Interpreting America's Historic Places

Implementation Grants

The Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project: Retracing John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages
Sultana Projects, Inc.
Chestertown, MD
Award: Outright; $100,000.00 Match; $50,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition and a series of public programs complementing the re-enactment of a three-month boat voyage around the Chesapeake Bay led by Captain John Smith in 1608.

From Pursuit to Preservation: The Global Story of Whales and Whaling
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
Award: Outright; $250,000.00 Match; $50,000.00
Implementation of a permanent core exhibition with an audio tour about the human fascination with whales and the history of whaling in New Bedford, Massachusetts, within a global context.

Back to Our Roots: A New Vision of New England Farming and Rural Life
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA
Award: Outright; $260,000.00 Match; $20,000.00
Implementation of three permanent exhibitions that explore the market-driven transformation of rural life and landscape in New England farming, 1790-1840.

Mississippi Blues Commission Blues Trail
Mississippi Blues Commission
Indianola, MS
Award: Outright; $305,000.00
Implementation of a heritage trail, a website, and a CD-ROM interpreting the history of the blues in the Delta region of Mississippi.

Underground Railroad in Vermont
Rokeby Museum
Ferrisburgh, VT
Award: Outright; $235,000.00 Match; $10,000.00
Implementation of a permanent exhibition presenting new scholarship on the history of the Underground Railroad in Vermont and northern New England.

Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Planning Grants

Words of Thunder: The Life and Times of William Lloyd Garrison and William Lloyd Garrison and the Ambassadors of Abolition
Boston Public Library Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of two panel exhibitions with a catalog, a website, and curricular materials about William Lloyd Garrison, the radical abolitionist movement he founded in Boston in the 1830s, the African American abolitionists who influenced him, and the role of ideas in cultural change.

Slavery in New York Traveling Exhibition
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a national tour of a panel exhibition and public programs modeled after two exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society on slavery in New York from its early 17th-century roots through the aftermath of the Civil War.

Implementation Grants

Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World--A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $270,000.00
Implementation of a traveling panel exhibition, related public programming, training, and companion digital and curricular materials about the life of Benjamin Franklin and his contributions to the founding of the United States, to circulate to 30 sites nationwide.

Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: A Traveling Exhibition
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $260,000.00
Implementation of a photo-panel exhibition, based on the Newberry Library's larger exhibition about the encounters of native peoples with Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, 1804-06, to travel to 23 sites throughout the U.S.

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century, Series Two
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $271,180.00
Implementation of a two-year series of lectures by poet/scholars in public libraries in eight cities, a training institute for participating librarians, bus posters, and a companion website exploring poetry.

Humanities Projects in Media

Consultation Grants

Wilderness and the American Mind
Catticus Corporation
Berkeley, CA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation for a three-hour television series on the evolution of American thinking about the idea of wilderness from early European settlement to the present.

Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
Katahdin Foundation
Hollywood, CA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars on a 90-minute documentary film about Hannah Senesh (1921-44), a Hungarian-born poet and author.

Radio Production Grants

Shakespeare in American Life
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $190,944.00
Production of three one-hour radio documentaries that would explore the influence of Shakespeare's work on American civic, political, and cultural life.

American Routes: Routes to Creativity, A Sense of Place
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Award: Outright; $150,000.00
Production of ten two-hour topical programs that would focus on the geographic places that have acted as wellsprings of creative influence and musical expression.

Evolving Attitudes toward the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, 1954-1970
Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $89,000.00
To support production of a one-hour program and companion website exploring the evolving attitudes of whites in Mississippi toward the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1970.

Afropop Worldwide
World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $150,000.00
Production of 26 original programs and repackaging of 28 previous broadcasts for a weekly radio program that explores the music cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Planning Grants

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Museum
House of Seven Gables Settlement Association
Salem, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a multi-media permanent exhibition about the life, writings, and cultural legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Implementation Grants

Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Atlantic World
University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $250,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, programs, curriculum resources, and a publication on the various forms of water spirits in Africa and the variety of their derived New World appearances.

Molly Brown: The Biography of a Changing Nation
Molly Brown House Museum
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $80,000.00 Match; $20,000.00
Implementation of an interpretive video and interactive kiosks on the life of Margaret Tobin Brown and the ways in which she was shaped by the social and cultural movements of her time.

Impressionism and the Art of the Past
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $200,000.00 Match; $75,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, a symposium, and other educational and public programs exploring how French impressionist artists drew on the art of the past.

Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami
Bass Museum of Art
Miami Beach, FL
Award: Outright; $314,695.00 Match; $10,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, two catalogs, a symposium, and educational and public programming exploring mid-century Miami's history, architecture, and decorative arts.

The Power of Children: Making a Difference
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
Award: Outright; $200,000.00 Match; $75,000.00
Implementation of a permanent exhibition examining key events in the 20th century through the lives of three children whose individual lives made a difference: Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, and Ryan White.

The Maine Memory Network: Creating a Critical Framework for Interpreting Maine History Online and in the Community
Maine Historical Society
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $339,724.00 Match; $5,000.00
Implementation of a website containing thematic essays and small online exhibitions with related public programs about key ideas and topics in Maine history and about how history is written and remembered.

El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000.00 Match; $75,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, films, and related programs on paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts produced in Spain between 1598 and 1621.

Muses of the Avant Garde: Sara and Gerald Murphy and their Circle
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Award: Outright; $235,000.00 Match; $30,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition with a catalog and a public symposium about a remarkable American couple living well in France in the 1920s-30s, who influenced the trans-Atlantic exchange of ideas about modern art and music.

Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Award: Outright; $200,000.00 Match; $75,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a publication, a website, and programs on the art of the Bering Strait region since about A.D. 1000, the insights it provides into the cultures in that area over time, and its ongoing influence on contemporary artists.

Gods, Myths, and Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece
Children's Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $200,000.00 Match; $75,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition for children and families exploring the art, mythology, and architecture of ancient Greece.

Lee and Grant Exhibition
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Award: Outright; $290,000.00 Match; $25,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a website, and educational and public programs comparing and contrasting Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.

Special Projects

Implementation

Footprints of the Ancestors: Intergenerational Learning of Hopi History and Culture
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ
Award: Outright; $240,990.00
Implementation of programs for Hopi youth, coordinated by Hopi tribal elders, cultural specialists, and scholars at historic and prehistoric sites, designed to teach them about the cultures and history of the Four Corners region and to explore questions regarding preservation and heritage.

New Directions in Adult Education
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $240,990.00
Implementation of new interpretive programs for adult audiences in conjunction with a renovated Chicago history gallery, examining Chicago as a cultural, economic, and political crossroads for the nation.

Shays' Rebellion and the Making of a Nation: From Revolution to Constitution
Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield, MA
Award: Outright; $240,990.00
Implementation of a website and public programs about Shays' Rebellion (1786-87) and its influence on the shaping of the U.S. Constitution and the origins of our national identity.

The Immigrant Experience
OASIS Institute
St. Louis, MO
Award: Outright; $235,112.00
Implementation of a series of five courses, a related website, and an intergenerational tutoring program to be conducted through OASIS centers in 25 cities and the Elderhostel Lifelong Learning Institute Network.

Remembering Celilo: Ancient Heart of the Pacific Northwest
Washington State Historical Society
Tacoma, WA
Award: Outright; $41,918.00
Implementation of a public conference about the historical and cultural meanings of Celilo Falls, site of an ancient Native American fishing and trading center that was submerged by a hydroelectric dam project in 1957.