Divisions
and Offices 		 Challenge
 Grants		  Digital
 Humanities		  Education
 Programs		  Federal/State
 Partnership		  Preservation
 and Access 		 Public
 Programs		  Research
 Programs
Send E-mail to
Education Programs
“The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide.” Undated broadside published in Boston. Library of Congress.
“The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide.” Undated broadside published in Boston. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Education Programs
Grant Program
Humanities Initiatives Grants at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
These Humanities Initiatives Grants support humanities education and scholarship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Grants may be used to enhance or create humanities programs, or to develop institutional humanities resources.
Support is available for two types of projects:
  • Faculty Humanities Initiatives typically bring together faculty within an institution, or from cooperating schools, museums, libraries, colleges, or universities, to engage in study designed to strengthen their capacity to teach the humanities.

  • Institutional Grants for Core Humanities support projects that expand or improve an institution’s core humanities education programs.
Guidelines URL:
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hifacultyhbcu.html
Project
AB-50053, Norfolk State University:
Waterways to Freedom: Virginia and the Underground Railroad.
Norfolk State University received a Humanities Initiatives Grant in 2009 to develop an interactive, educational Web site about abolitionism. Based on the research of Cassandra Newby-Alexander, the Web site will feature the courageous escapes of two slaves, George Latimer and Henry “Box” Brown, who found their way to freedom on the waterways. Brown paid to be crated in a box that was nailed shut and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia.