The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will receive $378,826 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct the "Echoes of History: Mistreatment and Incarceration in the American West" project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The Foundation will host two week-long workshops in June and July of 2023 that explore the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World...
This $189,575 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support two one-week workshops for educators to learn about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The workshops will utilize faculty members from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation staff as well as outside experts. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization, operates the Heart...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $169,642 Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development grant (CFDA 45.163) to the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) to host two 2025 educator workshops titled "Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations." Over the June and July 2025 sessions, the project will provide secondary teachers (grades 6-12) from schools nationwide the opportunity to explore how historic events and ongoing challenges...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $177,735 project grant to the Japanese American Citizens League Washington DC Office to support the project "CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), which aims to promote better teaching and research in the humanities for higher education faculty...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $190,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation, doing business as the Wing Luke Asian Museum, to present a series of in-person educator workshops titled "In Our Own Voices: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific Northwest." The two workshops, scheduled for July 2025, will be led by the museum's...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Historic Hudson Valley $269,800 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to support a virtual teacher training institute from July 16-22, 2023. The institute will provide professional development to 36 K-12 educators on teaching about slavery in the northern colonial era. The NEH Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program aims to improve teaching of American history and...
This $180,567 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will enable the Japanese American National Museum to host a program that invites educators from across the country to Los Angeles to examine the history and ongoing impacts on the Little Tokyo neighborhood. The project will study how events and issues like restrictive covenants, World War II incarceration, eminent domain,...
The Wing Luke Memorial Foundation dba Wing Luke Asian Museum will receive $376,640 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program to conduct two in-person workshops in Summer 2023. The workshops will build on the Museum's previous "In Our Own Words" workshops focused on enriching K-12 educators' understanding of early Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander histories in the Pacific Northwest. Led by...
This $163,304 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds Densho, a public history organization in Seattle, Washington, to restart its oral history program on the Japanese American World War II incarceration and its aftermath. The grant provides funding from January 2022 through December 2023 for staffing and equipment to conduct, process, and preserve oral histories with individuals impacted by Japanese American internment. As part of the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division...
This federal Project Grant award of $180,256 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support two identical week-long workshops for 70 grades 5-12 educators, librarians, curriculum consultants/supervisors, museum educators, and administrators. The workshops, delivered through a collaboration between Rutgers University, the Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation, and Liberty State Park, will explore the...