April 30, 2010 – On March 29, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced $16 million in grant awards and offers for 286 humanities projects. The funding will support a variety of projects, including traveling exhibitions, research fellowships, production and development of films, documentation of endangered languages, the development and staging of major exhibitions, digital tools, and the preservation of and access to historic collections.
According to the agency’s press release, this round of grants showcases the reach of the Endowment’s projects. Among the grants announced are those that will bring the traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and related programs to small towns in Tennessee, South Dakota, and Wyoming, while museums in Utah, Illinois, California, and Maryland will be mounting major exhibitions. New documentaries, on topics ranging from Susan Sontag to Prohibition to slavery, are heading for public television in the near future as well. Other grants will allow scholars to sift through and also digitize archives.
Additional information about the grants is available
here.
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