November 2016 Awards List
Division of Public Programs Awards List
November Council 2016
Digital Projects for the Public
Discovery
Buried Ships and the San Francisco Coast Line
Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $30,000.00
Match; $0.00
Development of a place-based mobile app that explores the history of the changing landscape of downtown San Francisco by investigating the more than 65 ships buried beneath the city.
Flight Paths: Mapping Our Changing Neighborhoods
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN
Award: Outright; $30,000.00
Match; $0.00
Development of an interactive website that examines the impact of de-urbanization in the Rust Belt revealed by the changing racial and socioeconomic demographics of Gary, Indiana.
Learning Experiences about the Declaration of Independence
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Cambridge, MA
Award: Outright; $30,000.00
Match; $0.00
Development of interactive tools for middle and high school students based upon the grievances and rights articulated by British colonists in the Declaration of Independence.
A History of African American Music: Interactive Digital Timeline Discovery Project
Carnegie Hall Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $30,000.00
Match; $0.00
Development of a web experience and on-site interactives focused on the history of African American music at Carnegie Hall.
Biography of a Book
New York Academy of Medicine
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $30,000.00
Match; $0.00
Development of an interactive exhibition that explores the production and use of 12 books and manuscripts to illustrate how knowledge was transferred through books.
Incorrigibles
New York Foundation for the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $25,000.00
Match; $5,000.00
Development of a multiplatform project that examines the history of detention facilities and incarceration of young women from the early 20th century to the present.
Evaluating Digital Platforms for an Immersive Ancient Egyptian Experience
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $19,967.00
Match; $9,995.00
Development of an immersive digital platform for new exhibitions on ancient Egypt.
Hearing the Americas
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Award: Outright; $29,996.00
Match; $0.00
Development of a website that explores the transnational history of American popular music.
Digital Projects for the Public
Prototyping
Walking Cinema: Museum of the Hidden City
Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $100,000.00
Match; $0.00
Prototyping of a mobile application and website exploring the history of housing and urban design in San Francisco.
A History of Dominican Music in the U.S.
CUNY Research Foundation, City College
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $99,999.00
Match; $0.00
Prototyping of a website exploring the variety of
Dominican music and its genres in the United States.
Digital Projects for the Public
Production
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Window to the World Communications, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Match; $0.00
Production of an interpretive website organizing the Studs Terkel archive along with accompanying public programming and curriculum materials.
People as Property: Stories of Northern Colonial Enslavement
Historic Hudson Valley
Pocantico Hills, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Match; $0.00
Production of a website exploring slavery in the colonial North with a focus on the individual stories of enslaved people at Philipsburg Manor, an 18th-century historic plantation site.
Slavery and the African American Experience in Virginia, 1619-1861: A Project of Encyclopedia Virginia
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Award: Outright; $366,373.00
Match; $0.00
Production of new digital content and related K-12 classroom materials on the history of African American enslavement for Encyclopedia Virginia.
Supplement
The Great Stories Club: Reading and Discussion for At-Risk Youth Supplement
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $75,004.00
Match; $0.00
Supplementary funding for a one-year planning effort to develop and pilot three new Great Stories Club reading and discussion series for underserved and at-risk young adults.
Cooperative Agreements
American Experience: Documentary Films on Science
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $800,000.00
Match; $0.00
Production of two hour-long films for American Experience that examine the topic of science, society, and motherhood.
American Masters of Science: Two Documentaries on James Watson and Oliver Sacks
WNET
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $800,000.00
Match; $0.00
Production of two documentaries on prominent scientists, James Watson and Oliver Sacks, for broadcast on public television.
NEH on the Road
The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.
House and Home
Elmhurst Historical Museum
Elmhurst, IL
Power of Children
Old State Capitol Foundation, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
Bandits and Heroes
University of New England
Biddeford, ME
Bandits and Heroes
Worcester Center for Crafts
Worcester, MA
Power of Children
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Moorhead, MN
House and Home
City of Provo
Provo, UT
Spirited: Prohibition in America
Park City Historical Society and Museum
Park City, UT
Spirited: Prohibition in America
Washakie Museum
Worland, WY