Posted: June 8, 2018
Statement from National Endowment for the Humanities on the Death of Ira Berlin
Posted: June 5, 2018
Statement from National Endowment for the Humanities on the Death of Jill Ker Conway
Posted: June 28, 2018
Gary offering historic tours beginning Saturday
Chicago Tribune
Downtown Gary likely will have an overflow of out-of-towners Saturday – many of whom will be armed with their cameras so they can take pictures of many of the once-prominent buildings along Broadway on a historical tour.
Last year, the Gary Redevelopment Commission coordinated a Historic Preservation Tour meant to show off the architectural beauty that once existed – and of which traces remain to this day. The experience was so positive in 2017 that city officials are going to try to do it again this year.
On Saturday, people will be able to check out sites from the the one-time Union Station at 2nd Avenue and Broadway to the one-time Sears store at 839 Broadway, while including places such as the City Methodist Church and the former post office. Also, there will be a portion of the tour that includes sites in the Horace Mann and Morningside neighborhood. That portion is by reservation only on Saturday, with people having had to make reservations in advance through Eventbrite.com in order to see it.
A second day of the tour on July 14 will be open to all and will include those neighborhood locations, said Robyn Robb, an AmeriCorps volunteer who works with the Gary Preservation Tour in putting this year’s event together.
The groups assisted with fundraising efforts that are covering the costs of the event. City officials received approximately $12,000 in private donations, including money from Indiana American Water and the Barnes & Thornburg law firm, while the National Endowment for the Humanities contributed $2,500.
Posted: June 28, 2018
New Exhibit Tackles Jim Crow Repression and Resistance
ColorLines Magazine
In recognition of the 150 years since the ratification of the 14th Amendment, New York City’s oldest museum will launch a new exhibit about Black disenfranchisement and empowerment following the Civil War. The New-York Historical Society announced the September 2018 opening of Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow today (June 27). According to an emailed statement, the exhibit will cover the years between the Civil War and World War I. It seeks to highlight how African Americans survived Jim Crow and built a resistance that led to the Civil Rights Movement.
The exhibit will include several key art pieces and artifacts, including a painting of Dred Scott, a formerly enslaved couple’s marriage certificate and Ida B. Wells’ “Southern Horrors.” “The exhibition also looks at how housing segregation in Manhattan eventually led to community-building in Harlem, where local individuals and organizations laid the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance, with a focus on the area around Harlem’s important 135th Street nexus, including Black churches,” the statement adds.
The New-York Historical Society developed Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow in collaboration with Dr. Henry Louis Gates and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The National Endowment for the Humanities and New York City Council contributed funds for the exhibit.
Posted: June 27, 2018
Chautauqua series features three American heroes
The Star Democrat
Maryland Humanities brings Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, and Eleanor Roosevelt back to life through its 24th season and the program, "Chautauqua: Seeking Justice."
Actor-scholars portraying these three giants of social justice will travel to eight counties throughout the state, including performances in Talbot County from July 9 through July 11.
Maryland Humanities is a statewide nonprofit organization that creates and supports educational experiences in the humanities that inspire all Marylanders to embrace lifelong learning, exchange ideas openly, and enrich their communities. Maryland Humanities is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the State of Maryland, private foundations, corporations, small businesses, and individual donors.
Posted: June 27, 2018
Celebrating 500 years of maritime history
St. Augustine Record
A free historical and archaeological speaker series, “500 Years of Maritime Florida” will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. A new program will be featured each month through March 2019. All lectures will begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. To launch the series, Gifford Waters, Ph.D., will discuss “The Missions of St. Augustine” Thursday.
A pivotal navigation tool and unique landmark of St. Augustine for over 140 years, the St. Augustine Light Station is host to centuries of history in the Nation’s Oldest Port. Because of its unique place in history, the lighthouse is a fitting venue for the speaker series.
In addition to the lighthouse and keeper’s house, the museum offers interactive exhibits, guided tours and maritime research.
Funding for the speaker series is provided through a grant from The Florida Humanities Council with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Posted: June 21, 2018
Dallas Will Get First Look At Sally Hemings' Life At Monticello In Exhibit's National Tour
KERA News
A landmark exhibition that addresses former President Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated relationship with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves who bore six of his children, will begin its national tour in Dallas this fall.
The exhibition, “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello,” was originally organized in 2012 by Jefferson’s estate in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its subject was the wider issue of the daily lives of slaves at the Founding Father’s Virginia plantation.
Thanks to a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Monticello has expanded that show to include new material about Hemings. During an archaeological excavation of Monticello’s south wing in 2017, thousands of artifacts were uncovered, as well as a kitchen and a bedroom adjacent to Jefferson’s bedroom. That room has since been restored and recently opened as an exhibition dedicated to what little is known of Hemings’ life. (There is, for instance, no known image of her.)
The updated touring version of “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello” will feature some 340 items, several of them never seen before. The exhibition will begin its tour at the African American Museum in Fair Park and run from Sept. 22 through Dec. 31.
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