Project Grant HC27497420

This Project Grant award from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) provides $129,300 to The Society of the Cincinnati to develop an exhibition interpreting the lived experiences of diverse participants in several key battles of the American Revolution. The exhibition, titled "Voices of Revolution," will focus on the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Monmouth, Siege of Savannah, Battle of Brandywine, Young's House, Camden, and Battle of Newport,...

The Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina will receive $376,696 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to design and implement the United States Colored Troops Sculpture Interpretation Project. The Museum will tell the story of 1,600 local soldiers who fought for the Union at the Battle of Forks Road through the interpretation of a new sculpture site and sculpture by North Carolina artist Stephen Hayes...

The National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) awarded the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism (SCPRT) a $317,308 Project Grant to update the exhibits at the Battle of Musgrove Mill State Historic Site visitor center. Through this federal funding, SCPRT will contract services for the design, fabrication, and installation of new interpretive, interactive exhibits to enhance and modernize the visitor experience at this historic...

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) received a $458,007 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop the "My Mississippi: Virtual Visits and Shared Storytelling" program. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development CFDA program, MDAH will create a series of behind-the-scenes virtual tours for the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The...

This $396,763 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program will support the Genesee Country Museum in strengthening the interpretation and educational programming related to the history of enslavement in 19th century New York State. The two-year project, beginning in September 2024, will focus on enhancing the interpretive content and visitor experiences at four historic buildings on the museum's campus: the Nathaniel Rochester House,...

The Historical Society of Delaware was awarded a $122,390 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to establish Delaware History Online. Funded through IMLS's National Leadership Grants program, the project will create a suite of virtual educational resources allowing the public to learn about Delaware history from anywhere in the world. Key products include COVID Chronicles Delaware, a community-authored journal of the pandemic's impact on Delaware residents;...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926), will fund the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) to enhance the historic Battle of Fort Pillow site through the development of an augmented reality (AR) mobile application and interpretive waysides. The $100,245 grant, awarded on December 1, 2024, aims to preserve the historic integrity of the battlefield while making it more accessible and...

Lancasterhistory.org received a $199,044 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to hire staff and scale up public programming as it reopens following COVID-19 closures. The funding will support filling two key positions - Director of Education and Public Programs and Curator of Exhibitions and Collections - to infuse civics education into the organization's virtual and on-site tours, exhibitions, school...

The Museum of the American Revolution received a $192,836 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant will support the development and implementation of a traveling exhibition titled "Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War." The exhibition will bring together nearly 40 of artist Don Troiani's original Revolutionary War paintings paired with...

The Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska will use a $100,322 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to expand online and in-person educational programming for K-12 students. Specifically, the Museum will add two part-time facilitators and necessary equipment to enhance its existing virtual field trips and weekly webcast series, which were developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve accessibility. The Museum will also relaunch its...