- $1,000,000
Center for the Constitution Endowment
Recipient: Harris, William F (Orange, VA 22960 USA) in affiliation with Montpelier Foundation
Goal: Endowment for staff and humanities programming of the Center for the Constitution at Montpelier.
Description: The Montpelier Foundation is seeking a $1,000,000 grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as a challenge to create a $4,000,000 endowment for the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. The proceeds will be used to fund the salaries and programs of the Center, to guarantee the permanence and national reach of its successful programs for teachers, including such things as the week-long James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship program (now funded by NEH's Landmark Initiative), the Montpelier Week-end Retreats, and in-school programming. This proposal comes at a momentous time in Montpelier's history - a point when the Madison home is being meticulously restored combined with the foundation's strategic establishment of a Center to advance constitutional civic education.
Grant: 176783 / CZ-50142-06, Category: Political Science, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Special Initiatives - $1,000,000
The Richards Civil War Era Center: Interpreting the Struggle for Freedom
Recipient: Blair, William A (University Park, PA 16802 USA) in affiliation with Pennsylvania State University
Goal: Endowment for faculty and postdoctoral fellowships, summer institutes for school teachers and emerging scholars, conferences, and programs in a center devoted to the study of the Civil War era.
Description: The Richards Civil War Era Center seeks a $1 million NEH Challenge grant to strengthen the study, teaching, and understanding of the Civil War era and the struggles for freedom and citizenship that defined America. Coupled with the Richards Center's current resources, the endowment of $4 million realized from the NEH Challenge Grant will create new humanities programming, building on current efforts to illuminate the history of freedom and citizenship from the establishment of the Constitution through the Civil Rights Movement. An NEH We the People grant will enable the Richards Center to enhance links between the university and the public by stimulating faculty research, training public school teachers, developing curriculum, sponsoring public symposia, and encouraging collaboration between Civil War era historians, public historians, educators, and members of the public. Specifically, the proposal requests support for the following initiatives: a faculty fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship, workshops with visiting scholars, biennial summer institutes for public school teachers and emerging scholars, undergraduate internships at historic sites, library and web-based instructional materials, and inter-institutional collaboration between Penn State University and public history institutions in the mid-Atlantic region.
Grant: 176786 / CZ-50145-06, Category: American History, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Special Initiatives - $1,000,000
Freedom of Religion, For Religion, or From Religion? Religion in American Public Life
Recipient: Zuckert, Michael P (Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA) in affiliation with University of Notre Dame
Goal: Endowment for a faculty position in Constitutional Studies and Religion, a visiting lecture series, seminars for journalists, a postdoctoral teaching fellowship, a dissertation fellowship, graduate student stipends and conferences.
Description: Since America's founding, three different and sometimes competing visions of religion in American political life have thrived in American soil: freedom of religion, for religion, and from religion. These three distinct conceptions converged at the time of the American founding in the form of the religion clauses of the First Amendment and many parallel provisions in state constitutions. Yet Americans have not always agreed on the role religion should play in American public life. Some advocate its exclusion from public life or favor restrictions on religious expression in the public sphere. Others believe religious citizens have the same right to advocate their values in public life as anyone else. Still others believe the democratic process is weakened and civic life diminished without the full participation of those with strong religious views. We propose that the NEH endow a new program for Inquiry into Religion in American Public Life dedicated to ongoing studies and programs on the role of religion in American democracy. The program will fund the following: a distinguished visiting lecture series and interdisciplinary faculty seminars; a new faculty line; a postdoctoral teaching fellowship; a dissertation fellowship; graduate student stipends to encourage promising graduate students to pursue doctoral research in religion and American public life; conferences; and an annual summer seminar for journalists on the constitutional, historical and philosophical principles affecting religion in American public life. We are requesting $1 million from the NEH. Notre Dame will raise an additional $3 million in non-federal matching funds.
Grant: 176789 / CZ-50148-06, Category: Political Science, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Special Initiatives - $824,680
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Bryant, John (Wilmington, OH 45177-2435 USA) in affiliation with Ohio Humanities Council (Columbus, OH 43215-3857 USA)
Grant: 179358 / SO-50154-06, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $726,663
Institute for Constitutional Studies
Recipient: Marcus, Maeva (Washington, DC 20052 USA) in affiliation with New-York Historical Society (New York, NY 10024 USA)
Goal: Endowment for a director's salary, a scholar-in-residence program, and seminars for graduate students, teachers, and higher education faculty members in an Institute for Constitutional Studies; and direct funding for development costs and start-up activities.
Description: The George Washington University requests an NEH Challenge Grant of $1,000,000 to establish an endowment for the Institute for Constitutional Studies. The Institute works to ensure that future generations of Americans are informed about the substance and history of our Constitution by preparing a new generation of scholars and educators to teach this subject and by helping to incorporate constitutional studies into the general liberal arts curriculum of our nation's universities and colleges. Challenge Grant funds will: (1) endow the director's position to guarantee the permanence and quality of the Institute's leadership and programs, (2) initiate a series of semester seminars for graduate students and young faculty, (3) begin regional seminars across the nation for teachers with limited training in this area, (4) continue a summer seminar program for faculty members and graduate students, and (5) launch a Scholar-in-Residence program.
Grant: 176780 / CZ-50139-06, Category: History, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Special Initiatives - $725,000
The People vs. Leo Frank
Recipient: Loeterman, Ben (Boston, MA 02134 USA) in affiliation with Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. (Waltham, MA 02453 USA)
Goal: Production of a 90-minute television documentary that examines the 1913 Leo Frank murder case in Georgia as one of the pivotal events in the modern history of the American South.
Description: THE PEOPLE v. LEO FRANK will be a 90-minute documentary for PBS about one of the most complex and compelling criminal cases in American history: the 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in an Atlanta pencil factory, and the trial and lynching of her accused killer, Leo Frank. Set against the backdrop of an American South struggling to shed its legacy of bigotry and xenophobia, the story combines the intrigue of a first-rate murder mystery with poignantly drawn portraits of its central characters and a thoughtful examination of racial, religious, regional and class prejudices in the early years of the 20th century.
Grant: 181447 / TI-50039-06, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production - $713,895
Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life
Recipient: Paulson, Joy R (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University
Goal: The preservation microfilming or digitization and enhanced cataloging of 4,435 deteriorating volumes from four states and bibliographic selection by two other states of embrittled volumes on American agricultural history and rural life published between 1820 and 1945 that are held by land grant universities in those states.
Grant: 179546 / PA-52021-06, Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects - $700,000
Improving the Environment to Preserve Collections of R. Lee Hornbake Library
Recipient: Vikor, Desider L (College Park, MD 20742-7011 USA ) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)
Goal: The improvement of environmental conditions to increase the longevity of special collections in the humanities housed in the university's R. Lee Hornbake Library.
Description: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HORNBAKE LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Grant: 180001 / PZ-50002-06, Category: Humanities, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Stabilization Grants - $700,000
Preserving the Foundation's Folk Art Collections
Recipient: Bol, Marsha C (Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087 USA) in affiliation with International Folk Art Foundation (Santa Fe, NM 87504 USA)
Goal: The purchase of storage equipment, improvement of lighting and climate control, and the rehousing of 68,000 folk art objects from North and South America, Africa, and Asia.
Description: The Museum of International Folk Art seeks funding to reorganize and rehouse in upgraded storage more than half of its sizable collection of over 130,000 objects representing more than 100 different countries. Dating primarily from the nineteenth century to the present, the collections range from wood carvings, ceramics, metal, and works on paper to objects made from found and recycled industrial materials. The project increases access to the collection both physically and electronically and ensures its preservation for future use. The collection offers a significant resource for scholars in the humanities and is used to develop interpretive exhibitions with interactive components for the public and school groups visiting the museum.
Grant: 180902 / PZ-50014-06, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Stabilization Grants - $650,000
We Shall Remain
Recipient: Drain, Margaret (Boston, MA 02135 USA) in affiliation with WGBH Educational Foundation
Goal: Production of two one-hour programs of a five-part television series and a website that will explore key events in American and Native American history.
Grant: 181355 / TI-50016-06, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production - $650,000
Time Warp Trio: Season 2
Recipient: Greenwald, Carol (Boston, MA 02135 USA) in affiliation with WGBH Educational Foundation
Goal: Production of 13 new episodes of The Time Warp Trio, an animated history-based television series for six- to 12-year olds.
Grant: 181378 / TI-50022-06, Category: Humanities, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production - $612,754
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Huntington, Lucia (Spokane, WA 99203 USA) in affiliation with Humanities Washington (Seattle, WA 98101-2825 USA)
Grant: 179372 / SO-50168-06, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO) - $600,000
The Duke University Program in American Values and Institutions
Recipient: Gillespie, Michael A (Durham, NC 27707 USA) in affiliation with Duke University (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: Endowment for a visiting professorship, undergraduate seminars, lectures, and an annual conference in a program in American values and institutions.
Description: Duke University is applying for a We the People Challenge Grant to enhance and endow a program in American Values and Institutions. The income from this endowment will support a visiting professor who works on American political thought and institutions, a pre-doctoral fellow in the same area, a continuing series of lectures by top scholars of American political thought and values, and an annual conference focusing on a specific issue or topic in this area. The grant will free up existing funds to support first and second year programs in this area. On this basis and with foundation support, we will be able to institutionalize our seminars for college and high school teachers on teaching American government using founding documents.
Grant: 176581 / CZ-50118-06, Category: Political Science, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Special Initiatives - $600,000
Endowment for Arabic Language Study
Recipient: Hungerford, Constance Cain (Swarthmore, PA 19081 USA) in affiliation with Swarthmore College
Goal: Endowment for faculty positions in the teaching of Modern Standard Arabic.
Description: Swarthmore College seeks an NEH Challenge Grant in the amount of $600,000, to be matched (4:1) by $2,400,000 in non-federal funds, to endow a program of language instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. The program will significantly strengthen both Swarthmore’s interdisciplinary Islamic studies program and the College’s distinctive ability to develop in students the knowledge and skills necessary to build common purpose across differences of culture, experience, and ideologies. The new program also will enhance a nascent collaboration in Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies within the Tri-College Consortium, which is made up of Swarthmore and its sister institutions Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.
Grant: 178915 / CH-50269-06, Category: Languages, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants - $600,000
In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire
Recipient: Hunte, Karen R (Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA) in affiliation with Community Television of Southern California
Goal: Production of a three-hour documentary film series chronicling the rise and fall of Spain's global empire from the reign of Isabel and Ferdinand through the reign of Philip II (1475-1598).
Description: “In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire” will tell the story of the Spanish Empire, which at its peak encircled the globe. This documentary series will will look past the oft-told tales of Columbus and the conquistadors and explore the epic challenges empire posed to the Spanish and to the peoples it encountered. We will explore in depth the encounter of the New World and the Old, how they dramatically interacted and changed each other. We will look into the lives of the world-class rulers of the time as well as the stories of a number of people from different social backgrounds. The stories of faith, empire and conquest will combine to form the compelling saga of “In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire.”
Grant: 181433 / TI-50025-06, Category: European History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production - $600,000
Dark Genius: The Story of Jerome Robbins
Recipient: Lacy, Susan (New York, NY 10001 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Goal: Production of a two-hour documentary film chronicling the life and achievements of Jerome Robbins, choreographer and theater director (1918-98).
Description: DARK GENIUS: THE STORY OF JEROME ROBBINS (w.t.)is the first audio-visual documentary examining the life and work of the preeminent director/choreographer. Through Robbins's story, we gain insights into the history of American ballet; the evolution of American musical theater; the aspirations and struggles of immigrants as they strive to become assimilated into the fabric of American life; and the impact of HUAC on Robbins and on the Broadway theater. This two-hour program, including selections from some of the most significant American musicals and ballets, reveals not only the inner conflicts of a complex man, but illuminates the ways in which Robbins's story reflects America's search for identity in the twentieth century.
Grant: 181441 / TI-50033-06, Category: Dance History and Criticism, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production - $600,000
The Mark Twain Project
Recipient: Hirst, Robert H (Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Goal: Completion of an electronic online edition of Mark Twain's Letters and editorial work and XML encoding of Twain's Autobiographical writings. (24 months)
Description: The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library seeks funding for editorial work and XML encoding of a scholarly edition of Mark Twain's Autobiography, the largest and arguably the most important of the manuscripts Mark Twain left deliberately unpublished, forbidding publication until 100 years after his death. This edition will be published in 2010 through Mark Twain's Writings Online; the text and notes will also be issued in 3 printed volumes by the University of California Press. The editors will identify persons, places, and events in editorial notes. They will establish the text from several thousand pages of manuscript and typescript and will identify and report on which changes are authorial and which are by A. B. Paine.
Grant: 181527 / RQ-50238-06, Category: American Literature, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions - $600,000
Adams Papers Documentary Editing Project
Recipient: Taylor, C. James (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Massachusetts Historical Society
Goal: Preparation and publication of volumes 8 and 9 of the Family Correspondence and to begin work on volume 10. (36 months)
Description: The Adams Papers Documentary Editing Project is a comprehensive edition of the diaries, letters, official records, public writings, and literary miscellanies contained in the Adams Papers collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, supplemented by Adams documents in other collections and archives. The project focuses on three generations of Adamses: John Adams, Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, and their families.
Grant: 181621 / RQ-50205-06, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions - $579,920
Preservation Field Services for the Southeast
Recipient: Walters, Randy (Atlanta, GA 30309-2955 USA) in affiliation with Southeastern Library Network, Inc. (Atlanta, GA 30309 USA)
Goal: A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, and educational materials to libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations in the Southeast.
Description: SOLINET proposes to provide preservation education and training, information services, publications, and consultations to libraries and archives in the Southeast. Services will educate and inform librarians and archivists about preservation issues and assist them in taking steps to preserve and ensure access to information resources for current and future users. Specific project goals include teaching at least 96 workshops, expanding distance education programs, making 20 presentations, providing 12 consultations and 10 site visits, offering information services including print and electronic publications, and developing a model outcomes-based evaluation program for regional preservation field services.
Grant: 179400 / PA-51875-06, Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects - $563,000
Training Preservation Administrators and Conservators to Preserve the Nation's Humanities Collections
Recipient: Cunningham-Kruppa, Mary Ellen (Austin, TX 78712-0390 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712 USA)
Goal: The education of preservation administrators and conservators in the care of library and archival collections in the humanities.
Description: This project will continue and enhance the Preservation and Conservation Studies (PCS) program at the School of Information, The Univ. of Texas at Austin. PCS is the only source of comprehensive education & training for preservation administrators & conservators for library & archival collections. PCS's strength is producing knowledgeable, educated, persuasive professionals to lead at the institutional, consortial, & funding agency levels to chart the course of library & archives preservation for the 21st century. The program uniquely focuses on the needs of whole collections significant for education & scholarly research in the humanities. Graduates receive a Master's degree in information science with an Endorsement of Specialization in Preservation Administration or a Certificate
Grant: 179384 / PA-51859-06, Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects - Endowment for the humanities grants to year 2006; items 1-21 of 744 with a total funding of $14,045,912.