2005 We the People Projects

The following projects received funding during 2005 as a part of the We the People initiative.

CHALLENGE GRANTS

We the People Challenge Grants in U.S. History and Culture

Art of the Americas Wing: American Colonial and Federal Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Construction of new galleries and period rooms featuring American Colonial and Federal art, as well as endowment for conservation.

Center for the Constitution Endowment
Montpelier Foundation, Orange, VA

Endowment for staff and humanities programming of the Center for the Constitution at Montpelier.

The Duke University Program in American Values and Institutions
Duke University, Durham, NC

Endowment for a visiting professorship, undergraduate seminars, lectures, and an annual conference in a program in American values and institutions.

Freedom of Religion, For Religion, or From Religion? Religion in American Public Life
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

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.

Institute for Constitutional Studies
The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Endowment for a director, a scholar-in-residence program, and seminars for graduate students, teachers, and higher education faculty members in an Institute for Constitutional Studies.

The Richards Civil War Era Center: Interpreting the Struggle for Freedom
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

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.

The Walt Whitman Archive
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Endowment for staff and other costs of managing the digital Walt Whitman Archive.

REGULAR CHALLENGE GRANTS

Achein Center for Research and Cultural Exchange
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Construction of a center for research and cultural exchange and endowment for a visiting scholar program and technology expenses.

Establishing the Archives and Research Center
Trustees of Reservations, Beverly, MA

Endowment for a full-time archivist and a part-time historic resources manager as well as direct support for equipment purchases and reproduction costs.

The Institute for Military History and 20th-Century Studies: Humanities Research and Outreach at Kansas State University
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Endowment for symposia and other programs, faculty and graduate fellowships, a faculty chair, and acquisitions for an institute for military history and twentieth-century studies.

John A. Adams '71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA

Endowment for an oral history archive, library and museum acquisitions, conferences, and publications focusing on the history of the Cold War.

Lessons of Liberty
Liberty Memorial Association, Kansas City, MO

Endowment for an historian/education director, for educational programming, and for related acquisitions.

Morikami: Exploring the Continuing Dialogue Between Japanese and American Cultures
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL

Endowment for the position of director of education and for humanities programming.

Old Independence Education Endowment Campaign
Old Independence Regional Museum, Batesville, AR

Endowment for a half-time humanities educator position to expand programming.

Working the Land: From Slavery to Sharecropping and Beyond in the Arkansas Delta
Arkansas State University, State University, AR

Restoration of two historic sites: the 1858 Lakeport Plantation near Lake Village and the 1930s Mitchell-East Building in Tyronza.

EDUCATION PROJECTS

Faculty Humanities Workshops

African Americans and the Mills and Mill Villages of Gaston County
Gaston College, Dallas, NC

A series of workshops for fifteen college and school teachers on the African American experience in the textile mills of rural North Carolina.

The Circle of We: The Expanding Definition of American Citizenship
Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg, FL

Five workshops for Miami-Dade County teachers examining the ways that American citizenship has been defined and expanded in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the American Constitution
Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ

A series of workshops for faculty and visiting fellows at Seton Hall University, Villanova University, and Princeton University on the natural law foundations of the American constitution.

Neoclassicism in Europe and North America, 1750-1825
Center for Education Studies, New York, NY

A two-week summer workshop for sixteen Southern California high school teachers on European and North American neoclassicism in the period 1750 to 1825, to be held at the Huntington Library.

Visions of Slavery and Freedom in the Writings of Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville and Harriet Jacobs
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA

A faculty humanities workshop for twenty-five school teachers on visions of slavery and freedom in the writings of Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs.

Winning the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

A five-day workshop for Michigan social studies teachers that would examine the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

Institutes for College and University Teachers

The American Maritime People
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT

A six-week institute for twenty college and university teachers on American maritime history from the colonial era to the present.

War & Morality: Rethinking the Just War Tradition for the 21st Century
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

A four-week institute for 30 college teachers to support interdisciplinary study of classical and modern interpretations of "just war" theory.

Institutes for School Teachers

Churchill and America
Ashland University, Ashland, OH

A two-week institute for thirty high school teachers on Winston S. Churchill, his political career, his relationship with America, and his continuing legacy.

Hawthorne and Longfellow
Maine Humanities Council, ME

A three-week institute for thirty school teachers exploring the personal and professional relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Thomas Jefferson: Personality, Character and Public Life
Boston University, Boston, MA

A four-week institute for thirty school teachers on the personality, character, and public life of Thomas Jefferson.

Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens (2003, 2005)
Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, CA

A three-week institute for twenty-five school teachers on American political and constitutional thought.

The Visual Culture of Colonial New England
Salem State College, Salem, MA

A four-week institute for twenty-five school teachers on the visual culture of colonial New England.

Voices Across Time: Teaching American History ThroughSong
University of Pittsburgh, PA

A five-week institute for twenty-five school teachers that would explore topics in American history, including American values and attitudes, through the lens of music.

Landmarks of American History

America’s Industrial Revolution at the Henry Ford
The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI

Two one-week workshops for 80 school teachers on America's industrial revolution, held at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, the Henry Ford Museum, the Benson Ford Research Center, and the Ford Rouge Factory.

Becoming American: Trade, Culture, and Reform in Salem, Massachusetts, 1801-1861
Salem State College, MA

Three one-week workshops for 120 teachers to explore the political, economic, and social history of nineteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, through material and documentary sources.

Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine
Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg, FL

Four one-week workshops for 200 teachers examining Spanish St. Augustine in the context of American colonial history.

Clashing Identities: Arrow Rock, Missouri, Where West Met South, 1820-1860
Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO

Two one-week workshops for 100 teachers to explore political, economic, and social issues of antebellum America through the history of Arrow Rock, Missouri.

Crafting Freedom: Thomas Day and Elizabeth Keckley, Black Artisans and Entrepreneurs
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, NC

Three one-week workshops for 150 school teachers on the history, achievements, and material evidence of black antebellum craftsmen and entrepreneurs.

Hull-House in the Progressive Era: People, Places, and Ideas
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Two six-day workshops for 80 teachers to study the various dimensions of the Progressive movement in American history as they intersect in the activities of Jane Addams, her co-workers, and her neighbors at the Hull-House settlement in Chicago.

James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship
Montpelier Foundation, Orange, VA

Two one-week workshops for 100 teachers examining James Madison's constitutional thought and Montpelier as evidence of Madison's life.

The Last Great American Canal: How the Illinois and Michigan Canal United 19th Century America
Canal Corridor Association – Gaylord Building Historic Site, Lockport, IL

Three one-week workshops for 135 teachers to explore the story of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and its relationship to broader themes in American history.

The Lincoln Home, Society, and Politics in Antebellum America, 1840-1861
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Two one-week workshops for 100 school teachers held at Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, on politics and society in the antebellum United States.

Maryland’s Birthplace – An American Legacy
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD

Two one-week workshops for 90 teachers on the growth of concepts of liberty in Maryland, to be held at the Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Renewing Cherokee Culture and American History through the Cherokee Heritage Center and the Trail of Tears
Association of Core Texts and Courses, Moraga, CA

Two one-week workshops for 90 high school teachers to increase knowledge of Cherokee/American history, to be held at the Cherokee Heritage Center at Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

The Rouge Plant, Henry Ford, and Manufacturing History: 1917-2004
Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI

Two one-week workshops for 80 high school teachers to study corporate, labor, and cultural history through primary sources and visits to the River Rouge Plant and nearby sites.

Shaping the Constitution: A View from Mount Vernon, 1783-1789
Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, VA

Three one-week summer workshops, held at Mount Vernon, for 150 school teachers, on George Washington and the genesis of the Constitution

Stony the Road We Trod: Using Alabama’s Civil Rights Landmarks to Teach American History
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, AL

Four one-week summer workshops for 200 teachers on the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama, to be held at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

A Vast and Many Voiced Creation: Congress and the Capitol
Claremont Graduate University, CA

Two one-week workshops for 100 school teachers exploring how the art and architecture of the United States Capitol reveal the ideals and realities of the nation from its founding to the Civil War.

Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges

Cleveland Landmark Workshop: History of Steel in America
Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH

Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty on the history of the steel industry and its role in nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrial America to be held at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.

Currents of History: The Columbia River and the Making of the American West
Portland State University, OR

Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty to explore major themes in United States history illuminated by studying sites on "the Great River of the West."

Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike
Jackson State University, MS

Two one-week workshops for 50 community college teachers anchored in landmarks central to the Freedom Summer and the Sanitation Workers' Strike, important episodes in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Remembering the Alamo
Community College Humanities Association, Newark, NJ

Two one-week workshops for 50 community college teachers on the history and symbolic importance of the Alamo.

Working the Woods: Four Historic Landmarks in the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Mars Hill College, NC

Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty to explore the relationships of the Cherokee, settlers, loggers, and scientific foresters to the natural resources and historic sites of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area.

National History Competition

National History Competition
Boston University, Boston, MA

Two-year pilot testing of a National History Competition for elementary and middle-school students to determine whether such a competition has the potential to be offered on a national scale.

Seminars for College Teachers

Art, Literature, and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture
SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo, NY

A three-week seminar for fifteen college and university teachers on Cuban-American art, literature, and philosophy.

Seminars for School Teachers

The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan: Place, Memory, Identity
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on the history and culture of the American Great Plains.

The Principle of Separation of Church and State
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

A four-week seminar for fifteen middle and high school teachers on the principle of separation of church and state.

Re-Examining the Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice Between the Revolution and the Civil War
Library Company of Philadelphia, PA

A four-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on the American abolitionist movement from the Revolutionary War era to the Civil War.

Roots: Teaching the African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA

A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on the Atlantic context of African history during the period from the first European contacts with sub-Saharan Africa to the end of the forced migration of slaves from Africa to the Americas.

Teaching and Learning Resources

American Foreign Policy 1887-1945: Overseas Expansion and Foreign Wars
Ashland University, Ashland, OH

The development of web-based lesson plans and interactive exercises to engage high school students in the study of a formative period in the development of American foreign policy.

Bronx Architecture: A Multimedia Guide for Teachers
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

A three-year project to develop a website documenting fifty historically and architecturally significant buildings in the Bronx, which would include photographs and written commentaries, biographies of architects, neighborhood histories, lesson plans, virtual walking tours, and resources for further learning.

Exploring American History through the Lens of Industrialization
Ridgeway Area School District, Ridgeway, PA

The expansion and improvement of the ExplorePAhistory.com website, including the development of three new K-12 teaching units on the role of iron, bituminous coal, and industry in Pennsylvania's history.

Lessons in Courage: From the Trail of Tears to Cherokee Recovery
Association for Core Texts and Courses, Moraga, CA

A two-year materials development project to create a website for high school students on Cherokee Indian history and culture from pre-contact times through the present era.

Our Living Past: Antebellum America, 1815-1860
Worcester Public Schools, Worcester, MA

The development of a website on antebellum America (1815-1860) drawing from existing sites and the collections of the American Antiquarian Society and Old Sturbridge Village.

Picturing Chicago
National-Louis University, Chicago, IL

A two-year materials development project to produce a sourcebook and companion website for K-12 teachers on approaches to studying Chicago history through maps and other visual images.

Presidential Timeline
University of Texas, Austin, TX

The development of a web-based structure for bringing together the digital assets of Presidential libraries based on a timeline of 20th-century Presidential administrations, the major events they encountered, and the decision making process brought to bear on these events

The Shaping Role of Place in African American Biography
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA

A curriculum development project focusing on the lives of five African Americans whose stories link a rural New England county with events and themes of national significance.

Using International Comparisons of Political Systems to Help Students Understand Democracy
Freedom House, New York, NY

The development of a website and teacher study guide to support comparative examination of the political systems of the United States and other countries.

PRESERVATION AND ACCESS

Architectural and Design Collections Rehousing
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL

The purchase of archival storage furniture and materials required to improve the housing of the museum’s architectural works on paper and photographs, including the L. Murray Dixon and Morris Lapidus archives.

Archival Preservation Project
Peaks to Plains Museum, Red Lodge, MT

The purchase of storage equipment and preservation supplies to rehouse archival records, photographs, maps, and other materials related to family, mining, labor, and legal history of the area surrounding Red Lodge, Montana, from the1880s to the 1970s.

Archival Supplies for Library and Archives Collections
Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, ID

The purchase of storage enclosures to re-house archival and oral history holdings that document the legislative, public, and architectural history of Idaho during the twentieth century.

Arranging and Describing Archives Related to Appalachian History and Culture
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Arranging and describing 2,662 linear feet of archives and manuscripts relating to the history and culture of Eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia. The records are from 51 collections and date from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1970s.

Artifact Preservation
Gold Nugget Museum, Paradise, CA

Purchasing storage furniture and materials to rehouse material culture collections related to the history and culture of northern California.

Assessment of African-American Art Collections
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

A workshop on the basic preservation of art collections, a preservation assessment of paintings and works on paper, and the purchase of a light meter and light-filtering muslin to preserve a collection by modern African American artists.

Assessment of Photograph Collection
Friends of Hildene, Inc., Manchester, VT

Consultation with a conservator to work with the repository's staff to safeguard and rehouse images dating from the 1840s through the 1970s in the organization's Lincoln Family Photograph Collection.

Audio Archive Assessment Project
Jack Straw Productions, Seattle, WA

A preservation assessment of the organization's audio collection that focuses on the history and culture of the Puget Sound region of the American Northwest, and includes public forums, economic and political programs, music, documentaries, and interviews since 1962.

California Newspaper Project: Microfilming
University of California, Riverside, CA

The preservation microfilming of 484,849 pages of deteriorating newsprint to complete California's participation in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). The project would also preserve 16,000 reels of negative microfilm and establish an archive to continue and maintain the work accomplished by the California Newspaper Project.

Collection Rehousing
Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots, Oklahoma City, OK

Purchasing preservation materials to rehouse material culture collections related to the history of women in aviation.

Collections Care Planning
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Richmond, VA

Consultation with a conservator to develop a storage plan for material culture collections that document the history of Virginia from 1607 to the present.

Collections Preservation and Space Management
Oberlin Heritage Center, OH

The purchase of cabinets and shelving for the storage of costumes, textiles, and other artifacts related to the history of Oberlin, Ohio.

Conservation and Archival Planning Assessment
Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, Concord, MA

Consultation with conservators who will help the museum's staff develop a plan for the storage of its collections, which include books, documents, photographs, and textiles belonging to Alcott and her family.

Conservation Assessment
Mark Twain House, Hartford, CT

An assessment of the conservation treatment needs of the museum's Victorian era paintings and works of art on paper.

Conservation Assessment for Shaker Manuscript Collections
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA

A conservation assessment of the museum's Shaker manuscript collection.

Creating a Digital Archive of Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" Newspaper Column
The George Washington University, Washington, DC

The creation of an online edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's syndicated newspaper column, "My Day," which ran six days a week, producing some 7,200 columns from 1935 through 1962.

Creating a Digital Library on American Slavery
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

The final editing of information about slaves and free blacks for an online database drawn from the analysis of petitions to the legislatures and county courts in fifteen former slaveholding states and the District of Columbia, dating from the American Revolution through the Civil War.

Creating a Union Catalog of North American Imprints, 1801-1820
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

The creation of a machine-readable catalog of all books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States and Canada between 1801 and 1820.

Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

The compilation of the fifth volume of the "Dictionary of American Regional English" (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.

Disaster Response Planning
Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte, MT

Hiring a consultant to produce a disaster preparedness/emergency response plan and the purchase of supplies to ensure the long-term care of 12,500 linear feet of archives related to mining, labor, and local history, 1860 to 1990.

Documenting the Archaeological Collections of the State of Maryland
Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, St. Leonard, MD

Preserving and cataloging 185,000 original archaeological and laboratory records associated with 34 major archaeological sites in Maryland dating from 9,000 BCE to CE 1600.

Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan
Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, PA

The development of an emergency preparedness and response plan for the Betsy Ross House, which preserves collections of tools, furnishings, and decorative arts of the eighteenth century and items with a documented provenance to Ross and her descendants.

Environmental Monitoring Program Initiative
Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN

An environmental survey of the Carnegie-Vincent Library and the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, which document Abraham Lincoln's life and times, local and regional history, and the history of the university.

Environmental Monitoring Project
Bessemer Historical Society, Pueblo, CO

The purchase and installation of environmental monitoring equipment to provide information about the fluctuation of temperature and humidity in a facility containing archives relating to a fuel and iron company, 1872-1990s.

Environmental Monitoring and Rehousing Material Culture Collections
Break O’Day Farm and Metcalfe Museum, Inc., Durham, OK

Purchasing environmental monitoring equipment and storage furniture and materials to preserve art, archival, and material culture collections related to the life and times of frontier artist Augusta Metcalfe (1881-1971).

General Preservation Survey
City of Gloucester, MA

A preservation assessment of archives that document the local history of Gloucester, Massachusetts, from 1634 to 1874.

Illinois Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

The cataloging of newspaper titles held by repositories in southern Illinois, the survey of collections in the southeastern part of the state, and the microfilming of 63 unique titles at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Improving Environment and Storage of Archival Collections
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA

The purchase of compact shelving and re-housing of archives related to the history of business in Virginia from the 18th through the 20th century.

Installing Environmental and Security Systems and Rehousing Collections
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, IA

The purchase and installation of environmental, fire detection and suppression, and security systems; the purchase and installation of compact shelving; the documentation and cleaning of artifacts; the relocation and rehousing of the collections in the newly renovated storage area.

Library Preservation Survey
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

A general preservation assessment of the library collections and the physical facility housing documents and objects related to the history of Albany and the Hudson Valley since the 18th century.

Museum Library Preservation Assessment
Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, WA

A preservation assessment of the museum's library and archival collections, which focus on the history of railroads in the Pacific Northwest.

The Northwest Digital Archive: Expanding Access to Archival Collections in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Providing expanded online access to archival and manuscript collections at seventeen institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, which includes providing administrative and technical support and training participants in encoding and the use of style sheets.

On-Site Consultation and Training
Carbon County Museum, Rawlins, WY

A general preservation assessment and on-site training workshop on the care of material culture collections that relate to the history and culture of south-central Wyoming.

Practical Climate Control, Fire Risk Mitigation, and Lighting Improvements for Shelburne Museum Collections
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

Improvements in environmental conditions, fire protection, and lighting in three historic buildings that display and interpret collections of American decorative, fine, and folk art.

Preservation Assessment
Christiansburg Institute, Inc., VA

A preservation assessment of archival and artifact collections related to a school for African Americans in Virginia from 1866 to 1966, and a workshop on basic preservation and archival practices.

Preservation Assessment of Map Collection
Queens Borough Public Library, NY

A preservation survey of a map collection that documents the Long Island area of New York from 1634 to the present.

Preservation Assessment of Photography Collection
Staten Island Historical Society, NY

A preservation assessment of a photographic collection created by lifelong Staten Island resident Alice Austen (1866-1952) that documents the changing social history and culture of the community from 1884 to 1936.

Preservation Assessment of Special Collections and Archives
Wright State University, Dayton, OH

A comprehensive preservation survey of the university archives and an assessment of its special collection related to aviation history, and the history of the city of Dayton and of the Miami Valley of Ohio.

Preservation Microfilming of The New York Public Library's Collection on the United States Banking and Finance Industry
NY Public Library, New York, NY

The preservation microfilming of 4,000 deteriorating volumes on the history of banking and finance in the United States published from 1800 to 1950.

Preservation of Lower East Side History Materials
New York Public Library, New York, NY

A preservation assessment and the purchase of archival supplies for books and other collections that document the history of the Lower East Side, with an emphasis on immigrants and immigration. The collections are housed at the Seward Park Branch Library.

Preservation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection
House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA

Consultation with a conservator and the purchase of storage supplies and shelving for the Nathaniel Hawthorne collection, which includes documents, personal belongings, and books pertaining to Hawthorne.

Preservation of Special Collections
Newport News Public Library System, VA

A preservation assessment of archives, manuscripts, maps, and other records related to the history of Newport News, Virginia, from the 1820s to the 1980s, and a workshop to educate staff on proper preservation procedures.

Preserving the Louisiana Supreme Court Archives
University of New Orleans, LA

The purchase of boxes and file folders to re-house the Supreme Court of Louisiana archives dating from 1890 to 1904.

Preserving and Providing Access to Manuscripts, Performance Recordings, and Oral Histories on African-American Music
Columbia College, Chicago, IL

The digital reformatting of 130 interviews and musical performances and the arrangement and description of the manuscript papers of three twentieth-century scholars of African-American music.

Protecting Manuscripts and Printed Materials with Fire and Security Systems
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA

The installation of fire and security systems in Library Hall for the protection of the society's resources in early American history and the history of science and technology, as well as manuscripts and printed materials documenting the cultural and intellectual heritage of the nation.

Purchasing Storage Furniture and Rehousing the Museum's Material Culture Collections
American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA

The purchase of storage furniture to rehouse American textiles in the museum's collections.

Rehousing Arkansas Supreme Court Documents
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

The purchase of storage enclosures and materials to re-house the Arkansas Supreme Court Briefs and Records Collection dating from 1836 to 1886.

Rehousing Collections of Maryland History
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD

The purchase of acid-free storage materials for eleven collections of papers related to the history of Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic, ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Rehousing Historic Native American Clothing and Textiles
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

The purchase of storage furniture and rehousing of 75 American Indian clothing and textile items, which date from the 1840s to the 1920s.

Rehousing of the Newsfilm Library
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

The rehousing of 11 million feet of film documenting world history, society, and culture from the years 1919-1934 and 1942-1944.

Rehousing Paintings of Native Americans
South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

The purchase of ultra-violet light filters and storage cabinets and supplies to re-house a collection of Yanktonai Indian paintings.

Vault Collections Preservation
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR

The purchase of supplies for the rehousing of 200 linear feet of selected archival materials related to Oregon's history from 1750 to the present.

Virginia Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA

The cataloging of approximately 1,350 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of 270,000 pages of newsprint, as part of Virginia's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.

National Digital Newspaper Program

California Digital Newspaper Project: Phase One
University of California, Riverside, CA

Digitization of 150,000 pages of California newspapers dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Florida Digital Newspaper Project: Phase One
University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, FL

The digitization of 120,000 pages of Florida newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Kentucky Digital Newspaper Project: Phase One
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

The digitization of 100,000 pages of Kentucky newspapers dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

New York State Digital Newspaper Project: Phase One
New York Public Library, New York, NY

Digitization of 100,000 pages of New York newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Utah Digital Newspaper Project: Phase One
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Utah newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Virginia Digital Newspaper Project: Phase One
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA

The digitization of 112,000 pages of Virginia newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Documenting Endangered Languages

Smithsonian Cherokee Language Materials and Languages Revitalization
Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, NC

A project to digitize Cherokee language materials in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and to work with Cherokee elders to translate and assess these materials.

Public Programs

Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America
The New York Historical Society, New York, NY

Traveling panel exhibition, website, catalog, and public programs interpreting Alexander Hamilton's role in the creation of American government and culture. The American Library Association will help distribute this program to forty libraries throughout the country between fall 2005 and spring 2007.

The libraries receiving grants are:

Allen Public Library, Allen, TX
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Athens-Clarke County Library, Athens, GA
Bethel College, Tennessee, McKenzie, TN
Brigham City Public Library, Brigham City, UT
Brunswick-Glynn County Regional Library, Brunswick, GA
Boston Public Library Foundation, Boston, MA
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Clinton-Maycomb Public Library, Clinton Township, MI
Dana College, Blair, NE
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
Florence Williams Public Library System, St. Croix, VI
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library, Palm Bay, FL
Gail Borden Public Library District, Elgin, IL
Harris County Public Library, Cyfair College Branch, Cypress, TX
Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL
Illinois State University, Milner Library, Normal, IL
Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, Martinsburg, WV
Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, MN
Missoula Public Library, Missoula, MT
Ocean County Library, Toms River, NJ
Pearl Public Library, Pearl, MS
Poughkeepsie Public Library District, Poughkeepsie, NY
Prince William Public Library System, Chinn Park Regional Library,
Prince William, VA
Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, NY
Racine Public Library, Racine, WI
Rose State College, Midwest City, OK
Saint Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC
Spring Lake District Library, Spring Lake, MI
State Library of Ohio, Columbus, OH
Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX
Towson University, Albert S. Cook Library, Towson, MD
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Western New England College, Springfield, MA
Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg, VA

Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

An expanded tour of a traveling panel exhibition incorporating more than 60 rare documents and drawings on Lincoln’s role in the emancipation of slaves. Sixty libraries will be added to the original tour schedule of forty, extending the project into 2009.

Jazz Legacy: An American Art Form
National Video Resources, New York, NY

Implementation of a six-part series of film viewing and discussion programs and website about the history and interpretation of jazz at 50 venues throughout the U.S.

Our Common Wealth: The Massachusetts Experiment in Democracy
Friends of the Commonwealth Museum, Boston, MA

Implementation of a permanent exhibition of founding documents from the Massachusetts Archives about the development of basic democratic freedoms in the colony and state from 1620 to the 20th century and how they influenced the nation.

Humanities Projects in Media

Andrew Jackson: And the Shaping of American History
KCET-TV, Los Angeles, CA

Production of a four-hour television documentary series examining the life and times of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.

Audubon: Drawn from Nature
Florentine Films, Inc., Haydenville, MA

Production of a one-hour documentary film on John James Audubon (1785-1851), the first great American painter of wildlife.

Becoming Helen Keller
Straight Ahead Pictures, Conway, MA

Production of a two-hour television documentary on the life of Helen Keller and her place in American culture.

Democracy at War: Lincoln's Three Crises Documentary Series
National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA

Planning of a three-part television documentary that examines the critical constitutional issues that Abraham Lincoln faced during the Civil War.

Eugene O'Neill
City Lore: New York Center for Urban Folk Culture, New York, NY

Production of a two-hour film exploring the life and work of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953).

Hope & Healing: The Untold Story of the Ellis Island Hospital
Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, MA

Production of a one-hour television documentary about the Ellis Island immigrant hospital.

Prince Among Slaves
Unity Productions Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA

Production of a 90-minute film about Abdul Rahman bin Ibrahima Sori, an African prince who was captured in battle in 1787, sold into slavery, shipped to Mississippi, and, 40 years later, freed and sent back to Africa.

The Real Louisa May Alcott
Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, MA

Production of a 60-minute documentary film that explores the life and work of Louisa May Alcott (1832-88).

Walt Whitman: Boisterous Voice of America
Film/Video Arts, Inc., New York, NY

Production of a two-hour television biography of Walt Whitman.

Interpreting America’s Historic Places

Crossroads of War: The Civil War and the Homefront in the Mid-Atlantic Border Region
Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD

Consultation for and implementation of 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.

Future in Balance: Immigration, Public Health, and the Ellis Island Hospitals
Save Ellis Island, Inc., Gladstone, NJ

Implementation of an exhibition on the history of the health inspection and treatment of immigrants in the hospital complex on Ellis Island.

Implementation of Exhibits and Interpretation at the Lincoln Cottage in Washington, DC
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC

Implementation of an exhibition and guided tours at the cottage that Abraham Lincoln used as a seasonal retreat from 1862 to 1864.

Kona Historic Ranch and Store
Kona Historical Society, Capt. Cook, HI

Implementation of a living history interpretation, exhibitions, a website, a publication, and public programs interpreting the 19th-century Greenwell General Store and ranch on the island of Hawaii.

Museums and Historical Organizations

Centennial Exploration Exhibition at the New Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall
Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Implementation of an exhibition interpreting Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition, to be installed in a new museum building.

The Indiana History Train
Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN

Implementation of two exhibitions mounted in railroad cars, with related public programs, about images of Abraham Lincoln and Indiana's role in the Civil War, scheduled to travel to over 20 sites in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois.

James Presley Ball, 19th-Century Photographer: An Exhibition Project on His Life and Work
Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH

Planning of two traveling exhibitions with a catalog and public and school programs about African American photographer James Presley Ball as artist, entrepreneur, and abolitionist.

The Place I Call Home: Northeastern Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad History
Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, Montrose, PA

Planning for a traveling exhibition, together with a website and DVD, on the regional history of Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and a research template that could be replicated in other similar areas.

Planning for a New Alaska Gallery
Anchorage Museum Association, Anchorage, AK

Planning for a reinstallation of the museum's galleries that deal with Alaska history, with a special focus on the relationship between the people and the geographic place.

Planning a New Jane Addams-Hull House Museum Permanent Exhibition
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Planning to reinstall the permanent exhibitions at the Hull-House Museum to incorporate new scholarship about how Chicago's first settlement house, founded in 1889, influenced the definition of American democracy.

Through Galveston's Gates: Immigration into TX & America, 1845-1914
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX

Planning for a traveling exhibition and accompanying programs exploring immigration and slave migration through Galveston Island, Texas, 1845-1914.

Transcendent Traditions: Baskets of Two Continents
Museum for African Art, Long Island, NY

Implementation of a traveling exhibition, public programs, and website on the heritage of coiled baskets in South Carolina's Low Country and on how they reflect local history and changing and artistic traditions.

World Brooklyn
Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Implementation of a new permanent exhibition, website, and public programs that explore the diverse cultures of Brooklyn, New York.

Special Projects

The Meaning of Service: A Reading and Discussion Program for Youth in Volunteer Service
Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago, IL

Implementation of a national reading and discussion program for youth service workers on fundamental questions about public service through philosophical examination of diverse historical and literary texts.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Collaborative Research

Amish Diversity and Identity: Transformations in 20th Century America
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

Publication of a book on the Amish in twentieth-century America, along with the convening of a conference devoted to that subject, and creation of a website about the Amish and an annotated bibliography of Amish studies. (36 months)

An Integrative Historical and Archaeological Study of the Rise to Leadership of Kamehameha the Great, Hawaii
University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI

A study of the rise to power of Kamehameha, the 18th-century Hawaiian chief who united the Hawaiian Islands socially and politically. The project makes use of a variety of archival and archaeological resources. (18 months)

Music In Gotham
CUNY Research Foundation, New York, NY

Preparation of a searchable database and a 2-volume history of musical life in New York City between 1862 and 1876.

Fellowships for University Teachers

The Advancement of the Antislavery Movement through Print Culture in Antebellum America
Teresa Goddu, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

A book, Selling Antislavery, that examines how the subject of slavery became a marketable commodity in the antebellum period.

The Age of Impeachment: U.S. Constitutional Culture since 1960
David Kyvig, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

A book that traces connections between impeachment episodes, illuminates the modern presidency, and explores the political and media cultures surrounding these events.

Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
Alan Houston, University of California, San Diego, CA

A book about Benjamin Franklin focusing on his participation in cosmopolitan European debates over the modern commercial republic.

A Cultural Biography of American Scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Christoph Irmscher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD

A cultural biography of the American scientist Louis Agassiz, once considered the most important American scientist but now mostly remembered for his stubborn opposition to Darwinism.

Editing the Legal Documents Pertaining to the Salem Witch Trials
Bernard Rosenthal, SUNY, Binghamton, NY

A new edition of “Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt,” to include transcriptions of all relevant manuscripts related to the legal proceedings of the Salem witch trials as well as all published trial records where the original manuscript does not survive.

The Final Volumes of Poets Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Merrill, and Ammons
Helen Vendler, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

A book examining the influence of imminent death on the language and poetic structure in the last books of six poets.

A History of the Slave Ship
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh, PA

A book detailing the history of the slave ship, investigating its material evolution, concentrating on the British and American slave trade of the eighteenth century and the ship's role in Atlantic economic development.

Irving Berlin on Broadway
Jeffrey Magee, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

A book on Irving Berlin that explores the contemporaneity of Berlin's shows, the features that distinguish his songwriting from his peers, and the ways in which his work might be construed as a distinctively American Jewish contribution.

Leonard Bernstein and the Theater
Carol Oja, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

A book in a new series called Broadway Masters, interweaving a discussion of musical style with the cultural and creative issues raised by Bernstein's shows.

The Life of American Singer-Guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)
Gayle Wald, George Washington University, Washington, DC

A biography, Music in the Air: the Life of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, of one of the great underappreciated American popular musicians of the twentieth century.

Louis Armstrong and the Rise of Jazz
Brian Harker, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

An in-depth exploration of trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong and his several vital contributions to jazz, including virtuosic technical facility, rhythmic swing, rhetorical coherence, extended range, and scat singing.

The Most American Artist: A Biography of Thomas Hart Benton
Justin Wolff, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

A cultural biography of the modern American painter, Thomas Hart Benton, examining Benton's life and career in the context of cultural and political developments during the first half of the twentieth century.

The Novel and the Photograph in Twentieth-Century Harlem
Sara Blair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

A book examining the conjunction of literary and photographic representations in Harlem in the decades following the riot of March 1935.

Reconstructing African American Life in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Carla Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

A book reconstructing the social and cultural life of nineteenth-century black New Yorkers through the medium of family history.

Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

A Biography of American Author Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem State College, MA

A biograrphy, 'All That Is Within Me': A Documentary Biography of Catharine Maria Sedgwick1789-1867, contextualizing primary materials crucial to biographical, historical, cultural, and literary studies of Sedgwick and her era.

An Edition of the Diaries of American Socialite Caroline Drayton Phillips (1880-1965)
Kathleen Dalton, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

A publication of edited and annotated diaries of Caroline Drayton Phillips, wife of diplomat William Phillips and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s second cousin.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Later Public Architecture, 1938-1959
Joseph Siry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

A book on the later public architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed in the last twenty-plus years of his life (1938-59) and partly realized after his death.

Frederick Douglass and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI

A book on Frederick Douglass’s political thought, exploring his attempts to ground his arguments in permanent, universal truths of political philosophy and considering his application of those principles to some of the deepest problems in American political life.

Guarding the Gate: Ellis Island and the Making of the American Nation
Vincent Cannato, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

A book, Guarding the Gate, re-examining Ellis Island’s place in the making of modern America, placing the regulation of immigration within the context of the Progressive Era, and showing how the evolution of Ellis Island mirrors America’s own ambivalence towards immigration.

Labor and Technological Change in the U.S. Iron Industry, 1800-1868
Anne Knowles, Middlebury College, VT

A comprehensive study of the American iron industry's transition from small-scale production to large-scale modern manufacturing, focusing on the role of skilled iron workers and labor-management relations.

The Photographs of American Socialite Marian “Clover” Adams (1843-1885)
Natalie Dykstra, Hope College, Holland, MI

A publication of photographs by Marian “Clover” Adams, with an introduction, a biographical essay, and a critical essay placing her images in the context of 1880s America.

Politics, Culture, and the Underworld in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

A book, Mysteries of the City, examining the origins, revelations, and legacies of the explosive 1894 Lexow Committee inquiry into the New York Police Department.

The Story of the Baltimore Black Sox and the 1929 American Negro League Pennant
Daniel Nathan, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

A history of the Baltimore Black Sox and its 1929 pennant-winning season using specific events to illustrate and reflect on African-American cultural history, local race relations, politics, business practices, and social life.

Faculty Research Awards

Border War: The Long War before the American Civil War
Stanley Harrold, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

A comprehensive analysis of violent confrontation between antislavery and proslavery forces occurring between 1820 and 1860, on the border between America’s free-labor and slave-labor states.

Scholarly Editions

Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791
The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Ongoing editorial work on the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Ongoing editorial work on the New York series of printed and manuscript sources relating to the ratification of the U. S. Constitution and the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Ongoing work on a documentary editing project of Eleanor Roosevelt's post-White House writings on democracy and human rights.

Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA

Digital online publication of 35 previously printed volumes, including The Journal of John Winthrop, the Winthrop Papers, The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, the Adams Family Correspondence, The Legal Papers of John Adams, and the Papers of John Adams.

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Ongoing editorial work on a 12-volume scholarly edition of Ernest Hemingway's letters.

Music of the United States of America (MUSA): A National Series of Scholarly Editions
American Musicological Society, Philadelphia, PA

Ongoing editorial work on the series “Music of the United States,” which covers the breadth of the country's music in terms of time, genres, composers, and form.

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Ongoing editorial work on a series presenting Franklin's thought and activities in the context of the eighteenth-century American and European enlightenment.

The Papers of James Madison
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Preparation of the complete papers and recorded actions of James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" for publication.

The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice University, Houston, TX

Ongoing editorial work on the papers of Jefferson Davis.

Preparation of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Ongoing editorial work on writings from the last years of the life of Ulysses S. Grant and a new edition of his Memoirs.

The Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Ongoing editorial work on a 12-volume edition of the papers of Samuel Gompers.

Thomas A. Edison Papers
Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ

Ongoing work on the collected and edited correspondence, laboratory notes, and other technical and business records of Thomas Edison.

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Publication and editing of the works of Henry David Thoreau, nineteenth-century American writer, naturalist, and social commentator.

Summer Stipends

Anti-discrimination Theory and the Reshaping of American Democracy
Thomas Powers, University of Minnesota, MN

Development of a general interpretive framework for understanding the new commitment in American life to the principles and ideals connected with the fight against discrimination.

Black Founder: Richard Allen, African Americans, and the Early American Republic
Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

A biography focusing on Richard Allen’s career as a community leader, a reformer, an abolitionist, and an advocate of black emigration to Canada and Haiti.

Constitutionalism and Political Change: Thomas Jefferson and the Development of the Impeachment Power
Jeremy Bailey, Eastern Washington University, WA

An article on Jefferson's understanding of the impeachment power, viewed in the context of his attempt to make constitutionalism compatible with democratic change.

Dissent, Disloyalty, and Subversion in the North during the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Stephen Towne, Indiana/Purdue University, IN

A study of the documentation of the activities of individuals and groups who opposed the actions and policies of the Lincoln administration during the Civil War.

“The Dissenters in Our Own Country”: Eighteenth-Century Quakerism and the Origins of American Civil Disobedience
Jane Calvert, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, MD

A book investigating eighteenth-century Quaker political thought based on their theology, the hallmark of which was a twin emphasis on constitutional perpetuity and a systematic process of civil disobedience and legal action to achieve governmental reform.

From Slave Songs to America’s Music? The Popularization of Black Spirituals, 1870-1910
Sandra Graham, University of California, Davis, CA

A book tracing the dissemination and popularization of black spirituals after the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century.

In Praise of Freedom: The Rhetoric of U.S. Liberty, 1900-1945
Bradford Vivian, Vanderbilt University, TN

A book that systematically analyzes and interprets the public vocabulary of freedom and citizenship in the U.S. in its most influential rhetorical forms.

The Poetry Wars of the Early American Republic
Colin Wells, St. Olaf College, MN

An examination of a time when the art of refined poetry was regularly deployed as a weapon of political struggle.

Religion and Liberty in Locke’s “Two Treatises”
Matthew Simpson, Luther College, IA

An examination of how Locke’s political theory follows from his religious views, which clarifies the foundations of his philosophy as well as his legacy for the American political experience.

The Rhetoric of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum St. Louis Freedom Suits
Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State University, MI

An analysis of 300 “Freedom suits,” which offers a new picture of urban slavery in a Western border state and discloses for the first time the lives and voices of individual enslaved people.

Southern Newspaper Editors and Reconstruction, 1865-1869
Ted Tunnell, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA

An examination of the structural, or managerial, reorganization of the Southern press that began with Appomattox, and the role of Southern editors in shaping the white South’s response to defeat in the Civil War and the ensuing policies imposed by the North.

The Woman in the Teacher: A Biography of Anne Sullivan Macy
Kim Nielsen, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI

A biographical study of Anne Sullivan Macy, focusing on Macy’s relationship to her own disability, her educational methods, the professional opportunities available to women of her class and generation, and the vital relationship between Macy and her student, Helen Keller.

State Humanities Councils

Alabama Humanities Foundation
We the People in Alabama

To support a series of presentations in the Speakers Bureau program that relate to American history and culture, a one-week residential institute for teachers on Southern literature, and promotional activities related to the Foundation's grant opportunities.

Arkansas Humanities Council
We the People Programs in Arkansas

To support Arkansas History Day, completion of a website for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, and a re-grant program for projects exploring significant themes and events in American history and culture, including the preservation and documentation of African American cemeteries.

Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
We the People: A Colorado Initiative

To support a teachers' institute, "The Five States of Colorado," High Plains Chautauqua, Young Chautauqua, speakers bureau, community forums on Colorado history, and a special grant initiative.

Connecticut Humanities Council
HITS/MOMS

To support the statewide presentation of the "Barn Again!" exhibition and complementary programming, and the Humanities in the Schools annual grantline that will strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history.

Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Freedom, Rights and Responsibilities: Examining and Embracing Their Role in Citizenship

To support an Emancipation Day event, "Soul of the City," a summer leadership development seminar for high school students and four episodes of the educational cable television series, "Humanities Profiled."

Idaho Humanities Council
American Identity Programs in Idaho

Presentations to public audiences on topics related to American history and culture, a summer institute for teachers on Native American literature, and reading and discussion programs on Lewis and Clark and American identity.

Illinois Humanities Council
We the People in Illinois

To support presentations of the exhibitions "Between Fences" and "New Harmonies" in 12 towns, the Road Scholars speakers bureau, and a We the People grant line.

Indiana Humanities Council
We the People Leadership and Education Programs

To support a teacher’s institute focused on curriculum resources for U.S. history from the founding period to the end of Reconstruction, and reading and discussion seminars on American founding principles for leaders in business, government, education, and nonprofit sectors.

Humanities Iowa
We the People in Iowa: Exploring Ethnicity, Identity and Diversity

To support exhibition development, scholarly presentations, and publications, and a re-grant program that will fund speakers bureau discussions, local humanities programming, documentary film projects, and conferences and seminars.

Kansas Humanities Council
Better Together: Kansans Tell Their Stories

To support a grant initiative "Better Together: Kansans Tell Their Stories" to encourage the study of local cultural resources which reflect the impact of ethnic groups throughout Kansas' 150 years.

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Exploring American History in Local Context

To support a re-grant initiative "Exploring American History in Local Context," the reading and discussion program "Readings in Literature & Culture," and articles in LEH's magazine Louisiana Cultural Vistas.

Maine Humanities Council
Understanding Our Past, Shaping Our Future

To support an initiative, "Understanding Our Past, Shaping Our Future" which will include a speakers' bureau, oral history workshops, teacher institutes and a grant program focusing on themes in American history and culture.

Maryland Humanities Council
We the People of Maryland 2005-2006

To support a special initiative, The Changing Faces of Democracy, projects including the summer Chautauqua program, "War and Democracy-Personal Journeys," a reading and discussion series, Maryland History Day and a grant program.

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
“We the People”: Mass Moments and Mass Movements

To supplement the internet and radio project, Mass Moments, by adding additional resources for teachers, augmenting interactive features, and implementing a marketing plan; and to present a public symposium in October 2005 on the legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Michigan Humanities Council
The Peopling of Michigan

To support a grant program for institutions across the state of Michigan to conduct projects that reflect themes in American history and culture and that connect events in Michigan to national events.

Minnesota Humanities Commission
We the People: Tradition and Change

To support a re-grant initiative "We the People: Tradition and Change" addressing Minnesota topics in the light of national history, and two teacher seminars exploring the Dakota Conflict of 1862 and the signing of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Treaty.

Missouri Humanities Council
Tribal Exhibits and America the Bountiful

To develop further exhibitions reinterpreting the presence of tribal societies in Missouri 200 years ago and to mount the Chautauqua program "America the Bountiful."

New Hampshire Humanities Council
1905: America Reinvents Itself

To support Chautauqua programming, "1905: America Reinvents Itself," in several cities including evening presentations, Young Chautauqua presentations by teen-agers, teacher workshops, breakfast discussion, and musical performances.

New York Council for the Humanities
“We the People” Reading Between the Lines

To support expansion of the "Reading Between the Lines" book discussion program and to launch "Reading Between the Lines for Children and Families," a new intergenera-tional program focused on themes in American culture.

North Carolina Humanities Council
We the People of North Carolina

The support the 2005 teachers' institute, "The Culture of Religion in North Carolina," reading and discussion programs, speakers' bureau presentations and a special grant initiative for projects focusing on topics in American history and culture.

Ohio Humanities Council
We the People in Ohio 2005-2006

To support 2005 Ohio Chautauqua programming on the theme of the Roaring Twenties, the second phase of the Gateway to History website for Ohio teachers, a statewide forum on the First Amendment, and programming for teachers to extend the reach of humanities programming on public television.

Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
Access and Audience Development: Responding to Community and Increasing Service at RICH

To support humanities programming on themes in American history and culture through radio, television, and public lectures.

Humanities Council SC
We the People & the 10 th Annual SC Book Festival

To support the humanities council's tenth annual book festival in February 2006, and re-grants throughout the state on themes related to American history and culture.

South Dakota Humanities Council
Third Annual Festival of Books

To support the participation of historians, authors and other non-fiction writers in the South Dakota Humanities Council's third annual festival of books to be held in Deadwood, South Dakota, in September 2005.

Humanities Texas
Gateway on the Gulf: Galveston and American Immigration, 1845-1915

To support a summer institute for teachers examining Galveston's place in U.S. immigration history; development of an historical, traveling exhibit on farmworkers in Texas; radio programming on Texas figures and events; and small grants for public programs that explore significant events in U.S. history.

Utah Humanities Council
We the People – Utah

To support a grant program for locally generated humanities projects, history topics in the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, lectures at the 2005 Great Salt Lake Book Festival, the Utah History Fair, and a statewide oral history program.

Humanities Washington
We the People

To support several community projects focusing on the stories of immigrants and refugees in the state, with particular emphasis on young people, and a panel discussion and educational outreach in Southwest Washington as part of the Bicentennial observance of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

West Virginia Humanities Council
The American Way

To support scholarly lectures for the public, the 2006 state tour of the traveling exhibition, "Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Homefront," and a special grant initiative that will focus on topics in American and West Virginia history.