DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Through the Division of Public Programs, NEH provides millions of Americans opportunities for lifelong learning through exhibitions and catalogs, radio and television programs, reading and film discussions, symposia, conferences, and interactive multimedia projects. In fiscal year 2002, museum exhibitions were funded on topics such as childhood in Ancient Greece, the development of flight in American culture, and the art and cultural context of rice cultivation in Asia. The Walters Art Museum received a grant for the traveling exhibition “Telling the Tales of Kings: A Medieval Picture Bible from the Morgan Library.” The Morgan Bible, originally commissioned in the thirteenth century by Louis IX, presents biblical stories in pictorial form. Twenty-four of the folios are on display. They depict well-known stories (Noah, Moses, Samson, and David) in thirteenth-century settings. An interactive computer kiosk has visitors “turn the pages” of the Bible, enlarge details of the illuminations, and read translations of the Latin and Arabic marginalia, which point to cultural and historical variations in understanding the original biblical stories.
Library programs funded in 2002 include traveling panel exhibitions on topics such as the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and reading and discussion programs such as “Family Portraits,” a bilingual program that focuses on the family in Hispanic and American literature. The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, received a grant for a traveling panel exhibition,“Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.” Using reproductions of sixty rare historical documents and drawing on the latest scholarship, the show reexamines Lincoln’s role in the abolition of slavery during the Civil War. The exhibition travels to forty libraries around the country.
One hundred libraries were awarded grants to participate in “Bard of the People: The Life and Times of John Steinbeck,” a scholar-led viewing, reading, and discussion program and a panel exhibition developed by the Mercantile Library in New York.
The Maine Humanities Council received a grant for “Thoughtful Giving: Philanthropy as Civic Engagement,” a reading and discussion program that uses humanities texts to examine the relationship between civil society and the American tradition of giving. Readings include literary, philosophical, and historical sources, such as the Bible and works by Aristotle, Tocqueville, Eudora Welty, O. Henry, Andrew Carnegie, and Benjamin Franklin. Pilot programs will be conducted in three states that have different patterns of giving and regional identities. In the third year a conference will assess the pilots and create a website for the project.
 
 
An exhibition on Elizabeth 1 travels to forty    
libraries across the country.                         
FRAGMENTA REGALLA       
—By Robert Naunton,           
circa 1800; Newberry Library 
American English, the history of public health,Willa Cather, and Henry Luce are among the topics to be examined by film and radio projects that received awards in 2002.WNET/Thirteen in New York City received a grant to produce Broadway: The American Musical, a six-hour television series that explores how ethnic musical traditions and European operetta combined into an American institution. The series explores cross-currents of American history and their impact on the musicals’ creators and audiences.
In its fourth year of the Consultation Grant program, fifty awards were made. Projects receiving these $10,000 awards include an exhibition on how popular prints depicting events in U.S. history have shaped people’s understanding of the past, a documentary film on Theodore Dreiser, and an oral history project on the events surrounding September 11, 2001.

Nancy Rogers
Director
Division of Public Programs

PROGRAMS
  H UMANITIES    P ROJECTS    IN    L IBRARIES    A ND    A CHIVES   P age   1,  2,  3,  4
Grants support the use and interpretation of the collections in libraries and archives.

  American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Susan E. Brandehoff
Amount: $255,000
The fabrication and 40-site tour of a freestanding panel exhibition, CD-ROM, website, and ancillary educational programs about the life, reign, and legacy of Elizabeth I.

Columbia University
New York, NY
Mary Marshall Clark
Amount: $9,991
Consultation with scholars in preparation for the review, interpretation, and dissemination of interviews conducted as part of the Oral History Narrative and Memory Project.

Human Pursuits: Western Humanities Concern
Salt Lake City, UT
Zaida Yvonne Ahumada
Amount: $245,000
A series of bilingual reading and discussion programs at libraries in ten states that focus on the complex subject of family as it is represented in Hispanic and American literature.

  The Huntington
San Marino, CA
David Zeidberg
Amount: $260,000
A traveling panel exhibition that incorporates more than sixty rare documents and drawings and the latest scholarship on Lincoln’s role in the emancipation of slaves.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Jeanne M. Moe
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with scholars, educators, and experts in archaeology and historic preservation to expand a program that develops materials and activities for diverse audiences on interpreting and protecting archaeological resources.

National Video Resources, Inc.
New York, NY
Sally Mason-Robinson
Amount: $250,000
A six-week film and reading discussion series about the 1960s, an extraordinary decade of social, political, and cultural ferment in U.S. history.

  Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Riva Feshbach
Amount: $40,000
Planning for a major exhibition, a panel exhibition traveling to 40 libraries, a website, and published resource guides on the relationship between the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Indian people whose lands it traversed.

Northern Illinois University
De Kalb, IL
Drew VandeCreek
Amount: $40,561
Planning of a website and related public programs about Samuel Clemens as a western critic of the eastern political, cultural, and business establishments in Gilded Age America.

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
University Park, PA
Helen M. Sheehy
Amount: $1,000
Scholar-led film viewing, reading, and discussion programs for audiences at the community library about six 20th-century U.S. presidents and their influence on American history.

  H UMANITIES P ROJECTS IN M EDIA
Grants support the planning, scripting, and production of television and radio programs for general audiences.

  American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
Gerald Myers
Amount: $30,000
Planning of a three-part documentary film series examining the spiritual nature of dance in the history of modern dance in America.

American University
Washington, DC
David Porfiri
Amount: $10,000
Consultation on a television documentary about the military conflicts between the United States and the Seminole Indians from 1817 to 1858.

Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council
Austin, TX
Susan L. Mills
Amount: $65,000*
Production of a four-hour documentary film series exploring issues in the development and use of the English language in contemporary America.

Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council
Austin, TX
Susan L. Mills
Amount: $200,000
Production of a website and web-enhanced DVD for the television program Do You Speak American?, which examines the history and continuing development of American English.

Center for Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA
Peter Frumkin
Amount:$60,000
Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film on the life and work of folk singer Woody Guthrie.

Center for Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA
Alan Glenn
Amount: $30,000
Planning of a two-hour historical documentary film exploring the lives, work, and legacy of the 19thcentury British composers William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Jac Venza
Amount: $624,540
Production of a one-hour pilot program for an eight-hour documentary film series chronicling the evolution of the Broadway musical (1866-present).

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Stephen Segaller
Amount: $60,000
Scripting of a two-hour documentary film exploring the history of the prison in the United States from its emergence in the late 18th century to the present day.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Susan Lacy
Amount: $629,540
Production of a 90-minute documentary film presenting an interpretive and analytical biography of Henry Luce, the cofounder and leader of Time, Inc., from 1923 to 1964.

Educational Film Center
Annandale, VA
David I. Vyorst
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with scholars on a documentary film exploring the role of basketball in the acculturation of Jewish immigrants and the contribution of Jews to the early development of basketball from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
Riva Freifeld
Amount: $30,000
Planning of a ninety-minute documentary film examining the life and times of Phoebe Ann Mosey, the sharpshooter known as Annie Oakley (1860-1926).

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
Mark Zwonitzer
Amount: $59,260
Scripting of a two-hour documentary film about the life and literature of Walt Whitman and his America.

Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Kathryn P. Dietz
Amount: $675,000
Production of a ninety-minute documentary film and interactive website on the life and art of Mary Pickford, silent screen actress and Hollywood movie mogul.

Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Michal A. Goldman
Amount: $50,000
To support scripting of a one-hour television documentary about the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a utopian housing cooperative in the Bronx built by Jewish immigrant workers in the 1920s.

  Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Nancy Porter
Amount: $449,162
Production of a 60-minute television documentary on the history of public health in the United States, focusing on the landmark case of Mary Mallon, the first person known to be a healthy carrier of typhoid.

Foundation for the Future
Bellevue, WA
Robert A. Citron
Amount: $10,000
Consultation for an eight-part documentary television series examining the historical and philosophical issues surrounding scientific and technological advances.

Greater New Orleans Educational TV Foundation
New Orleans, LA
Dawn C. Logsdon
Amount: $10,000
Consultation and research for a documentary film on the social, cultural, and anthropological history of the Faubourg Treme, the oldest black urban neighborhood in America that borders the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Isaac in America Foundation
New York, NY
Amram E. Nowak
Amount: $60,000
Scripting of episode three in a proposed four-part documentary television series about the 350-year history of the Jews in the United States.

James Agee Film Project
Johnson City, TN
Ross H. Spears
Amount: $29,997*
A four-hour television series with digital interactive enhancements about the history of Appalachia from southern New York to northern Alabama, from the birth of the mountains to today's human stories.

Mary Pickford Educational Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
John J. Flynn
Amount: $10,000
Consultation for a one-hour documentary film about the evolution of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in literature, theater, and film.

Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Stephen Smith
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with scholars on a series of one-hour radio documentary programs on aspects of 20th-century African American history.

Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Stephen Smith
Amount: $30,000
Scripting of a two-hour documentary series and additional short segments for radio exploring the Korean War and its impact on American politics and culture.

Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
Joel Geyer
Amount: $500,000
Production of a 90-minute documentary film presenting a literary biography of the American writer Willa Cather.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
Martha Fowlkes
Amount: $60,000
Scripting of one episode in a proposed six-part documentary television series about the social history of the 20th century as seen through the lens of basketball.

New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority
Trenton, NJ
Lorie Conway
Amount: $30,000
Planning of a one-hour television documentary film on Ellis Island Hospital.

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Peter Sillen
Amount: $10,000
Consultation on a documentary film about the history of the Masonic Order in the 20th century.

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Peter G. Miller
Amount: $30,000
Planning of a 90-minute film documentary about the lives and legal case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
John L. Wilhelm
Amount: $500,000
Production of a one-hour television documentary about Carville, a run-down plantation that became a facility for research on leprosy, patients with the disease, and the effort to control it.

  New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Alexandra Pomeroy
Amount: $70,000
Scripting of a six-hour documentary series on the history of nonfiction film.

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Madison D. Lacy
Amount: $10,000
Consultation for a documentary film about American writer Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945).

North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Dallas, TX
Sylvia L. Komatsu
Amount: $30,000
Planning for a three-hour documentary film about the Mexican Revolution, a conflict that changed the course of Mexican history and influenced U.S. and European foreign policy.

Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
Elizabeth V. Sheldon
Amount: $10,000
Consultation for a documentary film that would examine the connections between contemporary science and ancient myths about human origins.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
Rick Tejada-Flores
Amount: $60,000
Scripting of a one-hour documentary film about the life and work of muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949).

Public Communications, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
Kathleen Pearce
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with humanities scholars and archival research to develop a 90-minute film on the life and work of Maxwell Perkins, who brought the work of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe to the American public.

Social Media Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
Barak S. Goodman
Amount: $600,000
Production of a two-hour documentary film interweaving the stories of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, whose 1938 fight was one of the most important and passionately watched sporting events in American history.

SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Albany, NY
Gerald Zahavi
Amount: $10,000
Consultation to develop a radio documentary series on the history of New York's Albany region and to produce a pilot program on the Cold War era.

Teddy Bear Films
San Francisco, CA
Micha X. Peled
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with scholars about a documentary film exploring the perspectives of the Americans and the Chinese on human rights in China.

Ways of Knowing, Inc.
New York, NY
Gene Searchinger
Amount: $700,000
Production of a two-hour documentary film exploring the origins, history, and nature of writing.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Paula S. Apsell
Amount: $60,000
Scripting of a two-hour television documentary on Percy Julian, a prominent chemist, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and the first African American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
Patrice Migliori-Farnes
Amount: $10,000
Consultation on a documentary film that tells the story of Cuban immigrants in the United States from 1959 to the present.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
Michel Midori Fillion
Amount: $10,000
Consultation for a documentary film on the first women to cover war as journalists from the front lines, their influence on how war was reported, and the impact of the opening of this profession to women.
* Federal Matching Funds
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