Check out this webinar sponsored by the Organization of American Historians: This webinar will help historians connect their existing aptitudes and skills to the process of institutional grant writing. Historians already engage in most of the common doings of the...
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NEH Announces August 2021 grant winners
Read the entire list here. Here are a few that funded projects that caught my eye: Auburn University Outright: $189,837[Landmarks of American History]Project Director: Elijah Gaddis; Keith Hebert (co-project director)Project Title: Bloody Sunday, Selma, and the Long Civil Rights MovementProject...
National Endowment for the Humanities announces its latest round of grants
Here are a few that caught my eye: University of Arkansas, Little Rock Outright: $325,043[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]Project Director: Deborah BaldwinProject Title: Mapping Urban Fracture: Charting the Context and Consequence of the Little Rock Central High CrisisProject Description: The...
The National Endowment for the Humanities announces new awards and grants
Here are a few of the recent grants that caught our eye: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Outright: $10,000 [Preservation Assistance Grants] Project Director: Elizabeth Burgess Project Title: Updating Manuscript Collection Housing Part II Project Description: The purchase of preservation supplies...
National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Grants
The National Endowment of the Humanities has announced its recent round of grant winners. Here are the ones that caught my eye, including a $64,593 grant for a program on women in the military directed by my Messiah College History...
American Attitudes Toward History
This is exciting news. Three major history organizations have together received $479,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project titled “Framing History with the American Public.” The project will study American attitudes towards history. Here is a taste...
Become a John Winthrop Student Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society
I just learned about this great opportunity for high school students and their teachers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston: The John and Elizabeth Winthrop Endowed Fellowship encourages high school students to make use of the nationally significant documents...
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants
Let’s hope that there will be more grants to come. Here are a few of the recent NEH grants that may be of interest to readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: University of California, Los Angeles Outright: $143,136...
NEH Announces New Grant Recipients
The National Endowment for the Humanities just released its most recent list of grantees. Here are a few that caught my eye: Ford’s Theatre Society Outright: $40,000 [Exhibitions: Planning] Project Director: Sarah Jencks Project Title: Ford’s Theatre Society Exhibition on...
National Endowment For Humanities Announces Grant Recipients
The National Endowment for the Humanities just funded 248 humanities projects. Here are a few that caught my eye: David Head, Spring Hill College: “Wavering on a Tremendous Precipice: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the Continental Army...
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces December 2015 Grantees
From the NEH website: WASHINGTON (December 14, 2015) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $21.8 million in grants for 295 humanities projects, including new grants to digitize historical materials held by individuals, give a second life to...
NEH Grants Announced
While I was in Princeton last month leading a seminar on the “13 Colonies” for the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History I received an e-mail announcing the latest projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. As I...
Are You Applying for a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities?
If so, you have about a month to submit your application. The deadline is April 30, 2015. With that in mind, Chris Cameron of the African-American Intellectual History blog has provided some useful advice. Here is a small taste: In...
On Writing the History of the American Bible Society–Update #91
Want to get some context for this post? Click here. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOML_vLJBXI] In yesterday’s post I mentioned that my work on the ABS project has been stalled due to the work I am doing on grant applications for my upcoming sabbatical.Today...
On Writing the History of the American Bible Society–Update #90
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L842mz-tNBQ]Want to get some context for this post? Click here.Mama said there’d days like this. I was unable to carve out any time today to work on the American Bible Society project. Instead, I was in a local diner at 4:45...
Attention Pennsylvania Historical Societies and Museums!!
By Megan Piette The 2013-2014 state budget reserved $2 million for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission museum grant program. This is almost double the funding it received from the 2012-2013 budget. Said grants can range from $3,000 to $65,000 and...
Free Access to the Twitter Archive
Have you been waiting for the opportunity to study tweets? If so, you may be interested in learning that Twitter has opened its archives to researchers–for free. Here is a taste of an article at Wired: The social networking outfit...
Apply for the Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History
From AHA Today The American Historical Association offers the Michael Kraus Research Grants to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of...
New Research Fellowships at Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon 2013 Fellowship Program Supporting Research on the Life, Leadership, andLegacy of George Washington The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon is accepting applications for its inaugural fellowships. These fellowships are...