Project Grant BR25599217

This $396,763 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program will support the Genesee Country Museum in strengthening the interpretation and educational programming related to the history of enslavement in 19th century New York State. The two-year project, beginning in September 2024, will focus on enhancing the interpretive content and visitor experiences at four historic buildings on the museum's campus: the Nathaniel Rochester House,...

The Macon Bibb County Urban Development Authority received a $310,000 Project Grant award under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966), administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service. The funding will support the documentation, preservation, and interpretation of the culturally significant DeWitt-McCrary House in Macon, Georgia. The grant award has a performance period from February 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028,...

The City of Alexandria, Virginia was awarded a $1.3 million Save America's Treasures Project Grant by the National Park Service to preserve the Franklin and Armfield Office in Alexandria. Commonly known as the Alexandria Slave Pen, the building will be repaired and conserved to correct and prevent further degradation of its windows, doors, siding, and foundation. Upon completion of these preservation activities, the City will open the structure as a museum dedicated to interpreting the...

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center was awarded a $220,369 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The Center will identify, map, and interpret the history of African American land ownership and residential life in Central Virginia from 1744 through 2020 by analyzing over 400,000 pages of property records using citizen science crowdsourcing tools. Records will be mapped and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Oakwood University, Inc. a $129,366 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The grant will support the creation of a plantation living museum and revision of a related course to educate students and the community about the life of Dred Scott. Key products include developing new teaching and learning resources focused on revising an existing course about Dred Scott and...

The University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology will receive $770,583 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to rehouse and digitize its paleoenvironmental archives from Georgia's coastal zone from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2025. Staff will work with graduate and undergraduate students as well as a database consultant to inventory, rehouse, and digitize collections pertaining to Native American sites...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $128,099 to Cornell University from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026 to develop a 3D virtual model of the Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) archaeological site at Pompeii. The virtual model will investigate how people of different genders, ages, and physical conditions would have experienced the domestic space. The project builds on a joint Cornell...

The Whitney Plantation Museum will create an exhibition and related programming focusing on resistance and freedom-seeking in South Louisiana before and during the Civil War. Funded by a $576,027 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program, the museum will partner with Cornell University, the University of New Orleans, and Freedom on the Move to research exhibition content and develop supplemental online...

The Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. was awarded a $351,003.20 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) for the period of October 15, 2015 through December 31, 2017. The grant funded a project to examine Atlanta landmarks and history related to civil rights, with the goal of promoting better teaching of American history and culture. As part of the Landmarks of...

The Whitney Institute received a $101,800 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The grant will support the expansion of the Whitney Institute's educational outreach and engagement initiatives focused on the history and legacies of enslaved peoples in Southeast Louisiana. This includes the development and implementation of virtual distance learning programs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025....