The Foothill-De Anza Community College District received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant project, titled "Voices of Silicon Valley: Using Heritage Discourse to Counteract Placelessness and Build Belonging," aims to increase accessibility of the California History Center's oral histories, create new...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,899 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The grant, titled "ENTRE NOSOTRAS: PRESERVING ORAL HISTORIES OF MIGRANT FARMWORKER MOTHERS," seeks to document and foster transcultural resilience in the face of climate change among migrant farmworker mothers in the Rio Grande Valley. The project will engage in: 1)...
The Idaho State Historical Society (ISHS) received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an interpretive and audience development plan for the Old Idaho Penitentiary historic site. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which supports projects that promote preserving and providing access to humanities resources, the award will cover partial salaries for seven ISHS staff positions...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $187,868 Project Grant to Southern Utah University (SUU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant, titled "Voices of the Ancients: Archaeology and Oral History in the American West," aims to help teachers grapple with difficult and complex history and expand the American narrative. The project will investigate the archaeology of the ancient Fremont people, engage with the...
This $182,762 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a humanities institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) that challenges higher education participants to re-examine how history is researched and taught through the lens of people and place. The institute, titled "Towards a People's History of Landscape: Black & Indigenous Histories", will...
The Vermont Historical Society in Barre, Vermont will create new educational online and in-person content focused on stories of resilience, diversity, and community in Vermont history under a $106,575 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Funded through IMLS's National Leadership Grants program, which supports advancing practices in museums and libraries, the project will develop resources for the Society's Vermont History Explorer website. This digital platform...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $118,772 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to Rock Valley College, a two-year community college in Rockford, Illinois. The grant funds a project titled "CHRONICLES OF CHANGE: ARCHIVING STORIES OF DESEGREGATION IN ROCKFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 1989-2002." The project will create a collection of oral histories and primary source documents...
The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $347,919 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures program to East Tennessee State University (ETSU) to process, preserve, and digitize records from its Appalachian studies collection. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027, will enable ETSU to hire a project archivist and graduate assistant to organize and digitize approximately 1,000 oral history interviews, 1,500 photographs, and 100 linear feet...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,698 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. (doing business as Tucson Meet Yourself) for the CLIMATELORE project. This 18-month project, running from February 2024 to July 2025, aims to document the climate-related impacts on folk, traditional, and indigenous communities in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands region. The project will...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...