This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a project to document and preserve culturally significant sites in the Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, Georgia. The project, titled "Building Gullah Geechee Resilience to Climate Change through Spaces of Abundance in the Salt Marsh of Sapelo Island," will use human-scale photography to capture...
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 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $188,812 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. The grant funds a five-day Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop titled "From Clotilda to Community: The History of Mobile, Alabama's Africatown." This workshop will immerse K-12 educators in the history of the 110 survivors of the slave ship Clotilda and their...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $189,899.00 to support a six-day, two-week residential workshop titled "A Sense of Place: Architecture, Culture, and History in the Arkansas Delta." The workshop will bring together 60 teachers from across the United States in grades 6-12 to learn about the important architectural, cultural, and historical...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $191,619 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the American Historical Association (AHA). The grant will fund a three-week, fully virtual institute in June-July 2025 for 30 K-12 educators on the theme of "Africa in World History." The institute aims to enhance the content knowledge of participating teachers, allowing them to expand beyond the limited engagement with...
The University of South Carolina received a $199,401 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a three-week residential summer institute for K-12 teachers titled "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story." From July 5-25, 2022, through seminars led by scholars, study trips in South Carolina, and archival research, participating educators will learn...
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...
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...
This $188,178 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund a multi-part educational initiative on the topic of school desegregation in Virginia. The project offers two one-week residential workshops and four virtual follow-up meetings for 60 K-12 school teachers, with a focus on grades 6-12 social studies/history educators. During the workshops, participants will visit...