Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development Division of Education Programs Announced: February 2006 California Stanford University, Stanford (Outright: $180,000, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Clayborne Carson, (650) 723-2092 Project: The King Digital History Project Description: The development of a website of historical materials and related teaching resources on Martin Luther King, Jr., and the modern civil rights movement. Stanford University, Stanford (Outright: $103,087, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Rega Wood, (650) 858-8160 Project: Bartholomew's World: Teaching Latin Through Medieval Texts Description: The development of online and print tools for teaching intermediate Latin through medieval texts, introducing students to paleography and engaging them in the history of Western thought, particularly medieval natural philosophy. Website: http://bartholomew.stanford.edu/ University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Outright: $180,000, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Marsha Kinder, (213) 743-4432 Project: Russian Modernism and Its International Dimensions, Experimental On-Line College Courseware Description: The development of online teaching materials on Russian Modernism for use in courses nationwide. Massachusetts WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston (Outright: $100,000) Contact: Carol Greenwald, (617) 300-3817 Project: TIME WARP TRIO Season 2 Web Site and Teacher Materials Description: Student content, lesson plans, and other enhancements to the Time Warp Trio website, concurrent with the creation of thirteen new episodes of the popular educational television series. Website: http://www.timewarptrio.org/ Michigan University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor (Outright: $180,000, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Martin Powers, (734) 764-5400 Project: The China Mirror Project: Object based Case Studies for Teaching China Humanities Description: The development of six additional modules for The China Mirror Project, an online resource in Chinese culture which consists of case studies of cultural objects. New York Center for Education Studies, New York (Outright: $105,000) Contact: Gilbert Sewall, (212) 870-2760 Project: Neoclassicism and American Civic Ideals, 1750-1900 Description: A two year project to develop a website designed for high school level instruction on the influence of classical antiquity in advancing new cultural and political paradigms in North America between 1750 and 1900. Colgate University, Hamilton (Outright: $179,901, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Alice Nakhimovsky, (315) 228-7586 Project: Communal Living in Russia: A Soviet Experiment Description: The development of a bilingual, multimedia website on the everyday life and implications of Soviet experimentation in communal apartment living or kommunalka, implemented as a tool of social policy from 1917 to the 1970s. Cornell University, Ithaca (Outright: $178,901, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Karen Brazell, (607) 255-1341 Project: An Online Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center (JPARC) Description: The development of multimedia resources for understanding the culture and history of Japanese performing arts, including the theatre experience of Japan in the 18th and 19th centuries, major creative figures, and the major genres of noh, bunraku, kabuki, and kyogen. CUNY, Graduate School and University Center, New York (Outright: $165,000, Matching Offer: Match: $500) Contact: Joshua Brown, (212) 817-1970 Project: Picturing United States History: An Online Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence Description:The development of a digital teacher resource on using visual evidence for high school and undergraduate United States history and culture classes. Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York (Outright: $75,000) Contact: Stephen Long, (602) 431-0233 Project: Irish Immigration Education Materials Description: The development of K 12 educational materials and web based resources in support of the museum's new exhibition, "An Irish Family in America." North Carolina National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park (Outright: $110,000) Contact: Richard Schramm, (919) 549-0661 Project: Expansion of "Divining America: Religion and the National Culture" on TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center Description: The development of additional essays on teaching the history of American religion for the "Divining America" educational website. Website: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/tserve.htm Oregon Oregon Historical Society, Portland (Outright: $167,955) Contact: Cara Ungar, (503) 306-5216 Project: Oregon Time Web: A Digital Teaching Resource Description: The creation of an online timeline examining Oregon and Pacific Northwest history, based on the Oregon Historical Society's primary source holdings Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Outright: $188,033, Matching Offer: $5,000) Contact: Amy Hillier, (215) 746-2341 Project: Mapping DuBois' "The Philadelphia Negro": A Website Description: A two-year project to develop a website that will enable students to examine and synthesize information about the African American experience in the sixty block area of Philadelphia that was the subject of W.E.B. DuBois's 1899 study, The Philadelphia Negro. Tennessee Tennessee State Museum Foundation, Nashville (Outright: $194,640) Contact: Paulette Fox, (615) 741-0816 Project: Tennessee Times: The History of a State, A History of a Nation Description: A website for middle school students focused on Tennessee history within the broader context of American history, using primary sources from the Tennessee State Museum, the Tennessee State Library, and universities. Virginia Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington (Outright: $190,000) Contact: Claire Griffin, (703) 894-1776 Project: Exploring Landmark Supreme Court Cases: A Document Based Questions Approach Description: The development of a resource book and a website for high school teachers and students on important Supreme Court cases primarily dealing with the interpretation of the Bill of Rights. George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $180,000, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: T. Mills Kelly, (703) 993-2169 Project: Making the History of 1989: Sources and Narratives of the Fall of Communism Description: The development of a website for teaching about 1989 and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe through a collection of primary source documents, materials on how historians use documents to create historical narratives, and teaching modules. University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Outright: $99,715) Contact: James Ceaser, (434) 924-7903 Project: Constitutionalism and Democracy: An American Experience Description: To support the development and testing of an undergraduate curriculum on American constitutionalism and democracy at the University of Virginia. University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Outright: $184,062, Matching Offer: $10,000) Contact: Deborah Parker, (434) 924-4654 Project: The World of Dante: Teaching the Divine Comedy Through Digital Resources Description: The expansion of the website, The World of Dante, to include Purgatory and Paradise, and new visual, audio, and textual resources. Website: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/dante/