Project Grant GA30702025

The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) was awarded a $650,398 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will support AAMP's development and installation of a new permanent exhibition extending its timeline on African American history from 1776-1876 to the present day. The new exhibition will include four additional sections on education, politics,...

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum Inc. received a $181,039 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to support "Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History through the NYC Tenements." This new series of two one-week, residential workshops for middle and high school educators will take place at the Tenement Museum in New York City on July 20-25 and August 3-8, 2025....

The Christ Church Preservation Trust was awarded a $184,528 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to conduct the "Historic Black Lives Matter: Telling the Trust about Christ Church and Race at the Founding" project from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The Trust will implement archival research on the involvement of people of African descent in the colonial and early republic...

This $217,624 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program will support Historic Germantown in piloting a hybrid virtual and classroom-based, interdisciplinary educational program for Philadelphia middle school students. The program will incorporate math, art, science, and history using primary-source materials, and will involve a problem-based service-learning project partnering eighth grade students with projects...

The Withers House Museum will improve access to its photographic collection through a $102,000 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Under the award spanning July 2023 through June 2025, the museum will hire a part-time photo archivist and contract specialists to catalog, digitize, and make accessible up to 50,000 photographs and negatives. Key deliverables include conducting a conservation assessment;...

This $194,938 National Historical Publications and Records Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration supports a collaborative project between Johnson C. Smith University and partners from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Duke University. The partners will create an online exhibit tracing the impact of urban renewal strategies on African American neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina. They will digitize and provide contextual information on documents and...

The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky received a $170,464 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan and develop the new permanent exhibition "Voices Uncovered: The History of the Commonwealth." Funded through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program, the exhibition will tell the stories of lesser-known figures in Kentucky's history from diverse backgrounds. It will feature narratives that are often excluded from...

The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $325,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026. The grant funds the Freedmen and Southern Society Project to edit and publish the ninth and final volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, a nine-volume documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the...

The Hosanna Community House, Inc. will use a $452,742 Institute of Museum and Library Services Museum Grants for African American History and Culture award to expand access to its sites and collections in Darlington, Maryland from July 2023 to June 2026. Funded activities include hiring an Associate Director and paid interns to develop grade-specific materials on slavery through Reconstruction in Harford County. Additional products include trunk shows, traveling exhibits, bus tours, immersive...

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center was awarded a $220,369 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The Center will identify, map, and interpret the history of African American land ownership and residential life in Central Virginia from 1744 through 2020 by analyzing over 400,000 pages of property records using citizen science crowdsourcing tools. Records will be mapped and...