Project Grant ES27248020

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $199,797 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Chicago History Museum, doing business as the Chicago Historical Society, for the period of October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. The grant will support the museum's "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy, 1877-1920" program, a three-week summer institute for 30 resident...

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...

The Dyckman Discussions: A More Perfect Union in Inwood project received a $320,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164). The two-year project at the New York City of Dyckman Farmhouse Museum will deliver a series of in-person panel discussions and community dialogues exploring topics in New York history and their relevance to today's social and political climate. In the first year,...

The Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc., doing business as The Mount, received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2022 to support full-time, on-site literary and history programming through December 31, 2022. The programming will focus on issues of racial justice, gender equality, and immigration using Edith Wharton's life and works as a framework. Three types of public programs are planned to 1) relate Wharton's works to present-day...

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 $140,971 federal Project Grant award, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951), will support the New Haven Ecology Project, Inc. (doing business as Common Grounds) to implement an environmental education initiative in New Haven, Connecticut and throughout New England. The key products and services to be delivered include: developing a 4-year environmental justice (EJ) curriculum at Common Ground High School,...

The National Park Service awarded a $350,000 Cooperative Agreement to Groundwork USA Inc. under the Groundwork - Brownfield to Greenspace program (CFDA 15.965) to advance the agency's mission of supporting land revitalization projects that transform vacant and blighted lands, known as brownfields, into parks and trails. The funding supports the delivery of technical assistance, information sharing, and guidance to locally based organizations working on brownfield revitalization projects, with...

The Center received a $162,500 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164). The award will support the project "THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT" from September 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Under this award, the Center will use photography and civic engagement programs to explore human history and culture. Specifically, the Center will provide public programs...

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $158,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural Resources Management (CFDA 15.946) federal grant program to the Thomas Cole Historic House, a non-profit organization in Catskill, New York. The project aims to preserve the historic Thomas Cole House and surrounding structures while promoting educational programs related to the Hudson River artists. Key activities include preserving and maintaining the buildings and...

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...