The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,045 Project Grant to National History Day Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will fund the "Moving Freedom Forward: Teaching a More Inclusive History" initiative, which combines teacher training and curriculum development to enhance classroom teaching and student learning about the histories of marginalized communities. The...
The New York Public Library, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University, will deliver a two-week combined summer institute titled "Harlem's Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative" through a $378,290 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through scholarly presentations, dialogue with movement veterans, place-based pedagogy, and guided exploration of the Schomburg Center's archival collections, the institute will provide 25...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Auburn University a $196,388 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a week-long workshop titled "Bloody Sunday, Selma, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" to be held in Alabama from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The workshop will bring together educators from across the country for an immersive exploration of the civil rights...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $161,754 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to Gettysburg College for the project "CIVIL WAR ARCHIVES: A NEW SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR." The funding supports a two-week residential institute for 36 higher education faculty to explore how the "archival turn" can generate new perspectives on Civil War and Reconstruction history by investigating...
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 $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to The Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to produce, test, assess, and host an educational interactive documentary website titled "The Barbara Johns Project." This project aims to illuminate the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation (Jim Crow) in the South between the Civil War and...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support Framingham State University in developing resources and curriculum focused on investigating race through digital humanities approaches. The $146,785 award will fund a faculty institute, high school teacher program, cultural organization workshops, and junior scholar lectures from 2022 through 2024. These activities aim to strengthen the university's commitments to digital humanities and the examination of race in...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $366,000 Project Grant to the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina for the "Promotion of the Humanities Research" program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will provide long-term research fellowships from January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028 to support advanced humanities scholarship and public engagement. As an independent, nonprofit institute, the National Humanities Center is devoted to furthering understanding of the human...
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...
Howard University received a $198,321.84 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) for the period of January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019. The award funds the development of the Africana Theatre and Dance Collection as a teaching resource to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new resources, programs, and curricula for use...