The federal Project Grant award "INDIGENOUS HISTORIES OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS" in the amount of $173,044.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The award supports a 2-week residential institute for secondary social studies educators, led by faculty from the History Department at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in collaboration with the NAU Institute for...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to Upstander Project, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant supports the "Upstander Academy: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History through Land and Water-Based Learning," a two-week residential institute in July 2025 for 25 participants including 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators....
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $302,017 Project Grant to the Community College Humanities Association to support the ON NATIVE GROUNDS: STUDIES OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES AND THE LAND project from October 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), which promotes better teaching and research in the humanities for higher education faculty and K-12 educators through activities...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $190,682, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), supports a 3-week residential institute for higher education faculty titled "Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy." The institute, taking place at Georgetown University in Washington, DC from June 16 to July 4, 2025, aims to address the lack of scholarly focus on philosophical debates about slavery...
This $182,762 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a humanities institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) that challenges higher education participants to re-examine how history is researched and taught through the lens of people and place. The institute, titled "Towards a People's History of Landscape: Black & Indigenous Histories", will...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $149,842 to Kansas State University (KSU) to create public-facing digital resources such as annotated treaties, oral histories, educational videos, and curricula. The goal is to augment humanities education in Kansas by promoting understandings about Indigenous peoples and histories as a best teaching...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $189,792.00 to the University of New Hampshire to host a residential workshop titled "From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England" in 2025. The workshop will convene 72 K-12 educators to explore the lives of diverse populations, including Native Americans and African Americans, experiencing global...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the development and implementation of Native American and Indigenous Studies curriculum modules and professional development workshops at St. Bonaventure University. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the $147,389 award will create six curriculum modules for required first-year courses reaching all incoming students annually from...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $120,926 to support a three-week academic institute at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. The institute examines the influence of the Puritans on New England Gothic literature, exploring this topic through the lenses of place, race, and gender. The institute aims to demonstrate for participants how considering these...