Division of Public Programs Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives Grants supported projects that enhance public appreciation and understanding of the humanities through the discovery, use, and interpretation of books and other resources in the collections of American libraries and archives. American Library Association Chicago, IL Deb A. Robertson $260,545 The Jazz Age in Paris: A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries Brown University Providence, RI Susan W. Graseck $25,000* Choices for the 21st-Century Library Project Brown University Providence, RI Susan W. Graseck $250,895 Choices for the 21st-Century Library Project Huntington Library San Marino, CA Robert C. Ritchie $200,000 The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities New Orleans, LA Dianne Brady $185,972 Prime Time - Family Reading Time National Video Resources New York, NY Sally Mason-Robinson $300,587 From Rosie to Roosevelt: A Film History of Americans in World War II New England Foundation for the Humanities Boston, MA Jane M. Johnson $10,850* Considered Opinions: Humanities Programs for Under-served Elders in New England New England Foundation for the Humanities Boston, MA Julia R. Walkling $6,870* After Frost: Poetry in New England New York Council for the Humanities New York, NY Jay Kaplan $183,833 Lives Worth Knowing Vermont Center for the Book Chester, VT Nicholas Boke $17,280* American Identity: The Humanities and the Search for American Identity Vermont Center for the Book Chester, VT Wendy J. Martin $17,500* Folktales: Tricksters, Tall Tales, and Tales Twice Told * Federal Matching Funds Humanities Projects in Media Grants supported the planning, writing, or production of television and radio programs in the humanities intended for general audiences. Arcadia Pictures New York, NY Andrea Simon $23,810** Talk to Me: Short Promo Catticus Corporation Berkeley, CA Richard Wormser $100,587 Behind the Veil: Jim Crow South Center for Educational Telecommunications San Francisco, CA Loni Ding $15,000* Ancestors in America: A Series on Asian-American History Center for Independent Documentary Waban, MA Melissa W. Banta $60,349 The Murder of Dr. Parkman (Scripting) City Lore: New York Center for Urban Folk Culture New York, NY Eric D. Burns $800,587 New York Community Television of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Austin Blaine Baggett $120,942 Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century ETV Endowment of South Carolina Spartanburg, SC Steven Alves $20,805 A History of American Teenagers in the 20th Century GWETA, Inc. Washington, DC David S. Thompson $357,775* The West - A 10-Hour Documentary Film for Public Television GWETA, Inc. Washington, DC David S. Thompson $15,000* Revolutionary Roads Hava Kohav Theatre/Dance Foundation New York, NY Hava Kohav Beller $600,587 Dissent and Resistance in the GDR, 1949-89 Hollywood Theater of the Ear Hollywood, CA Yuri Rasovsky $40,942 Shades of the Nation: Our Common Identity in an Uncommon Age Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc. Littleton, MA Julian Crandall-Hollick $20,805 Living Islam (Planning) Institute of Language and Culture Clanton, AL Kathie Farnell $105,976 "Slaves No More" Radio Documentary James Agee Film Project Johnson City, TN Ross H. Spears $392,929 Tell About the South: The History of Modern Southern Literature MUSE Film and Television New York, NY Peter B. Way $20,587 Masters of Space: The Major Scholar-Painters in China from the 10th to the 14th Centuries Medici Foundation Princeton, NJ Theodore K. Rabb $250,000 Millennium Minutes New Images Productions, Inc. Berkeley, CA Avon Kirkland $20,942 Ralph Ellison Documentary Project New York Foundation for the Arts New York, NY Yanna K. Brandt $99,625 Clash of Visions (Scripting) New York Foundation for the Arts New York, NY Robert S. Levi $80,574 Gordon Parks: American Photographer New York Foundation for the Arts New York, NY Martin J. Sherwin $459,519 Citizen Kurchatov: The Making of Stalin's Nuclear Weapons Saint Thomas Foundation Nashville, TN Andrea Kalin $62,616 Partners of the Heart Social Media Productions, Inc. New York, NY Barak S. Goodman $462,091 Scottsboro: An American Tragedy Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. St. Paul, MN Catherine M. Allan $99,965 Liberty! The American Revolution (Promotion) Unicorn Projects, Inc. Washington, DC Larry A. Klein $750,025 Mill: The Rise of Industrialism in New England University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI James A. Standifer $15,000* Porgy and Bess: An American Voice WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, MA Peter S. McGhee $625,000* Public Television Series: Africans in America WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, MA Peter S. McGhee $185,000* Challenging Art: A One-Hour Film Examining the Criticism of Huckleberry Finn WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, MA Peter S. McGhee $700,805 The American Experience: MacArthur WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, MA Peter S. McGhee $560,160 The American Experience: Presidential Portraits WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, MA Peter S. McGhee $99,625 First Nights (Scripting) * Federal Matching Funds ** Enterprise Grant Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations Grants assisted museums, historical organizations, and other cultural institutions in the planning and implementation of exhibitions, publications, and other interpretive programs to convey the humanities to the public. Grants also supported projects for museum professionals to improve the interpretation of the humanities and self-study projects to develop long-range interpretive plans. Adirondack Museum Blue Mountain, NY Jacqueline F. Day $200,587 Using the Wilderness: Interpretive Exhibition for the Adirondack Museum American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cambridge, MA Stephen R. Graubard $25,000** Museums Anchorage History and Fine Arts Museum Anchorage, AK Barbara Smith $41,450 Exploring the North Pacific: The Russian Voyages, 1728-1848 Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD Brenda Richardson $100,000* The Excellence of Every Art: The Life of London's Victoria and Albert Museum Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, NY Leslie Bedford $200,587 Brooklynworks: 150 Years of Work in an American City Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY Layla S. Diba $124,999* The Qajar Epoch: Two Hundred Years of Painting from the Royal Persian Courts Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY James F. Romano $325,535 Reinstallation of Ancient Egyptian Art (Dynasties XI-XVIII) Brown University Providence, RI Barbara A. Hail $40,511 Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles Burke Museum, University of Washington Seattle, WA Miriam Kahn $25,000* Pacific Voices Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH Anne Wardwell $100,713 When Silk Was Gold Exhibition Eastern Washington State Historical Society Spokane, WA Lynn Pankonin $43,398 The People of the Rivers: Lifeways of the Northern Plateau Farmers' Museum, Inc. Cooperstown, NY Gilbert T. Vincent $40,587 Iroquois Fishing Camp and Homestead Fort Bend Museum Association Richmond, TX Mark Texel $40,946 Interpretive Planning for a Post-Reconstruction Texas Ranch Historic Hudson Valley Tarrytown, NY Jennifer Anderson-Lawrence $40,587 Reinterpretation of Philipsburg Manor Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Richard Rand $125,686 Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France Jewish Museum New York, NY Vivian B. Mann $12,500* Patronage and Power: Court Jews of Germanic Lands, 1600-1800 Kona Historical Society Kealakekua, HI Sheree Chase $1,130 Implementation of the Kona Coffee Farm Maryland Historical Society Baltimore, MD Nancy E. Davis $40,028 At Freedom's Door: Antislavery Activity in the Chesapeake, 1790- 1865 Missouri Historical Society St. Louis, MO Myron Freeman $17,266* Meet Me at the Fair: Memory, History, and the 1904 World's Fair Exhibition Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA Rita E. Freed $40,835 Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun Museum of New Mexico Foundation Santa Fe, NM Barbara Mauldin $39,541 Carnaval Newark Museum Newark, NJ Joseph Jacobs $40,763 Plan for the Reinstallation and Interdisciplinary Interpretation of the American Art Collection Oakland Museum/Museum of California Foundation Oakland, CA L. Thomas Frye $501,020 Gold Fever: The Lure and Legacy of the California Gold Rush Pilgrim Hall Museum Plymouth, MA Karin J. Goldstein $40,805 Pilgrim Hall Museum Exhibition Revision Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI Maureen O'Brien $94,951 Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun Rutgers State University Piscataway, NJ Rae Alexander-Minter $318,453 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA Douglas R. Nickel $40,942 Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY Jane DeBevoise $250,587 China: 5,000 Years University of California Berkeley, CA Jacquelynn Baas $150,942 When Time Began to Rant and Rage: 20th-Century Figurative Painting from Ireland University of California Los Angeles, CA Doran H. Ross $163,492 Wrapped in Pride: Asante Kente and African-American Identity Worcester Art Museum Worcester, MA Christine Kondoleon $40,805 Antioch: The Lost Roman Metropolis Yeshiva University New York, NY Sylvia A. Herskowitz $103,250* Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World * Federal Matching Funds ** Enterprise Grant Special Competition: The National Conversation Grants supported projects that bring diverse groups of Americans together in conversations focused on such themes as immigration, the meaning of being an American, and our country's shared values. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Mark Kornbluh $30,000** Linking Scholars and the Public: A Website on the American Revolution Special Projects Grants support public programs in venues or formats that fall outside the other divisional categories. Special projects engage public audiences in learning about important topics in the humanities in a variety of settings and formats, including lectures, workshops, demonstrations, or other innovative presentations, and traveling exhibitions. Grants also support planning for the use of newer technologies, such as the Internet and CD-ROMs, to engage general audiences in the humanities. Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services Dearborn, MI Sally Howell $120,919 A Community Between Two Worlds: A Public Reading/Discussion Series Focusing on America's Arab Immigrant Community National Asian American Telecommunications Association San Francisco, CA Jennie F. Lew $60,980 Living Widows and Paper Sons: Saga of the Chinese Exclusion Act Era New-York Historical Society New York, NY Sally Yerkovich $40,587 New York History Year: Exhibition and Interpretive Programs Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies Easthampton, MA Lynn B. Edwards $15,000* Festival Organ: The King of Instruments The Jefferson Lecture Representational costs associated with presenting the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities were supported by gifts from the Coca-Cola Company, the Gelb Foundation, the Harris Foundation, Andrew Heiskell, John Nuveen and Company, and Ann Sheffer. Stephen Toulmin Los Angeles, CA $10,000 1997 Jefferson Lecture - A Dissenter's Life * Federal Matching Funds ** Enterprise Grant