The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Historic Hudson Valley $269,800 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to support a virtual teacher training institute from July 16-22, 2023. The institute will provide professional development to 36 K-12 educators on teaching about slavery in the northern colonial era. The NEH Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program aims to improve teaching of American history and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $190,682 Project Grant to Georgetown University to support a 3-week residential institute titled "Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy." The institute, which will take place from June 16 to July 4, 2025, aims to explore philosophical debates about slavery in Europe and North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The grant is funded through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163),...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), awarded a $152,382 Project Grant to the Fort Ticonderoga Association to offer two one-week workshops in the summer of 2025 for teachers across the country. The workshops, titled "The American Revolution: Subjects, Citizens, and Soldiers," will use the association's archival and object collections to explore five key themes related to the American...
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 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 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...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $191,619 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the American Historical Association (AHA). The grant will fund a three-week, fully virtual institute in June-July 2025 for 30 K-12 educators on the theme of "Africa in World History." The institute aims to enhance the content knowledge of participating teachers, allowing them to expand beyond the limited engagement with...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $181,039 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Inc. The grant will support "Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History Through the NYC Tenements," a new series of two one-week, residential workshops for 60 middle and high school educators. These workshops, to be held at the Tenement Museum in New York City in July...
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...