Chairman’s Special Award

Presentation of "The Lost Treasures of Afghanistan" in the United States

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Award: Outright; $1,000,000.00 

Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a Web site, and public and educational programs exploring the arts and cultural heritage of ancient Afghanistan.

Interpreting America’s Historic Places

Implementation Grants

Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

Award: Outright; $365,149.00  

Implementation of an interactive Web site and a DVD, audio tours, and other materials interpreting the natural and cultural history of the Grand Canyon landscape.

Implementation of New Interpretive Program Elements at the National Historic Landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue

Eldridge Street Project

New York, NY

Award: Outright; $251,163.00 

Implementation of new interpretive exhibits, publications, and tours examining the architectural, religious, and cultural history of a historic synagogue and community in New York's Lower East Side.

Permanent Interpretive Exhibition at the Home and Studio of Thomas Cole, Founder of the Hudson River School of Art

Greene County Historical Society, Thomas Cole Site

Catskill, NY

Award: Outright; $45,900.00  Match; $275,000.00

Implementation of a permanent interpretation of Thomas Cole's studio, including a film, docent tours, a Web site, multimedia stations, publications, and public and educational programs exploring how Cole worked and his contribution to American art.

From Subjects to Citizens: Williamsburg and the American Revolution

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Williamsburg, VA

Award: Outright; $341,833.00 

Implementation of a Web site about Williamsburg during the American Revolution and about our rights and responsibilities as citizens of the experimental democratic republic founded at that time.

Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Implementation Grants

Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience

American Library Association

Chicago, IL

Award: Outright; $300,223.00 

Implementation of a traveling exhibition that would tour to 20 libraries, examining African Americans' participation in organized baseball from the Civil War to the present.

Soul of a People: Voices from the Federal Writers' Project—Library Outreach Programs

American Library Association

Chicago, IL

Award: Outright; $218,414.00 

Implementation of a series of reading and film discussion programs at 30 public libraries, with a companion Web site, that would occur simultaneously with the broadcasting of the NEH-supported documentary film Soul of a People: Voices from the Federal Writers' Project.

Prime Time Family Reading: Bilingual National Outreach

Prime Time Family Reading

New Orleans, LA

Award: Outright; $275,212.00 

Implementation of 20 bilingual family reading and discussion programs, four programs each in five states.

John Adams Unbound: The Library of a President

Boston Public Library Trustees

Boston, MA

Award: Outright; $299,310.00 

Implementation of a traveling panel exhibition with public programs to go to 20 libraries nationwide about how Adams' passion for reading shaped his life and his actions as a national leader.

Humanities Projects in Media

Radio Production Grants

American Routes: Routes to Home: Words and Music from Migrants, Exiles, Travelers, and Wanderers

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

Award: Outright; $150,000.00 

Production of ten two-hour programs exploring the traveler as an iconic image in American narrative, songs, and stories.

Afropop Worldwide

World Music Productions

Brooklyn, NY

Award: Outright; $150,000.00 

Production and distribution of 10 original programs and 14 re-edited "Hip Deep" programs for the 2007-08 season and a prototype of new knowledge distribution models.

Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Implementation Grants

Old Stories, New Voices Intercultural Youth Program Expansion

Colorado Historical Society

Denver, CO

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a three-year program of weeklong summer camps to be held in Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Nebraska for at-risk youth, exploring the United States and the Civil War history.

Children in Hangzhou: Connecting with China

Children's Museum of Boston

Boston, MA

Award: Outright; $0.00  Match; $400,000.00

Implementation of an interactive, trilingual traveling exhibition for children exploring contemporary Chinese culture.

Sailors Speak: Life Aboard Constitution in 1812

U.S.S. Constitution Museum

Boston, MA

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a permanent exhibition about the lives of crew members and how their service during the War of 1812 affected them and helped to create an American national symbol.

Our Lives, Our Stories: Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, publications, a Web site, and other public and educational programs exploring the collective experience of the generation that fought World War II and matured in the postwar decades.

The Bison: American Icon, Heart of Plains Indian Culture

Trigg C. M. Russell Foundation, Inc.

Great Falls, MT

Award: Outright; $275,400.00  Match; $100,000.00

Implementation of a permanent exhibition with a Web site and public and school programs about the history of humans' interaction with bison and how the bison became a symbol of Native American culture, the American West, and our national identity.

Isletan Images: A Photographic History of the Pueblo in the 19th Century

Pueblo of Isleta

Isleta, NM

Award: Outright; $328,247.00 

Implementation of a traveling exhibition and a publication on traditional life and change at Isleta, using early photographs to show how outsiders saw the pueblo and how historical information can be gleaned from the photographs.

A Room of Their Own: The Artists of Bloomsbury

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Award: Outright; $366,292.00 

Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a Web site, a symposium, and related programs exploring the visual arts and artists of London's Bloomsbury group.

Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America

Jewish Museum

New York, NY

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a major traveling exhibition examining the emergence of abstract art in postwar America and the political and social context in which it emerged.

Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure

New York Botanical Garden

Bronx, NY

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a traveling exhibition examining Charles Darwin's contributions to botany, scientific inquiry, and humanity's fundamental understanding of nature.

Splendors of Ancient Ife: Dynasty and Divinity in Yoruba Art

Museum for African Art

Long Island City, NY

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a scholarly publication, and a Web site on the history and culture of the Yoruba city state of Ife in Nigeria.

Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island

Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

Austin, TX

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a large traveling exhibition, a smaller format traveling version, and educational and public programs exploring immigration through the port of Galveston, Texas from 1845 to 1924.

Interpreting Jefferson and Monticello in the 21st Century

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.

Charlottesville, VA

Award: Outright; $367,200.00 

Implementation of a permanent exhibition in a new visitor's center, including a film, a model of the plantation, a Web site, publications, and four copies of a smaller panel exhibition, exploring how Jefferson applied Enlightenment ideas at Monticello.

Special Projects

Implementation

Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua

Nebraska Humanities Council

Lincoln, NE

Award: Outright; $179,010.00  Match; $105,000.00

Implementation of a series of public programs in 12 rural communities in Kansas and Nebraska over three years exploring critical changes in American cultural and political life in the 1930s through the lives of five historical figures.

Reveal the Real: Kids Uncover the Secrets of Brooklyn

Brooklyn Information and Culture Inc.

Brooklyn, NY

Award: Outright; $175,000.00 

Implementation of a three-year after-school program that engages middle and high school students in conducting historical research and producing videos for public distribution about Brooklyn's past.