NATIONAL EDUCATION PROJECTS
Division of Education
Announced: April 2000

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Supreme Court Historical Society, Washington, DC (Outright: $175,000, Matching: $30,000)
Director: Maeva Marcus, (202) 502-1040
Project: Institute for Constitutional Studies
Description: The establishment in Washington, D.C., of a graduate institute and consortium to promote interdisciplinary teaching about the United States Constitution.

GEORGIA

Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw (Outright: $210,000, Matching: $15,000)
Director: Sarah Robbins, (770) 423-6297
Project: Keeping and Creating American Communities
Description: The interdisciplinary collaboration of secondary school teachers and scholars in northwest Georgia to address the issues of regional and national identity and what it means to be an American.
Web Address: http://www.kennesaw.edu/english/kmwp/

ILLINOIS

Newberry Library, Chicago (Outright: $240,000, Matching: $3,000)
Director: James R. Akerman, (312) 255-3523
Project: Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
Description: The development of a website with historical and contemporary maps and a coordinated program of teaching materials to strengthen K-12 instruction in U.S. history and geography.

INDIANA

Indiana University, Bloomington (Outright: $170,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Phyllis Klotman, (812) 855-6041
Project: African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century
Description: The development of a CD-ROM which would provide a scholarly, comprehensive introduction to African American film studies for use in the undergraduate curriculum.

IOWA

University of Iowa, Iowa City (Outright: $175,819, Matching: $15,000)
Director: Lauren H. Rabinovitz, (319) 335-0315
Project: Yesterday's Wonderlands: Introducing Modernism to America
Description: The development of materials for a CD-ROM showing how early 20th-century amusement parks helped popularize urban modernism and consumerism in the United States for use in United States history and American Studies courses.

MARYLAND

University of Maryland, College Park (Outright: $175,000, Matching: $35,000)
Director: Catherine Ingold, (202)637-8881
Project: Web-based Teaching of Spanish Language and U.S. Latino/a Cultures to Heritage Students
Description: Through the National Foreign Language Center in Washington, D.C., the creation of six web-based modules to serve critical needs in the teaching of Spanish language and Hispanic American culture to heritage language students, connected with a national electronic network and an ongoing forum.

MASSACHUSETTS

Assumption College, Worcester (Outright: $160,000, Matching: $10,000)
Director: John McClymer, (508) 767-7278
Project: American History and Culture on the Web
Description: The development of online teaching materials in three eras of United States history--the American Revolution, the Civil War era, and the 1920s.

North Shore Community College, Danvers (Outright: $247,600)
Director: Terri Whitney, (978) 762-4000 ext. 5567
Project: Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Museum and the Classroom: A Collaboration of Salem Museums and English Instructors
Description: A collaborative effort among high school and college teachers and museum educators at the House of Seven Gables, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Salem Maritime National Historic Site to develop a website for teaching about Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work.

Smith College, Northampton (Outright: $180,000, Matching: $20,000)
DirectorS: Dana Leibsohn and Barbara Mundy, (413) 585-3137
Project: Vistas: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, 1520-1820
Description: The development of an interactive CD-ROM and associated website to support the teaching of colonial Latin America's visual culture through the interpretation of images to be collected from various sites in the United States and Latin America.

MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Dearborn (Outright: $222,708)
Director: Camron Amin, (313) 436-9171
Project: Modern Middle East Sourcebook Project
Description: The development of historical materials in a sourcebook for the study of modern Middle Eastern history at the college and university level.

MINNESOTA

Macalester College, St. Paul (Outright: $150,000, Matching: $10,000)
Director: James von Geldern, (651) 696-6568
Project: Digital Sourcebook of Soviet Russian History
Description: The development of a digital, multimedia sourcebook of Soviet Russian history from 1917 to the present, which would include primary sources from recently-opened Soviet archives to be published both online and on a CD-ROM for use in undergraduate classrooms.

NEW MEXICO

Institute of American Indian & Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Santa Fe (Outright: $100,000)
Directors: Wade Chambers and Greg Cajete, (505)988-6463
Project: The Native Eyes Project: Indian Perspective on Knowledge and Culture
Description: The development of a new undergraduate curriculum drawing upon scholarship in American Indian Studies as well as the history and philosophy of science and technology that would provide Native American students with a firm grounding in contemporary issues impacting on their communities.

NEW YORK

Academy of American Poets, New York (Outright: $120,000, Matching: $10,000)
Director: Kelleen Zubick, (212) 274-0343
Project: Online Poetry Classroom
Description: The development of a website as a resource for teaching poetry for secondary school teachers nationwide through a summer study of poetry and classroom testing of teacher strategies.
Web Address: http://www.poets.org/

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (Outright: $91,000, Matching: $7,000)
Director: Deborah Schwartz, (718) 638-5000 ext. 232
Project: Brooklyn Community Collaborations
Description: Along with their partners, the Brooklyn Children's Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library, the development of activities associated with and the evaluation of the museum's teaching website to strengthen the ties between the schools, learners, and parents who are using and contributing to the website.

Education Development Center, New York (Outright: $230,000)
Director: William Tally, (212) 807-4206
Project: Picturing Modern America: Historical Inquiry Through Primary Sources
Description: The development of web-based tools called "inquiry guides" to help middle and high school students and teachers use existing digital archives for historical research on topics in American history from 1880 to 1920.

NORTH CAROLINA

Motheread, Inc., Raleigh (Outright: $60,000)
Director: Bertha Gorham, (919) 781-2088
Project: HomeWork: A Motheread/Fatheread Curriculum for Working Parents
Description: The development of a formal literature- and history-based curriculum on the themes of home and work for educators involved in Motheread, a national organization dedicated to promoting adult literacy, family reading, and communication.

OHIO

Ohio State University, Columbus (Outright: $155,000, Matching: $10,000)
Director: Francis Abiola Irele, (614) 292-3700
Project: CD-ROM of Oral Literature: Southern African Praise Poetry
Description: The development and production of an educational CD-ROM, plus related text-based materials, on the southern African performance genre of praise poetry (izibongo).

PENNSYLVANIA

Millersville University, Millersville (Outright: $166,509)
Director: Tracey Weis, (717) 871-2025
Project: Underground Railroad Text and Context: Researching, Teaching, and Interpreting the Underground Railroad in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Description: A program of professional development and cooperation among a regional team of nonprofit organizations and Millersville University to study and develop new digitized resources for teaching and learning about the Underground Railroad.

World History Association, Philadelphia (Outright: $200,000, Matching: $50,000)
Director: Heidi Roupp, (970) 923-3661
Project: Developing a New Teaching Field: World History for the 21st Century
Description: In conjunction with the College Board, seminars to prepare 275 school teachers in eight regions to develop and introduce rigorous, well-conceived world history courses, including Advanced Placement courses.

VIRGINIA

George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $245,000, Matching: $3,000)
Director: Roy Rosenzweig, (703) 993-1247
Project: History Matters: The U.S. History Survey on the Web
Description: The further development of the website, History Matters, to enhance the teaching of the U.S. history survey course in high school and college classrooms.
Web Address: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

WISCONSIN

Marquette University, Milwaukee (Outright: $170,000, Matching: $20,000)
Director: James A. Marten, (414) 288-7591
Project: Children in Urban America: A Digital Archive
Description: The development of online educational materials on the experience of children in American cities from the mid-19th century to the present for use in American history courses.

University of Wisconsin, River Falls (Outright: $180,245)
Director: Geoffrey Scheurman, (715) 425-3520
Project: Still Searching for America: Conversations on National Identity
Description: A collaborative inquiry into the nature of American identity among middle and high school social studies teachers, university scholars, teacher educators, master teachers, and curriculum developers.