This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support experiential professional development for educators focused on colonial history in New Hampshire. Awarded $373,434, the grant will run from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The University of New Hampshire will lead place-based encounters for educators along the Great Bay estuary, considering the experiences of Native American and African American populations alongside early European settlers. Educators will...
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 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 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 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 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $180,256.00 to support two identical week-long workshops for 70 grades 5-12 educators, librarians, curriculum consultants/supervisors, museum educators, and administrators. The workshops, jointly delivered by Rutgers University, the Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation, and Liberty State Park, will explore the histories,...
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...
This $190,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops in July and August 2024 for a total of 72 K-12 teachers. The workshops will focus on the history and cultural legacy of the Gullah-Geechee people, who are descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of Georgia. In partnership with Gullah-Geechee descendants, scholars, and institutions,...
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...
The federal Project Grant award of $184,866.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant funds a series of discussions and workshops for school teachers focused on the intersection of the Underground Railroad, whaling, and maritime trade in New Bedford, Massachusetts during the antebellum period. The workshop series, titled "Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the...