Federal-State Partnership

Last year, councils reached cumulative audiences of more than 145 million, including 471,000 in discussion programs, 3.3 million through exhibitions, 475,000 in K-12 programs, 26,400 in family reading and literacy programs, 152,000 in Chautauqua programs, and 132 million through various broadcast media. Programs supported by the fifty-six state humanities councils enable the NEH to extend its reach into every state and to all U.S. territories. In the past year, the state councils have enabled almost seventeen thousand scholars to join in vigorous and fruitful exchange with a broad range of public audiences, demonstrating that the humanities are an integral part of the daily lives of Americans everywhere.

The state councils continue to address major issues in elementary and secondary education. They help to create networks linking institutions of higher learning, secondary schools, state departments of education, and cultural institutions, such as museums and libraries. They have brought together college and university professors, teachers, parents, and students in substantive programs that help to strengthen instruction in the schools. Several states support teacher institutes. With funding from the Idaho Humanities Council, forty teachers of Idaho history gathered for a two-week institute titled "Idaho and the American West" at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa. More than a dozen scholars led classes and workshops on topics in Idaho's history, including its prehistory, Native American culture, agriculture and mining, and contemporary politics and economics. The Texas Council for the Humanities collaborates with colleges and universities throughout Texas to sponsor weeklong workshops for teachers, featuring electronic humanities resources related to the curriculum needs of classroom teachers in the state. Workshops in the summer of 1998 focused on the theme of Texas history and cultures.

Commissioned by the California Council for the Humanities, and based on the "Gold Fever!" exhibition developed with NEH support by the Oakland Museum of California, two traveling exhibitions will visit more than a dozen communities during the three years of the "Rediscovering California at 150" sesquicentennial project. In addition, the California Council produced "History Alive," which features dramatic, historically accurate portrayals of figures from the California Gold Rush. Between February 1998 and the end of the year 2000, the California Council will schedule appearances by these performers in more than one hundred communities throughout California.

The Tennessee Humanities Council and its Tennessee Center for the Book presented the tenth annual Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word at War Memorial Plaza in Nashville, attracting more than thirty thousand people. Events included panel discussions, author readings and discussion sessions, and a children's stage for activities for children and families. Nine other state councils also sponsor book festivals.

State humanities councils continue to strengthen their organizational resources, obtaining more than $6.7 million last year from state legislatures, as they pursue their goal of engaging all Americans in study, reflection, and discussion of the humanities.

Edythe Manza Director Federal-State Partnership

Alaska Humanities Forum
421 West 1st Avenue
Suite 210
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 272-5341
Stephen Haycox, Chairman
Steve Lindbeck, Executive Director
$497,812*

Amerika Samoa Humanities Council
P.O. Box 5800
Pago Pago, AS 96799
(684) 633-4870
Lui Tuitele, Chairman
Niualama Taifane, Executive Director
$210,550*

Arizona Humanities Council
The Ellis-Shackelford House
1242 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1887
(602) 257-0335
Joel K. Hiller, Chairman
Dan Shilling, Executive Director
$500,094

Arkansas Humanities Council
10816 Executive Center Drive
Suite 310
Little Rock, AR 72211-4383
(501) 221-0091
Alice Hines, Chairman
Robert E. Bailey, Executive Director
$462,700*

CNMI Council for the Humanities AAA-3394
Box 10001
Saipan, MP 96950
(670) 235-4785 Ext.1
Herman T. Guerrero, Chairman
William R. Barrineau, Executive Director
$229,439*

California Council for the Humanities
312 Sutter Street
Suite 601
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 391-1474
David Masumoto, Chairman
James Quay, Executive Director
$1,347,800*

Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
1623 Blake Street, #200
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 573-7733
William M. Fulkerson, Jr., Chairman
Margaret A. Coval, Executive Director
$487,400

Connecticut Humanities Council
955 South Main Street
Suite E
Middletown, CT 06457
(860) 685-2260
Helen Higgins, Chairman
Bruce Fraser, Executive Director
$481,136

Delaware Humanities Forum
100 West 10th Street
Suite 1009
Wilmington, DE 19801
(302) 657-0650
Susan T. Shoemaker, Chairman
Henry Hirschbiel, Executive Director
$411,304

Florida Humanities Council
1725-1/2 East Seventh Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605-3708
(813) 272-3473
Lloyd W. Chapin, Chairman
Ann L. Henderson, Executive Director
$798,400*

Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
Box 9023920
109 San Jose Street
3rd Floor
Corner of Luna Street
San Juan, PR 00902-3920
(787) 721-2087
Ana Helvia Quintero, Chairman
Juan M. Gonzalez Lamela, Executive Director
$502,300*

Georgia Humanities Council
50 Hurt Plaza SE
Suite 1565
Atlanta, GA 30303-2915
(404) 523-6220
Emma Morel Adler, Chairman
Jamil Zainaldin, Executive Director
$585,980

Guam Humanities Council
P.O. Box 24854
GMF, GU 96921
(671) 477-4461
George J. Boughton, Chairman
Mark Skinner, Executive Director
$190,563

Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities
First Hawaiian Bank Building
3599 Waialae Avenue
Room 23
Honolulu, HI 96816
(808) 732-5402
Robert W. Franco, Chairman
Annette M. Lew, Executive Director
$475,300

Humanities Council of Washington, DC
1331 H Street, NW
Suite 902
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-1732
Kathleen M. Lesko, Chairman
Francine Cary, Executive Director
$438,650

Humanities Iowa
Oakdale Campus Northlawn
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
(319) 335-4153
Kay K. Runge, Chairman
Rick Knupfer, Executive Director
$471,400

Idaho Humanities Council
217 West State Street
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 345-5346
Kurt Olsson, Chairman
Richard Ardinger, Executive Director
$422,770

Illinois Humanities Council
203 North Wabash Avenue
Suite 2020
Chicago, IL 60601-2417
(312) 422-5580
John A. Wing, Chairman
Kristina Valaitis, Executive Director
$744,708

Indiana Humanities Council
1500 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 638-1500
D. Reed Scism, Chairman
Wynola Richards, Executive Director
$556,780*

Kansas Humanities Council
112 S.W. 6th Avenue
Suite 210
Topeka, KS 66603
(913) 357-0359
Gayle R. Davis, Chairman
Marion Cott, Executive Director
$462,300*

Kentucky Humanities Council
206 East Maxwell Street
Lexington, KY 40508
(606) 257-5932
Jeffrey A. Fager, Chairman
Virginia Smith, Executive Director
$497,830

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
225 Baronne Street
Suite 1414
New Orleans, LA 70112-1709
(504) 523-4352
Glenda B. Cooper, Chairman
Michael Sartisky, Executive Director
$512,964*

Maine Humanities Council
P.O. Box 7202
371 Cumberland Avenue
Portland, ME 04112
(207) 773-5051
Harriet Henry, Chairman
Dorothy Schwartz, Executive Director
$426,300

Maryland Humanities Council
601 North Howard Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 625-4830
Robert B. Kershaw, Chairman
Barbara Wells Sarudy, Executive Director
$530,740*

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
One Woodbridge Street
South Hadley, MA 01075
(413) 536-1385
David Lionel Smith, Chairman
David A. Tebaldi, Executive Director
$567,154*

Michigan Humanities Council
119 Pere Marquette Drive
Suite 3B
Lansing, MI 48912-1231
(517) 372-7770
Sheila R. Cannatti, Chairman
Ronald Means, Executive Director
$675,128*

Minnesota Humanities Commission
987 East Ivy Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55106-2046
(612) 774-0105
Archibald I. Leyasmeyer, Chairman
Cheryl Dickson, Executive Director
$524,522

Mississippi Humanities Council
3825 Ridgewood Road Room 311
Jackson, MS 39211
(601) 982-6752
Jack White, Chairman
Barbara Carpenter, Executive Director
$467,298*

Missouri Humanities Council
911 Washington Avenue
Suite 215
St. Louis, MO 63101-1208
(314) 621-7705
JoNell Beall, Chairman
Michael Bouman, Executive Director
$540,290*

Montana Committee for the Humanities
311 Brantly Hall
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812-8214
(406) 243-6022
Steve Fenter, Chairman
Mark Sherouse, Executive Director
$415,800*

Nebraska Humanities Council
Lincoln Center Building
Suite 225
215 Centennial Mall South
Lincoln, NE 68508
(402) 474-2131
Robert Burns, Chairman
Jane Renner Hood, Executive Director
$439,856

Nevada Humanities Committee
1034 North Sierra Street
Reno, NV 89507
(702) 784-6587
Christopher Hudgins, Chairman
Judith K. Winzeler, Executive Director
$427,300*

New Hampshire Humanities Council
19 Pillsbury Street
P.O. Box 2228
Concord, NH 03302-2228
(603) 224-4071
Joseph L. Marcille, Chairman
Charles G. Bickford, Executive Director
$423,810

New Jersey Council for the Humanities
28 West State Street
6th Floor
Trenton, NJ 08608
(609) 695-4838
Barry V. Qualls, Chairman
Lawrence Schmidt, Executive Director
$622,700*

New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities
209 Onate Hall
University of New Mexico
Corner of Campus and Girard Street Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-3705
Linda Heimer Aycock, Chairman
Craig Newbill, Executive Director
$435,180*

New York Council for the Humanities
150 Broadway
Suite 1700
New York, NY 10038
(212) 233-1131
Samuel D. Waksal, Chairman
Jay Kaplan, Executive Director
$952,900*

North Carolina Humanities Council
425 Spring Garden Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
(336) 334-5325
Georgann Eubanks, Chairman
Alice Barkley, Executive Director
$591,190

North Dakota Humanities Council
2900 Broadway
Suite 3
P.O. Box 2191
Bismarck, ND 58502
(701) 255-3360
Lee Kruger, Chairman
Everett Albers, Executive Director
$420,400*

Ohio Humanities Council
695 Bryden Road
P.O. Box 06354
Columbus, OH 43206-0354
(614) 461-7802
Alexander Hayes IV, Chairman
Gale E. Peterson, Executive Director
$723,100*

Oklahoma Humanities Council
Festival Plaza
Suite 270
428 West California
Oklahoma, OK 73102
(405) 235-0280
David Levy, Chairman
Anita May, Executive Director
$479,300

Oregon Council for the Humanities
812 Southwest Washington Street
Suite 225
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 241-0543
Brad Reddersen, Chairman
Christopher Zinn, Executive Director
$476,326*

Pennsylvania Humanities Council
320 Walnut Street
Suite 305
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3892
(215) 925-1005
C. James Trotman, Chairman
Joseph J. Kelly, Executive Director
$757,300*

Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities
60 Ship Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 273-2250
Galen A. Johnson, Chairman
Joseph Finkhouse, Executive Director
$422,354

South Carolina Humanities Council
1308 Columbia College Drive
P.O. Box 5287
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 691-4100
Wayne Q. Justesen, Chairman
Randy L. Akers, Executive Director
$491,900

South Dakota Humanities Council
Box 7050, University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
(605) 688-6113
Norma C. Wilson, Chairman
Michael F. Haug, Executive Director
$413,586*

Tennessee Humanities Council
1003 18th Avenue South
P.O. Box 24767
Nashville, TN 37212
(615) 320-7001
H.A. Gilliam, Jr., Chairman
Robert Cheatham, Executive Director
$532,000*

Texas Council for the Humanities
3809 South Second Street
Banister Place A
Austin, TX 78704-7058
(512) 440-1991
Barbara Gubbin, Chairman
Richard Hull, Executive Director
$931,206*

Utah Humanities Council
350 South 400 East
Suite 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
(801) 359-9670
Henry J. Louis, Chairman
Cynthia Buckingham, Executive Director
$442,446*

Vermont Council on the Humanities
17 Park Street
RR1, Box 7285
Morrisville, VT 05661-0058
(802) 888-3183
Roy M. Schwarz, Chairman
Victor R. Swenson, Executive Director
$409,828*

Virgin Islands Humanities Council
5-6 Kongens Gade, Corbiere
Complex, Suite 200B-201B
St. Thomas, VI 00802
(809) 776-4044
Linda Thomas, Chairman
Magda Smith, Executive Director
$227,050*

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
(804) 924-3296
Joanne V. Gabbin, Chairman
Robert C. Vaughan, Executive Director
$577,386

Washington Commission for the Humanities
615 Second Avenue
Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 682-1770
Robert F. Garratt, Chairman
Margaret Ann Bollmeier, Executive Director
$540,958*

West Virginia Humanities Council
723 Kanawha Boulevard, East
Suite 800
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 346-8500
Joseph C. Jefferds, Chairman
Kenneth Sullivan, Executive Director
$448,500*

Wisconsin Humanities Council
802 Regent Street
Madison, WI 53715
(608) 262-0706
Ann L. Koski, Chairman
Max Harris, Executive Director
$532,728*

Wyoming Council for the Humanities
P.O. Box 3643
University Station
Laramie, WY 82071-3643
(307) 766-6496
Bruce A. Richardson, Chairman
Robert G. Young, Executive Director
$406,781