PUBLIC PROGRAMS GRANT AWARDS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: July 2000

Consultation Grants

The American West: Crossroads of Culture, Geography, and History
Human Pursuits: Western Humanities Concern
Salt Lake City, UT
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars, librarians, Native Americans, and state humanities councils to develop educational programs about the relationships between human communities and the land in the American West.

Planning Grants

Elizabeth I: The Growth of a Legend
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
OUTRIGHT: $40,561.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,561.00
Planning of a gallery exhibition, traveling panel exhibition, and interactive website about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Implementation Grants

Bilingual Reading & Discussion Programs
Human Pursuits: Western Humanities Concern
Salt Lake City, UT
OUTRIGHT: $200,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $200,000.00
Implementation of bilingual, scholar-led reading and discussion series at 48 libraries in eight western states on the shared experience of work as it is portrayed in U.S. Hispanic and Latin American literature.

Presidents, Politics, and Power: American Presidents Who Shaped the 20th Century
National Video Resources
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $300,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $300,000.00
Scholar-led viewing/reading discussion programs at 25 libraries nationwide focusing on Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan, and how their presidencies influenced 20th-century U.S. history.

Prime Time Family Reading Time: National Outreach
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
New Orleans, LA
OUTRIGHT: $230,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $230,000.00
Scholar-led reading and discussion programs for low-income, new adult readers and their children at 20 libraries across the nation.

StoryLines America: A Radio/Library Partnership Exploring Our Regional Literature (Part III: The Midwest)
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
OUTRIGHT: $245,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $245,000.00
Thirteen one-hour talk-show radio programs about Midwestern literature to be broadcast on public radio stations and presented in public libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Small Grants to Libraries

The following libraries were awarded grants of $1,000 to participate in the scholar-led reading and discussion program "Let’s Talk About It: The Next Generation." Libraries nationwide will choose one of the following themes: "Readings for the Millennium," "Literature and Culture of African American Migration," "Children's Classics for Adults," and "Latino Literature in the U.S."

Anaheim Public Library ~ Anaheim, CA
Arlington County Public Library ~ Arlington, VA
Beatrice Public Library ~ Beatrice, NE
Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library ~ Clarksburg, WV
Clinton Macomb Public Library ~ Clinton Township, MI
Fairfax County Public Library ~ Fairfax, VA
Indian Trails Public Library ~ Wheeling, IL
Jervis Public Library ~ Rome, NY
Kirkwood Public Library ~ Kirkwood, MO
Knox County Public Library ~ Knoxville, TN
Lee County Library ~ Leesburg, GA
Lewis and Clark Library ~ Helena, MT
Liverpool Public Library ~ Liverpool, NY
Marathon County Public Library ~ Wausau, WI
Mead Public Library ~ Sheboygan, WI
Montclair Art Museum ~ Montclair, NJ
Newport News Public Library System ~ Newport News, VA
Plano Public Library System ~ Plano, TX
San Diego Public Library ~ San Diego, CA
Wilbraham Public Library ~ Wilbraham, MA

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MEDIA

Consultation Grants

After the Revolution
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $9,951.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,951.00
To support consultation with scholars for a documentary film on the political journey of the 1960s generation of student radicals and their ideological and political evolution over the past thirty years.

Craft: The Art of the Country Song
Media Working Group
Covington, KY
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with advising scholars and on-site archival research to explore the history and cultural significance of country music in a documentary film.

Good Morning Revolution: History of African Americans and Communism
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
OUTRIGHT: $9,858.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,858.00
To support consultation with scholars for a film on the African American involvement with Communism from 1917 to 1940.

Martin Luther King
ROJA Productions
Boston, MA
OUTRIGHT: $9,950.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,950.00
To support consultation with advising scholars for a four-hour documentary film series on the life, work and thought of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Minik
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with historians and anthropologists for a documentary film that examines the early days of anthropology through the experiences of an Inuit boy brought to America by Robert Peary.

The Inland Voyage: The Story of the Erie Canal
Western New York Public Broadcasting Assn.
Buffalo, NY
OUTRIGHT: $9,982.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,982.00
To support consultation with advising scholars for a documentary film about America's first great public works project, New York's Erie Canal.

Voices from Slavery
Center for Public Television
Tuscaloosa, AL
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation meetings with scholars and production personnel to develop a documentary film based on WPA ex-slave narratives.

Planning Grants

One Nation Under God
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
Planning for a five-hour documentary television series tracing the historical foundations of America’s unique religious culture.

Science and the Search for Meaning in the 21st Century
SoundVision Productions
Berkeley, CA
OUTRIGHT: $29,995.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $29,995.00
Planning of a series of one-hour documentary programs for radio exploring philosophical, ethical, and religious questions that have arisen in connection with scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

Sing It, Tell It
Film Arts Foundation
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
Planning for a three-part television series about the role of African American music in the social and cultural history of the nation from the post-Civil War period to the Civil Rights movement.

The Head of Joaquin Murrieta
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
Planning of a 90-minute documentary film on the life and legend of Joaquin Murrieta, a 19th-century Mexican bandit in California.

The Rape of Europa
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
Planning for a three-part documentary film series about the Third Reich’s war on Europe’s great collections of art and the efforts of individuals and Allied governments to preserve them.

Scripting Grants

Cabinet of Spells: Cinderella
Women Make Movies
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $60,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $60,000.00
Scripting of a two-hour documentary film exploring versions of the story of Cinderella around the world.

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
Filmmakers Collaborative
Boston, MA
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
Planning of a 60-minute documentary film interweaving a biographical drama and social history in the story of Mary Mallon, an early 20th-century healthy carrier of the typhoid bacillus.

Production Grants

Benjamin Franklin
KTCA
St. Paul, MN
OUTRIGHT: $825,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $825,000.00
Production of a three-part documentary film series about the life and times of Benjamin Franklin.

Do You Speak American?
Capital of Texas Public Communications
Austin, TX
OUTRIGHT: $700,000.00
MATCH: $65,000.00
TOTAL: $765,000.00
Production of a four-hour documentary film series exploring issues in the development and use of the English language in contemporary America.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
Educational Broadcasting Corp. (WNET)
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $725,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $725,000.00
Production of a 90-minute documentary film about the life and work of the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Have You Heard of Johannesburg?
Clarity Educational Productions
Berkeley, CA
OUTRIGHT: $250,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $250,000.00
Production of Part One of a three-part, six-hour documentary film series on the history of the international movement protesting apartheid in South Africa from 1946 to 1990.

Napoleon
Educational Broadcasting Corporation (WNET)
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $205,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $205,000.00
Production of a four-hour television documentary series about Napoleon.

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
OUTRIGHT: $800,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $800,000.00
Production of a 90-minute documentary film that will examine the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831 as both an historical event and a subject of historical memory.

The Murder of Dr. Parkman
Center for Independent Documentary
Waban, MA
OUTRIGHT: $480,676.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $480,676.00
Production of a one-hour documentary film and accompanying website that will analyze the nature of historical inquiry through historian Simon Schama’s exploration of the story of the 1849 murder of Bostonian Dr. George Parkman.

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Catticus Corporation
Berkeley, CA
OUTRIGHT: $550,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $550,000.00
Production of the final three programs of a four-part television series that examines the African American struggle for freedom in the era of Jim Crow.

The Yiddish Radio Project
Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $175,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $175,000.00
Production of a radio series and accompanying modules on the Golden Age of Yiddish Radio, designed for broadcast on National Public Radio.

There She Is: A History of Miss America
History Institute for Media and Education
Shelburne, VT
OUTRIGHT: $700,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $700,000.00
Production of a 90-minute film on the history of the Miss America Pageant, exploring changes in popular images of American women from the pageant’s origins in the 19th century to the present.

SUPPLEMENT

Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
OUTRIGHT: $128,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $128,000.00
Completion of a ten-hour documentary radio series featuring Leonard Bernstein, post-war America, and Bernstein’s social and cultural milieu.

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Consultation Grants

An African American Community: Planning for Interpretation
Comstock Archaeology Center
Reno, NV
OUTRIGHT: $4,720.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $4,720.00
To support consultation for a traveling exhibition, publication, and programs on the mining-era African American community in Virginia City, Nevada, based partly on findings from historical archaeology.

A Revised Interpretation Plan for Historical House
Missouri Botanical Garden
St. Louis, MO
OUTRIGHT: $9,800.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,800.00
To support a consultants’ colloquium and other activities to reinterpret Tower Grove House to emphasize the social history of the founding of the gardens.

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South -- A Historical Exhibition
Duke University
Durham, NC
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support a curator and consultants in collaboration with the Museum of the New South to develop an interpretive plan for a traveling exhibition on the Jim Crow South.

Bix Beiderbecke Exhibition Consultation Project
Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science
Davenport, IA
OUTRIGHT: $9,300.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,300.00
To support consultation with scholars and public programming experts in preparation for an exhibition on jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and the multicultural social history of jazz in the 1920s.

Black World History Wax Museum/Missouri's Black Heritage
Black World History Wax Museum
St. Louis, MO
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultants to develop an interpretive plan that will coordinate existing exhibits and plan new exhibits to interpret the historical experience of African Americans in Missouri.

Capturing Eden: A Photographic Study of Gardens
Friends of Photography
San Francisco, CA
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars, museum professionals, gardeners, and landscape architects in preparation for an exhibition exploring the role of photography in shaping gardens in the public imagination.

Civil War Exhibit at Cincinnati Museum
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support historians and consultants in a public colloquium to develop an interpretive plan for a new exhibition on the unique role Ohio played in the Civil War.

Colloquium: Integrating the Humanities into the Nevada Atomic Testing History Institute
Desert Research Institute
Las Vegas and Reno, NV
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support a colloquium of scholars, scientists, museum experts and community members to define themes and approaches for a new exhibit on atomic testing.

Colonial Albany and the Foundations of American Urban Society
Albany Institute of History and Art
Albany, NY
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with staff and community advisors and travel to related model exhibitions in order to develop an interpretive plan to present Albany in the context of American urban society.

Conceptual Planning and Design for a new Southwest Texas regional museum
Uvalde Historic Commission, Inc.
Uvalde, TX
OUTRIGHT: $9,800.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,800.00
To support consultants to research, develop an interpretive plan, and design an exhibition of Southwest Texas regional history.

Dairy Farming at the Crossroads
Farmers' Museum
Cooperstown, NY
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars and agricultural experts in preparation for an exhibition and programs on New York State's role in U.S. dairy farming history.

Exhibit and Interpretive Planning
Squaxin Island Tribe
Shelton, WA
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation for establishment of an interpretive cultural center that would highlight the archaeology and history of the Squaxin Island tribe and surrounding area.

Exploring a 300 Year Legacy of Diversity
Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, AL
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with museum experts, scholars, and schoolteachers to shape programs for children and families on the history and cultures of Mobile, Alabama.

Historic Reinterpretation of Philipse Manor Hall
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
Yonkers, NY
OUTRIGHT: $9,824.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,824.00
To support consultation with scholars and other experts to prepare for a reinterpretation of the Manor Hall.

Homeland Heritage Loop
Tamastslikt Cultural Institute
Pendleton, OR
OUTRIGHT: $5,320.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $5,320.00
To support consultation with native and non-native scholars to prepare for interpretive programs that will be held in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark bicentennial.

Interpretation of the Life of Carl Elliott for Display of his Home as a Public Museum
Bevill State Community College
Jasper, AL
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with museum planners and historians to develop a plan for interpreting the life and career of Southern political leader Carl Elliott.

Interpreting the Albany and Southwest Georgia Civil Rights Movements
Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum
Albany, GA
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation to prepare for a permanent exhibition on the role of events in Albany, Georgia, in the early Civil Rights movement and their impact on subsequent developments in that movement elsewhere.

Interpretive Focus Consultation
Railroad Museum of Minot
Minot, ND
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with historians and museum professionals to develop an interpretive plan for a local railroad museum.

Interpretive Plan for the Beall-Dawson House
Montgomery County Historical Society
Rockville, MD
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with a scholar and a museum interpretation expert in preparation for writing a new site interpretive plan on the roles of African Americans and women from 1815 to 1901.

Interpretive Roundtable Consultation Session
Glessner House Museum
Chicago, IL
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars and historic house professionals to develop a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Glessner House.

Kinder History
Bainbridge Island Historical Society
Bainbridge Island, WA
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with a curriculum specialist to develop hands-on activities on the history and cultures of Bainbridge Island for children ages 4 to 6.

New Northwest Legacies: Unearthing the Chinese American Past
Wing Luke Asian Museum
Seattle, WA
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultants and an advisory committee to review recent acquisitions and to plan public programs and a traveling exhibition to tell the Chinese American immigrants story.

Northern Forest Heritage Exhibition
Northern Forest Center, Inc.
Concord, NH
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars and interpretive experts to develop a mobile exhibition and programs about the people and cultures of the Northern Forest region.

Oral History & Museum Project for Aleut Community of Saint Paul
TDX Foundation
Anchorage, AK
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation to plan a permanent museum exhibition, a traveling exhibition, and a website on the history and culture of the Pribilof islands in the Bering Sea.

Place, Space and Protest in America
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham, AL
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars to refine the themes for a website examining the development of social protest movements in America.

Plan for Interpretive Program
John P. Parker Historical Society
Cincinnati, OH
OUTRIGHT: $9,190.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,190.00
To support consultation with scholars and interpretive experts to define themes for interpreting the life of a freed slave who was a key figure in the Underground Railroad.

Red River Steamboat Wreck Curriculum Project
Oklahoma Historical Society
Oklahoma City, OK
OUTRIGHT: $9,990.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,990.00
To support a conference to plan public and educational interpretations and a website on an 1840 steamboat that will convey the history of the Red River, the Choctaw Nation, and the Republic of Texas.

Return to Rocky Ridge: Planning the Restoration of the Wilder Farmstead
Laura Ingalls Wilder/Rose Wilder Lane Home Assoc.
Mansfield, MO
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support a long-range site plan for recreating the early 20th-century farmstead next to the house where Wilder lived when she wrote the "Little House" books.

Small Town Jews
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
OUTRIGHT: $8,700.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $8,700.00
To support consultation for a traveling exhibition on the dynamics of Jewish identity and inter-group relations in small towns in the Mid-Atlantic region

Step into ART: An Interactive Art Exhibit for Families
Children's Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with artists and museum professionals to define the interpretive strategies for an interactive art exhibition for children.

The Other History: Recollections of North Carolina's Slavery Days
Tryon Palace Council of Friends, Inc.
New Bern, NC
OUTRIGHT: $5,171.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $5,171.00
To support consultation with archaeologists and historic house professionals to enhance Tryon Palace’s interpretation of the history of African Americans in the Neuse River Basin, North Carolina.

The Teaching of American Jewish History: A Consultation for Scholars and Practitioners
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Cincinnati, OH
OUTRIGHT: $9,970.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $9,970.00
To support consultation with scholars and teachers to stimulate new thinking about the interpretation of American Jewish history.

Planning Grants

Boston Black
Children's Museum, Boston
Boston, MA
OUTRIGHT: $40,797.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,797.00
Planning for programs, a website, and a permanent, interactive exhibition for children that will explore the diversity of Boston’s black communities.

Boyle Heights: Neighborhood Sites and Insights
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
OUTRIGHT: $40,848.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,848.00
Planning for a collaborative exhibition and partnership initiative exploring the history and transformations of a significant Los Angeles neighborhood.

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece
Dartmouth College, Hood Museum
Hanover, NH
OUTRIGHT: $39,568.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $39,568.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, catalog, CD-ROM, website, and related programs interpreting images of childhood in ancient Greece.

Deconstructing Apartheid: The Photographs of Peter Magubane, 1955-1998
California African Museum
Los Angeles, CA
OUTRIGHT: $40,848.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,848.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, publication, public programs, and a curriculum resource kit on the work of photographer Peter Magubane in drawing attention to apartheid in South Africa.

Digging In: Bisbee's Mineral Heritage
Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum
Bisbee, AZ
OUTRIGHT: $40,984.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,984.00
Planning of a long-term exhibition, website, and related programs interpreting the history of copper mining in Bisbee, Arizona.

Domestic Life and the Plantation Community at Jefferson's Monticello
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Charlottesville, VA
OUTRIGHT: $40,529.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,529.00
Planning for public interpretation of 13 recently restored domestic activity spaces at Monticello in order to expand understanding of the plantation’s economic, social, and cultural activities.

"Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit"
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $40,413.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,413.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition on contemporary Vietnam.

Implementation Grants

2001: Building for Space Travel
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
OUTRIGHT: $150,000.00
MATCH: $150,000.00
TOTAL: $300,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, photo panel exhibition, catalog, and accompanying educational and public programs on the design and architecture of space travel and exploration.

Entertaining America: Jewish Roles in Film, Radio, and Television
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $250,367.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $250,367.00
Implementation of a traveling multimedia exhibition, catalog, and public programs examining the role of American Jews in shaping American popular entertainment in the 20th century.

Installation of the Permanent Collections Galleries at the New Asian Art Museum
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
OUTRIGHT: $51,242.00
MATCH: $250,000.00
TOTAL: $301,242.00
Implementation of interpretive programs to accompany the reinstallation of the permanent collection in the new Asian Art Museum.

Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, 4th to 7th Century
Asia Society
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $300,413.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $300,413.00
Implementation of a major traveling exhibition, related programs, and catalog exploring China’s interaction with its neighbors between the fourth and seventh centuries.

Reinterpretation of Philipsburg Manor
Historic Hudson Valley
Tarrytown, NY
OUTRIGHT: $300,008.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $300,008.00
Implementation of new interpretive tours of an 18th-century mill site, emphasizing the experience of enslaved African Americans who worked there.

River Discovery
Dubuque County Historical Society
Dubuque, IA
OUTRIGHT: $100,530.00
MATCH: $200,000.00
TOTAL: $300,530.00
Implementation of a permanent interpretive plan about human relationships with the Mississippi River, including an exhibition, living history presentations, an outdoor boat building demonstration, and public and educational programs.

The Alliance of Art & Industry: Toledo Designs
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
OUTRIGHT: $100,508.00
MATCH: $200,000.00
TOTAL: $300,508.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the rise of industrial design as a feature of American manufacturing and the influence of designers on products with a specific connection to Toledo, Ohio.

The Legacy of Michelangelo: Renaissance Art in Florence from Cosimo I de’ Medici to Cosimo II de’ Medici (1537-1621)
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
OUTRIGHT: $100,000.00
MATCH: $200,000.00
TOTAL: $300,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, interpretive programs, audio tour, CD-ROM, and website examining the artistic and political themes of the Renaissance in Florence.

The People of the Rivers: Lifeway of the Northern Plateau
Eastern Washington State Historical Society
Spokane, WA
OUTRIGHT: $242,947.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $242,947.00
A long-term exhibition, website, and public programs on U.S. Northern Plateau native cultures as told primarily from their own perspectives.

The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Mint Museum
Charlotte, NC
OUTRIGHT: $300,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $300,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, website, and accompanying programs on the cultural and cosmological aspects of the ballgame in Mesoamerica.

"The Sweatshop" Apartment
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $197,553.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $197,553.00
A permanent installation, audio tour, website, and school and public programs interpreting a 19th-century sweatshop.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Consultation Grants

Awake: Art and Buddhism in America
Callipeplon Society
Sausalito, CA
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
Consultation with content experts and museum professionals to develop a seminar series that would inform development of exhibitions and related programs on the relationship between Buddhist thought and art.

Consultation Grant for Symposium on History and Journalism at "Contested Places"
National Council on Public History
Indianapolis, IN
OUTRIGHT: $7,316.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $7,316.00
To support planning for a symposium for journalists, historians, and museum/historic site professionals to discuss how historical issues are discussed in journalistic media.

Council of Traditional Scholars
Sealaska Heritage Foundation
Juneau, AK
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support a meeting of Tlingit elders to plan the process of gathering and transcribing important clan stories that will be disseminated through a publication.

Cultural Atlas of the Minto Athabascan Homeland: Consultations
Cultural Heritage and Education Institute
Fairbanks, AK
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation among local elders, community members, and scholars, to document traditional knowledge, develop a cultural map of the Minto region, and disseminate the information through publications and a website.

Estorian Guaham Siha/Stories of Guam Oral History Project
Micronesian Area Research Center
Mangilao, Guam
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars and technical consultants to design the intellectual framework and program formats for an oral history project on the people of Guam.

On-line First Person Historical Narratives
HistoryMakers
Chicago, IL
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with content and technical experts to plan an on-line archive of videotaped oral history interviews with African American leaders and unsung heroes.

Photography: An Image of Each Other
H. Earl Clack Museum
Havre, MT
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars to define themes for a cross-cultural program for students from a public high school and an Indian reservation that will use the art of photography to examine perceptions of cultural identity.

Waters of Renewal: Rediscovering Communities Along the River
Shawnee State University
Portsmouth, OH
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation with scholars, filmmakers and museum experts to develop programming in four rural communities interpreting the Ohio River region.

Planning Grants

Lewis and Clark: A Journey Across American Space and Time
Barnes-Jewish Hospital of St. Louis/Oasis Institute
St. Louis, MO
OUTRIGHT: $35,676.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $35,676.00
Planning for a ten-week reading and discussion series and related activities to occur during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 2003.

Weaving Women's Words
Jewish Women's Archive
Brookline, MA
OUTRIGHT: $40,797.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $40,797.00
Planning for community-based oral history projects in three cities and a related interactive website and online archive of Jewish women’s stories.

Youth: Catalysts for Change in 20th Century America
National 4-H Council
Chevy Chase, MD
OUTRIGHT: $50,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $50,000.00
To plan a project that examines the role of youth in public decisions in 20th-century America.

Implementation Grants

Colorado River: Moving Waters in the Arid West
Arizona Humanities Council
Phoenix, AZ
OUTRIGHT: $295,483.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $295,483.00
Programs involving a variety of formats to take place in 22 communities in seven states to examine the legal, social, economic, and environmental history of the Colorado River.

Faces of America: Photographs and Memory - Connecting the American Past and the Present
Community College Humanities Assn.
Newark, NJ
OUTRIGHT: $280,367.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $280,367.00
A family history project in 30 communities nationwide using family photographs as a starting point for exploring connections to larger aspects of the national story.

Image and Identity: Jewish Self-Representation
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $96,413.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $96,413.00
A series of 60 public programs and an accompanying website examining representations of Jewish ethnic identity in documentary film.

The Time of the Lincolns
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
OUTRIGHT: $200,000.00
MATCH: $0.00
TOTAL: $200,000.00
Production of an interactive, multimedia presentation of life in mid-19th-century America which supplements the television series A House Divided: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, produced for The American Experience on PBS.