The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $171,342 project grant to the National WWI Museum and Memorial through the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163). The grant funds a two-week summer institute from July 10-22, 2022 for 28 K-12 educators. The institute, hosted at the Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, will focus on the enduring impact of World War I on the Middle East beyond the traditional Western emphasis. Topics...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Whitesbog Preservation Trust under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding supports development of the "Deep in the Pines" mobile experience, a prototype augmented and virtual reality mobile application. Produced by Whitesbog Preservation Trust and its partner Night Kitchen Interactive, the mobile app will interpret the history of Whitesbog and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169), will provide $149,897 to support the "Windows to the World: Digital Resources for Global Educators" project over a 24-month period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026. The project will focus on two primary development pillars: 1) Platform enhancement and technical development to improve user experience and add new features to the existing framework, and...
The Blavatnik Archive Foundation was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program. The grant will support the development of an immersive storytelling and exploration platform for the Foundation's collection of postcards published and mailed during the Siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. The digital project aims to highlight the multiple functions of these artifacts as objects of...
The Project Grant award "OFF THE WALL: DIGITAL PRESERVATION OF CIVIL WAR GRAFFITI HOUSES" is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This $350,000 grant, awarded on June 1, 2024, supports a collaborative effort between six community-based historic sites and a major digital history center to create a database of Civil War graffiti found on the walls of the partner sites. The database...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the American Historical Association to develop teaching and learning resources focused on the use of historical artifacts in history education. With $199,808 in funding over a two-year period from October 2021 to December 2023, the Association will create a multi-platform publication program under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162)....
This federal Project Grant award of $249,496.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) funds the "Deep Maps and Community Histories: Advancing Transdisciplinary and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Spatial Humanities" institute hosted by Michigan Technological University. The 16-month hybrid virtual and in-person institute will provide advanced training to researchers on using digital geospatial and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $193,876.59 Project Grant to George Mason University under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to support the project "COMING HOME: DIALOGUES ON THE MORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SPIRITUAL IMPACTS OF WAR" from May 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019. The project aimed to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new resources, programs, and curricula...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $349,971.00 to Montclair State University to develop a web application that digitally registers, maps, and analyzes Norman architectural monuments in Sicily. The primary deliverable will be a fully functioning, user-friendly web application that guides visitors while offering additional monument classes, integrated kinship...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...