Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development
Division of Education Programs
Announced: February 2005

University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Outright: $159,304, Matching Offe: $20,000)
Project Director: Daniel Bayer, (213) 740-1188
Project Title: Virtual Italian Experience
Description: Development of interactive digital learning tools for students of Italian language and literature.

Association for Core Texts and Courses, Moraga (Outright: $96,485)
Project Director: J. Scott Lee, (908) 359-7560
Project Title: Lessons in Courage: From the Trail of Tears to Cherokee Recovery
Description: A two-year materials development project to create a website for high school students on Cherokee Indian history and culture from pre-contact times through the present era.

Associated Colleges of the South, Atlanta (Outright: $199,874)
Project Director: Rebecca Davis, (512) 863-1734
Project Title: The REALIA Project: An Online Public Media Archive for Language Instruction
Description: The development of an online archive of visual materials for teaching foreign languages and cultures.
Website: http://www.realiaproject.org/

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago (Outright: $200,000)
Project Director: D. Lynn McRainey, (312) 799-2150
Project Title: From the Crossroads: Great Chicago Stories
Description: Two-year materials development project to create a website for K-12 teachers on significant themes, events, and persons in Chicago history.

National-Louis University, Chicago (Outright: $180,727)
Project Director: Mark Newman, (847) 465-5819
Project Title: Picturing Chicago
Description: A two-year materials development project to produce a sourcebook and companion website for K-12 teachers on approaches to studying Chicago history through maps and other visual images.

Shimer College, Waukegan (Outright: $100,000)
Project Director: Kathleen Mullaney, (847) 623-8400
Project Title: Great Books, Great Art: Integrating Art History Into the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum
Description: A curriculum development project to integrate great art works into a successful and rigorous great books core curriculum.

University of Maryland, College Park, College Park ($195,023)
Project Director: Shawn Parry-Giles, (301) 405-6527
Project Title: Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project
Description: The development of an educational archive of American speeches and public debates, with accompanying historical information and scholarly interpretations for use in the undergraduate curriculum.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams (Outright:: $94,000, Matching Offer: $6,000)
Project Director: Frances Jones-Sneed, (413) 662-5541
Project Title: The Shaping Role of Place in African American Biography
Description: A curriculum development project focusing on the lives of five African Americans whose stories link a rural New England county with events and themes of national significance.

Worcester Public Schools, Worcester (Outright: $200,000)
Project Director: Colleen Kelly, (508) 799-3676
Project Title: Our Living Past: Antebellum America, 1815-1860
Description: The development of a website on antebellum America (1815-1860) drawing from existing sites and the collections of the American Antiquarian Society and Old Sturbridge Village.

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, (Outright: $157,497)
Project Director: William Bramble, (505) 277-0462
Project Title: Interpreting the American Image Through the Photographs of John Collier Jr.: A Virtual Experience
Description: The development of a CD-ROM and a website that would allow students of American history and culture to examine John Collier, Jr.'s photographs of American families, a collection sponsored by the Farm Security Administration during World War II.

Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, (Outright: $117,426, Matching Offer: $42,574)
Project Director: Susan Hoeltzel, (718) 960-8731
Project Title: Bronx Architecture: A Multimedia Guide for Teachers
Description: A three-year project to develop a website documenting fifty historically and architecturally significant buildings in the Bronx, which would include photographs and written commentaries, biographies of architects, neighborhood histories, lesson plans, virtual walking tours, and resources for further learning.

Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, (Outright: $184,348)
Project Director: Joseph Piro, (516) 299-3823
Project Title: Rembrandt: The Artist and the Collection of His Art in America
Description: An online resource for teaching about the art of Rembrandt van Rijn in historical context, focusing on works that are held by museums in the United States.

Freedom House, New York (Outright: $170,000, Matching Offer: $15,000)
Project Director: Arch Puddington, (212) 514-8040
Project Title: Using International Comparisons of Political Systems to Help Students Understand Democracy
Description: The development of a website and teacher study guide to support comparative examination of the political systems of the United States and other countries.

Ashland University, Ashland (Outright: $186,900, Matching Offer: $6,500)
Project Director: John Moser, (419) 289-5231
Project Title: American Foreign Policy 1887-1945: Overseas Expansion and Foreign Wars
Description: The development of web-based lesson plans and interactive exercises to engage high school students in the study of a formative period in the development of American foreign policy.

Ridgway Area School District, Ridgway, (Outright: $199,601)
Project Director: Robert Weible, (717) 783-9872
Project Title: Exploring American History through the Lens of Industrialization
Description: The expansion and improvement of the ExplorePAhistory.com website, including the development of three new K-12 teaching units on the role of iron, bituminous coal, and industry in the history of the state and the nation.
Website: http://www.explorepahistory.com

University of Texas, Austin, Austin (Outright: $147,742, Matching Offer: $20,000)
Project Director: Paul Resta, (512) 471-4014
Project Title: Presidential Timeline
Description: The development of a web-based structure for bringing together the digital assets of Presidential libraries based on a timeline of 20th-century Presidential administrations, the major events they encountered, and the decision making process brought to bear on these events.

University of Houston, Houston (Outright: $199,744)
Project Director: Steven Mintz, (713) 743-3109
Project Title: MyHistory: Students and Teachers as Historians
Description: A materials development project to expand and refine the existing Digital History website to encourage active student involvement in historical research and writing.
Website: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Project Harmony, Waitsfield (Outright: $198,056)
Project Director: David Hosford, (978) 443-9961 x316
Project Title: The Stalin Project
Description: A materials development project to produce a multimedia, interactive website, student curriculum,and teacher’s guide on Stalin’s reign of terror and its legacy.