The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $304,885 Project Grant to PRX Inc., a non-profit media company, to produce a seven-episode podcast series titled "Division Street Revisited." This series, plus a 1-hour opening special for public radio, will revisit Studs Terkel's seminal oral history collection "Division Street: America" by interviewing the children and grandchildren of the original participants. The podcast will explore how themes of race, work,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $227,420 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to the Linguistic Society of America to support the creation and distribution of 20 original podcast episodes and 3 mini-series episodes on the history of African American English through the Subtitle podcast. The podcast episodes will range between 20 to 25 minutes and will be distributed through Subtitle's online and social media platforms, with...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $470,664 Project Grant under the American History and Civics Education program (CFDA 84.422) to See Stories, a non-profit organization in Anchorage, Alaska. The grant supports the "Anchored Histories Teacher Professional Development: Digital Storytelling Tools for Alaska Native & English Language Learner Students to Engage History, Civics, & the Power of Place" project. This initiative...
The University of Virginia received a $376,150 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on July 1, 2014 for the production of a public radio series titled "Backstory with the American History Guys: Finding the American Way." The three-year grant was funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164), which provides support for public humanities programs presented in non-museum settings. The grant enabled the production of a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Stone Soup Productions Inc., a woman-owned non-profit media production company. The grant will support the production of the second and third seasons of "The People's Recorder," a national podcast series inspired by the 1930s Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The podcast aims to explore the legacy,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $310,536 Project Grant to the State Historical Society of Colorado, operating as the Colorado History Museum, to support the production of the Lost Highways podcast. Under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164), the funding will allow the production of Season Three of the podcast series between May 2021 and May 2022. Each episode explores connections between Western history and current events through...
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc. will produce a 10-episode podcast titled "Uncovering Margaret Mead" through Sapiens.org, with support from a $649,816 National Endowment for the Humanities Project Grant awarded on September 1, 2022. The podcast aims to tell the story of anthropologist Margaret Mead and inspire reflection on the humanities themes of nature versus nurture, human sexuality, and cultural understanding. A companion website and marketing...
The National Archives and Records Administration, through its National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA #89.003), has provided $119,084 to the University of Virginia Press to develop Founders Online (www.founders.archives.gov). This Project Grant will support the creation of a website that makes freely available the historical documents of the Founding Fathers of the United States from October 2021 through September 2022. Scholars have collected, transcribed, and...
The Kentucky Educational Development Corporation (KEDC) was awarded a $2.5 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to support the KEDC PROJECT ACHIEVE ADVOCATING FOR CIVICS AND HISTORY ENGAGEMENT & INSTRUCTION THROUGH VALUING EDUCATORS program. Under this two-year award funded through the American History and Civics Education federal grant program (CFDA #84.422), KEDC will establish Presidential Academies for the Teaching...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Verse Video Education, Inc. $299,765 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the completion of five episodes in Season 4 of the public television show Poetry in America. Titled "More Perfect Union," these episodes will focus on American poems that examine the nation's shared narratives. Each episode will profile a work representing different American styles, traditions, and...