This $199,950 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support Full Spectrum Features NFP, a Chicago-based non-profit organization, to host a three-week institute for educators on the history of Japanese American resettlement after World War II. The institute will take place both virtually and in-person in Chicago, the largest non-West Coast resettlement site for Japanese Americans....
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...
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...
The federal Project Grant award for $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) supports the Chinatown History Project in Los Angeles, California. The project will leverage a historic cache of photographs to create an augmented reality experience that allows users to virtually explore the lost neighborhood of Chinatown, which was demolished in the 1930s to make way for Union Station. The project will combine this...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $187,803 to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation through the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct two six-day workshops for 5-12 educators. The workshops will instruct educators on the details of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II as part of the Landmarks of American History and Culture program. The workshops aim to promote better teaching of American history and culture....
The Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded a $474,528 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant (CFDA 15.933) to Densho, a nonprofit organization, to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through this Project Grant, Densho will digitize 50,000 archival items, conduct outreach to survivors and descendants to gather contextual information, and incorporate the new digital materials into...
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will be used by Loyola Marymount University to run a summer institute for rising high school seniors from historically marginalized and under-served populations in Los Angeles. The institute will introduce students to the concepts of public history and how to grapple with "difficult...
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...
The Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded Densho, a nonprofit organization, a $476,743.00 Project Grant under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support Densho's efforts to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Specifically, Densho will undertake a major update of the Densho Encyclopedia, an important online resource providing accurate...
The National Japanese American Historical Society Inc. (NJAHS) has been awarded a $119,484 project grant from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will fund a project to catalog and digitize previously unseen photographs, documents, and ephemera from NJAHS' collections related to the ten War Relocation Authority (WRA) incarceration sites and several Department...