This $246,320 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative. This transformative program is designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities, focusing on cultural heritage recovery through advanced imaging technologies. The initiative...
This $199,950 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support Full Spectrum Features NFP, a Chicago-based non-profit organization, to host a three-week institute for educators on the history of Japanese American resettlement after World War II. The institute will take place both virtually and in-person in Chicago, the largest non-West Coast resettlement site for Japanese Americans....
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), will be used by Loyola Marymount University to run a summer institute for rising high school seniors from historically marginalized and underserved populations in Los Angeles. The institute will introduce students to public history and how to grapple with "difficult...
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 (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 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 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), provides $189,999.00 to the American Society of Landscape Architects Library & Education Advocacy Fund, Inc. to develop and pilot a framework for K-12 educators nationwide to explore local and national landscapes through a design-centered lens. The project, titled "Teaching Environmental Humanities Through...
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 $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 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...