2004 We the People Projects

The following projects received funding during 2004 as a part of the We the People initiative.

CHALLENGE GRANTS

The Bancroft Library
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley: Enhancement of storage facilities and climate controls for the Bancroft Collection of Western Americana and other special collections in the Bancroft Library.
Bill Holm Center Endowed Research Fund
University of Washington, Seattle: Endowment for faculty, graduate, and visiting researchers in the humanities at the Bill Holm Center for Northwest Coast Art, part of the Burke Museum.
Education Center and Endowment for the Benefit of School Groups and Families
New Hampshire Historical Society: Creation of an education center and endowment for related humanities programming.
Endowment for the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Wash.: Endowment for two humanities positions, Director of Exhibits and Programs and Director of the U.S. Bank Center for Plateau Cultural Studies, as well as for a humanities advisory council.
Eudora Welty House
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson: Endowment for educational programming and a Welty Scholar at the Eudora Welty House in Jackson, Miss.
Georgia Historical Society Endowment Campaign
Georgia Historical Society, Savannah: An endowment for a technical service librarian, humanities programming, and operating expenses.
Jazz Humanities Education Endowment Fund
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.: Endowment and bridge funding for staff salaries and for humanities programming.
North American History Preservation Endowment
Wisconsin Historical Society: Endowment of a preservation fund for the society's library and archives.
Online Access Endowment
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.: Endowment for the technological infrastructure for a website that will serve as an electronic portal into the society's manuscript collections and research library
A Preservation Program for the Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: Endowment for a preservation librarian, contract preservation services, and conservation supplies.
Right Brain and Left: Reconnecting the Humanities and Social Sciences
Michigan State University: Endowment for the programs of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.

EDUCATION PROJECTS

Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine
Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg: Four week-long workshops focusing on the Spanish colonial history of St. Augustine, Fla.
Crafting Freedom: Thomas Day and Elizabeth Keckly, Black Artisans and Entrepreneurs
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh: Four one-week workshops to examine the history, achievements, and material evidence of black antebellum craftsmen.
Crossroads and Conquest: People, Place and Power on the Vancouver National Historic Reserve
Educational Services District 112, Vancouver, Wash.: Two one-week workshops on the history and cultures of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, a landmark site of the Pacific Northwest.
Cultural Encounters and Human Agency in America 1550-1700
Plimoth Plantation, Inc., Plymouth, Mass.: Three one-week workshops, held at the site of the original Pilgrim colony, on the interaction between Europeans and Native Americans in early colonial America.
The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson, and America 1801-1861
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro: Two one-week workshops held at The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Nashville, Tenn., on major themes in early 19th-century American history.
Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss.: Two one-week workshops on landmarks central to the Freedom Summer and the Sanitation Workers' Strike, important episodes in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Landmark Events in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the Transformation of American Identity, 1765-1800 and 1890-1920
University of New Hampshire, Durham: Workshops to study the connections between national events and local culture in Portsmouth, N.H., in two historic periods (1765-1800 and 1890-1920).
The Last Great American Canal: How the Illinois and Michigan Canal United 19th-Century America
Canal Corridor Association - Gaylord Building Historic Site, Lockport, Ill.: Three one-week workshops to explore the story of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and its relationship to broader themes in American history.
The Mark Twain House Teacher Workshops
Mark Twain House, Hartford, Conn.: Teacher workshops providing context and instructional tools related to Mark Twain, his literary and cultural legacy, and his era in American history.
Pearl Harbor as Landmark in American History
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i: Two one-week workshops to study the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, interpreting local sites in their geographical, historical, and cultural contexts.
Planned, Built, and Preserved: Savannah's Three-Century History
Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Savannah, Ga.: Two one-week workshops focused on the founding, city plan, architecture, and preservation of the city of Savannah, Ga.
Salem, Massachusetts (1801-1861): National Culture, International Horizons
Salem State College, Salem, Mass.: Four one-week workshops to explore the political, economic, and social history of 19th-century Salem, Massachusetts, through material and documentary sources.
Shaping the Constitution: A View from Mount Vernon, 1783-1789
Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, Va.: Two one-week workshops, held at Mount Vernon, on George Washington and the adoption of the United States Constitution.
Shifting Power on the Great Plains: Fort Robinson and the American West
Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln: Two one-week workshops at Fort Robinson (Nebraska) Historic Landmark on the role of the fort in American history from 1868 until the end of World War II.
Slavery and Freedom in Charleston, South Carolina and the Sea Islands
Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park: Two one-week workshops on the rise and fall of slavery in Charleston and its environs, based on the study of primary documents and historical sites.
Stony the Road We Trod: Using Alabama's Civil Rights Landmarks to Teach American History
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Ala.: Four one-week workshops to study the historical evidence that documents the events leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A Vast and Many Voiced Creation: Congress and the Capitol
Council for Basic Education, Washington, D.C.: Two one-week workshops for history teachers to study the U.S. Capitol, its art and architecture, and how it embodies the ideals and realities of our nation's founding up to the Civil War.

The Call of the Trombones
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.: A series of activities, including public lectures, performances, and workshops, that would incorporate current research on James Weldon Johnson and lay the groundwork for a new course on his life and works.
Life of the Mind: African-American Oratory
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C.: A seminar in the history of African-American oratory for faculty from West Charlotte High School, Central Piedmont Community College, and Johnson C. Smith University.

The Abraham Lincoln Curriculum Project
Northern Illinois University DeKalb: A curriculum development project to create a website on Lincoln's life and times in antebellum Illinois for students in grades 9 through 12.
Bringing Historical Census Data Alive with Geographic Information Systems
University of Illinois, Chicago: A materials development project to make census data available to teachers and students through online interactive data maps and to create related curriculum modules on five key topics in American history.
The Coming of the American Revolution (1764-1776): A Web-Based Timeline/Documentary History
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: A materials development project to create an educational website on the coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776.
The Elizabeth Murray Project: An Educational Web Site for Early American History
California State University, Long Beach: A materials development project to create an educational website exploring the life and times of Elizabeth Murray, a colonial Boston shopkeeper who was involved in trans-Atlantic commerce and the politics of the American Revolution.
Seminar Toolbox on America's Colonization and Settlement: 1585-1760
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C.: A materials development project to create a web-based educational "toolbox" of texts and supporting resources on the early American colonial period, 1585-1760.
Southwest Crossroads: Cultures and Histories of the American Southwest
School of American Research, Santa Fe, N.M.: A materials development project to create a content-rich interactive website for students in grades 7-12 on the history and peoples of the American Southwest.

PRESERVATION AND ACCESS

Archival Preservation Assessment
Delaware State University, Dover: A preservation assessment of the university's institutional archives, consisting of 109 cubic feet of records related to the history of this historically black institution since its founding in 1891.
Archival Preservation Assessment
Morris County Heritage Commission, Morristown, N.J.: Preservation assessment of county judicial and local government records dating from 1740 to 1968, that document the history of Morris County.
Audiovisual Collection Assessment and Preservation Training
Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska: A preservation assessment of the museum's audio-visual collection on Native Alaskan language and culture and on-site collections care and preservation training for the museum's staff and the staff of nine other local repositories.
Cataloging the McAllister Collection of Civil War-era Ephemera
Library Company of Philadelphia, Pa.: The cataloging and preservation of approximately 50,000 pieces of Civil War-era ephemera in both printed and manuscript form. Two thousand items will be selected to be digitized and mounted on the Internet.
Collections Storage and Monitoring
American Precision Museum, Windsor, Vt.: The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, storage shelving, and the services of a conservator who would provide onsite collections care training for the museum's staff and volunteers.
Conservation Assessment of Works on Paper
Tudor Place Foundation, Inc., Washington, D.C.: A conservation assessment of 800 works of art on paper documenting the history of Tudor Place, a historic house and museum in Washington, D.C.
Creating Access to Archival Manuscript Collections Related to the History of the West, 1850 to 1950
Denver Public Library, Colo.: The preparation of online finding aids for 280 collections that cover the history of the American West since the mid-19th century.
Creating a Database of American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.: The creation of a database of American electoral returns from 1788 through 1825.
Creating a Database of Records from California Missions, 1769 to 1850
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif.: Completion of an electronic database containing information on baptisms, marriages, and other vital records held by California missions between 1769 and 1850. The project would also create CD-ROM versions for distribution to libraries and other institutions.
Digitizing the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.: The digital reformatting and creation of intellectual access to 19,300 hours of analog broadcast news that was captured off the air and recorded to videotape from 1968 to the present. The collection also includes 9,000 hours of news specials since 1968.
General Preservation Assessment
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss.: A preservation assessment of 5,000 linear feet of institutional archives as well as records of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
Illinois Newspaper Project: Cataloging
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago: The surveying and cataloging of newspaper titles in 12 counties in northwest Illinois and the microfilming of approximately 240,000 pages, as part of Illinois's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
Improving Archival Resources
Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, Ariz.: The purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies for the tribal library and archives' manuscripts, photographs, and other materials on tribal history from 1890 to the present.
Michigan Newspaper Project: Microfilming
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant: The preservation microfilming of 400,000 pages of newspapers, as part of Michigan's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
New York State Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming
University of the State of New York, Albany: The cataloging of 5,600 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of about 600,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of New York's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Project: Microfilming
Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus, University Park: The preservation microfilming of approximately 222,210 pages of newspapers, as part of Pennsylvania's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
Preservation Assessment of Architectural Drawings Collections
University of Washington Libraries, Seattle: The preservation assessment of a collection of architectural drawings that document the history of building in the Puget Sound area from the 1870s to the present.
Preservation Assessment of Audio and Video Collections
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, Mass.: Consultation with a conservator to undertake a preservation assessment of its audio and video collections created since 1943 to make recommendations for transferring them to more stable media.
Preservation Assessment of Costume and Textile Collection
University of Missouri, Columbia: Hiring a consultant to conduct a preservation assessment and to develop a long-range plan to rehouse and preserve a collection of historic textiles related to the history of Missouri.
Preservation Assessment of Detroit Historical Museum Transportation Collection
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, Mich.: A conservation assessment and the development of treatment plans for vehicles that range from an 1817 covered wagon to a prototype 1963 turbine Mustang.
Preservation Assessment of Film-Based Materials
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, N.Y.: Consultation with a photographic conservator to assess acetate and nitrate negatives, and motion pictures that document the history of the General Electric Company from 1878 to 1971.
Preservation of the Connecticut Historical Society's Collections
Connecticut Historical Society: Installation of climate control and fire suppression systems along with the purchasing of compact shelving which will preserve the library, archival, and material culture collections that document the history of the settlement and development of Connecticut.
Preservation Microfilming of Books and Serials Related to the History of American Railroads
University of Illinois, Urbana: The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 1,300 deteriorating volumes and the repair of an additional 2,000 volumes, published from 1832 to 1975, on the history of American railroads and their influence on American life and culture from 1820 to 1950, drawn from the collections of five Committees on Institutional Cooperation libraries.
Preservation Microfilming of Brittle Books and Serials on Southern History and Culture
Southeastern Library Network, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.: Preservation microfilming and cataloging of embrittled volumes on American history, literature, religion, higher education, and economic development published between 1800 and 1970.
Preserving Collections Related to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, Inc.: The purchase of storage cabinets and shelving to house the society's collection of photographs, clothing, books, furniture, and historical artifacts, which tell the story of the Ingalls-Wilder families and bring to life Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" books.
Preserving Frederic Church's Olana Historic Site Collection
New York State Parks and Recreation: Improvement of environmental conditions and the installation of fire suppression and alarm systems at Olana, the Persian inspired home and estate designed by Frederic Edwin Church. These systems would protect the furniture, paintings, textiles, works on paper, and archival materials.
Preserving the Harriet Beecher Stowe Collections
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: Installation of climate control and fire suppression systems to preserve the material culture, library and archival collections that are stored and displayed in the historic houses relating to the life of Harriett Beecher Stowe, her family, and American society in the 19th century.
Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.: The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 2,700 embrittled volumes on American agricultural history and rural life published between 1820 and 1945 that are held by land grant university libraries in three states, and the selection of volumes for future filming by libraries in four other states.
Preserving the Mark Twain House Collections
Mark Twain House: The purchase of storage furniture, supplies to move and rehouse artifacts, and archival materials that are related to the life, literature, and times of Samuel Clemens (1835 to 1910).
Preserving the Past and Ensuring the Future
Alaska State Library and Archives, Juneau: The preservation assessment of 19th-century territorial and 20th-century statehood records of Alaska.
Providing Access to Collections Documenting the History of the American Steel Industry
Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland, Ohio: A collaborative effort among four libraries and eight regional and state historical societies to preserve and make intellectually accessible 3,100 linear feet of records on the American steel industry (including steel mills, coal mines, and iron ore operations) from the early 19th century to the 1970s.
Purchase Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Historic House Museum
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass.: Hiring a consultant and purchasing environmental monitoring equipment to preserve collections in a historic house that relates to the maritime history of Massachusetts.
Purchase Storage Furniture, Environmental Monitoring Equipment, and Preservation Materials
Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Plymouth, Mass.: The purchase of storage furniture, supplies, and environmental monitoring equipment to preserve archival records and artifacts related to the life and presidency of Calvin Coolidge.
Purchase Storage Furniture and Materials to Preserve Textile Collections
Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth, Mass.: Purchasing storage shelving and supplies to rehouse historic textiles from the New England area.
Reformatting Audio Materials of the Native American Language and Music Archives of the Berkeley Language Center
University of California, Berkeley: Digitization and enhanced cataloging of over 1,300 hours of linguistic sound recordings and associated transcriptions with field notes that contain samples of 107 American Indian languages in cultural context, such as music and stories. They will be available on the Berkeley Language Center website and CD-ROM copies.

Alexander Hamilton
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.: Production of a two-part television documentary on Alexander Hamilton, architect of a modern American economy, champion of a strong central government, and leader of one of the nation's first political parties.
Andrew Jackson: America at the Crossroads
Community Television of Southern California: Scripting of a three-hour television documentary series examining the life and times of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
Becoming Helen Keller
Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc.: Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film that would examine the life of Helen Keller.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Maryland Historical Society: Production of a two-hour documentary film on the life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820) and his contribution to the architecture of the new American Republic.
Coolness Under Fire: The Women War Correspondents of World War II
Women Make Movies, Inc.: Planning of a one-hour documentary film about American women war reporters of World War II.
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
Educational Broadcasting Corporation: Production of a 90-minute documentary film on Ernest Hemingway for broadcast on the American Masters television series.
Fight For Freedom
Close Up Foundation: Planning of a three-part documentary film on the participation of African American soldiers in the Civil War.
Forty-Five Words: A History of the First Amendment
Freedom Forum: Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film about James Madison and his role in the drafting and ratification of the Bill of Rights.
The Gold Rush
WGBH Educational Foundation: Production of a two-hour television documentary and interactive website on the California Gold Rush.
Hope and Healing: The Untold Story of the Ellis Island Hospital
Filmmaker's Collaborative: Scripting of a one-hour documentary film on the history of the Ellis Island Hospital from 1902 to 1930.
The Life and Times of Annie Oakley
Film/Video Arts, Inc.: Production of a 90-minute historical documentary film on the life and times of Wild West Show sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, and how her character represented the paradoxes of her country from the mid-1880s through the early 1900s.
Louisa May Alcott
Filmmakers Collaborative: Scripting of a 60-minute documentary film on the life of Louisa May Alcott, author of LITTLE WOMEN.
Prince Among Slaves
Unity Productions Foundation: Planning of a 90-minute film about Abdul Rahman bin Ibrahima Sori, an African prince who was captured in battle in 1787, sold into slavery, shipped to Mississippi, and, 40 years later, freed and sent back to Africa.
The War
GWETA, Inc.: Production of the first two episodes of a proposed ten-hour documentary television series about the American experience of World War II from 1941 to 1945.
The War That Made America
WQED: Production of a four-hour documentary film series on the French and Indian War, also known as the War of Conquest in Canada and the Seven Years' War in Europe (1754-63).
Washington, DC; The National City
Freedom Forum: Planning of a four-hour documentary film series on the history of Washington, D.C.
Way of the Warrior
University of Wisconsin Extension: Scripting of a one-hour documentary film exploring the role of the warrior in Native American communities and the high value they have historically placed on military service.

1629 Alden First House
Alden Kindred of America, Inc., Duxbury, Mass.: Consultation to plan the interpretation of a reconstruction of the house built in 1629 by John and Priscilla Alden near Plymouth, Mass.
Buffalo Bill Museum Reinterpretation and Reinstallation
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo.: Consultation with scholars, educators, and an historic building specialist to reinterpret the Buffalo Bill portion of the Center and to present Buffalo Bill as both a product of the West and a shaper of its image in popular consciousness.
From Miami to Metro: Architecture, Design & Urbanism at Mid Century
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Fla.: Planning for an exhibition and related programming to explore mid-20th-century Miami style in architecture and decorative arts.
Galveston Island: Immigrant Gateway to Texas and America
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas: Consultation for the research and planning for a traveling exhibition and accompanying programs exploring a century of immigration at Galveston, Texas.
The Golden Age of Cincinnati Advertising Poster Lithography Industry
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio: Consultation to plan a traveling exhibition with related public programs about the social history of the American circus and the growth of lithographic publishing in Cincinnati.
Linnaeus and America Exhibition Project
American Swedish Historical Foundation and Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.: Consultation for planning a traveling exhibition and associated programs exploring interactions between scientist Carl Linnaeus and the New World, including his impact on the formation of American identity.
A Place to Call Home: Northeastern Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad History
Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, Montrose, Pa.: Site visits and consultation with scholars to develop a traveling exhibition, online materials, and public programs interpreting Northeastern Pennsylvania's role in the Underground Railroad.
Rhythm of the Railroad
California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento: Consultation for the planning and research for an exhibition exploring the impact of railroads on music and of music on railroads.
Sailors Speak: Life Aboard Constitution in 1812
USS Constitution Museum, Boston, Mass.: Planning of a permanent multimedia exhibition with related public and school programs about the history of the USS Constitution's company and their service to a young nation's self image.
The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Interpretation Project
Star Spangled Banner Flag House Museum, Baltimore, Md.: Consultation for planning a reinterpretation of the Flag House and new exhibitions in an adjacent museum that would situate the house and its occupants in 1813 Baltimore.
Traveling El Camino Real: Caminando El Camino Real
Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe: Planning for a permanent exhibition and related public programs about the history of the road between Mexico City and Santa Fe, New Mexico, from prehistory to the present.

Harold Arlen Centenary 2005
Chicago Humanities Festival, Ill.: Planning for a film series, symposium, panel discussion, concert, and summer institute for teachers on the life and times of American composer Harold Arlen.

RESEARCH

After Theory: Criticism since the 1980s
Vincent Leitch, University of Oklahoma, Norman: A synthetic scholarly study of U.S. literary criticism since the 1980s.
Biography of Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Melvin Urofsky, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond: A biography of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, incorporating newly available primary and secondary sources.
The Color Line: A History of Race, the Law, and American Lives
Daniel J. Sharfstein, independent scholar, Cambridge, Mass.: A project examining cases of racial determination in Southern state courts between 1890 and 1930, and the lives affected by these court hearings.
The Exchange Artist: A Story of Paper, Bricks, and Ash in Early National America
Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.: An investigation into the development and destruction of the Boston Exchange Coffee House, from the perspective of the evolving notion of exchange in the early days of modern American money culture.
Gershwin: A Critical Biography
Howard Pollack, University of Houston, Texas: The first draft of a comprehensive critical biography on George Gershwin, incorporating an analysis of American society and the musical comedy in terms of musical text, art commerce, and concepts of ethnicity and nationalism.
The Heirs of Jacques Clamorgan, 1780-1930: An American Family's Encounter with Race
Julie Winch, University of Massachusetts, Boston: An investigation into the changing nature of racial classification and American identity through a study of the descendents of Jacques Clamorgan.
The Life and Times of John Ledyard, the American Traveler Who Crossed Oceans and Empires
Edward Gray, Florida State University, Tallahassee: A social history of the Anglo-American empire and a biography of explorer John Ledyard.
Mary Pickford
Christel Schmidt, independent scholar, Washington, D.C.: A study of the films of Mary Pickford in the moving image archives in the U.S. and Europe.
Mourning Dove: Her Life, Letters, and Translations of 37 Salish Narratives
Alanna Brown, Montana State University, Bozeman: A biography of Native American Salish author Mourning Dove, including studies in the social history and literary culture of America, Native Americans, and the inland Northwest Territories.
Northern Sierra Miwok Oral Literature and History
Suzanne Wash, independent scholar, Davis, Calif.: Production of published text and audio CDs documenting Northern Sierra Miwok; includes transcription, interlinear analysis and line-by-line translation of 533 oral narratives.
The Republicanism of James Madison: the Authority of Public Opinion
Colleen Sheehan, Villanova University, Villanova, Pa.: Madison's political thought and conception of republicanism, examined through the study of his 1790s writings, his theory of the politics of public opinion, and the late eighteenth-century French writings from which Madison formulated this theory.
Revolutionary America's Declaration of Independence: The Nature of Rights at the Founding
Barry Shain, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y.: Exploring the development of human rights in eighteenth-century America, through historical, political, abstract and metaphysical discourse and the political thought of the American authors of the Declaration of Independence and early modern European theorists.
Women Patriots: The Rise of Conservatism and the Transformation of Women's Politics
Kirsten Delegard, Duke University, Durham, N.C.: An investigation of the first broad-based movement of conservative women in American history, examining when and how conservative women emerged as a political force altering American politics.

History of Navajo Peacemaking
Sondra Leftoff, CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College, New York, N.Y.: A study of the history of Navajo peacemaking during the period of colonization and as it has developed during the postcolonial period.
Retrieval, Validation and Protection of Historical Records of Rocky Boy's Chippewa Cree
Matthew Herman, Stone Child College, Box Elder, Mont.: The validation, verification and enhancement of the Stone Child College archives of U.S. and Canadian historical records, involving review by tribal elders of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation.
Retrieval, Validation and Protection of Historical Records of Rocky Boy's Chippewa Cree
Robert Murie, Stone Child College, Box Elder, Mont.: The validation, verification and enhancement of the Stone Child College archives of U.S. and Canadian historical records, involving review by tribal elders of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation.

Scholarly Editions Grants

The Charles Carroll of Carrollton Family Papers
College of William and Mary: Work on the final three volumes of a six-volume edition of the papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
A Critical Edition of an Early African-American Musical
Schenbeck, Rosalyn P.: Preparation of a critical edition of the complete musical score, script, instrumental and vocal performance parts, and description of dances in the influential African-American Broadway musical production "Shuffle Along."
John Dewey Project
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: Preparation of supplemental volumes to the Correspondence and Collected Works of John Dewey.
The Memoires of Dumont de Montigny: Empire and Misadventure in Colonial Louisiana, 1715-1747
Newberry Library
Preparation of a scholarly edition of the 1747 manuscript of Jean Fran�ois Benjamin Dumont de Montigny's narrative of colonial Qu�bec and Louisiana
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
llinois Historic Preservation Agency: Early stages of preparation for an electronic edition of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln.
The Papers of Andrew Jackson
University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Completion of volume 7 and initial work on volume 8 of a 17-volume selective edition of the papers of Andrew Jackson.
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Rutgers University, New Brunswick: Completion of volume 5 of a selective six-volume print edition of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
The Papers of George Washington
University of Virginia: Scholarly work on 12 volumes of the letterpress edition of the Papers of George Washington: volumes 15-20 of the Revolutionary War series, volumes 13-16 of the Presidential series, and volumes 1-2 of the Financial Papers series.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Princeton University: Scholarly work on volumes 32-35 of the multi-volume edition of the Thomas Jefferson Papers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Cultural Text University of Virginia: Research and digitization of materials related to the publication and cultural reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Awakenings: The First Generation of American Evangelical Christianity
Thomas Kidd, Baylor University, Waco, Texas: Research on the "First Great Awakening" and American evangelical Christianity during the eighteenth-century.
Being Tolerated: Dutch America and the English, 1618-1715
Evan Haefeli, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.: A study of the practice and experience of religious toleration in the Dutch, English, Swedish and German colonies, tracing the impulse for toleration and the religious pluralism of the American middle colonies.
"Cato" Revealed: John Williams and the Ratification Controversy In New York, 1787-88
Joel Johnson, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D.: A proposition justifying John Williams as the anonymous Anti-Federalist author of the "Cato" letters.
Classics, Controversy and the Masses: Orson Welles on the Radio
Marguerite Rippy, Marymount University, Arlington, Va.: An examination of Orson Welles' 1938 radio plays as cultural conversation, evidence of an aesthetic bridge between his work in theater and film, and a display of the roots of his cinematic narratives.
Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana": A Critical Edition
Harry Maddux, Tennessee State University, Nashville: The production of a critical edition of Coton Mather's "Biblia Americana," with source notes and an introduction of Mather's commentaries on Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job and the Psalms.
The Creation of American Federalism, 1765-1787
Howard Lubert James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.: An investigation of the historical, theoretical and institutional foundations of the 1787 Constitution through a study of the creation of constitutional federalism as a form of government during the years surrounding the American War of Independence.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Later Public Architecture, 1938-1959
Joseph Siry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.: Scholarly history and analysis that treats the commissioning clients, the processes of design and construction, and critical assessments of the completed architecture, in relation to its regional or urban cultural history.
Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1830
Laura Kamoie, American University, Washington, D.C.: An investigation of the agricultural, industrial and commercial activities of three generations of the Tayloe family of Northern Virginia between 1700 and 1830, illuminating the changing society and economy of Virginia gentry.
"Literary Fellows": James Weldon Johnson and Brander Matthews
Tess Chakkalakal, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.: An examination of Johnson's connection to Matthews ideas on literature and their importance in shaping the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
The Moral Economies of American Authorship, 1830-1870
Susan Ryan, University of Louisville, Ky.: An investigation of the idea of authorship in the nineteenth-century through the interdependence of two phenomena: the professionalization of authorship and the widespread interest in the moral character of individual writers.
New Families, New Cultures, New Identities: Changing U.S. Family Formations through Adoption from China
Andrea Louie, Michigan State University, East Lansing: An examination of the changing diversity and cultural life of America as evidenced by a study of multi-racial and multi-cultural families who have adopted from China.
On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams
James Davis, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.: A collection of some of the most significant passages from Roger Williams' writings on freedom of conscience, including an interpretive framework and historical evidence for his importance to discussions of religious freedom in American history and today.
Redefining America: Whitman, Dickinson, and Their Dictionaries
Jed Deppman, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio: A study addressing the question of how major creative artists negotiate with the authoritative words and concepts of their surrounding culture, through a comparison of how Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson read and interpreted their dictionaries.
Searching for Hannah Crafts: Kate Wheeler Cooper and the First Novel by an African-American Woman
Gregg Hecimovich, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.: An investigation into the identity of Hannah Crafts through the holdings of East Carolina University's Kate Wheeler Cooper Collection.
The South Carolina Scalawags in the Post-Civil War South
Hyman Rubin, III, Columbia College, Columbia, S.C.: The story of the Reconstruction through the backgrounds, actions and fates of South Carolina Scalawags.
The Union Home Front: Putnam County, Indiana in the Civil War Era
Nicole Etcheson, University of Texas, El Paso: A community study of Putnam County, Indiana during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, following the experience of residents through the war and measuring their reactions to war, emancipation, Reconstruction and nationhood.