proposal to Endow Core Research Library Functions
Recipient: Porter, Glenn (Wilmington, DE 19807-0000 USA) in affiliation with Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE 19807 USA)
Goal: To support endowment and expansion of core curatorial, cataloging, and conservation positions and activities.
Grant: 141634 / CR-20555-94, Category: American History, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Research Challenge Grants - $785,585
Fellowship Program for Foreign Language Teachers in the Schools
Recipient: Gherbi, Naima (New London, CT 06320 USA) in affiliation with Connecticut College
Goal: To support a three-year project to provide summer fellowships for 225 K-12 foreign language teachers, who will spend six weeks in a country where the language they are studying is spoken.
Grant: 143530 / ES-22622-94, Category: Languages, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers - $751,500
Carnegie
Recipient: McGhee, Peter S (Boston, MA 02135 USA) in affiliation with WGBH Educational Foundation
Goal: To support the production of a two-hour documentary film on the life of Andrew Carnegie and the rise of industrial America, 1835-1919.
Grant: 156847 / GN-24966-94, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $750,450
Forever Free, America in the Era of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Recipient: Brier, Stephen (New York, NY 10003 USA) in affiliation with Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco, CA 94103 USA)
Goal: To support production of the first program in a five-hour documentary film series that examines Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1840-96.
Grant: 156857 / GN-25008-94, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $740,137
The Homestead
Recipient: Schechter, Steven J (San Dimas, CA 91773-0000 USA) in affiliation with Heritage Films (San Dimas, CA 91773 USA)
Goal: The completion of production of a two-hour decoumentary film on the experiences of the first generation of people ot homestead the Great Plains in the late 19th century.
Grant: 156814 / GN-24794-94, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $729,500
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Hays, Alexander (Canton, OH 44718 USA) in affiliation with Ohio Humanities Council (Columbus, OH 43215-3857 USA)
Grant: 162406 / SO-21322-94, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $700,400
Independent Minds: The Journey of Four American Intellectuals
Recipient: Dorman, Joseph A (Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA) in affiliation with New York Foundation for the Arts
Goal: To support the production of a 90-minute documentary film examining the ideas of four American intellectuals: Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe, and Irving Kristol.
Grant: 156842 / GN-24916-94, Category: Arts History & Criticism, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - $660,000
Preservation and Conservation Education Programs
Recipient: Sheldon, Brooke E (Austin, TX 78712 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin
Goal: To support the training of preservation administrators and library and archivescollection conservators in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Grant: 158789 / PS-20573-92, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996 - $650,000
Arabic Language and Culture National Institute for Secondary School Teachers
Recipient: Alosh, Mahdi (Columbus, OH 43210-0000 USA) in affiliation with Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, OH 43212 USA)
Goal: To support a three-year national project that will include a five-week insti- tute each summer on the Arabic language and culture, for high school teachers of social studies and languages in Columbus, Ohio, and at Amman, Jordan.
Grant: 142139 / EF-20216-94, Category: Near Eastern Languages, Division: Education Programs, Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education - $650,000
Alcoa Foundation Hall of Native Americans: Native Americans and the Natural World
Recipient: Bol, Marsha C (Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087 USA) in affiliation with Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA)
Goal: To support a long-term exhibition hall on native North American cultures.
Grant: 156031 / GM-25234-94, Category: Anthropology, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in - $633,331
Preservation Microfilming of German and Latin American Literature and American and Irish History
Recipient: Maher, William J (Urbana, IL 61801-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Illinois, Urbana (Urbana, IL 61801 USA)
Goal: To support the preservation microfilming of 6,700 embrittled monographs in German and Latin American literature; American history before 1900, including Lincolniana materials; and Irish history.
Grant: 158897 / PS-20899-94, Category: Humanities, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996 - $615,389
Richard J. Daley: The Last Boss
Recipient: Goodman, Barak S (Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA) in affiliation with Illinois State Historical Society (Springfield, IL 62706 USA)
Goal: To support production of a 90-minute documentary film on the life and career ofRichard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, 1902-76.
Grant: 156833 / GN-24887-94, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in - Endowment for the humanities grants to year 1994; items 1-21 of 760 with a total funding of $17,298,213.