Becoming the First State: An Interpretive Plan for Dover, Delaware
Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation
Dover, DE
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning for expanded living history programs, self-guided audio tours, and wayside signage interpreting the period from 1774 to 1792 within First State Heritage Park.

Rear Yard Exhibit
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning an exhibit and programs interpreting the backyard as used by tenants from 1864 to 1905, exploring themes of urban sanitation, technological change, and social reform, and the uses of rear yards as communal spaces.

American Precision Museum Interpretive Plan
American Precision Museum
Windsor, VT
Award: Outright; $39,642.00

Planning of a major permanent exhibition on the rise of precision manufacturing and its importance in American industrial history.

Siitala: Life in Balance, World in Bloom
Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, AZ
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning for a traveling exhibition on Hopi culture as explicated through Hopi eyes.

Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning for a traveling exhibition, catalog, website, symposium, and educational and public programs examining pre-modern Islamic patterns of gift-giving.

Jewish Home-Grown History: Immigration, Identity, Intermarriage
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $74,997.00

Planning of interactive history software, a website, a multimedia traveling exhibition, and “database documentary” television programs about Jewish American immigration and cultural identity issues.

Paint, Pattern, and Plain-Style: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning of a traveling exhibition, catalog, interactive website, regional travel guide, symposium, and public and educational programs exploring the diversity of furniture-making and ownership in the region in the period.

Barbecue Nation
Atlanta Historical Society
Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning of an exhibition that examines the relationship of barbecue to regional and national culture and how themes of race, politics, social class, religion, and concepts of community and identity can be recognized and celebrated with food.

The Newark Museum African Art Collection Reinstallation Project
Newark Museum
Newark, NJ
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning of the reinstallation of the Newark Museum’s collection of African art.

Grass/Roots: American Jews in Suburbia—Exhibition and Website Planning
Yeshiva University
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00

Planning of an exhibition and website that focus on American Jews and their post-World War II move from the cities to the suburbs, where they adapted established traditions and practices even as they adopted new modes of life.

A Matter of Faith: Relics & Reliquaries in the Middle Ages
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
Award: Outright; $41,910.00

Planning of a traveling exhibition, catalog, introductory film, symposium, website, and public and educational programs exploring relics and reliquaries from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages.

African Healing Journeys
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $39,768.00

Planning for a traveling exhibition on African healing practices and their relationships to cultural values, past and present.

The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.