We the People Project Grants for State Humanities Councils
We the People Project Grants for State Humanities Councils support programs sponsored by state humanities councils that explore significant events and themes in American history and culture, and that advance knowledge of the principles that define America. Councils are encouraged to think of ways to explore themes related to We the People through both new and existing programs.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/wtpshc.html

BC-50340, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities:
We the People in Virginia.
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities received a 2006 We the People project grant in support of the Humanities Feature Bureau (HFB), which creates short, lively public radio news reports on Virginia history, current events, and personalities. Begun in January 2008, HFB reports examine social change, cultural highlights, and what it means to be a Virginian. For example, reports have looked at blues guitarist John Cephas, the Catesby Jones Collection of modern art, Abraham Lincoln and the Shenandoah Valley, and the building of a coffeehouse wall in Williamsburg. The bureau is distributed to Virginia public radio stations by VFH Radio, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Project URL: www.vfhradio.org/features/

BC-50217, BC-50241, BC-50321, BC-50391, BC-50435, Kansas Humanities Council:
Better Together: An Ethnic Heritage Initiative,
Better Together: Kansans Tell Their Stories,
Kansans Tell Their Stories Chautauqua,
Kansans Tell Their Stories,
Kansans Tell Their Stories.
Beginning in 2004, the Kansas Humanities Council has used its We the People project grants to provide funding to state organizations that give various ethnic groups the opportunity to tell and record the stories of their communities in Kansas. Stories recorded to date include oral histories of Southeast Asians settling in Garden City, a Low German language preservation project in Marshall and Washington counties, and an exhibit on the Kickapoo native American tribe. Together these stories provide a clearer, more complete, picture of what it means to be a Kansan today.
Project URL: www.kansashumanities.org/kstories/index.html

BC-50206, BC-50256, BC-50310, BC-50353, BC-50424, Humanities Texas:
Institute on Congress and American History,
Gateway on the Gulf,
We the People Programs in Texas,
We the People Varied Initiatives,
We the People Initiatives, 2008-2009.
Humanities Texas has used numerous We the People project grants to sponsor teacher institutes that support the intellectual and professional development of Texas teachers. The following topics have been addressed in these institutes: Congress and American History (2004); Galveston and American immigration, 1845-1915 (2005); borders in the history of the American Southwest (2006); the role of the West in shaping America (2007); and American history, 1850-1900 (2008). Humanities Texas has partnered with the state’s leading universities and cultural organizations to hold these residential summer institutes, which offer teachers the opportunity to work closely with leading humanities scholars, exploring topics at the heart of the state’s humanities curricula. To date these institutes have served almost three hundred teachers.
Project URL: www.humanitiestexas.org/education/institutes/