The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel and facilities expenses to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program, this award will...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in producing an engaging website to increase public understanding of slavery and African American experiences in early rural New England. The project will focus on the life of Lucy Terry Prince, the first documented African American poet, from her birth and captivity in Africa to her enslavement...
The New Hampshire Historical Society received a $182,396 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The award will support completion of the Society's "The Democracy Project: Completing an Education and Collections Initiative." Through January 2023, the Society will finish development of an online resource called "Moose on the Loose" designed for upper elementary students....
This $189,708 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund a 6-day workshop for teachers in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Historical Society and the Concord Museum have partnered to deliver this place-based learning experience, which will engage teachers with academic and public historians, literary scholars, and community experts to explore famous and lesser-known...
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY) was awarded a $498,738 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the development of products highlighting African American activism and the Underground Railroad in the Niagara River borderland. Under the award, RFSUNY will produce an accessibly written, richly illustrated scholarly volume integrating results from 2017...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $291,859 Project Grant on March 1, 2024 to Strawbery Banke Museum under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant will fund the restoration of Penhallow House, a c. 1750 historic house at the museum, to create an exhibit interpreting the history of an African American family during the 1950s Civil Rights movement. This will be the first house exhibit at the museum focused on an African American family...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $184,866 Project Grant titled "SAILING TO FREEDOM: NEW BEDFORD AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" to the New Bedford Port Society. The grant, which runs from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025, will fund a series of discussions and workshops for K-12 teachers that explore the intersection of the Underground Railroad, whaling, and maritime trade in New Bedford, Massachusetts during the antebellum period. The program, which is...
The National Park Service awarded a $129,300 Project Grant under the American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) to the Society of the Cincinnati, a nonprofit organization, to develop an exhibition interpreting the lived experiences of diverse participants in the American Revolutionary War (1770-1783). The project, titled "Voices of Revolution," will portray the stories of individuals on different sides of the conflict, focusing on key battles such as the Siege of...
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) was awarded a $189,792 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a residential workshop in 2025 for 72 K-12 educators, titled "From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England." The program will be centered around the Great Bay Estuary in New Hampshire, examining the lives and experiences of Native American,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $152,382 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Fort Ticonderoga Association, doing business as the Fort Ticonderoga Museum. The grant will support two one-week summer workshops in 2025 for teachers across the country, entitled "The American Revolution: Subjects, Citizens, and Soldiers." The workshops will explore five key themes related to the American...