GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Interpreting America's Historic Places
Consultation Grants
Sapelo Island Cultural Village
Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, Inc. (SICARS)
Sapelo Island, GA
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation to frame the future development of the Hog Hammock community of Sapelo Island, Georgia,
as a living-history cultural village and education center focused on history, culture, and language.
John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life and Works
Whittier Home Association
Amesbury, MA
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation with scholars to develop themes that would be used to interpret Whittier's home,
with special attention to how his work reflected his involvement in contemporary issues.
Development of Audio Tour
Hancock Shaker Village, Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation with scholars, audience research, and site visits to develop preliminary outlines for thematic audio tours of the site.
Interpreting the History of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement:
The Expansion of America's Participatory Democracy
Jackson State University
Jackson, MS
Award: Outright; $14,997.00
Consultation to plan seven community driving tour guides and a statewide guidebook focusing on historic sites related to the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi.
He Farmed and Walked With Us:
Landmarks that Shaped the Life of Harry S. Truman
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg, MO
Award: Outright; $14,984.00
Consultation to develop an interpretive plan for a website exploring how Harry S. Truman's experiences in Missouri shaped his life and political career.
Historical Interpretation of the Bronx Zoo:
Birthplace of the American Wildlife Conservation Movement
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY
Award: Outright; $14,974.00
Consultation to plan the interpretation of the Bronz Zoo as an historic site, focusing on its role in the development of America's wildlife conservation movement at the turn of the 20th century.
An Orientation to Weeksville: Defining a Sense of Place
Society for the Preservation of Weeksville/Bedford-Stuyvesant History
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $15,000.00
Consultation with scholars and an audience evaluator to develop a permanent exhibition that introduces visitors to the history of an antebellum free black community.
Wheelock Academy: A Home At The End Of The Trail
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Durant, OK
Award: Outright; $12,790.00
Consultation with scholars to develop an interpretive plan for Wheelock Academy,
originally founded as a mission boarding school for Native American girls.
KHS Library and the American Woman's League:
The Liberation
of Rural Women
Calvert Woman's Club
Calvert, TX
Award: Outright; $14,656.00
Consultation to plan an interpretive strategy for a self-guided tour and a website about the Katy Hamman-Stricker Library in Calvert, Texas, as a case study for the story of the transition of rural women to urban life in the early 20th century.
Adapting the Billings Farm & Museum as a Heritage Gateway
Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock, VT
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation to develop an updated interpretive plan for this living history site's exhibitions, website, and public programs, exploring Vermont's agricultural heritage.
Planning Grants
Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Award: Outright; $44,160.00
Planning to develop an interactive website and DVD, audio tours, and other materials interpreting the cultural history of the Grand Canyon landscape.
The National Square:
An Audio Walking Tour of Lafayette Square
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $45,000.00
Planning for an audio walking tour, guidebooks, signage, and a website on the history of Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.
Mending the Metropolis:
Democracy and Diversity in Chicago's Settlement Houses and Neighborhoods
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $44,966.00
Planning educational materials, a website, and programs that would interpret Chicago's late 19th-and early 20th-century settlement houses as a set of historic sites.
Exhibit Planning and Interpretation of the Ellis Island Hospitals:
Phase 2, Planning
Save Ellis Island
Gladstone, NJ
Award: Outright; $45,000.00
Planning for a permanent exhibit on immigrant healthcare to be installed in rooms of a laundry/hospital outbuilding that include a ward, an operating room, and a morgue.
Planning an Interpretive Exhibition Probing the Creative Process of Thomas Cole,
Founder of the Hudson River School of Art
Greene County Historical Society, Thomas Cole Site
Catskill, NY
Award: Outright; $13,000.00 Match; $27,000.00
Planning for a site-wide interpretation of painter Thomas Cole's house and studio with emphasis on his art-making.
Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives
Small Grants to Libraries
The following libraries received $1,000 to participate in the nationwide program Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation: A Traveling Exhibition.
Garland County Library
Hot Springs, AR
Benicia Public Library
Benicia, CA
Oxnard Public Library
Oxnard, CA
Aurora Public Library Administration
Aurora, CO
District of Columbia Public Library
Washington, DC
Athens-Clarke County Library
Athens, GA
West Georgia Regional Library
Carrollton, GA
Lovejoy Library
Edwardsville, IL
Gail Borden Public Library District
Elgin, IL
Frankfort Public Library District
Frankfort, IL
Freeport Public Library
Freeport, IL
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Rockford Public Library
Rockford, IL
Michigan City Public Library
Michigan City, IN
Muncie Public Library
Muncie, IN
Knox County Public Library
Vincennes, IN
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Cedar Rapids, IA
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Boyle County Public Library
Danville, KY
Hardin County Public Library
Elizabethtown, KY
Lexington Public Library
Lexington, KY
University of Louisville Research Foundation
Louisville, KY
Louisville Free Public Library
Louisville, KY
Vermilion Parish Library
Abbeville, LA
Baltimore County Public Library
Towson, MD
Pollard Memorial Library
Lowell, MA
Brennan Law Library, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Lansing, MI
Lincoln Township Public Library
Stevensville, MI
Minneapolis Public Library
Minneapolis, MN
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library
Columbus, MS
University Libraries, University of Missouri- Columbia
Columbia, MO
St. Louis Public Library
St. Louis, MO
Missoula Public Library
Missoula, MT
Raymond A Whitwer Tilden Public Library
Tilden, NE
Keene Public Library
Keene, NH
Ocean County Library
Toms River, NJ
New York State Library
Albany, NY
Lehman College Library
Bronx, NY
Bethlehem Public Library
Delmar, NY
Sachem Public Library
Holbrook, NY
Mineola Memorial Library
Mineola, NY
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Poughkeepsie, NY
Pack Memorial Library
Asheville, NC
Bladen County Public Library
Elizabethtown, NC
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Henderson County Public Library
Hendersonville, NC
Mount Olive College
Mount Olive, NC
New Bern-Craven County Public Library
New Bern, NC
State Library of Ohio
Columbus, OH
Reed Memorial Library
Ravenna, OH
Rose State College
Midwest City, OK
Multnomah County Library
Portland, OR
Cranberry Public Library
Cranberry Twp., PA
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Lincoln Univ., PA
Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library
Norristown, PA
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Brigham City Library
Brigham City, UT
Loudoun County Public Library
Leesburg, VA
Whitman County Rural Library
Colfax, WA
Spokane Public Library
Spokane, WA
Verona Public Library
Verona, WI
Consultation Grants
Multi-Media Traveling Exhibit on Dave Brubeck: Musician, Composer, Humanist
University of the Pacific Library
Stockton, CA
Award: Outright; $9,273.00
Consultation with scholars, archivists, librarians, and curators for a five-panel,
audio-enhanced, multi-media traveling exhibition on composer and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his musical and social impact on late
20th-century American culture.
Baseball and American Culture
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars, curators, and librarians to plan an exhibition, reading and film discussion programs, educational materials, and an interactive website about baseball as a reflection of American culture.
Vaulting Ambition: Rafael Guastavino and the Creation of America's Great Spaces
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars and staff to explore themes and archival materials for a traveling exhibition and programs
about architect Rafael Guastavino and his work in several United States cities.
Planning Grants
Indians of the Midwest
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $39,998.00
Planning of an interactive, multi-media website about the history and
cultures of American Indians in the Midwest.
Reader, Writer, and Revolutionary:
John Adams and his Library
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $39,895.00
Planning of a traveling panel exhibition, adapted from a gallery exhibition at Boston's Copley Square Library, about John Adams' library and how his personal reading informed his political views.
Escape to Freedom: Underground Railroad History Camp
Clermont County Public Library
Batavia, OH
Award: Outright; $6,155.00
Development and piloting of a one-week summer day camp for children in grades two through six exploring the history of the Underground Railroad in Ohio.
Implementation Grants
Early American Writing in The Library of America
Library of America
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $150,000.00
The publication of four volumes of textually authoritative, moderately priced works from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and literature intended to foster greater understanding and appreciation of America's earliest literary heritage.
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Associations
Consultation Grants
Munootash: Baskets and Community in Southern New England
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Mashantucket, CT
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation to develop humanities themes for a traveling exhibition of Native American baskets made in southern New England from the early 19th century to the 20th century.
Beyond the Pennsylvania Dutch
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE
Award: Outright; $9,518.00
Consultation for a traveling exhibition and a catalog on the furniture produced in rural southeastern Pennsylvania from about 1720 to 1850 by a variety of cultural societies grouped under the popular but inaccurate term, "Pennsylvania Dutch."
Paris/New York: A Transatlantic Dialogue
Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation for an exhibition that explores cultural and artistic exchanges between Paris and New York in the early 20th century as context for the development of modernism.
Alachua County Transitions:
From Eden of the South to Gator Country
Alachua County Historic Trust: Matheson Museum, Inc.
Gainesville, FL
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation to plan an exhibition, a website, and related public programs about the evolution of Alachua County, Florida, from a post-Civil War agrarian area to an urbanized county that also contains a large university.
Re-designing the Peabody Museum's Hall of the North American Indian
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Award: Outright; $9,997.00
Consultation with scholars and visits to other museums to plan for a reinstallation of the permanent exhibition on North American Indians.
Unlocking Barnard Tavern:
Exploring the Commercial and Private World of a Deerfield Public House, 1795-1805
Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Deerfield, MA
Award: Outright; $9,999.00
Consultation to plan a self-guided tour and a permanent multi-media exhibition to interpret the social and political roles of Deerfield's tavern in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Opportunity & Security in Holyoke:
From Past to Present
Wistariahurst Museum / City of Holyoke
Holyoke, MA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation to develop a multi-site interpretation of Holyoke, Massachusetts, emphasizing the experiences of migrants and immigrants.
Winona's Architectural Legacy:
The Search for an American Style 1880-1930
Winona County Historical Society, Inc.
Winona, MN
Award: Outright; $9,850.00
Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to plan a permanent exhibition, walking tours, and other public programs about the emergence of a unique American architectural style in Winona, Minnesota.
Intersections along the Grand Concourse
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars, a curator, and public program specialists to develop exhibitions, walking tours, panel discussions, oral history collections, and other public programs that interpret the history of the Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York.
Developing a Research Plan for Interpreting America's First Major City on the Great Lakes
Rochester Historical Society
Rochester, NY
Award: Outright; $9,975.00
Consultation and additional scholarly research for an exhibition exploring the history of Rochester, New York.
Telling Pennsylvania's Civil War Stories:
New Narratives from Old Collections
Pennsylvania Heritage Society
Harrisburg, PA
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation to develop programs throughout Pennsylvania on the impact of the Civil War on the state's communities, including long-term changes that grew out of the war.
Journey to Freedom
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Austin, TX
Award: Outright; $9,980.00
Consultation to plan a website, a small traveling exhibition, and public programs about slavery on the Texas-Louisiana frontier using the site of the Levi-Jordan Plantation in Brazoria County, Texas, as a case study.
Planning Grants
City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacan
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition and a catalog on daily life at the Mesoamerican urban center of Teotihuacán.
Contested Visions:
The Image of the American Indian in Colonial Mexico and Peru
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition and a catalog on continuities of pre-conquest artistic traditions in colonial Mexico and Peru and the multiple contexts in which native peoples are represented.
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and related educational and public programs exploring the New York art of John Sloan (1871-1951).
Interpretation of Historic 1876 Synagogue
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $39,808.00
Planning for audience research and the refinement of exhibition content for a new interpretation of an historic synagogue in Washington, D.C.
Puppetry: Common Threads of Humanity
Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a permanent exhibition and a website using puppetry as a lens through which to view commonalities and differences in world cultures from ancient times to the present.
Owens-Thomas House Reinterpretation
Telfair Museum of Art
Savannah, GA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a new interpretation of the Owens-Thomas House and its inhabitants, placing the house in the context of Savannah, Georgia, in the 1830s.
Interpreting Immigration and Ethnicity at Vesterheim Museum
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
Decorah, IA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a permanent exhibition and a traveling component exploring immigration, ethnicity, and the role of tradition in the lives of individuals, families, and communities.
African Fashion
Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition and a catalog on African clothing and fashion, especially the exchanges between Africa and other parts of the world over the last 200 years.
Visions of the Apocalypse in Medieval Spain:
The Beatus Manuscripts
American Federation of Arts
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a traveling exhibition with a catalog and public programs about the manuscript art created over several centuries to illustrate a commentary on the biblical Book of Revelation compiled by the Spanish monk Beatus in 776 C.E. and the role of monastic scriptoria in medieval Spain.
Development of Interpretive Training Manual
for Docents and Teachers at Eldridge Street
Eldridge Street Project
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $35,390.00
Development of new interpretive materials for tours, exhibits, and programs examining the religious,
architectural, and cultural history of a major Lower East Side synagogue and its surrounding community.
American Arcadia: People, Landscape, and Nature at Montgomery Place
Historic Hudson Valley
Tarrytown, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning to develop a reinterpretation of Montgomery Place, a National Historic Landmark in the Hudson Valley, exploring the
changing relationships among people, landscape, and nature.
Amazing American Circus Poster:
Strobridge Lithographing Company 1878-1929
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition with a catalog about the cultural and economic history of the American circus, the art of the circus poster, and the history of lithographic printing in Cincinnati.
Skidegate Haida House and Pole Models for the World's Columbian Exposition
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Award: Outright; $39,999.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition and a website about Native American house and totem pole models made for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and how their display there reflected the development of the nascent discipline of anthropology.
S'abadeb (The Gifts): Coast Salish Art and Artists
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a traveling exhibition with a catalog, a website, and public programs about Salish Indian art as a reflection of history and culture from prehistory to the present.
Implementation Grants
NEH on the Road Extension Proposal
Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO
Award: Outright; $1,499,384.00
To support the scaling down and reconfiguration of NEH-funded exhibitions and to manage all the logistical details associated with their travel to smaller museums.
Special Projects
Consultation Grants
The Kentucky Remembers! Carter G. Woodson Human Rights Heritage Project
Kentucky Commission on Human Rights
Louisville, KY
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars to develop summer youth programs in 2007 in seven regions of the state about civil rights history.
Shakespeare on the Fox: Community Engagement Program
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Oshkosh, WI
Award: Outright; $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars and community organization staff to develop programs to interpret Shakespeare through reading and performance discussions for citizens in 16 Wisconsin communities.
Planning Grants
Bandits and Heroes, Poets and Saints:
An Introduction to the Popular Arts of the Northeast of Brazil
ConVida - Popular Arts of the Americas
Detroit, MI
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a three-part traveling exhibition exploring the fusion of European, African, and indigenous traditions in popular art in northeastern Brazil.
Race to Reveal : Brooklyn "Reality" Videos Tell All!
Brooklyn Information and Culture Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a three-year after-school history program in which groups of youngsters from three schools explore Brooklyn history through the interpretation of a single artifact, building, or document.