GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: February 2007
Interpreting America's Historic Places
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Continuity and Change: African American Life and Culture on a Barrier Island of Georgia, 1760-1980
Ossabaw Island Foundation
— Savannah, GA
Award: Outright; $14,935.00
Consultation with scholars and interpretive experts to examine the history of African American life on Ossabaw Island and in the Georgia Lowcountry.
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A New Interpretation for the Old State House
Bostonian Society
— Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation that would lead to new interpretive directions for the Old State House, with special attention to the era of the Revolutionary War and the founding of the country. |
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Interpreting Munroe Tavern as the "Museum of the British" in Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington Historical Society
— Lexington, MA
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation for a reinterpretation of Munroe Tavern that would tell the story of the British military and soldiers during the American Revolution. |
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Melville in Context
Berkshire County Historical Society
— Pittsfield, MA
Award: Outright; $13,732.00
Consultation with scholars to develop a new interpretation of Arrowhead, the home of Herman Melville, placing the author's life and work in the context of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, history. |
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The Home the Model T Built: Enhancing Interpretation and Programming at the Henry Ford Estate, Dearborn, Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
— Ann Arbor, MI
Award: Outright; $12,999.00
Consultation to plan historic site tours and public programs about the role of the inexpensive, mass-produced Model T Ford in transforming American life and the relationship of Henry and Clara Ford to significant reform movements of their time. |
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Interpreting the Contributions of African-Americans in Antebellum New York at Eight Historic House Sites in New York City
Historic House Trust of New York City
— New York, NY
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to develop an interpretive plan for eight historic sites that tells collectively the story of African American life in antebellum New York.
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Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
— Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $14,948.00
Consultation with scholars and site visits to develop an interpretive plan for a significant archaeological site and a living history village in western Pennsylvania. |
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Community-Wide Charles Goodnight Interpretive Plan
Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byway
— Pueblo, CO
Award: Outright; $35,735.00
Planning to develop an interpretive plan, partners, and educational and public programs at the site owned by Charles Goodnight, who developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail that moved cattle from Texas to Wyoming.
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Creating Holyoke: Immigrants' and Migrants' Search for Community
Wistariahurst Museum/City of Holyoke
— Holyoke, MA
Award: Outright; $44,900.00
Planning for three coordinated exhibits in Holyoke, Massachusetts, that approach urban history through the experiences of immigrant groups.
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Telling River Stories
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
— Minneapolis, MN
Award: Outright; $45,000.00
Planning of site tours, exhibits, a website, and signage along the Mississippi riverfront in the Twin Cities to interpret the influence of the river on life in several historic, urban neighborhoods.
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Preparing an Interpretive Plan for the Bethlehem Steel Site
Rutgers University, Camden
— Camden, NJ
Award: Outright; $44,793.00
Planning for a symposium and collaboration with scholars to create an interpretive master plan for the abandoned Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, examining local industrial history.
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The Civil War Home Front in Vermont
Vermont Humanities Council
— Montpelier, VT
Award: Outright; $45,000.00
Planning for a website and statewide educational and public programs to interpret approximately 100 locations significant to Vermont's participation in the Civil War.
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Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives
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Vaulting Ambition: The Guastavino Family and America's Great Public Spaces
Boston Public Library
— Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a gallery exhibition and a traveling panel exhibition with related public programs about how a family of first-generation immigrants created a business that helped to design and construct many of America's iconic public buildings between 1895 and 1962.
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Rumors of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: The Life and Work of Mark Twain
National Book Foundation
— New York, NY
Award: Outright; $39,972.00
Planning of reading and discussion and other programs to be held at 100 library or other community sites around the nation along with a traveling exhibition and an extensive website about Twain and his lasting cultural influence.
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Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Associations
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Interpretive Planning for the Historic Reeder Citrus Ranch: National Images and Changing Realities of Southern California
George C. and Hazel H. Reeder Heritage Foundation — Montclair, CA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation and site visits for the interpretation of a citrus ranch in Southern California.
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Hall of Echoing Caves: Re-imaging the Ancient Buddhist Caves of Xiangtangshan
University of Chicago
— Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $9,995.00
Consultation and early planning for an exhibition exploring a cave complex of sixth-century Buddhist tombs and temples created during China's Northern Qi dynasty (550-577 A.D.).
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The Fiery Pool: The Maritime World of the Ancient Maya
Peabody Essex Museum
— Salem, MA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation and curatorial traveling for an exhibition, a catalog, and educational and public programs that would explore the influence of the sea on the ancient Maya people.
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Pilgrimage and Asian Art
Asia Society
— New York, NY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and related educational and public programs examining relationships between pilgrimage and Asian art.
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Planning the Interpretation of the Rear Yard of 97 Orchard Street
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
— New York, NY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation to plan an exhibit about sanitation and the water system in the backyard of a 19th-century tenement building that would explore issues of urban sanitation, immigrant life, the state of medical knowledge about public health, and housing reform pressures in the period 1864 to 1905.
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Redefining the Speaker's Home: Interpreting the Sam Rayburn House Museum
Texas Historical Commission
— Austin, TX
Award: Outright; $9,687.00
Consultation with scholars to devise ideas and themes for public interpretation of congressman Sam Rayburn's home, with special attention to its role in his career.
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The American Revolution in the West
Missouri Historical Society
— St. Louis, MO
Award: Outright; $39,990.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, publications, and a website examining the American Revolution as experienced in the trans-Appalachian U.S. and the changing values that came with it.
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If These Walls Could Talk: The Native American Plains Tipi
Brooklyn Museum of Art
— Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and supporting educational and public programs examining the Native American tipi as a center of Plains Indian culture.
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Dogon Hip: Tradition and Modernity in Mali
Museum for African Art
— Long Island City, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition and a catalog on tradition and modernity among the Dogon and their ability to adapt their culture to changing circumstances.
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American Art and the East
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
— New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and related public and educational programs exploring the influence of Asian art on American art, 1900-present.
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Fortune and Folly: Images of Alchemy in Northern European Art, 1500s-1700s
Chemical Heritage Foundation
— Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $39,663.00
Planning of a traveling exhibition exploring alchemy as a precursor of early science and as a shaper of early modern European attitudes about humankind's ability to understand and control the natural world.
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Special Projects
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The Shadows of Oakland
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
— Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $38,787.00
Planning for interpretive tours of the historic Oakland Cemetery using "augmented reality" technology designed for use on smart phones and personal digital assistants.
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