Here are a few of the grants that caught my eye:
William Okie (Outright: $35,000)
[Public Scholars]
Kennesaw State University AND A CURRENT AUTHOR!
Project Title: The Hidden Histories of Wayside Plants
Project Description: Writing a book about the natural and cultural history of several common plants found in the United States, including sassafras, while introducing the lessons of environmental history to a broad audience.
New Bedford Port Society (Outright: $189,960)
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Timothy Walker
Project Title: Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 72 grade 5–12 educators to study abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in the port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Rutgers University (Outright: $189,271)
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Jack Tchen
Project Title: Foundations of Our Nation Through the Lens of the Past, Present, and Future of Liberty State Park and the Hudson Bay Area
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 70 K–12 educators on the histories and cultures of the Hudson River estuary
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Outright: $190,000)
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Shirley Brown-Alleyne
Project Title: Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History Through the NYC Tenements
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 60 middle- and high-school educators to study community-based immigration and Black histories in the Civil War/Reconstruction and Ellis Island eras.
Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela (Outright: $60,000)
[Public Scholars]
New School
Project Title: A Thinking American’s Guide to the Classroom Culture Wars
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the history of conflicts over public education and public school policies in America.
Historic Hudson Valley (Outright: $119,504)
[Institutes for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Nicole Wallace; Leslie Harris (co-project director)
Project Title: Slavery in the Colonial North
Project Description: A one-week, residential institute for 30 K–12 teachers on slavery in the colonial North.
Fort Ticonderoga Association (Outright: $152,382)
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Richard Strum
Project Title: The American Revolution: Subjects, Citizens, and Soldiers
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 72 K–12 teachers on the significance of Fort Ticonderoga in the American Revolution.
Gettysburg College (Outright: $186,928)
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Dave Powell
Project Title: On Hallowed Ground: Gettysburg in History & Memory
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 72 K–12 teachers on the role of Gettysburg in Civil War history and how it is remembered.
Dialogue Institute Outright: $174,182
[Institutes for K–12 Educators]. I am very excited to be working with this project!
Project Director: David Krueger; Zain Abdullah (co-project director)
Project Title: The City of Brotherly Love: Religious Diversity, Freedom, and the Founding of the Nation in Philadelphia
Project Description: A two-week residential institute for 25 high school educators focused on religious communities of early Philadelphia and their significance in the founding of the U.S.
Museum of the American Revolution (Outright: $100,000)
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Aimee Newell
Project Title: The Declaration’s Journey
Project Description: Implementation of a temporary exhibition examining the history and legacy of the Declaration of Independence on its 250th anniversary.
Ernest Freeberg (Outright: $55,000)
[Public Scholars]
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Project Title: Inventing the Golden Years: A Cultural History of Retirement in America
Project Description: Research and writing resulting in a book on the origin and evolution of modern American retirement practices, policies, and priorities.
Aram Goudsouzian (Outright: $60,000)
[Public Scholars]
University of Memphis
Project Title: The Sports Page: Writers, Athletes, and the Challenge of the Sixties
Project Description: Writing of a book on how American sports writers and sports culture were affected by the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of televised sports, covering the 1950s to the 1970s.
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (Outright: $200,000)
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: John Stagg
Project Title: The Papers of James Madison
Project Description: Preparation for publication of print volumes 14, 15, and 16 of the Secretary of State series and volumes 5 and 6 of the Retirement series of the Papers of James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States.
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Outright: $200,000
[Scholarly Editions and Translations] Match: $100,000
Project Director: Jennifer Stertzer
Project Title: The Papers of U.S. President George Washington 1732–1799
Project Description: Preparation for publication of print and digital volumes 34 through 41 of the Revolutionary War series of the papers of George Washington (1732 1799), first president of the United States.
Old Dominion University Research Foundation Outright: $188,178
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Yonghee Suh
Project Title: The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 60 K–12 educators on school desegregation in Virginia, followed by two virtual sessions during the following school year.
Virginia Historical Society (Outright: $170,670)
[Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Margaret Creech
Project Title: Virginia and the Founding of a Nation: Examining the American Revolution on the Eve of the 250th Anniversary
Project Description: Two one-week residential workshops for 64 K–12 educators on Virginia’s role in the American Revolution.
The Philadelphia project sounds terrific, John. Congratulations. This is the kind of thing that revitalizes teachers.
Yes. David Krueger at the Dialogue Institute is trying to offer a more accurate pictures of early Philadelphia religion than the stuff presented by the Christian Right. I’m doing a talk on the first prayer in Congress (1774) next week, leading a tour at some point in the future, and doing a session with the teachers when they come to Philly next summer.