This month the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects. “These new NEH-supported projects deepen our understanding and appreciation of the traditions, values, and historical figures who have shaped our country,” said NEH Senior Deputy Chairman Jon Parrish Peede.
“These projects help preserve and tell the story of essential chapters of American history, such as the digitization of artifacts excavated at Plimoth Plantation documenting the daily lives of early English settlers and Native American inhabitants of the area, and work at the American Discography Project to make Thomas Edison phonograph recordings available online through the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox archive.”
Fourteen AASLH members were among the grant winners, and their total grants amount to over $2.5 million dollars. We congratulate them all on the hard work that led to these awards, and look forward to seeing the results of their endeavors.
Abbe Museum (members since 2009)
Bar Harbor, ME
$50,000
American Antiquarian Society (members since 2014)
Worcester, MA
$633,900
Brooklyn Historical Society (members since 1999)
Brooklyn, NY
$110,000
George Mason University (members since 2003)
Fairfax, VA
$100,000
Huguenot Historical Society (members since 2014)
New Paltz, NY
$59,996
Idaho State Historical Society (members since 1979)
Boise, ID
$400,000
Museum of the City of New York (members since 2005)
New York, NY
$240,422
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (members since 2017)
Houston, TX
$315,000
New York Public Library (members since 1999)
New York, NY
$243,000
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (members since 1988)
Fremont, OH
$1,000
The Strong (members since 1979)
Rochester, NY
$75,000
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. (members since 2007)
Charlottesville, VA
$315,000
Upcountry History Museum (members since 2000)
Greenville, SC
$1,000
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum (members since 1989)
Wichita, KS
$1,000
