Interpreting America’s Historic Places
This program promotes public knowledge and understanding of American history through interpretation of significant American places. Projects may interpret a single site, a series of sites, an entire neighborhood, a town or community, or a larger geographical region. Planning grants develop the content, interpretive approach, and formats of projects; implementation grants support their final development, design, and production.
Guidelines URL (Planning Grants): www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IAHP_Planning.html
Guidelines URL (Implementation Grants): www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IAHP_Implementation.html

BR-50005, Mississippi Blues Commission:
Mississippi Blues Commission Blues Trail.
Celebrating a distinctively American musical tradition, the Mississippi Delta Blues Heritage Trail marks important sites in blues history across the state. Created by the Mississippi Blues Commission, the trail is jointly funded by the NEH and the National Endowment for the Arts; when completed it will include more than one hundred historic markers and interpretive sites, whose creation was supported by a 2006 grant. Each marker is developed by a team of blues scholars and artists, offering photographs, song clips, and detailed historical information about legendary blues musicians and events. The ceremonies to dedicate new markers have become important community events, drawing musicians, blues enthusiasts, and tourists throughout the Delta region.
Project URL: www.msbluestrail.org/

BR-50028, Arizona State University:
Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon.
Visitors to the Grand Canyon can now explore the human imprint on this iconic American landscape. A project developed by Arizona State University encourages visitors to think about the canyon as a cultural artifact, whose meanings have evolved over time. Tracing human habitation in the area back 10,000 years to the time when Havasupai Indians called it home, the project focuses on the history of human encounters with this stunning natural environment. Grants in 2006 and 2007 supported the development and production of interpretive audio tours, a traveling trunk (containing materials about the ecology, human history, and geology of the Grand Canyon, for use by classroom teachers), and a Web site and DVD with an interactive virtual tour of eighty-eight sites and links to maps, photographs, and interpretive texts.
Project URL: www.asu.edu/clas/grandcanyonhistory/