This $119,504 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a one-week residential institute for 30 K-12 teachers entitled "Slavery in the Colonial North." The institute, to be hosted by the non-profit organization Historic Hudson Valley in Westchester County, New York from July 13-19, 2025, will equip participants with the knowledge and tools needed to...
The New York Historical Society received a $194,648 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The funding will support the "American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948" institute, a hybrid learning experience that will convene 30 schoolteachers, 2 teacher advisors, 6 scholar guests, and several educational partners/field trip sites over several months. The institute will...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $197,846 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to The Interfaith Center of New York, Inc. The grant will fund a three-week institute that provides K-12 teachers with an advanced introduction to the religious diversity of the United States. The institute will include classroom-based workshops, meetings with religious leaders, visits to local houses of worship, and field research in a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $191,619 Project Grant to the American Historical Association (AHA) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will support a three-week, fully virtual institute for 30 K-12 educators on the theme of "Africa in World History" to be held in June and July 2025. The institute aims to enhance participants' content knowledge and enable them to expand beyond the limited engagement...
The New York Historical Society received a $350,948 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a hybrid professional development institute for K-12 educators titled "Preparing for America at 250: Women and the American Revolution." The institute will convene 30 teachers over several months from July to November 2023, including two in-person weeks at the Historical Society in July and virtual evening sessions in June, August, September, October, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,928 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Gettysburg College. The grant will fund two week-long workshops for K-12 educators focused on "the relationship between history and memory and the conflict between what happened and how we remember it." Through the workshops, participants will explore how "perceptions of the past shape how we document and...
This $197,304.00 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a two-year humanities institute for higher education faculty and K-12 educators. The institute will allow participants to develop plans for engaging with museum and archival collections that contain potentially traumatic content related to historical events and human-ecology interactions. The goal is for...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Historic Hudson Valley a $367,643 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the Invisible Women digital school program from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The grant funds will be used to hire and train staff and interpreters to create and sustain an interactive online field trip experience focused on telling the untold stories of enslaved and free women in colonial and...
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 New York Historical Society was awarded a $205,897 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct the "Rethinking American Feminism, 1948-1977" institute. The institute aims to empower 30 K-12 teachers to incorporate a more diverse range of women's voices and contributions into their instruction on 20th century U.S. history. Over several months from October 2021 to September 2023, the institute will convene teachers and 19 guest scholars, filmmakers, and...