The Freedom of Information Act: Sample Grant Application Narratives
Division of Education Programs
Summer Seminars and Institutes
- Summer Institute for College Teachers: American Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
- Summer Seminar for College Teachers: America's China Dream and China's American Dream
- Summer Institute for School Teachers: Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi Valley
- Summer Institute for School Teachers: Roots of the Arab Spring
- Summer Seminar for School Teachers: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Summer Seminar for School Teachers: Great Adaptations: Teaching Dickens through Adaptation
- Summer Institute for School Teachers: Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region
- Summer Seminar for School Teachers: Punishment, Politics, and Culture
- Summer Seminar for School Teachers: Remembering World Wars I and II in France Today
- Summer Seminar for School Teachers: The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt
- Summer Seminar for School Teachers: The Spanish Influenza of 1918
- Summer Institute for College Teachers: Empires and Interactions Across the Early Modern World
- Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: Performing Dickens: The Theatrical Context of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page, Stage, and Screen
- Amherst College, Punishment, Politics and Culture
- Chicago History Museum, Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms
- Community College Humanities Association, Transcendentalism and Reform in the age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller
- Indiana University, Muslim American Identities, Past and Present
- Kent State University, What is Gained in Translation: Learning How to Read Translated Texts
- New York Historical Society, American Women at War
- Newberry Library, Bridging National Borders in North America
- Westminster College, Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive
- Newberry Library, Reading Material Maps in the Digital Age
- San Jose State University Research Foundation, John Steinbeck: Social Critic and Ecologist
- University of Chicago, Enlightenment Thinkers: from Mandeville to Hegel
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Flu! The 1918 Spanish Influenza in U.S. and World History
- Whitman College, The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau
Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges
- Bunker Hill Community College, Asian American Studies
- Community College of Philadelphia, Interdisciplinary Study of South Asia
- University of Pittsburgh, Cultural Study of Pittsburgh's East European Ethnic Groups
Enduring Questions
- Macomb Community College, Course on Just War
- Middlebury College, Course on What is Lost in Translation
- New York University, Course on Memory
- University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Course on Literature and Morality
- University of California Irvine, Course on Time
- University of North Georgia, Course on Peace
- Middlebury College, Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
- Millsaps College, Peace and Violence
- American University, Suffering
- Lawrence University of Wisconsin, The Nature of Life
- North Dakota State University, Purpose of Education
- Boston College, Virtue and Gender
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops
- Amherst College, Emily Dickinson, Person, Poetry, and Place
- Chicago Architecture Foundation, The American Skyscraper
- Ford's Theatre, Lincoln's Assassination and its Aftermath
- Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky and the Border States in the Civil War
- Masachusetts Historical Society, Lexington and Concord in 1775
- Montana Historical Society, Mining in the Far West, 1862-1920
- SUNY College at Brockport, Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Rochester
- University of California-Davis, The Transcontinental Railroad
- University of Connecticut, Gullah Voices
- University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West
- Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Living on the Edge of Empire, Conflict, and Captivity in Colonial New England
- University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Community Life at Monticello and the University of Virginia
Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
- Turtle Mountain Community College, The Louise Erdrich Reading Project
- Haskell Indian Nations University, Summer Bridge Program in English
Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
- University of California-Riverside, Creating New Medical and Health Humanities Programs
- University of Houston, The History of Food Production and Consumption in the Gulf Coast Region
- New York City College of Technology, Engaging the Humanities at a College of Technology
- Angelo State University, A Century Apart: West Texans and America's Wars
- Modesto Junior College, The Search for Common Ground: Culture in California's Central Valley
- Ilisagvik College, Developing an Inupiaq Language Database at Ilisagvik College
- Borough of Manhattan Community Colleges, Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World
- Galveston College, Coastal Culinary - Exploring Food Narratives
Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges
- Reading Area Community College, Conexiones
- J. Sargeant Reynolds Comm. Coll., Humanities Edu. and Local Engagement
- Sitting Bull College, Standing Rock Lakota-Dakota Language Project
- East Los Angeles College, War Without-War Within
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Humanities Connections
- Rochester Institute of Technology, Community, Memory, and a Sense of Place
- University of Wisconsin, Navigating Uncertainty: Connecting Humanities and Business Perspectives on Risk and Reward
- Earlham College, An Integrated Pathway for Medical Humanities
Next Generdation PhD Planning Grants
- The Graduate Center, CUNY, The New PhD - A Renaissance of Public Engagement
- UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant
Humanities Access
- South Dakota Humanities Council, Young Readers Initiative Expansion
- Prime Time Family Reading, Prime Time Preschool Louisiana Expansion
- Entrada Institute, Sparking Humanities Conversations
- Charles H. Wright, Detroit Collection Corps
- University of Illinois, Toward Cultural Diversity Within Cultural Institutions
- Spelman College, Internships in Curatorial Studies
Dialogues on the Experience of War
- Touchstones Discussion Project, Completing the Odyssey - A Journey Home
- University of Oklahoma, The Experience of War
- Minnesota Humanities Center, Echoes of War
- University of Florida, NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War
Division of Preservation & Access
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
- American Philosophical Society, Cataloging Darwin's Works
- University of Delaware, The Sampler Archive Project
- Getty Research Institute, Digitizing the Knoedler Gallery Archive (PDF)
- Harvard University, Women's Worlds in Qujar Iran: A Digital Archive and Website
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Digital Center for Americana
- MIT, Preparing to Preserve, Digitize, and Catalog the Southeast Chicago Historical Museum Collection Institution (PDF)
- Museum of the City of New York, Digitizing the Museum's Ephemera Collections (PDF)
- Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Digital Archive for Archaeological Research at The Hermitage (PDF)
- University of Pennsylvania, Providing Global Access to Penn's Indic Manuscripts (PDF)
- Academy Motion Picture Oral History Digital Archive (PDF)
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
- Lewis-Clark State College, Staff Training and Purchase of Climate Monitoring Equipment
- Society of the Divine Word, Preservation Assessment for Archival Collections
- Sunflower County Library, Mississippi Delta Collaborative Emergency Preparedness Project
- Vermont College of Fine Arts, Preservation Assessment, Staff Training, and Preservation Materials
Education and Training
Research and Development
- Bay Area Video Coalition, Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation
- Rochester Institute of Technology, Digital Imaging Correlation to Determine Shape Deformation of Paper-Based Collections due to Relative Humidity and Temperature
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Investigation of Cellulose Nitrate Motion Picture Film Chemical Decomposition & Association Fire Risk
National Digital Newspaper Program
Division of Public Programs
America’s Media Makers: Development Grants
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants
Digital Projects for the Public
Public Humanities Projects
- National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Re-Interpreting Dumbarton House
- National Museum of American Jewish History, Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music
- University of California, Los Angeles, Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
- Heard Museum, Tragedy and Triumph: The American Indian Boarding School Experience
Media Projects
- Public Radio International, INC., American Icons III on Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC
- Public Radio International, INC., LBJ's War: An Oral History
- New York Public Radio, The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Division of Research Programs
Fellowships
- British Literature Sample: Nineteenth Century British Literature and the Problem of Thinking About Others
- Back From Canada: Rights, Society, and Difference for the African North Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Emigration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, 1889-1989
- Staging Frontiers: The Creole Circus and the Making of a Theater-Going Public in Uruguay and Argentina, 1860-1910
- The Great Seljuq Sultunate and the Formation of Islamic Civilization (1040-1194): A Thematic History
- Tocqueville, Religion, and Democracy: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
Summer Stipends
Public Scholar
- Case Western Reserve University, Revelation - A Biography
- Independent Scholar, The Age of Fair Chase - Making a Hunter's Paradise
- The New School, Everybody Comes to Rick's - How Casablanca Taught Us to Love Movies
- Threepenny Review, American Architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974) - A Portrait in Light and Shadow
Collaborative Research
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
- Democracy and Cultural Exchange after the Arab Spring
- Italian Songs from the Time of Christopher Columbus: A Critical Edition
Office of Challenge Grants
- Establishing Northwest College's Intercultural Center
- Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough Community College
- Enhancing Institutional Capacity through an Endowment for the DMA's Chief Conservator, Dallas Museum of Art
- Enhancing Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University
- Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Historic Core and Public History Director, Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
- Preserve+Share+Produce Humanities Initiative within The Archives at Illinois College
- Arkansas State University
- Preservation Society of Newport County
- Hastings Center 2012
- Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Office of Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
- Creighton University, The Potential of Digital Archaeology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Multimedia Text Annotation for Students
- University of the Pacific, Computational Historical Research in Ancient Egyptian
- University of Pittsburgh, Work Toward the Creation of a World Historical Gazetteer
- University of Nebraska, Image Analysis for Archival Discovery
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants
- Stanford University, Data-driven Tools for Analyzing Relationships Across Time
- Hope College, Scaling Digital Gaming to Humanities Pedagogy and Praxis
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
- George Mason University, Doing Digital History
- University of Maryland, Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities
- University of Virginia, Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship
- Vanderbilt University, Advancing XML-based Scholarship
Humanities Open Book Program