Project Grant ES28120821
- The Historic Columbia Foundation received a $149,748 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will fund the creation of a script and trailer for a one-hour documentary film titled "University of Reconstruction" by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina. The film tells the story of the 1873-1877 integration of the University of South Carolina after the Civil War and places it in the...
- South Carolina State University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in South Carolina, was awarded a $145,877 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development of an online, asynchronous Master of Arts in English program with a focus on intersectional studies, which examines how aspects of individual...
- The Clemson University project, "Reconstructing the Black Archive: South Carolina as Case Study, 1739-1895," received a $395,594 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The funding supports the project from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The project aims to uncover ways to understand and reconstruct early Black lives in South Carolina through collaborative...
- The South Carolina Humanities Council Inc. was awarded a $904,495 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will support the Council's delivery of local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming in South Carolina from June 2021 through April 2023. As the state's leader for promoting public engagement with history, culture, and ideas, the Council will use this...
- This $190,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops in July and August 2024 for a total of 72 K-12 teachers. The workshops will focus on the history and cultural legacy of the Gullah-Geechee people, who are descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of Georgia. In partnership with Gullah-Geechee descendants, scholars, and institutions,...
- 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 University of South Carolina received a $652,500 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on October 1, 2017 to complete Phase 3 of "The Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen of South Carolina, A Digital Documentary Edition" by September 30, 2022. The project supports the continued development of a digital scholarly edition documenting the lives and careers of Charles Pinckney, Thomas Pinckney, and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, three influential statesmen...
- The Mississippi Department of Archives and History received a $186,444 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.163 Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development) to host a Landmarks of American History and Culture Teacher Institute commemorating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer in 2024. The institute will provide participants with content knowledge and tools to bring the history of this Civil Rights landmark to their classrooms. Key products and...
- The University of South Carolina received a $171,855.05 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant funded the development of a computational tool to identify patterns of language change in social media over time. The Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative digital humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This...
- 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 University of South Carolina received a $199,401 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a three-week residential summer institute for K-12 teachers titled "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story." From July 5-25, 2022, through seminars led by scholars, study trips in South Carolina, and archival research, participating educators will learn about the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and its influence in the Sea Islands region. The institute will examine the pre-war South, the political, social and economic facets of Reconstruction and its aftermath, and the place of Reconstruction in modern American historical memory and civil rights. The grant period runs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $199.4k | 9/24/21 |