GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: August 2004

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $275,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of an exhibition of books, manuscripts, maps, art, and photography to explore the encounters of Native Americans with the U.S. Corps of Discovery between 1804 and 1806 and to examine the impact of those encounters during the subsequent two centuries.

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $218,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of the national tour of a panel exhibition, website, catalog, and public programs interpreting Alexander Hamilton's role in the creation of American government and culture.

Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts
New York Public Library
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $299,664.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of an exhibition with a catalog, an Internet site, public programs, and planning for a traveling panel exhibition about the making, ownership, influence, and aesthetics of illuminated manuscripts.

The World War I Years: America Becomes a World Power
National Video Resources
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $292,574.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a series of scholar-led film and reading and discussion programs at 50 libraries around the nation examining the military, social, and political history of the United States during the World War I era.

Branching Out: Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $260,656.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of reading and discussion programs, bus and subway posters, and a companion website exploring 20th-century poetry, as well as intensive training for librarians in five cities.

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MEDIA

CONSULTATION GRANTS

How the Enlightenment Made Our World
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
To consult with scholars about a four-hour documentary film examining how the same ideas and ideals that fueled the European and American Enlightenments inspired similar movements in Japan and China.

From Slavery to the Chain Gang: Convict Leasing in the American South
California Newsreel
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation between filmmakers and humanities advisers for a television documentary on the convict lease system in the post-Civil War South as a form of post-emancipation racial and social control and as a means of mobilizing labor.

In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire
KCET-TV
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars on a three-hour television documentary series chronicling the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire, from the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel through the end of Philip II's reign.

Sinews of War: Money, Battle, and the Building of America
New River Education Fund
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars on a three-hour television documentary series exploring various means that were devised to finance major wars in American history and the importance of the wars for later American financial and economic development.

Photographer William Gedney's Legacy: Truth and Illusion
Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars to develop a one-hour television program on the legacy of American photographer William Gedney (1932-89).

The Great Lakes
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation on a 90-minute documentary film about the Great Lakes region, from its glacial beginnings through the 17th century.

Say It Plain: An Exploration of 20th-Century Black Oratory
Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $9,950.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars for a one-hour documentary program for radio examining landmark African American sermons, speeches, and broadcasts of the 20th century on civil rights and the promise of democracy.

Thomas Paine: Liberty's Messenger
International Center for Global Communications
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars for a television documentary on writer and thinker Thomas Paine (1737-1809).

Blue: A Case Study of the History and Cultural Meaning of a Color
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars to develop a documentary film using the history of the color blue as a timeline for the examination of cultures over time.

Thoroughly Modern Peggy: The Vanguard Guggenheim
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
Award: Outright; $9,392.00 Match; $0.00
Archival research and consultation to prepare a television biography of noted art collector, Peggy Guggenheim, examining her work and her influence on modern American art.

The Funniest Man: The Wit and Music of Bert Williams
Society for American Music
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation for a one-hour radio documentary about Bert Williams (1874-1922), an African American singer and comedian.

DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

Odyssey
WBEZ Alliance
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $100,000.00 Match; $0.00
Development of Odyssey, a daily radio program that engages humanities scholars in an hour-long conversation focused on a single topic.

Speaking of Faith: Biographical Series
Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $90,000.00 Match; $0.00
Development of 12 potential treatments and material for the companion website, together with production of one pilot program, for a series of one-hour programs profiling influential figures in American cultural and religious history for the radio series Speaking of Faith.

The Legend of Tristan
Anglo-American Radio Drama Co.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $32,395.00 Match; $0.00
Development of two radio programs about the Tristan legend based on the medieval romances of Gottfried von Strassburg and Thomas of Britain.

PRODUCTION GRANTS

Foods and Cooking in American Society and Culture
Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $150,000.00 Match; $0.00
Production of a series of 13 short segments and a one-hour program for radio, together with a companion website, exploring the role and symbolism of food in American society and culture.

American Icons on PRI's Studio 360
Public Radio International
Minneapolis, MN
Award: Outright; $350,000.00 Match; $0.00
Production of six one-hour radio programs and 12 feature segments, each examining a single classic work of literature, music, film, architecture, theater, or visual arts that has achieved the status of an "icon" in American culture.

Afropop Worldwide
World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $150,000.00 Match; $0.00
Production of 26 original radio programs and a website that interpret the music and culture of Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the Americas.

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS

CONSULTATION GRANTS

How Far Have We Come? A Case Study of Segregated Mobile, Alabama
Museum of Mobile
Mobile, AL
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars and museum experts to develop an intergenerational oral history project examining the history of Mobile during the Jim Crow era.

South Florida's Yiddish Cultural Legacy
Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture
Coral Gables, FL
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation to plan a traveling exhibition with a companion website about the lost Yiddish cultural legacy of South Florida.

Crossroads of War: The Civil War and the Homefront in the Mid-Atlantic
Border Region
Frederick Community College
Frederick, MD
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation for a regional Civil War website, guided tours, public programs, and publications concerned with the battlefields and the homefront in the border region of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

Interpretive Planning for the B. B. King Museum
B. B. King Museum Foundation
Indianola, MS
Award: Outright; $9,988.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars and interpretive specialists to plan core exhibitions and programs for a new museum interpreting the life and work of B.B. King and Mississippi's Blues heritage.

Defining a New Interpretive Direction for Rochester's Oldest Museum and Archive
Rochester Historical Society
Rochester, NY
Award: Outright; $9,827.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation for the development of a new interpretive plan to steer exhibitions and programs concerned with Rochester's urban heritage.

African-American History Interpretive Planning Consultation
Wyckoff House and Association, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to shape a new interpretation of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, incorporating the history of slavery in early America.

Ancient Greece: An Exhibition for Children and Families
Children's Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars to develop the themes for a traveling exhibition introducing children to the world of ancient Greece.

Desert Stories Project
High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars and interpretive specialists to assess the museum's current interpretative direction and to explore how to incorporate more living history presentations.

African American Interpretation at Scotchtown
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Richmond, VA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars and interpretive specialists, as well as visits to other historic house sites, to devise a broader interpretive framework for Scotchtown, Patrick Henry's home.

Making a House an American Home: Interpreting Immigration to the Chippewa Valley
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI
Award: Outright; $8,705.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation for the development of an interpretive plan for three historic houses in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to identify interconnections and to place the houses in the broader narrative of immigration to the American heartland.

PLANNING GRANTS

Uncle Sam Worked Here
Minnesota Landmarks
Saint Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $40,000.00 Match; $0.00
Planning of design, fabrication, and installation of a permanent onsite exhibition interpreting a 1902 federal building, now known at the Landmark Center.

IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

Alaska's Built Environment: The Enduring Impact of World War II Quonset Huts
Anchorage Museum Association
Anchorage, AK
Award: Outright; $206,400.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of an exhibition, publication, and website interpreting the impact of Quonset huts on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $100,000.00 Match; $150,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, website, and catalog on the origins and development of the institution of kingship among the Maya through AD 550.

Gainsborough's "Cottage Door" and the Landscape of Sensibility
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
San Marino, CA
Award: Outright; $189,424.00 Match; $50,000.00
Implementation of an exhibition and catalog examining the cottage door paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and his contemporaries.

Old Stories, New Voices Intercultural Youth Program Expansion
Colorado Historical Society
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $240,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of three weeklong summer camp programs to be held in Texas, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico for at-risk youth, exploring themes in American history and culture.

The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935
Davenport Museum of Art
Davenport, IA
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition and publication, with associated educational and public programs, exploring early 20th-century art that is both modern and distinctly American.

Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume
Maine State Museum
Augusta, ME
Award: Outright; $323,333.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the history of textiles and clothing of the Wabanaki in the northeastern U.S., examining the ways clothing reflects cultural values and adaptation.

The Vansweringen Archaeological
Site Exhibit
Historic St. Mary's City
St. Mary's City, MD
Award: Outright; $200,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a new interpretation at the Vansweringen complex of buildings and what they show about Maryland's history between 1670 and 1700.

Power and Parody: The European Through African Eyes, 1500-Present
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
Award: Outright; $323,333.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition and catalog of art and utilitarian objects that reflect 500 years of cultural and political interactions between African cultures and Europeans.

Newcomers: The Peopling of This Place
Public Museum of Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, MI
Award: Outright; $323,333.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a permanent exhibition exploring the ethnic heritage and immigration experiences of newcomers to Grand Rapids and the West Michigan region.

Open House
Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $323,333.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a permanent exhibition and accompanying educational and public programs exploring such themes as urban history and immigration through the stories of the successive families that occupied a single house in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1918 to the present.

By Native Hands: Woven Treasures from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Laurel, MS
Award: Outright; $183,002.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation for the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection of Native American baskets, which will place them more centrally into their cultural and historical contexts.

Going Places: An Exhibition on How Horse-Drawn Vehicles Shaped American Life
Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages
Stony Brook, NY
Award: Outright; $225,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a long-term multimedia exhibition with public and school programs about the cultural, economic, and technological history of transportation in America from 1790 to 1920.

Town Criers: Young Curators Reveal Historical News
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $99,500.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation over three years of a project to train young people in three high schools in the methods of historical interpretation, culminating each year in a traveling exhibition and a play interpreting Brooklyn's history.

EarthWorks: Virtual Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, DVD, and website that will digitally recreate prehistoric earthworks of the Ohio River Valley and explore their cultural context and meaning.

Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee
East Tennessee Historical Society
Knoxville, TN
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a permanent exhibition, traveling exhibition, and public and educational programs, exploring national themes in a regional context, and emphasizing how geography affects history and culture.

The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson, and a Changing America
Hermitage
Hermitage, TN
Award: Outright; $225,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a site-wide reinterpretation to place Andrew Jackson and his home, The Hermitage, in the context of United States history from the Revolution to the Civil War era.

The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $250,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, and public and educational programs exploring the role of the art of the American west in the development of American modernism.

Domestic Life and the Plantation Community at Jefferson's Monticello
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of an introductory exhibition and interpretations of the dependencies at Monticello, emphasizing plantation work and the interactions of Jefferson's family with African Americans on the plantation.

Spain in the Age of Exploration 1492-1819
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $300,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition and catalog on Spanish art and culture from 1492 to 1819, within the historical context of the Spanish empire from its inception to its demise.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

CONSULTATION GRANTS

Greater Shaw Model Heritage and Economic Development Project
Cultural Tourism DC
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with ten scholars and programming experts to select interrelated stories for interpretation at historic sites and cultural venues in the Greater Shaw area of Washington, D.C.

Mending the Metropolis: Social Settlements and Urban Reform in Chicago
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $10,000.00 Match; $0.00
Consultation with scholars and library and institutional staff to establish the intellectual framework for the interpretation of Chicago's famous settlement houses.

PLANNING GRANTS

Tracks Across Wyoming
Tracks Across Wyoming, Inc.
Evanston, WY
Award: Outright; $15,000.00 Match; $0.00

Planning of an audio CD, a virtual tour on DVD, and a small traveling exhibition that illuminate for both local residents and travelers the southern Wyoming corridor as a significant place in the history of American migration, transportation, and settlement.

IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

Voices from Detroit: American Black Journal Online
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Award: Outright; $284,993.00 Match; $0.00
Development of a web-based archive of cataloged segments from American Black Journal, one of the longest-running television programs focused on African American culture and public affairs.

Opera Omaha Insights: Lectures, Talks, Seminars; 2004-2005 Season
Opera Omaha
Omaha, NE
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $21,000.00
Implementation of a series of lectures, talks, and seminars exploring the social, political, and historical influences that inspired the four operatic works being produced for the 2004-5 season.

Key Texts of American Jewish Culture
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $99,520.00 Match; $0.00
Implementation of a series of 30 programs at ten venues across the country examining key American Jewish texts that illuminate the intersection of Jewish and mainstream culture.

ExplorePAHistory.com
WITF, Inc.
Harrisburg, PA
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $0.00
Ongoing development of an interactive website that uses new technology to expand and deepen the interpretation of Pennsylvania and American history that is presented on state historical markers.