Project Grant BH30812026
- This federal Project Grant award of $189,708.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 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 explore multiple narratives of the American Revolution and its legacies in Massachusetts, providing place-based experiences at historic sites guided by academic and public historians, literary...
- 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 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) 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 New York Historical Society received a $350,948 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a hybrid professional development institute for K-12 educators titled "Preparing for America at 250: Women and the American Revolution." The institute will convene 30 teachers over several months from July to November 2023, including two in-person weeks at the Historical Society in July and virtual evening sessions in June, August, September, October, and...
- The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) received a $170,670 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund workshops for K-12 educators from across the country to learn about Virginia's pivotal role in the American Revolution. Educators will visit historical sites and landmarks, discuss teaching strategies, and analyze primary source documents from VMHC's...
- This $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a two-year institute for high school English teachers (grades 9-12) to examine the portrayal of friendship in literature, film, and adolescent social experiences. Teachers will explore evolving conceptions of friendship through collaborative seminars, expert presentations, and the development of curricular materials. The...
- The Thoreau Society Inc. received a $175,967 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program. Specifically, the funding will support a two-week residential summer institute for 25 college and university teachers held in Concord, Massachusetts from June 26 to July 9, 2022. The institute aims to promote better teaching and research on the topics of transcendentalism and social reform in the age of...
- This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a three-week summer institute for higher education faculty from June 29 to July 18, 2026. The institute will build on a previous NEH-funded program focused on the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) from the Great Depression era, and will provide training on teaching and researching the FWP's archival materials, as...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $599,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Verse Video Education, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization, to support the production of Season Five of the public television series "Poetry in America." The grant will fund the creation of eight documentary-style episodes that explore American poetry and its connections to national narratives, cultural traditions, and social...
The Emily Dickinson Museum received a $190,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program to host a two-week workshop for K-12 educators titled "Revolution is the Pod: Emily Dickinson's American Poetry" in summer 2026. The workshop will examine Dickinson's poetry in the context of the rhetoric and national identity of her era, one century after the American Revolution. Through creative writing and engagement with contemporary poets, participants will explore how Dickinson's revolutionary poetry continues to inspire new generations. The workshop will consist of two one-week sessions for a total of 36 teachers, to be held at Amherst College, the parent organization of the Emily Dickinson Museum. This is the fifth time the museum has received this grant, having previously held workshops in 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2017.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $190.0k | 12/1/25 |