This federal Project Grant award of $189,792.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The award will fund a residential workshop in 2025 for 72 K-12 educators titled "From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England." The workshop will be hosted at the University of New Hampshire and focus on examining the experiences of Native American, African American, and...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provided $163,742 to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc. to deliver the "Ancient Stories, New Neighbors" summer institute from July 24 to August 6, 2022. The institute aimed to decolonize narratives of Indigenous homelands and 17th century New England through a case study approach using Mourt's Relation and other primary sources from...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Upstander Project, Inc. for the "Upstander Academy: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History through Land and Water-Based Learning" program. This two-week residential institute, scheduled for July 2025, will provide 25 participants from 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators with an...
This Project Grant award of $189,708 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a 6-day teacher workshop hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Concord Museum. The workshop will provide K-12 educators in Massachusetts the opportunity to explore multiple narratives of the American Revolution and its legacies through place-based experiences at historical sites, guided by academic...
The New Hampshire Historical Society received a $182,396 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The award will support completion of the Society's "The Democracy Project: Completing an Education and Collections Initiative." Through January 2023, the Society will finish development of an online resource called "Moose on the Loose" designed for upper elementary students....
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $119,504 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization in Tarrytown, New York. The grant will fund a one-week residential institute for 30 K-12 teachers entitled "Slavery in the Colonial North" from July 13-19, 2025. The institute will present slavery as a central element of American economic and political development in the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of New Mexico (UNM) a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a new two-week institute for 25 K-12 educators, including classroom teachers, arts educators, museum educators, librarians, and curriculum support staff. The institute, titled "Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border Through Multimodal Storytelling," will engage...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), awarded a $152,382 Project Grant to the Fort Ticonderoga Association to offer two one-week workshops in the summer of 2025 for teachers across the country. The workshops, titled "The American Revolution: Subjects, Citizens, and Soldiers," will use the association's archival and object collections to explore five key themes related to the American...
The New Hampshire Humanities Council was awarded a $447,116 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This five-year grant, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2029, will support the council's delivery of public humanities programming that promotes cultural understanding, civic engagement, and educational initiatives across New Hampshire. The grant funding will enable the council to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $120,926 to support a three-week academic institute at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. The institute examines the influence of the Puritans on New England Gothic literature, exploring this topic through the lenses of place, race, and gender. The institute aims to demonstrate for participants how considering these...