Project Grant ZZ31056426

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...

This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) in presenting a major multi-gallery exhibition titled "The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution." The exhibition, opening in April 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, will examine New York City's role in the Revolutionary War through...

The New York Historical Society received a $350,948 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a hybrid professional development institute for K-12 educators titled "Preparing for America at 250: Women and the American Revolution." The institute will convene 30 teachers over several months from July to November 2023, including two in-person weeks at the Historical Society in July and virtual evening sessions in June, August, September, October, and...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the "Naval Documents of the American Revolution" scholarly digital editing project at the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia. The project aims to create a comprehensive digital edition providing multiple perspectives on the naval aspects of the American Revolution, including voices of common seamen, civilians,...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164 - Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs) to implement new permanent galleries focused on 18th-century art from across the Americas. The galleries will cover works ranging from 1680 to 1820, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper from North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean. The grant will support the complete...

The American Philosophical Society (APS) received a $302,776 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities program to digitize manuscript, pamphlet, newspaper, and broadside collections related to Revolutionary Philadelphia from 1774-1783. The APS will employ three full-time digitization specialists and six permanent staff to digitize approximately 36,000 pages of original materials from APS and the Library Company of Philadelphia...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) provides $400,000 to the Carnegie Institute (doing business as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh) to develop "BLACK PHOTOJOURNALISM", a comprehensive traveling museum exhibition featuring the work of Black photojournalists active in the U.S. from the end of World War II to the 1984 presidential campaigns. The exhibition will include original...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $190,000 Project Grant to the American Philosophical Society under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to deliver two residential, site-based summer workshops in Philadelphia in 2026. The workshops, titled "America's Forgotten Founders: The Revolutionary City of Philadelphia," will provide 5th-12th grade teachers across multiple disciplines the opportunity to engage with Philadelphia's...

The Phillips Collection received a $197,845 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support exhibitions and public programs celebrating its centennial. The grant will fund an interdepartmental team to fabricate and install two exhibitions featuring renowned American artists David Driskell and Alma Thomas from October 2021 through January 2022. The team will also plan and implement...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art received a $400,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the development of the "Mary Cassatt at Work" exhibition. The exhibition, co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Thompson and Dr. Laurel Garber, will examine Cassatt's depictions of women's activity and feminine labor in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The project is anticipated to feature...