Division of Public Programs

Through the Division of Public Programs, NEH provides lifelong learning for millions of Americans by supporting interpretive exhibitions and catalogs, radio and television programs, reading and film discussion groups, symposia, conferences, and interactive multimedia projects. In fiscal year 2001, museum exhibitions were funded on such topics as the legacies of ancient civilizations, historic American communities, and European art and culture. For example, the Denver Art Museum received a grant for a traveling exhibition, “Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt.” The exhibition examines a dynamic period in which Dutch painting and decorative arts played a role in defining national identity and conceptions of home, family, self, comfort, and privacy.

Library programs funded in 2001 include traveling panel exhibitions on topics such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and reading and discussion programs such as “Prime Time Family Reading Time” for new adult readers and their families. The Mercantile Library of New York received a grant for a traveling exhibition, an online exhibition, curricular materials, book and film discussion series, historic site tours, and lectures about John Steinbeck to mark the centennial of his birth in 2002. The programs will examine the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer, focusing on Steinbeck as the champion of the common person. The Mercantile Library is collaborating with the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University, the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California, and other institutions to produce programs across the nation. In addition, the Endowment will award fifty small grants to community libraries to participate in the Steinbeck programs.

Libraries in 2001 were able to take advantage of two established, successful programs: Ten libraries around the country received grants to present “Let’s Talk About It: The Next Generation” reading and discussion programs organized by the American Library Association. Twenty libraries were awarded grants to participate in “Presidents, Politics, and Power: American Presidents Who Shaped the Twentieth Century,” a scholar-led viewing, reading, and discussion program developed by National Video Resources.

City Lore, Inc., of New York City received a Special Projects grant to produce “Place Matters: The Role of Place in Public Life,” a web-based project that shares perspectives about distinctive and historical places in American communities. Via an interactive website that includes a census of important places and community-based exhibitions, the audience will examine the significance of place in their lives. Built into the project is a development kit that offers strategies for national dissemination.

The history of the Supreme Court, the American novel, the mining industry in Butte, Montana, and American press coverage of twentieth-century military conflicts are among the topics to be examined by film and radio projects receiving awards in 2001. The WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston received a grant to produce a four-hour documentary television series on Reconstruction. It covers the years from 1863 to 1877 and tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War. Complementing the series will be a website exploring what it was like to live during that period.

2001 also saw the final phase of an initiative between the Endowment and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to produce digital enhancements for humanities films. Two projects were funded: Partners of the Heart from the Saint Thomas Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee, and Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century from KCET in Los Angeles.

In its third year, the Consultation Grants category awarded seventy-four grants. Projects receiving these $10,000 awards include an exhibition on ranching in Hawai'i, a documentary film on the Mexican Revolution, and a web-based exhibition on life in Ohio’s Miami Valley from 1890 to 1929.

Nancy Rogers
Director
Division of Public Programs

CONSULTATION GRANTS

Grants support the earliest development of a project through consultation with scholars and experts.

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
Thomas R. Davenport
$10,000

Artemis Media Project
Montgomery, AL
Kathie Farnell
$10,000

Auburn University
Auburn, AL
Allen T. Cronenberg
$9,990

Auglaize County Historical Society
St. Marys, OH
Rachel D. Barber
$10,000

Cherokee National Historical Society
Tahlequah, OK
Mary Ellen Meredith
$10,000

City of El Paso
El Paso, TX
Rene A. Harris
$10,000

Eastern Washington State Historical
Society Spokane, WA
David M. Brum
$10,000

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL
Susan A. Massey
$10,000

Granville Ohio Historical Society
Granville, OH
Richard J. Daly
$10,000

Historical Association of Southern
Florida Miami, FL
Stephen Stuempfle
$10,000

Historical Society of Seattle & King County
Seattle, WA
Karen Luetjen
$10,000

Jack Straw Productions
Seattle, WA
Harriet Baskas
$10,000

Museum of the Great Plains
Lawton, OK
Richard W. Welch
$10,000

National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Oklahoma City, OK
Donald W. Reeves
$10,000

North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Dallas, TX
Sylvia Komatsu
$10,000

Northwest Folklife
Seattle, WA
Jill I. Linzee
$10,000

University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Alan M. Blum
$7,566

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Richard Cherwitz
$10,000

University of Texas
El Paso, TX
Charles H. Ambler
$10,000

Valdez Museum & Historical Archive Association Inc.
Valdez, AK
Tabitha J. Gregory
$7,240

Vashon/JeffVanderLou Initiative
St. Louis, MO
Yvonne Sparks Strauther
$10,000

Worldways Children’s Museum
Ballwin, MO
Erlinda Villamayor
$8,165

Wright State University Main Campus
Dayton, OH
Marjorie McLellan
$10,000

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

Grants support the use and interpretation of the collections in libraries and archives.

American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Susan Brandehoff
$260,000

American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Deborah Robertson
$66,075

Beverly Public Library
Beverly, MA
Thomas F. Scully
$10,000

Cameron Village Regional Library
Raleigh, NC
Elena Owens
$1,000

Capital Area District Library
Lansing, MI
Joan C. Smith

City of LaVergne Public Library
LaVergne, TN
Lisa Hoover
$1,000

College of the Sequoias
Visalia, CA
Nancy Finney
$1,000

DeKalb County Public Library
Decatur, GA
Anne J. Johnson
$1,000

Durango Public Library/City of Durango
Durango, CO
Paula A.W. La Frenierre
$1,000

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
Julia K. Nims
$1,000

Fairfax County Public Library
Fairfax, VA
Katie Strotman
$1,000

Fairport Harbor Public Library
Fairport Harbor, OH
Catherine S. Norman
$1,000

Galesburg Public Library
Galesburg, IL
Amy E. Falasz
$1,000

Housatonic Valley Regional High School
Falls Village, CT
Kathleen Mera
$1,000

Institute of Government Studies
Berkeley, CA
Terry J. Dean
$1,000

Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City, MO
Robert F. Lunn
$1,000

Library Foundation
Fairbanks, AK
Georgine N. Olson
$1,000

Library of America
New York, NY
Cheryl Hurley
$614,875

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
New Orleans, LA
Dianne Brady
$250,000

Mabee Learning Center, Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, OK
Junie Janzen
$1,000

McMinnville Public Library
McMinnville, OR
Dee Goldman
$1,000

Mercantile Library of New York
New York, NY
Harold Augenbraum
$235,000

Monmouth County Library
Manalapan, NJ
Flora T. Higgins
$1,000

Morley Library
Painesville, OH
Anthony C. Petruzzi
$1,000

National Video Resources, Inc.
New York, NY
Sally Mason-Robinson
$280,000

New York Public Library
New York, NY
Edward Kasinec
$40,400

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Riva Feshbach
$10,000

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Carla Zecher
$300,000

North Dakota State University, Main Campus
Fargo, ND
Michael Robinson
$1,000

Onondaga County Public Library
Syracuse, NY
Kate McCaffrey
$1,000

Orange County Library System
Orlando, FL
Marilyn M. Hoffman
$1,000

Ouachita Parish Public Library
Monroe, LA
Julie Crump
$1,000

Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Poughkeepsie, NY
Lauren Muffs
$1,000

South County Regional Library
Estero, FL
Jessica Girlando
$1,000

Tempe Public Library
Tempe, AZ
Dorothy Stewart
$1,000

Teton County Library
Jackson, WY
Kirsten Corbett
$1,000

Toledo-Lucas County Library
Toledo, OH
John C. Selzer
$1,000

Trust Fund/Asheville-Buncombe Library System
Asheville, NC
Peggy D. Weaver
$1,000

West Georgia Regional Library
Carrollton, GA
Martha Goodson
$1,000

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MEDIA

Grants support the planning, scripting, and production of television and radio programs for general audiences.

American University
Washington, DC
Diane Rehm
$30,000**

A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage
Center Zuni, NM
Tom R. Kennedy
$125,761

Boston Film/Video Foundation
Boston, MA
Vicky Bippart
$10,000

Capital of Texas Public Telecommunication Council
Austin, TX
Susan L. Mills
$700,000

Catticus Corporation
Berkeley, CA
Richard Wormser $550,000*

Center for Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA
Peter Frumkin
$10,000

Center for Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA
David Grubin
$30,000

City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Carol E. Bash
$10,000

Clarity Educational Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
Connie Field
$700,000

Community Television of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Karen Hunte
$60,000

Community Television of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Jackie Kain
$150,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
David R. Grubin
$205,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Susan Lacy
$225,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Susan Lacy
$50,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Susan Lacy
$570,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Jody Sheff
$60,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Jac Venza
$450,000

ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Spartanburg, SC
Felicia Dryden
$30,000

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Brian C. Grogan
$10,000

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Anne Makepeace
$10,000

Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
Camilla Kjearulff
$10,000

Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
Sophia Maroon
$10,000

Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
Karen Thomas
$10,000

Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Kathryn P. Dietz
$30,000

Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Michal A. Goldman
$30,000

Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
$450,000

Firelight Media, Inc.
New York, NY
Stanley Nelson
$30,000

Garden Conservancy
Cold Spring, NY
Dale P. Riehl
$9,590

GWETA, Inc.
Arlington, VA
David S. Thompson
$380,000

History Institute for Education and Media
Charlotte, VT
Jeanne Houck
$30,000

Hummel Schimmer Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Clifton, VA
Frank P. Frost
$10,000

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Steven R. Krahnke
$9,972

KCWC-TV/Wyoming Public Television
Riverton, WY
Letitia Langord
$30,000

LogTV, Ltd.
Spencer, NY
Robert Podgursky
$10,000

MUSE Film and Television
New York, NY
Susan M. Vogel
$10,000

Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
Melissa Bucklin
$500,000

Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
Joel R. Geyer
$30,000

New Images Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
Avon Kirkland
$60,000

New Mexico Community Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
Paul T. Espinosa
$10,000

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Yanna K. Brandt
$250,000*

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Jim Brown
$250,000

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Alexandra Pomeroy
$9,967

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
David Smith
$29,971

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
John L. Wilhelm
$60,000

Pacific Street Film Projects, Inc.
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Steven Fischler
$59,381

Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute
San Francisco, CA
David Lebrun
$550,000

Rattlesnake Productions, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
Pamela R. Roberts
$400,000

Saint Thomas Foundation
Nashville, TN
Andrea R. Kalin
$150,000

San Diego State University Foundation
San Diego, CA
Pat Finn
$10,000

Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research
Los Angeles, CA
Judy Branfman
$10,000

University of New Orleans Foundation
New Orleans, LA
Nickolas R. Spitzer
$200,000

University of Texas
San Antonio, TX
Guy Bailey
$100,000

Virginia Film Foundation
Charlottesville, VA
James D. Johnston
$10,000

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Peter McGhee
$600,000

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
Joanna Kiernan
$100,000

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Grants support the planning and implementation of exhibitions, publications, and other programming in museums and historical organizations.

Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA
Adam D. Weinberg
$40,531

Adler Planetarium
Chicago, IL
Marvin Bolt
$250,000

Adler Planetarium
Chicago, IL
Bruce Stephenson
$40,498

Alutiiq Heritage Foundation
Kodiak, AK
Amy F. Steffian
$8,000

American Federation of Arts
New York, NY
Kathryn Haw
$40,400

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Dearborn, MI
Anan Ameri
$10,000

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Richard Townsend
$40,000

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
John Zukowsky
$65,000

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Forrest McGill
$146,399

B&O Railroad Museum
Baltimore, MD
Edward Williams
$10,000

Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
Susan Dackerman
$5,000

Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
Susan Dackerman
$156,126

Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn, NY
Paul Pearson
$10,000

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
James F. Romano
$175,000*

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
Jennifer P. Robinson
$9,328

Chippewa Valley Museum
Eau Claire, WI
Susan M. McLeod
$175,000

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
Anita J. Ellis
$40,500

Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH
Elisabeth Jones
$40,906

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Nancy E. Green
$10,000

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Timothy J. Standring
$250,000

Dubuque County Historical Society
Dubuque, IA
Jerry A. Enzler
$200,000

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art
Indianapolis, IN
Arnold Jolles
$10,000

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Deborah M. Kao
$15,000

High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
Kevin Britz
$40,903

Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Deerfield, MA
Anne D. Lanning
$9,909

Historic Denver, Inc.
Denver, CO
Leigh A. Grinstead
$10,000

Historic Rugby, Inc.
Rugby, TN
Barbara J. Stagg
$10,000

Historical Society of Talbot County
Easton, MD
Joan R. Hoge
$10,000

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Audrey Lee-Sung
$200,000

Kona Historical Society
Captain Cook, HI
Jill R. Olson
$10,000

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Virginia Fields
$41,130

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Linda Komaroff
$150,000

Mariners Museum
Newport News, VA
William B. Cogar
$200,500

Mattatuck Museum
Waterbury, CT
Ann Y. Smith
$9,456

Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN
Katherine Roberts
$200,000

Museum for African Art
New York, NY
Frank Herreman
$10,000

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Howard S. Decker
$39,600

National Japanese American Historical Society
San Francisco, CA
Rosalyn Tonai
$10,000

New Jersey Historical Society
Newark, NJ
Sally Yerkovich
$10,000

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Janl Ramirez
$10,000

Northern Forest Center, Inc.
Concord, NH
Michael Wilson
$40,500

Old Town History Project
Portland, OR
Jacqueline L. Peterson
$10,000

Oneida Community Mansion House
Oneida, NY
Bruce M. Moseley
$40,400

Perquimans County Restoration
Association Hertford, NC
David Webb
$10,000

Plimoth Plantation, Inc.
Plymouth, MA
Elizabeth A. Lodge
$175,500

Pueblo of Isleta
Isleta, NM
Henry Watt
$10,000

Regional Council of Historical Agencies
Oneonta, NY
Linda B. Norris
$10,000

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
Susan Hay
$50,000

Saint Augustine’s College
Raleigh, NC
Irene Clark
$10,000

Saint Louis County Historical Society
Duluth, MN
JoAnne M. Coombe
$41,323

Salisbury State University
Salisbury, MD
Kenneth A. Basile
$8,982

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA
Diana C. du Pont
$9,950

Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust
New York, NY
Lisa A. Schubert
$10,000

TDX Foundation
Anchorage, AK
Chauncina Bourdukofsky
$41,000

Tempe Historical Museum
Tempe, AZ
Amy A. Douglass
$9,815

Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
Davira S. Taragin
$102,727

Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation
Richmond, VA
H.A. Wise
$10,000

University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Doran H. Ross
$200,000

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Lyndel King
$250,000

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
David P. Silverman
$40,400

Utah Museum of Natural History
Salt Lake City, UT
Ray Geiser
$10,000

Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
Ellen D. Reeder
$84,062*

Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
Gary K. Vikan
$25,000

Yale University
New Haven, CT
Richard L. Burger
$200,000

Yale University
New Haven, CT
Jock Reynolds
$98,000

Yeshiva University Museum
New York, NY
Sylvia A. Herskowitz
$10,000

MODEL HUMANITIES PROJECTS

Grants support the planning of public humanities programs intended to be replicated on a larger scale.

Alabama Humanities Foundation
Birmingham, AL
Michael E. Malone
$5,000

Alaska Humanities Forum
Anchorage, AK
Stephen Haycox
$5,000

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham, AL
Angela Fisher-Hall
$10,000

Bowman County Historical & Genealogy Society
Bowman, ND
Dean A. Pearson
$9,975

Bozeman Public Library
Bozeman, MT
Alice Meister
$10,000

Diaspora Connections Unlimited
St. Louis, MO
Lois D. Conley
$10,000

Florida Humanities Council
St. Petersburg, FL
Frank Helsom
$5,000

Idaho Humanities Council
Boise, ID
Marc Johnson
$5,000

Idaho State Historical Society
Boise, ID
Kristine Major
$10,000

Jefferson Education Foundation
Chimacom, WA
Lillian T. Hilton
$10,000

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
New Orleans, LA
Neil T. Erwin
$5,000

Missouri Humanities Council
St. Louis, MO
Betty K. Wilson
$5,000

Montana Committee for the Humanities
Missoula, MT
Lyndel Meikle
$5,000

Nevada Humanities Committee
Reno, NV
Nancy Remington
$5,000

North Dakota Humanities Council
Bismarck, ND
Thomas Trenbeath
$5,000

Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums
Columbus, OH
Andrew J. Verhoff
$10,000

Ohio Humanities Council
Columbus, OH
George Garrison
$5,000

Oklahoma Humanities Council
Oklahoma City, OK
David W. Levy
$5,000

Oklahoma Library Association
Norman, OK
Jennifer L. Kidney
$10,000

Texas Association of Developing
Colleges Dallas, TX
Genevieve Brembry
$10,000

Texas Council for the Humanities
Austin, TX
Wright Lassiter, Jr.
$5,000

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Robin R. Jones
$10,000

Washington Commission for the Humanities
Seattle, WA
Jack Faris
$5,000

Wyoming Council for the Humanities
Laramie, WY
Barbara Allen Bogart
$5,000

Wyoming Health Resources, Inc.
Cheyenne, WY
Rex E. Gantenbein
$10,000

Yupiit School District
Akiachak, AK
Joseph Slats
$10,000

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Grants support a combination of programming, such as reading and discussion series, lectures, or websites for a regional or national audience.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
Maxine Kenny
$100,000

City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Marci Reaven
$250,000

Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
Joseph J. Innes
$9,986

Great Plains Chautauqua Society, Inc.
Bismarck, ND
Everett C. Albers
$26,400*

Heritage Preservation
Washington, DC
Susan Nichols
$298,000

IMAGE Film/Video Center
Atlanta, GA
Thomas R. Davenport
$50,500

Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Victoria B. Bonebakker
$283,925

Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
Cooperstown, NY
David S. Svahn
$9,896

Missouri Humanities Council
St. Louis, MO
Michael H. Bouman
$38,361

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA
Timothy C. Neumann
$50,531

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
Maryemma Graham
$40,500

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Charlottesville, VA
Andrew Wyndham
$10,000

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
Rose A. High Bear
$10,000

THE JEFFERSON LECTURE

Sara Lee Corporation is the principal underwriter of the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities from 1999 through 2003.

Arthur Miller
Roxbury, CT
$10,000