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NEH-87-046-N
N ational Endow m ent fo r
the H um anities
P ublic A ffairs O ffice
M edia Relations
1100 Pennsylvania A venue, N .W .
W ashington, D .C . 20506
(202) 786-0449
Contact:
John McGrath
202/786-0449 (office)
703/525-9478 (home)
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA
Members Will Visit "Miracle at Philadelphia," Other NEH-Funded Projects
WASHINGTON, July 13 —
The National Council on the Humanities, the
advisory body of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will
commemorate the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution by convening its next
quarterly meeting in Philadelphia, August 5-7.
"Traveling to the city in this time of Bicentennial celebration will
allow Council members to see firsthand some NEH constitutional projects and
other NEH-supported programs," said Endowment Chairman Lynne V. Cheney.
"The Endowment is supporting excellent work by a number of Philadelphia
institutions and scholars."
The Friday, August 7, session of the Council's meeting will be held at
Independence National Historical Park, in the historic Second National Bank
building, which houses "Miracle at Philadelphia," an exhibition
interpreting the framing of the Constitution on display.
NEH has supported
the exhibition with grants totaling $540,000.
On the afternoon of Thursday, August 6, the Council's preservation
committee will meet at the American Philosophical Society and will tour its
new conservation laboratory.
The Society received a challenge grant of
$175,000 from NEH to provide a climate control system for its archival
library.
The National Council is a 26-member body appointed by the President to
advise the NEH chairman on policy matters and to make recommendations on
grant applications.
The Council meetings, usually held in Washington,
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July 13, 1987
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comprise both public sessions for discussing general business and policy,
and closed sessions, which are confidential, to consider grant applications.
On Thursday, August 6, various committees of the Council will meet in
public session from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. at the Sheraton Society Hill
Hotel.
That same day, the preservation committee will meet in public from
3:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the American Philosophical Society.
On Friday, August
7, the full Council meets at the Second National Bank building, and the
public session will run from 9:00 to 10:40 a.m.
In the past five years, the Endowment has provided grants of almost $4
million to individuals and institutions in Philadelphia for conferences,
seminars, and other projects on the U.S. Constitution and on the Founding
Period.
Nationwide, NEH has awarded more than $22 million for such
projects since 1982.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal
agency that supports research, scholarship, education and public programs
in the humanities.
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EDITORS AND WRITERS, PLEASE NOTE:
Attached is a list of NEH grants
awarded since 1982 to Philadelphia institutions and individuals for
projects on the U.S. Constitution and the Founding Period.
A list of all
current NEH-sponsored projects in Philadelphia is available by request from
the NEH Media Relations Office.
the H um anities
Public A ffairs O ffice
M edia Relations
(202) 786-0449
NEH-87-046-F
NEH GRANTS FOR PROJECTS ON THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND FOUNDING PERIOD
Philadelphia, Pa.
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$1,243,557.00
PROJ.DIR.: Martha B. Montgomery
APPROVED MATCH
$1,033,000.00
Philadelphia, PA 19108
S0-20234-82 (State Programs)
(215) 925-1005
PROJECT TITLE: Study Groups on "The Constitution: Our Written Legacy"
PATHS
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$300,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Judith F. Hodgson
APPROVED MATCH
$95,417.00
ES-21338-86 (Education Programs)
(215) 665-1400
PROJECT TITLE: Exploring the City, Understanding the Nation: American
History through the Philadelphia Experience
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
To support a three-year collaborative project between PATHS and the Philadel
phia School system. The project is designed to improve the teaching of American
history in grades 5, 8, and 11. Teams of two teachers from 90 schools will
attend six summer institutes, working with principals and humanities scholars.
Friends of Independence Nat'l Hist. Park
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$250,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Margaret P. Duckett
APPROVED MATCH
$275,000.00
GM-22425-85 (General Programs)
(215) 597-7919
PROJECT TITLE: Miracle at Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention
Bicentennial Exhibition
To support implementation of an exhibition interpreting conceptual themes
from the periods before, during, and after the Constitutional Convention.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$155,020.00
PROJ.DIR.: Florence M. Zeller
GB-20127-87 (General Programs)
(215) 649-8019
PROJECT TITLE: "The Blessings of Liberty": Exhibits, Lectures and Study
Groups Commemorating the Bicentennial
To support distribution of a poster exhibit and organization of lectures and
reading and discussion groups in seven states.
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July 13, 1987
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Springside School
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$141,265.00
PROJ.DIR.: Eleanor W. Kingsbury
APPROVED MATCH
$31,066.00
(215) 247-7200
PROJECT TITLE: Scotland, The Enlightenment, and the American Republic
To support a summer institute on "Scotland, the Enlightenment, and the American
Republic" for 40 secondary school teachers of American and European history.
Participants will spend three weeks on the Princeton University campus and
two weeks on the campus of the St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Temple University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$120,868.00
PROJ.DIR.: Daniel J. Elazar
(215) 787-7784
PROJECT TITLE: Classic Works of American Federal Democracy: How Secondary
School Teachers Can Use Classic Works of Federalism in Teaching
American Government
To support a four-week institute with follow-up activities on American Feder
alism for 35 social studies teachers.
Temple University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$96,500.00
PROJ.DIR.: Daniel J. Elazar
(215) 787-1480
PROJECT TITLE: Publius, de Tocqueville & Civic Education: How Secondary
School Teachers Can Use Classic Works of Federalism in Teaching
American Government
To support a four-week summer institute for 30 secondary school teachers on
federalism and the American government.
Temple University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$75,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Ellis Katz
GB-20093-86 (General Programs)
(215) 787-1480
PROJECT TITLE: State Constitutional Law in the Third Century of American
Federalism: New Developments and Possibilities
To support research on American federalism and a three-day public conference in
1987 on state constitutional law with the participation of scholars in history,
law, and political science; justices from state supreme courts; foreign jurists
and scholars; and selected others. The proceedings will be published.
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July 13, 1987
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University of Pennsylvania
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$55,336.00
PROJ.DIR.: Richard R. Beeman
FV-20423-85 (Fellowship Programs)
(215) 898-3487
PROJECT TITLE: The Making of the Constitution
To support a summer seminar for secondary school teachers on the
topic of "The Making of the American Constitution," focussing on
three central texts: Madison’s Notes on the Federal Convention, the Federalist
papers, and Jonathon Elliot's Debates on the Ratification of the Constitution.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$10,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Richard R. Beeman
APPROVED MATCH
$12,200.00
RX-20469-84 (Research Programs)
(215) 898-3487
PROJECT TITLE: A Conference on "The Creation of the American Constitution"
To support a conference on the creation of the American Constitution for legal
scholars, historians, and political scientists sponsored by the Philadelphia
Center for Early American Studies, the American Philosophical Society, and the
Institute of Early American History.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$15,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Margaret P. Duckett
GM-21834-84 (General Programs)
(215) 597-7919
PROJECT TITLE: Becoming a Nation: The Creation of the Constitution
(Planning)
To support the planning of an exhibition "Becoming a Nation," commemorating the
Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$12,255.00
PROJ.DIR.: Elizabeth F. Flower
GP-20487-82 (General Programs)
(215) 243-8564
PROJECT TITLE: The American Constitution: Retrospect and Prospect
To support a major conference to plan a series of public programs on the
background and drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the tasks to which it was
addressed, its impact on the 19th and 20th centuries, and its role with respect
to contemporary problems.
Friends Free Library
APPROVED MATCH
$500.00
PROJ.DIR.: Helen M. Eigabroadt
GC-20608-87 (General Programs)
(215) 438-6023
PROJECT TITLE: Books for Bicentennial Bookshelf
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NEH-87-047-N
Contact:
the H um anities
Public A ffairs O ffice
M edia Relations
(202) 786-0449
John McGrath
202/786-0449 (Office)
703/525-9478 (Home)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT AWARDS MORE THAN $15.7 MILLION
TO AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
WASHINGTON, July 28 — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has
awarded more than $15.7 million in new grants, .for-education., ..preservation and
research projects in history, literature, philosophy and other humanities
disciplines, NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney announced today.
A total of 357 new outright and matching grants were awarded to
individuals, institutions and organizations in 47 states and the District of
Columbia.
NEH has awarded new grants in your area.
these grants arranged by city and state.
Enclosed is a complete list of
(Grants to museums and historical
organizations for this quarter will be announced in a separate release.)
"These awards reflect NEH's commitment to support outstanding projects
that promote greater understanding and appreciation of the humanities.
They
offer opportunities for Americans to learn about the diverse cultural
resources of the United States and the world," Mrs. Cheney said.
The new projects include individual and institutional research, education
institutes for elementary and secondary teachers and newspaper preservation
programs.
At Auburn University in Alabama, for example, 45 secondary school teachers
from around the country will participate in a four-week institute on "Literary
Criticism and Literature for Teachers."
They will study the basic principles
of literary criticism in order to understand how the critics' questions can
assist them in interpreting, evaluating and teaching literature.
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July 28, 1987
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"Improving the Teaching of History at Liberal Arts Colleges," a three-day
conference sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest in Chicago,
will allow historians from 25 liberal arts institutions to address the role of
history in the liberal arts curriculum in response to new developments in the
discipline.
With new "Travel to Collection" grants in the Fellowships Program, 224
scholars will be visiting various research collections that are of fundamental
importance to their research.
Their projects reflect a wide array of
humanities topics, such as "English Music in the Age of Chaucer," "Woodrow
Wilson and the League of Nations" and "Collected Stories of Four Chinese
Novelists, 1937-1945."
The NEH-funded U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP) is a long-range coordinated
effort to locate and preserve millions of newspapers and to catalog in a
national database an estimated 250,000 newspaper titles published in this
country from 1690 to the present.
Two states, Missouri and North Dakota, have
now joined USNP, raising the participation in this national program to 27
states and two territories.
Grants also were made to USNP projects already
established in Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas and Washington
state.
These states will begin cataloging titles and microfilming
deteriorating copies now held in state repositories.
Other institutions and organizations will be involved in making various
historical resources more accessible.
The Vermont Historical Society will be
organizing and cataloging its collection of 7,500 early American newspapers
and other items.
Institutions in Connecticut, Missouri, Pennsylvania and
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July 28, 1987
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Wisconsin received grants to support the organization and cataloging of
records important for the history of American business, a field of growing
scholarly interest.
The National Endowment for the Humanities was established in 1965 as an
independent federal grant-making agency to promote progress and scholarship
the humanities.
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EDITORS AND WRITERS PLEASE NOTE: A list of May 1987 NEH grants to
individuals, institutions and organizations in your state is enclosed.
Projects are arranged alphabetically by city.
the H um anities
P ublic A ffairs O ffice
M edia Relations
(202) 786-0449
NEH-87-047-F
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Programs Awarding July 1987 Grants
The Endowment provides three types of funding for programs in the divisions
listed below: federal matching funds, outright funds and a combination of the
two.
- Matching funds are awarded on a one-to-one basis. The applicant must
raise the matching amount in the form of cash,, goods or services from
non-federal sources.
- Outright NEH grants are not contingent on the applicants' raising monies
for the project.
Division of Education Programs
This division provides funds for projects designed to improve education in
the humanities at elementary and secondary schools, and two- and four-year
colleges and universities. NEH also offers grants for projects in humanities
education to academic and professional associations and other educational
institutions.
V ...
Division of Fellowships and Seminars
Through one of this division's programs, NEH provides support for scholars
to travel to research collections housed in libraries, archives, museums and
other repositories that are of fundamental importance to their research.
Office of Preservation
The Endowment established this office to support projects that address the
problem of physical deterioration of significant humanities materials.
Projects often focus on preservation of books and newspapers, but may also
involve preservation of other media such as journals, manuscripts, documents,
maps, drawings, plans and photographs.
Division of Research Programs
Through several of its programs, this division supports projects that
result in publication of reference works, authoritative editions or collections
of significant value to the humanities. It also administers grants for
original research in all fields of the humanities.
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NEH-87-04 7-L
July 1987 Grants and Offers for
Education, Preservation, Research and Travel to Collections Projects
ALABAMA
A u bu rn :
Auburn University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$320,424.00
Auburn U n i v . , AL 36849
PROJ.DIR.: A. Douglas Alley
PROJECT TITLE: Literary Criticism and Literature for Teachers
To support a four-week institute for 45 secondary school English teachers who
will study the principles of literary criticism and apply them to a select
number of literary works.
Tuscaloosa:
Hank A. Lazer
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Alabama State University
PROJECT TITLE: Writing at the Boundaries:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
FE-21465-87 (Travel to Collections)
American Poetry in the Eighties
Margaret F. Stieg
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Tuscaloosa, AL 3.5487
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
PROJECT TITLE: Public Libraries in Vienna since 1914
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NEH-8 7-04 7-L
CALIFORNIA
Berkeley/San Francisco A r e a ;
INSTITUTIONS:
Graduate Theological Union
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$300,784.00
Berkeley, CA 94709
EH-20665-87 (Education Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: Mark K. Juergensmeyer
PROJECT TITLE: Berkeley/Chicago/Harvard Institutes in the Study of Religion,
Phase 2
To support the second phase of a collaborative project with Harvard University
and the University of Chicago on the role of religious studies in the liberal
arts and general education curricula.
University of California, Berkeley
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
i;200, 000 .00
Berkeley, CA 94720
APPROVED MATCH
$100,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: David G. Johnson
RG-21440-87 (Research Programs)
PROJECT TITLE: Project on Traditional Chinese Popular Culture
To support an interdisciplinary project to open up the field of Chinese popular
culture studies, focusing on regional opera and local cults, and c o m p r i s i n g a
colloguium, workshops, source materials, and publication of a sourcebook.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$147,000.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
RT-20789-87 (Research Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: James A. Matisoff
PROJECT TITLE: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
To support preparation of an etymological dictionary and thesaurus of the SinoTibetan languages.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$75,450.00
Berkeley, CA 94704
RC-21320-87 (Research Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: James H. Marrow
PROJECT TITLE: A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Dutch Illustrated
Manuscripts of the 14th-16th Centuries
To support research necessary for an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of
200 illuminated manuscripts written in the Netherlands and lower Rhineland
during the late Middle Ages. The work will supersede an earlier catalogue.
♦Stanford University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$170,000.00
Stanford, CA 94305
PROJ.DIR.: Rachel Jacoff
PROJECT TITLE: The Dante Institute
To support a six-week institute providing textual and background study of the
Divine Comedy for nonspecialist undergraduate teachers of Dante.
*This grant was announced during the Chairman's visit to Stanford University on
May 30, 1987.
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CALIFORNIA
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Berkeley/San Francisco Area (continued):
♦Stanford University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$110,000.00
Stanford, CA 94305
PROJ.DIR.: Barbara Gelpi
PROJECT TITLE: British Women's Autobiographies, 1790-1950
To support preparation of an annotated bibliography of British women's
autobiographies that were written or published between 1790 and 1950.
INDIVIDUALS:
Camille 0. Guerin-Gonzales
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Riverside, CA 92507
FE-21327-87 (Travel to Collections;
PROJECT TITLE: Mexican Immigrant Workers in California Agriculture, 1942-80
Robert C. Knapp
Oakland, CA 94618
PROJECT TITLE: Ancient N e m e a : Its
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Coins and Their Evidence
Claremont:
$750.00
Karen M. Hult
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21383-87 (Travel to Collections
Claremont, CA 91711
Pomona College
PROJECT TITLE: Governing the White House : The Presidency as an Organization
from the Hoover Administration to the Present
$750.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Nivia Montenegro
FE-21734-8 7 (Travel to Collections
Claremont, CA 91711
Pomona College
PROJECT TITLE: The Subversion of Fiction in the Works of Guillermo Cabrera
Infante
"$750.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Beverly W. Palmer
Collections
FE-21514-87
(Travel
to
Claremont, CA 91711
Pomona college
PROJECT TITLE: The Correspondence of Charles Sumner
*This grant was announced during the Chairman's visit to Stanford University on
May 30, 1987.
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CALIFORNIA
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Irvine;
University of California, Irvine
APPROVED MATCH
$353,874.00
Irvine, CA 92717
PROJ.DIR.: Theodore F. Brunner
PROJECT TITLE: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Data Bank Expansion
(Byzantine Period)
To support expansion of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae data bank to cover the
addition of late Greek and Byzantine texts and scholia.
Long B e a c h :
Roberta H. Markman
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
California State University, Long Beach
PROJECT TITLE: Mesoamerican Mythology:
A Thematic Study
Los A n g e l e s :
INSTITUTIONS:
Academy Foundation
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$85,884.00
Los Angeles, CA 90211
PS-20140-87 (Preservation Programs
PROJ.DIR.: Linda H. Mehr
PROJECT TITLE: The History of Motion Pictures
To complete microfilming the. Academy Foundation Library's Production and
Biography files documenting the history of motion pictures since 1896.
African Studies Association
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$19,208.00
PROJ.DIR.: Joseph J. Lauer
PROJECT TITLE: Africana Theses Bibliography, 1974-87
To support the preparation of a bibliography of post-1974 American and Canadian
doctoral dissertations and masters' theses about Africa, which supplements an
earlier work covering-1886-1974.
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Los Angeles Public Library
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$54,856.00
APPROVED MATCH
$27,428.00
PROJ.DIR.: Carolyn Kozo
v
PROJECT TITLE: Catalogue of Photographic Negatives
To support cataloguing and preservation of 15,000 negatives from the library's
collection of Southern California photographs of the 1920s and 30s. A catalogue
will be produced for reference use.
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CALIFORNIA
(continued)
Los Angeles (continued):
University of California, Los Angeles
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$41,997.00
PROJ.DIR.: Kathryn K. Sklar
PROJECT TITLE: Conference to Improve Graduate Teaching in U.S. Women's History
To support a conference on graduate training in the history of American women.
INDIVIDUALS:
Daniel N. Crecelius
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
California State Univ., Los Angeles
PROJECT TITLE: Translation and Annotation of Ahmad Katkhuda Azaban's History
of Egypt
Wolf Leslau
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Handbook of the Semitic Ethiopian Languages
To support completion of a handbook of the Semitic Ethiopian languages that
will include grammatical
outlines of eight languages and their dialects.
Andrew F. Rolle
Occidental College
PROJECT TITLE: The Explorer:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
John C. Fremont
Errol W. Stevens
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Los Angeles Co. Museum of Nat'l Hist.
PROJECT TITLE: A History of the Mapping of the West Coast of North America
Julie C. Van Camp
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
California State U n i v . , Los Angeles
PROJECT TITLE: Copyright Infringement Principles and the Identity of Works of
Art in Dance
San D i e g o :
Robert E. Eisner
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
La Jolla, CA 92037
San Diego State University
PROJECT TITLE: The History and Literature, of Travel to Greece
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Education,
Preservation, Research and Travel to Collections Projects
CALIFORNIA
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San Diego (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Paul J. Vanderwood
FE-21191-87
(Travel
to
Collections
San Diego, CA 92182
PROJECT TITLE: Doing Business during Mexico's Revolution
San Jose:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
James P. Walsh
San Jose, CA 95192
San Jose State University
PROJECT TITLE: Family Background of James D. Phelan:
A Builder of California
San M a r i n o :
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery APPROVED OUTRIGHT
467,500.00
San Marino, CA 91108
APPROVED MATCH
$15,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Martin Ridge
RA-20027-87 (Research Programs)
PROJECT TITLE: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Huntington Library
Santa Barbar a:
University of California, Santa Barbara
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$83,766.00
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
PROJ.DIR.: Charles N. Li
PROJECT TITLE: A Functional Reference Grammar of Hmong
To support the preparation of a functional reference grammar of the Hmong
language.
John E. Gillespie
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
PROJECT TITLE: Investigation and Evaluation of Early Piano Discography
Stockton:
<sArle'n J. Hansen
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750 .00
Stockton, CA 95207
University of the Pacific
PROJECT TITLE: Black American Expatriates in Paris During the Twenties
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Education,
COLORADO
Boulder:
University of Colorado, Boulder
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$74,810.00
Boulder, CO 80309
APPROVED MATCH
$5,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Allan Taylor
PROJECT TITLE: Gros Ventre Dictionary
To support completion of a dictionary of Gros Ventre (or Atsi n a ) , a native
American language of the Algonquian family spoken on the western Great Plains.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$38,517.00
Boulder, CO 80309
PROJ.DIR.: Lawrence G. Desmond
PROJECT TITLE: Catalogue of the Photographs and Tracings of Augustus Le
Plongeon
To support the preparation of a catalogue of photographs and tracings made by
Augustus Le Plongeon in the 1870s and 1880s of Mayan archaeological sites in
Yucatan, Mexico, and in Eelize.
Pueblo:
David A. Sandoval
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Pueblo, CO 81001
University of Southern Colorado
PROJECT TITLE: Mexican Merchants on the Santa Fe Trail
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
CONNECTICUT
Essex:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
M. Dorothy Schneider
Essex, CT 06426
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: American Women in Europe in World War I
Hamden:
Allen Forte
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Hamden, CT 06517
Yale University, New Haven
PROJECT TITLE: Igor Stravinsky's Compositional Sketches
Middletown:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Peter Allen Mark
Middletown, CT 06457
Wesleyan University
PROJECT TITLE: West African Woven-Fiber Initiation Masks
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
John J. Rider
FE - 21611-87 (Travel to Collections
Middletown, CT 06457
Wesleyan University
PROJECT TITLE: An Edition of Galbert of Bruges' The Murder of Charles the Gooc:
New H a v e n :
Human Relations Area Files, Inc. •
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$40,000.00
New Haven, CT 06520
PROJ.DIR.: Timothy J. O'Leary
PROJECT TITLE: A Supplement to the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America
To support the production of a supplement to the fourth edition of the
Ethnographic Bibliography of North America, the standard bibliographic resource
on Eskimos and North American Indians.
Yale University
.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$152,128.00
New Haven, CT 06520
PROJ.DIR.: Duncan Robinson
PROJECT TITLE: Culture and Society in Victorian Britain
To support an institute on culture and society in Victorian Britain.
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CONNECTICUT
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Sto r r s :
University of Connecticut
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$83,390.00
Storrs, CT 06268
APPROVED MATCH
$5,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Randall C. Jimerson
PROJECT TITLE: New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Records Project
To support the appraisal, accessioning, sampling, arrangement, and description
of 2,500 cubic feet of records of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
Railroads.
The collection will be available for research.
George F. Butterick
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Storrs, CT 06268
PROJECT TITLE: The Correspondence Between Charles Olson and Robert Creeley,
1950-70.
NEH-87-047-L
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOP THE HUMANITIES
DELAWARE
Wilmi n g t o n ;
Hagley Museum and Library
APPROVED MATCH
$88,300.00
Wilmington, DE 19807
PROJ.DIR.: Glenn Porter
PROJECT TITLE: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Hagley Library
To support postdoctoral fellowships in business, economic, and technological
history.
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NEH-8 7-04 7-L
Education,
'
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
INSTITUTIONS:
Am. Inst, for Consv. of His./Artistic Works APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$56,785.00
Washington, DC 20560
PS-20131-87 (Preservation Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: Ann B. Craddock
PROJECT TITLE: Paper Conservation Catalog
To support an expanded version of the Paper Conservation Catalog, a reference
manual which provides information on conservation treatments and associated
subjects relating to historical and art materials on paper.
American University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$49,997.00
RO-21419-87 (Research Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: Alan M. Kraut
PROJECT TITLE: The History of Immigration, 1880-1940
To support a study of the history of immigration to the United States from 1880
to 1940.
Folger Shakespeare Library
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$44,200.00
PROJ.DIR.: Werner L. Gundersheimer
PROJECT TITLE: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Folger Library
INDIVIDUALS:
Toby A. Appel
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MD
PROJECT TITLE: A History of the Role of Physiolog'y Courses in Women's Colleges:
1837-1940
Bettye T. Chambers
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$34,902.00
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Bibliography of French Bibles, 17th-Century Editions
To support the compilation of a bibliography of all French-language editions of
the Bible published i*n 1600-99.
It will continue the applicant's previously
published bibliography covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
# # #
NEH-8 7-04 7-L
Education,
FLORIDA
Gainesville;
Robert J. McMahon
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Gainesville, FL 32611
University of Florida
PROJECT TITLE: U.S. Relations with India and Pakistan, 1947-65
Cheryl1 A. Cody
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
PROJECT TITLE: Antebellum Marriage and Inheritance among South Carolina's
Planter Elite
# # #
NEH-87-047-L
GEORGIA
At he n s :
University of Georgia
APPROVED OUTRIGHT $417,441.00
Athens, GA 30602
APPROVED MATCH
$50,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Barry B. Baker
PROJECT TITLE: Georgia Newspaper Project:
Cataloguing and Microfilming
To support cataloguing of 3,900 newspaper titles held in Georgia repositories
and microfilming of 630 titles in urgent need of preservation, as part of the
U.S. Newspaper Program.
$750.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Claudette R. Mainzer
Collect
ions
FE-21281-87
(Travel
to
Athens, GA 30606
University of -Georgia
PROJECT TITLE: A Reevaluation of Courbet's Oeuvre during the 1860s
Augusta:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
William C. Peden
Augusta, GA 30904
Augusta College
PROJECT TITLE: Research Contributions of F . E. Abbot and W . J . Potter to
American Philosophy
Marie t t a :
$750.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
John S. Gentile
FE - 21322-87 (Travel to Collections
Marietta, GA 30061
Kennesaw College
PROJECT TITLE: A History of the One-Person Show in American Theater
Statesboro:
$750.00
Ronald C. Finucane
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Statesboro, GA 30460
Georgia Southern College
PROJECT TITLE: The Decanonization of Medieval English Saints
# # #
NEH-8 7-04 7-L
Education,
HAWAII
INSTITUTIONS:
East-West Center
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$91,829.00
Honolulu, HI 96848
PROJ.DIR.: Geoffrey M. White
PROJECT TITLE: Cultural Encounters in the Pacific War:
Text and History
To support a study of the impact of World War II on Pacific islanders based on
written and oral sources and focusing on the continuing significance of the
cultural encounters between the islanders and American soldiers.
University of Hawaii at Manoa
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$134,700.00
Honolulu, HI 96822
APPROVED MATCH
$10,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Donald M. Topping
PROJECT TITLE: Salish Lexicography
To support completion of a dictionary of Tillamook, a native American language
of the Pacific Northwest Salish family.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
S99, 913.00
Honolulu, HI 96822
APPROVED MATCH
$40,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Rachel Laudan
RH-20831-87 (Research Programs)
PROJECT TITLE: The Image of Science in Histories of Science, JL750-1S14
To support a study of the changing views of science and its role in society as
evidenced by histories of science, most of which were written by scientists
from 1750 to 1914.
INDIVIDUAL:
Mary-Eli sabeth F. Tobin
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750 .00
Honolulu, HI 96822
PROJECT TITLE: Ladies Magazines and the Ideology of Domesticity in England,
1770-1835
# # #
NEH-87-047-L
IDAHO
Bo is e ;
Michael P. Zirinsky
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Boise, ID 83702
Boise State University
PROJECT TITLE: History of the Iranian Missions of the American Presbyterian
Church
Pocatello;
Allan Christelow
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Pocatello, ID 83209
Idaho State University
PROJECT TITLE: The French North African Expedition to the Hijaz, 1916.
# # #
NEH-8 7-04 7-L
Education,
ILLINOIS
Carbondale:
James H. Seroka
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Carbondale, IL 62901
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
PROJECT TITLE: Public Administration of Economic Stabilization Policy in
the Yugoslav Commune
Charleston:
Andrea L. Bonnicksen
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Charleston, IL 61920
Eastern Illinois University
PROJECT TITLE: Ethics in Action:
Making Medical Decisions About In Vitro
Fertilization Programs
Chatham:
Deborah K. McGregor
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chatham, IL 62629
Sangamon State University, Springfield
PROJECT TITLE: J. Marion Sims, 1813-83, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Chicag o:
INSTITUTIONS :
♦American Theological Library Association
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$114,749.00
Chicago, IL 60637
APPROVED MATCH
$10,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Erica Treesh
PROJECT TITLE: Religion Index II:
Multi-Author Works, 1976-80
To support the compilation of a retrospective index to Religion Index II,
covering multiauthor works in religion and related fields published from 1976
to 1980.
The work will be published in two volumes and will be available in
the association's religion data base.
♦Associated Colleges of the Midwest
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$58,399.00
Chicago, IL 60603
PROJ.DIR.: Elizabeth R. Hayford
PROJECT TITLE: Improving the Teaching of History at Liberal Arts Colleges
To support a three-day conference at the Newberry Library on the teaching of
history to undergraduates.
♦ These grants were announced during the Chairman's visit to Chicago on
July 16, 1987.
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Education,
ILLINOIS (continued)
Chicago (continued):
♦Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$30,000.00
Chicago, IL 60615
. RT-20831-87 (Research Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: Arthur Voobus
PROJECT TITLE: Research Tools for Manuscript Sources in Syriac
To support continuing work on the preparation of research tools and reference
works on manuscript sources for the history of the culture of the Syrian Orient.
♦Newberry Library
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$292,139.00
Chicago, IL 60610
PROJ.DIR.: David J. Buisseret
PROJECT TITLE: Transatlantic Encounters:
A Comprehensive Institute Program
for the Columbian Quicentennial
~
To support two summer institutes, fellowships, and occasional publications on
the reciprocal effects of the contacts between Europe and America (1400-1650).
Newberry. Library
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
£12 7,000.00
Chicago, IL 60610
APPROVED MATCH
$122,200.00
PROJ.DIR.: Richard H. Brown
PROJECT TITLE: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Newberry Library
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:.
To support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities.
♦Society of American Archivists
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$145,757.00
Chicago, IL 60605
PROJ.DIR.: Donn C. Neal
PROJECT TITLE: A Workshop for Archivists
To support education and professional development programs for archivists on
archival standards.
♦Society of American Archivists
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$111,461.00
Chicago, IL 60605
PROJ.DIR.: Donn C. Neal
PROJECT TITLE: Archival Conservation Program II
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:*,
To support the Society of American Archivists Preservation Program which
includes two conservation workshops, ten institutional consultancies, and a
comprehensive evaluation of previous programs.
July 16, 1987.
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ILLINOIS
(continued)
♦University of Chicago
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$103,363.00
Chicago, IL 60637
PROJ.DIR.: Daniel E. Garber
PROJECT TITLE: The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosopy
To support the preparation of the one-volume Cambridge History of SeventeenthCentury Philosophy.
INDIVIDUALS:
♦Phillip V. Bohlman
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chicago, IL 60680
University of Illinois, Chicago
PROJECT TITLE: Folk Music in the Urban German-Jewish Community, 1890-1939
♦Colin G. Calloway
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chicago, IL 60610
Newberry Library
PROJECT TITLE: The Conquest of Native American Vermont
♦Adele Hast
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chicago, IL 60637
University of Chicago
PROJECT TITLE: Payment of American Pre-Revolutionary War Debts to British
Merchants,
1783-1812
♦Frederick E. Hoxie
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chicago, IL 60610
Newberry Library
PROJECT TITLE: The Social and Political Transformation of the Crow Indians,
1880-1935 •
♦Daniel R. Headrick
Chicago, IL 60605
Roosevelt University
PROJECT TITLE: Telecommunicatons
♦Peter M. Lefferts
Chicago, IL 60637
PROJECT TITLE: English Music
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
and U.S. Foreign Relations,
1866-1945
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
in the Age of Chaucer
♦Robert Munman
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chicago, IL 60680
PROJECT TITLE: Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments
July 16, 1987.
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Education,
ILLINOIS
(continued)
*Dennis G. Pardee
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Chicago, IL 60637
PROJECT TITLE: Collation of Semetic Ritual Tablets from 1400 to 1200 B.C.
Evanston:
Jane S. Smith
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Evanston, IL 60201
Northwestern University
PROJECT TITLE: History of the Introduction of the Salk Polio Vaccine as a
Public Event
Marguerite D. Allen
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Evanston, IL 60201
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
PROJECT TITLE: The Portrayal of Women in Thomas Mann's Fiction
Daniel L. McConaughy
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Evanston, IL 60202
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Analyzation of the Syriac Manuscript at the Chester Eeatty
Library, Dublin, Ireland
Normal:
Diane F. Urey
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Normal, IL 61761
Illinois State University
PROJECT TITLE: An Examination of Manuscript Revisions by the Spanish
NovelistGaldos
Urbana:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$150,000.00
Urbana, IL 61801
APPROVED MATCH
$25,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Donald E. Crummey
PROJECT TITLE: A Histeory of Ethiopian Land Tenure and its Social Context
To support a study of the history of Ethiopian land control before 1913.
* These grants were announced during the Chairman's visit to Chicago on
July 16, 1987.
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NEH-87-047-L
Education,
ILLINOIS
(continued)
Urbana (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$101,404.00
Urbana, IL 61801
PROJ.DIR.: Marianna Tax Choldin
PROJECT TITLE: Workshops on East European and Russian Culture
To support a three-year series of workshops on East European and Russian
culture.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$63,225.00
Urbana, IL 61801
PROJ.DIR.: Charles C. Stewart
PROJECT TITLE: Arabic Manuscript Microfilm Project:
Boutilimit, Mauritania
To support microfilming a major Arabic manuscript collection, the private
Shaikh Sidiyya library in Boutilimit, Mauritania.
The University of Illinois
Archives will provide access to the filmed collection.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$26,031.00
Urbana, IL 61801
PS-20154-87 (Preservation Programs'
PROJ.DIR.: Roger G. Clark
PROJECT TITLE: Planning a Cooperative Library Preservation Program
To support planning for a preservation microfilming program among the member
libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of 11
major research institutions in the Midwest.
Wi lm et te :
James A. Deaville
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Wilmette, IL 60091
Northwestern University, Evanston
PROJECT TITLE: Joachim Raff and Music Criticism in Liszt's Circle
Win fi el d:
Theodore J. Kisiel
.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Winfield, IL 60190
Northern Illinois University
PROJECT TITLE: Martin Heidegger's Being and T i m e : The Genesis of a Great Book
# # #
NEH-87-04 7-L
Education,
INDIANA
Bloomington;
Indiana University, Bloomington
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$83,000.00
Bloomington, IN 47402
PROJ.DIR.: Ann G. Carmichael
PROJECT TITLE: Morbidity and Mortality in Early Modern Milan
A study of mortality in the city of Milan from 1450 to 1600, the project will
establish the identity and prevalence of endemic and epidemic diseases in
Europe during this period of contact with the New World.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$75,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Richard S. Westfall
PROJECT TITLE: Patronage and 17th-Century Science
To support a study of the social dimension of the emergence of modern science,
which focuses on the financial support of a community of scientists during the
scientific revolution in the 17th century.
Muncie:
Dwight W. Hoover
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
. $750.00
Muncie, IN 47306
Ball State University
PROJECT TITLE: Starting Out in a Pioneer Community
South Bend Area:
Christopher B. Fox
South Bend, IN 46613
University of Notre Dame
PROJECT TITLE: Psychologia:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Jonathan Swift and the Faculties of the Mind
Greg P. Kucich
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Notre Dame, IN 46556
PROJECT TITLE: Dryden.'s Annotations of Spenser's Poetry
Frederick D. Wright
PROJECT TITLE: Bishop Jules B. Jeanmard:
Segregationist Louisiana,
John P. Welle
South Bend, IN 46616
PROJECT TITLE: Pasolini and
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Black and White Catholics in
1918-57
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
,
Postwar Italian Culture
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Education,
INDIANA (continued)
Terre H a u t e :
Gale E. Christianson
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Terre Haute, IN 47804
Indiana State University, Terre Haute
PROJECT TITLE: A Biography of Loren Corey Eiseley, 1907-77
# # #
!
NEH-87-04 7-L
IOWA
Iowa C i t y :
State Historical Society of Iowa
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$232,662.00
Iowa City, IA 52240
APPROVED MATCH
$169,400.00
PROJ.DIR.: Nancy E. Kraft
PROJECT TITLE: Iowa Newspaper Project:
To support cataloguing and microfilming of newspapers in Iowa as part of the
U.S. Newspaper Program.
Records for 6,500 titles will be entered into a
national data base, and titles from 78 Iowa counties will be preserved.
Cary R. Covington
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Iowa City, IA 52242
University of Iowa
PROJECT TITLE: Presidential Coalition Building in Congress:
Eisenhower,
Kennedy and Johnson
James L. Giblin
Iowa City, IA 52242
University of Iowa
PROJECT TITLE: Tanzanian
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
History in the Spiritan Archives,
# # #
$750.00
Paris
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
KANSAS
Law ren ce:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$80,02 0.00
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
PROJ.DIR.: Donna P. Koepp
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation of Maps from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set
To support the preservation of the 12,000 historical maps contained in the
United States Congressional Serial Set.
Brad R. Logan
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Lawrence, KS 66045
FE-21374-87 (Travel to Collections;
University of Kansas, Lawrence
PROJECT TITLE: Archaeological Excavation Results from Grubgraben, a Gravettiann
Site in Lower Austria
Edward V. Williams
Lawrence, KS 66045
University of Kansas, Lawrence
PROJECT TITLE: The Bells of Russia:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
A Campanological Study
Manhattan:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Robert T. Corum, Jr.
Manhattan, KS 66506
Kansas State University
PROJECT TITLE: The Mary Magdalene Figure in 17th-Century French Poetry
Albert N. Hamscher
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Manhattan, KS 66502
Kansas State University
PROJECT TITLE: State, Finance, and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-178$
T o pe ka :
Linda K. Hughes
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$85,000.00
Topeka, KS 66621
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Victosian Serial Texts
A collaborative study of 15 works of fiction and poetry originally published in
serial form in 19th-century England.
The project will draw on reviewer and
reader responses in the periodicals of the time.
# # #
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
KENTUCKY
Bowling G r e e n :
Patricia Trutty-Coohi11
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Western Kentucky University
PROJECT TITLE: Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and His School in Collections
on the East Coast of the United States
Fort Tho m a s :
Leslie C. Tihany
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Fort Thomas, KY 41075
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Diplomatic Antecedents of Allied Intervention in South Russia
Highland Heights:
Robert K. Wallace
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Highland Heights, KY 41076
Northern Kentucky University
PROJECT TITLE: The Works of Turner at the Clore Gallery
Lexington:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$274,942.00
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Lexington, KY 40506
PROJ.DIR.: Paul A. Willis
PROJECT TITLE: Kentucky Newspaper Project:
To support completion of the cataloguing of 5,590 newspaper titles held in
Kentucky repositories and creation of 1,550 reels of preservation microfilms of
Newspaper Program.
selected titles, as part of the U,
Louisville:
Jean M. Christensen
Louisville, KY 40292
University of Louisville
PROJECT TITLE: Arnold: Schoenberg,
Linda M. Gigante
Louisville, KY 40292
University of Louisville
PROJECT TITLE: Roman Funerary
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
1874-1951: A Resource Guide
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Monuments in the British Museum
NEH-8 7-04 7-L
LOUISIANA
Baton R o u g e :
Louisiana State Univ. and A&M College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$201,780.00
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
APPROVED MATCH
$25,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Sharon A. Hogan
PS-20133-87 (Preservation Program s
PROJECT TITLE: Louisiana Newspaper Project:
To support cataloguing and microfilming of newspapers in Louisiana repositories
as part of the U.S. Newspaper Program.
Some 2,300 titles will be entered into <
national data base, and 7,200 reels of preservation microfilm produced.
Mitchell F. Rice
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Baton Rouge., LA 70820
PROJECT TITLE: The Black Hospital in the Uni'ted States:
Its History,
Development, Significance, and Future
New O rl ea ns :
Sandra J. Peacock
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tulane University of Louisiana
PROJECT TITLE: The Concealed Self:
Andrew S. Horton
University of New Orleans
PROJECT TITLE:. The Comic Perspective
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
A Life of Jane Ellen Harrison
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
in Yugoslav Cinema
Shreveport:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Fredric J. Hendricks
Shreveport, LA 71104
Centenary College of Louisiana
PROJECT TITLE: Small Magazines in Post-War American Literary Culture
# # #
NEH-87-047-L
MAINE
Brunswick:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$75 0.00
Celeste Goodridge
FE-216.12-87 (Travel to Collections)
Brunswick, ME 04011
Bowdoin College
PROJECT TITLE: Marianne Moore's Early Years, 1905-29
Orono:
Robert S. Haskett
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Orono, ME 04473
Colby College, waterville
PROJECT TITLE: Indian Labor and .the Colonial Silver Mines of Taxco
# # #
NEH-8 7-04 7-L
Education,
MARYLAND
Annap oli s;
Saint John's College, Main Campus
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$65,662.00
Annapolis, MD 21404
PROJ.DIR.: Harvey M. Flaumenhaft
PROJECT TITLE: Guided Studies of Classics in Geometry and Astronomy
To support the preparation of guided studies of historic scientific texts in
geometry and astronomy that will make these works accessible to a wider body
of scholars.
David P. Peeler
Annapolis, MD 214.02
United States Naval Academy
PROJECT TITLE: An Intellectual
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
FE-21145-87 (Travel to Collections}
History of 20th-Century American Photography
Baltimore:
Hugh D. Graham
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Baltimore, MD 21212
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
PROJECT TITLE: Civil Rights Policy in the Carter Administration
Steven C. Hughes
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Baltimore, MD 21210
Loyola College
PROJECT TITLE: The Politics of Policing in Bologna, Italy:
1850-65
Carol A. Kolmerten
Baltimore, MD 21228
Hood C o l l e g e , F r e d e r i c k
PROJECT TITLE: Women in Utopia
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
College Park A r e a :
George 0. Kent
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Kensington, MD 20895
University of Maryland, College Park
PROJECT TITLE: Franz^'von Papen:
A Political Biography
Claire G. Moses
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
College Park, MD 20742
PROJECT TITLE: Political Women in Three French Revolutions:
1830, 1848, 1871
William S. Peterson
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Greenbelt, MD 20770
PROJECT TITLE: A Bibliography of.Sir John Betjeman
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Education,
MARYLAND
(continued)
Silver S p r i n g :
Peter W. m . Blayney
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$59,161.00
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: The London Printing Houses and their Books, 1592-1610
To support work on The London Printing Houses and Their B o o k s , which will
provide a description of at least one copy of every book printed in London from
1592 to 1610 and identify the printer of every part of each book.
St. Leon a r d :
Dennis J. Pogue
St. Leonard, MD 2.0685
J. Patterson Park & Museum
PROJECT TITLE: English Ceramics Study
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
. FE-21431-87 (Travel to Collections)
# # #
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
MASSACHUSETTS
Am he r s t :
Amherst College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$65,000.00
Amherst, MA 01002
PROJ.DIR.: Deborah B. Gewertz
PROJECT TITLE: The Sociocultural Consequences of a Subsistence Crisis in the
Sepik
To support the completion of a decade-long study of the Chambri people of
Papua, New Guinea, who have weathered and survived an ecological and cultural
crisis in their island society.
Bos to n:
INSTITUTIONS:
Boston University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$60,150.00
Boston, MA 02215
APPROVED MATCH
$5,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: J. Wilson Myers
PROJECT TITLE: To Organize and Make Available to Archaeologists a Research
Archive of Low-Altitude Aerial Photographs
To support the archival printing and cataloguing of 500 images selected from a
larger collection of low-altitude aerial photographs of archaeological sites in
Greece and Crete.
University of Massachusetts, Boston
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$93,000.00
Boston, MA 02125
PROJ.DIR.: Diane B. Paul
PROJECT TITLE: Social Origins of Clinical Genetics
To support a study of the history of clinical genetics that traces the social
origins of this field in the United States, Great Britain, and the Scandinavian
countries.
INDIVIDUALS:
Liana Cheney
.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Boston, MA 02114
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA
PROJECT TITLE: Piero della Francesca's Treatise on Painting
June M. Grasso
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Boston, MA 02215
Boston University
PROJECT TITLE: U.S. Policy Toward the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1956-61
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MASSACHUSETTS
(continued)
Brookline:
Joyce Antler
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Brookline, MA 02146
Brandeis University, Waltham
PROJECT TITLE: Mary Austin and the Feminist Critique of Modernism
Cambridge:
INSTITUTIONS:
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$273,675.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
APPROVED MATCH
$100,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Alexander P. Kazhdan
PROJECT TITLE: Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
To support completion of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium.
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$170,467.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
PROJ.DIR.: Edward L. Keenan
PROJECT TITLE: SEELAC Teacher Institute on Russia/Soviet Union
To support a five-week institute on the history and culture of the Soviet
Union.
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$85,000.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
PROJ.DIR.: Louise George Clubb
PROJECT TITLE: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Villa I Tatti
To support postdoctoral fellowships in Italian Renaissance studies.
President and Fellows of Harvard College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$82,211.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
APPROVED MATCH
$5,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Rodney Dennis
PROJECT TITLE: Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the
Houghton Library, Harvard University
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:^
To support the preparation of the first volume of a catalogue of the early
Western manuscripts in the Houghton Library of Harvard University.
President and Fellows of Harvard College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$53,280.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
PROJ.DIR.: A. I. Sabra
PROJECT TITLE: The Cultural Context of Islamic Science
To support a critical study of medieval Islamic science, considering the
appropriation, assimilation, and eventual fading of Greek science in Islamic
culture.
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(continued)
Cambridge (continued):
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$30,000.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
PROJ.DIR.: Lawrence Dowler
PROJECT TITLE: Revision of the Short Title Catalogue
To support completion of the revised edition of Pollard and Redgrave's Short
Title Catalogue of English Printed Books to 1640 and compilation of a
computerized index of printers and publishers.
INDIVIDUALS:
John T. Edsall
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$18,384.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University
PROJECT TITLE: The History of Biochemistry
To support a study on the history of biochemistry from the early 19th to 20th
century that traces ideas of the respiratory function of blood.
Carol Olivia Herron
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University
PROJECT TITLE: The Post-Bellum Afro-American Epic
Mary S. Lewis
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
Brown University, Providence, RI
PROJECT TITLE: Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-69
Sonya A. Michel
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Arlington, MA 02174
Harvard University, Cambridge
PROJECT TITLE: A History of Public Child Care in the United States, 1830-1987
Dorchester:
James C. McCann
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Dorchester, MA 02122
Boston University
PROJECT TITLE: History of Highland Agriculture in Ethiopia
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Medford:
Tufts University
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$78,000.00
Medford, MA 02155
PROJ.DIR.: Philip G. Mirowski
PROJECT TITLE: Mathematics as a Means of Metaphor Transfer Between
Disciplines:
From Physics to Economics
To support a study of the rhetoric of economics in the 19th century in order to
understand the attempt to make economics a mathematical science.
Ne wt on :
Bernard M. Wasserstein
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Newton Centre, MA 02159
Brandeis University, Newton
PROJECT TITLE: The Shanghai Municipal Police Special Branch
Nor ton :
Roberta
Norton,
Wheaton
PROJECT
J. M. Olson
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
MA 02766
FE-21662-87 (Travel to Collections).
College
TITLE: The Proliferation of Comet Images in British Art, 1740-1850
Somerville:
Kathleen Wilson
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$750.00
Somerville, MA 02144
Harvard University, Cambridge
PROJECT TITLE: Urban Culture and Associational Life in Provincial England,
1715-85
John D. Rogers
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$750.00
Somerville, MA 02144
Unaff ili ated
PROJECT TITLE: The 1904 Temperance Movement in Sri Lanka
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Joan E. Meznar
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$750.00
South Hadley, MA 01075
Mount Holyoke College
PROJECT TITLE: Deference and Dependence:
The World of Small Farmers in a
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Ann A r b o r ;
Walter M. Spink
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Ann Arbor, MI 48104
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
;
PROJECT TITLE: A Study of the Victoria and Albert Museum's "Akbar Nama," a
Sixteenth-Century Mughal (Akbari) Manuscript.
De tro it:
Anne R. DeWindt
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Detroit, MI 48221
! FE-21218-87 (Travel to Collections)
Wayne County Community College
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PROJECT TITLE: The Warboys Witch Trial of 1593
Edwin B. DeWindt
Detroit, MI 48221
University of Detroit
PROJECT TITLE: Ramsey:
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The Town and Its Region, 1250-1600
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Grand Rapids, MI 49507
Calvin College
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PROJECT TITLE: The Archaeology of Earliest Christianity in Macedonia
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$100,134.00
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
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PROJECT TITLE: Toqueville and Democracy in America
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Howard J. Dooley
, APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
; FE-21528-87 (Travel to Collections)
Western Michigan University
PROJECT TITLE: British State Papers Relating to the Suez Crisis, 1956
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Education,
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Collegeville:
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Collegeville, MN 56321
PROJ.DIR.: Eugene Garver
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works.
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Marshall, MN 56258
Southwest State University
PROJECT TITLE: From Immigrants to Ethnics:
Minneapolis/St.
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$750.00
Polish American Communities 1914-40
Paul:
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Minneapolis, MN 55104
PROJ.DIR.: Frederick A. Cooper
PROJECT TITLE: Handbook of Greek Archite
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Greek architecture emphasizing construction methodsT
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$80, 228.00
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INDIVIDUALS:
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APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
University of Minnesota
PROJECT TITLE: The 19th-Century Romantic Suburb:
The Architectural
Manifestation
of Aesthetic, Ideological, Political and Other Concerns
Thomas Clayton
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St. Paul, MN 55104
PROJECT TITLE: A New Variorum Edition
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Charles E. Walcott
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PROJECT TITLE: The White House Staff under John F. Kennedy
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Northfield:
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APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Northfield, MN 55057
Carleton College
PROJECT TITLE: The Ter Borch Studio Estate in the Rijksmuseum Print Room,
Amsterdam
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Education,
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Hattiesburg:
Norbert Carnovale
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
University of Southern Mississippi
PROJECT TITLE: A Historical, Critical,
George Gershwin
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
and Bibliographical Study of
Roger B. Johnson, Jr.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
University of Southern Mississippi
PROJECT TITLE: Manet's Painting and Zola's Theory of Naturalism
Springfield:
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APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Springfield, MS 65806
Southwest Missouri State Univerity
PROJECT TITLE: An Ethnohistorical Examination of Social Change Among the
Osage Indians
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MISSOURI
Cape Gi ra rd eau :
Robert W. Hamblin
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Southeast Missouri State University
PROJECT TITLE: William Faulkner:
Manuscripts and Documents in the Brodsky
Collection
Jo pl in :
Steven H. Gale
Joplin, MO 64804
Missouri Southern State Coliege
PROJECT TITLE: The Films of Harold Pinter
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Kansas C i t y :
University of Missouri
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$12,284.00
Kansas City, MO 64110
PROJ.DIR.: Ted P. Sheldon
PROJECT TITLE: A Planning Grant for the United States Newspaper Project in
Missouri
To support planning for Missouri's participation in the U.S. Newspaper Program.
St. L o u i s :
INSTITUTIONS:
St. Louis Mercantile Library Assoc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$70,586.00
St. Louis, MO 63188
PROJ.DIR.: Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
PROJECT TITLE: Establishment of Access to the Institutional Archives and
Manuscript Holdings of the St. Louis Mercantile Lib. Assn.
To support the arrangement, preservation, and description of the archival and
manuscript collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association.
Washington University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$73,247.00
St. Louis, MO 63130
PROJ.DIR.: John W. Bennett
PROJECT TITLE: A Post-Frontier Culture and Person History of the Northern Great
Plain
To support the completion of a multivolume project on the culture and history
of the northern Great Plains from 1860 to the present.
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Education,
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INDIVIDUALS:
Isidore Silver
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$55,000.00
St. Louis, MO 63130
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Ronsard's Philosophic Thought
To support a study of the philosophic thought of the French Renaissance poet
Pierre de Ronsard.
Ruth L. Bohan
.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
St. Louis, MO 63121
University of Missouri, Saint Louis
PROJECT TITLE: Walt Whitman's Impact on the American Avant-Garde, 1892-1919
Yael Even
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
St. Louis, MO 63121
FE-21449-87 (Travel to Collections^
PROJECT TITLE: Artistic Dependence and Independence in Early Renaissance
Florence
Thomas C. Pickrel
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
St. Louis, MO 63139
PROJECT TITLE: Rome as a Cultural Center in the Late 17th Century: Elpidio
Benedetti and the French Connection
Diane H. Touliatos-Banker
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
St Louis, MO 63121
PROJECT TITLE: Byzantine Musical Manuscripts and Treatises in the Cultural
Foundation of the National Bank of Greece
Springfield:
James N. Giglio
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Springfield, MO 6580?
Southwest Missouri State University
PROJECT TITLE: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
David W. Gutzke
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APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Springfield, MO 65804
PROJECT TITLE: Publicans in the County Town of Chelmsford, 1840-1940
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MISSOURI
(continued)
Springfield (continued):
Kathleen L. Lodwick
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Springfield, MO 65807
PROJECT TITLE: Overseas Americans at the Presbyterian Mission on Hainan
Warrensburg:
Central Missouri State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$141,332.00
Warrensburg, MO 64093
PROJ.DIR.: Charles David Rice
PROJECT TITLE: The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Revolutions
To support a four-week institute for 45 humanities teachers on "The 18th
Century: An Age of Revolutions."
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NEH-87-047-L
MONTANA
Bozeman:
Bobby I. Wright
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Bozeman, MT 59717
FE-21671-87 (Travel to Collections'
Montana State University, Bozeman
PROJECT TITLE: An Ethnohistory of the Harvard Indian College, 1650-93
# # #
NEH-8 7-04 7-L
Education,
NEVADA
Las V e g a s :
Martha C. Knack
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Las Vegas, NV 89130
FE-21182-87 (Travel to Collections'
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
PROJECT TITLE: Archival Research into Southern Paiute Indian Ethnohistory
Reno:
University of Nevada, Reno
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*70, 3-94.00
Reno, NV 89557
APPROVED MATCH
$20,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: William A. Douglass
PROJECT TITLE: Basque-English/English-Basque Dictionary:
Vol. II (EnglishBasque)
.
,
To support completion of Volume 2 of a Basque-English/English-Basque dictionary.
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NEH-87-047-L
Education,
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Hano v e r :
Susanne M. Zantop
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Hanover, NH 03755
FE-21171-87 (Travel to Collections')
Dartmouth College
PROJECT TITLE: Latin America and the Literary Imagination of the German
Enlightenment
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J u l y 1 9 8 7 G r a n t s a n d O f f e r s for
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N E W J ERSEY
Fanwood:
S t a n l e y L. N a s h
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Fanwood, NJ 07023
F E - 2 1 1 7 2 - 8 7 (Travel to Collections)
Hebrew Union College, New York City Branch
P R O J E C T T I T L E : I d e o l o g y a n d A e s t h e t i c s in t h e G e n e r a t i o n o f A h a r o n M e g e d
New Br unswick:
Rutgers University
N e w B r u n s w i c k , NJ 0 8 9 0 3
APPROVED MATCH
RE-20671-87 (Research
$110,000.00
Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: R e e se V. Jenkins
P R O J E C T T I T L E : T h o m a s A. E d i s o n P a p e r s
T o s u p p o r t t h e p r e p a r a t i o n of s e l e c t i v e
p a p e r s of T h o m a s A. E d i s o n .
G l o r i a C. E r l i c h
P rinc e t o n , NJ 08540
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
PROJECT TITLE: The C o r r e s p o n d e n c e
microfilm
and pri n t
editions
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21678-87 (Travel
of E d i t h W h a r t o n
and
Morton
of
the
$750.00
to C o l l e c t i o n s )
Fullerton
Princeton:
INSTITUTIONS:
P r inc et on Un i v e r s i t y
A P P R O V E D OU TR I G H T
$167,466.00
Princeton, NJ 0 8 5 4 4
E S - 2 1 4 5 3 - 8 7 (Education Programs)
PROJ.DIR.: N o r m a n Itzkowitz
P R OJ EC T TITLE: The Islamic H i s t o r i c a l ' E x p e r i e n c e and its Le gacy in the
C o n t e m p o r a r y Near East
PR OJE CT DESCRIPTION:
T o support- a f i v e - w e e k i n s t i t u t e
2 0 t h - c e n t u r y Near East.
on the
role
of
Islam
in t h e
19th-
and
Princeton University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$149,324.00
Princeton, NJ 08544
P R O J . D I R . : M a r y M. S c h m i d t
PROJECT TITLE: Index^to 19th-Century Art Journals
T o s u p p o r t p r o d u c t i o n b y c o m p u t e r of an i n d e x of m o r e t h a n 40 A m e r i c a n art
journals pub l i s h e d during the 19th century.
The index will provide citations
for 40,000 articles.
I n s t i t u t e for A d v a n c e d St u d y
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!354 , 0 0 0 . 0 0
Princeton, NJ 08540 .
APPROVED MATCH
$49,000.00
P R O J . D I R . : J o a n W. S c o t t
P R O J E C T T I T L E : P o s t d o c t o r a l F e l l o w s h i p s a t t h e S c h o o l of S o c i a l S c i e n c e
T o s u p p o r t p o s t d o c t o r a l f e l l o w s h i p s in t h e h u m a n i t i e s .
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July 1987 Grants and O f f e r s for
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h an d T r a v e l t o C o l l e c t i o n s P r o j e c t s
NEW JERSEY
P ri n ce t on ( c o n t i n u e d ) :
I n s t i t u t e for A d v a n c e d S t u d y
P r i n c e t o n , NJ 08540
PROJ.DIR.: Giles Constable
PROJECT TITLE: Postdoctoral Fellowships
(continued)
at
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$54,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
$42,000.00
the School of H i s t o r i c a l S t u d i e s
To support p os t d o c t o r a l fel lo ws hi ps at the inst itut e's School of His tor ic al
Studies.
INDIVIDUAL:
Sonya Rudikoff
P r i n c e t o n , NJ 0 8 5 4 0
Unaffiliated
PROJECT TITLE: Lady Eleanor Cecil:
Context
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to
$750.00
Collections)
An Edw ar di an R e v i e w e r and Her Social
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NEW MEXICO
Santa F e :
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S a n t a Fe, N M 8 7 5 0 4
P R O J . D I R . : D o u g l a s W. S c h w a r t z
To support postdoctoral fellowships
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$41,800.00
APPROVED MATCH
$18,600.00
at t h e S c h o o l of A m e r i c a n R e s e a r c h
# # #
in the h u m a n i t i e s .
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Education,
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P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h and T r a v e l to C o l l e c t i o n s
Projects
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Albany:
New York State Education Department
APPROVED MATCH
$191,250.00
Albany, NY 12234
P R O J . D I R . : T h o m a s E. M i l l s
P R O J E C T TITLE: M i c r o f i l m i n g Selected D o c u m e n t s R e l a t i n g to N e w York C o m m u n i t y
Settlement and Development, 1760-1860
T o s u p p o r t t h e m i c r o f i l m i n g of s e l e c t e d h i s t o r i c a l d o c u m e n t s r e l a t i n g t o the
social, legal, and e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t of N e w Yor k from 1760 to 1860.
R e s e a r c h F o u n d a t i o n of S U N Y
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$59,999.00
Albany, NY 12203
P R O J . D I R . : K. D r e w H a r t z e l l , Jr.
P R O J E C T T I T L E : C a t a l o g u e of M a n u s c r i p t s C o n t a i n i n g E n g l i s h M u s i c t o 1 2 0 0
T o s u p p o r t t h e l o c a t i o n a n d c a t a l o g u i n g of m u s i c t h a t a p p e a r e d in E n g l i s h
m a n u s c r i p t s o u r c e s dated b e f o r e the year 1200.
Binghampton:
SUNY, B i n g h a m p t o n
B i n g h a m t o n , NY 13901
P R O J . D I R . : P a u l E. S z a r m a c h
P R O J E C T TI T L E : S o u r c e s of A n g l o
T o s u p p o r t p r e p a r a t i o n of a r e f e
writers.
Brockport:
R o b e r t J. S m i t h
Brockport, NY 14420
S U N Y , C o l l e g e at B r o c k p o r t
PROJECT TITLE: B o u c h a y e r - V i a l l e t :
1870-196 5
axon
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APPROVED MATCH
RT-20768-87 (Research
Literary Culture
ence
work
on the
sources
used
by A n g l o - S a x o n
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FE-21 3 0 6 - 8 7 (Travel
A Family
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$147,913.00
$5,000.00
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to
$750.00
Collections
of G r e n o b l e ,
Elmira:
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Elmira College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$114,445.00
Elmira, NY 14901
PROJ.DIR.: Darryl Baskin
P R O J E C T T I T L E : I n d i v i d u a l i s m an d C o m m i t m e n t in A m e r i c a n L i f e
To s u p p o r t a f o u r - w e e k i n s t i t u t e on social history, " I n d i v i d u a l i s m and
C o m m i t m e n t in A m e r i c a n L i f e . "
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Education,
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h and T r a v e l to C o l l e c t i o n s P r o j e c t s
NEW YORK
Geneseo:
Nancy Kleniewski
Geneseo, NY 14454
S U N Y , C o l l e g e at G e n e s e o
PROJECT TITLE: Rebuilding
(continued)
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F E - 2 1 2 8 8 - 8 7 (Travel
the
City:
Philadelphia,
Ithaca:
H u g h M. E g a n
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca College
P R OJECT TITLE: James Fenimore Cooper and
A u t h o r s h i p of Ne d M y e r s
New York
1950-80
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21 5 8 5 - 8 7 (Travel
the Common
$750.00
collections
to
Man:
The
$750.00
to C o l l e c t i o n s
Shared
City A r e a :
INSTITUTIONS:
A m e r i c a n A c a d e m y in R o m e
New York, NY 10021
P R O J . D I R . : R u s s e l l T. S c o t t
P R O J E C T T I T L E : P o s t d o c t o r a l F e l l o w s h i p s at
T o s u p p o r t p o s t d o c t o r a l f e l l o w s h i p s in t h e
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RA-20024-87 (Research
the A m e r i c a n A c a d e m y
$62,100.00
Programs)
in R o m e
humanities.
A m e r i c a n C o u n c i l of L e a r n e d S o c i e t i e s
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$95,000.00
New York, NY 10017
RI-20271-87 (Research Programs)
P R O J . D I R . : J a s o n H. P a r k e r
P R O J E C T T I T L E : J o i n t C o m m i t t e e on C h i n e s e S t u d i e s ' R e s e a r c h C o n f e r e n c e s
T o s u p p o r t t w o r e s e a r c h p l a n n i n g c o n f e r e n c e s a d d r e s s i n g s e l e c t e d t o p i c s in
h u m a n i t i e s s c h o l a r s h i p on China.
A m e r i c a n R e s e a r c h C e n t e r in Egy p t
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$77,000.00
New York, NY 10027
PROJ.DIR.: Terry Walz
P R O J E C T T I T L E : P o s t d o c t o r a l F e l l o w s h i p s at t h e A m e r i c a n R e s e a r c h C e n t e r
in E g f p t
T o s u p p o r t p o s t d o c t o r a l f e l l o w s in E g y p t o l o g y a n d I s l a m i c s t u d i e s .
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P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h an d T r a v e l to C o l l e c t i o n s P r o j e c t s
NEW YORK
(continued)
N ew York City A re a ( c o n t i n u e d ) :
Barnard College
New York, NY 10027
P R O J . D I R . : C h r i s t o p h e r C. B a s w e l l
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$26,000.00
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PR OJ ECT TITLE: Eleventh- and Tw el f t h - C e n t u r y C o m m e n t a r i e s on the W o rks of Virgif
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PRO JECT TITLE: The Cambridge History of the Nativ e Peo ples of the A me ri c a s
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P u b l i s h e d W o r k s for T h e a t e r R e s e a r c h
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Theatre.
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$89,968.00
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P R O J . D I R . : B a r r y S. B r o o k
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CUNY, John Jay College
New York, NY 10019
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New York, NY 10027
PROJ.DIR.: Roberta Martin
P R O J E C T T I T L E : A s i a i n W e s t e r n H i s t o r y a n d W o r l d H i s t o r y / M a s t e r w o r k s of
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Fordham University
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Bronx, NY 10458
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J e w i s h T h e o l o g i c a l S e m i n a r y of A m e r i c a
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T o s u p p o r t c a t a l o g u i n g of 4 0 , 0 0 0 m a n u s c r i p t
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RC-21362-87 (Research
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items f rom the old C a i r o synagogue,
and a d e t a i l e d c a t a l o g u e of 8,000
1 0 t h t h r o u g h t h e 1 3 t h century.
M e t r o p o l i t a n M u s e u m of A r t
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New York, NY 10028
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P R O J . D I R . : J o h n K. H o w a t
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T o s u p p o r t r e c a t a l o g u i n g t h e c o l l e c t i o n o f t h e A m e r i c a n A r t D e p a r t m e n t in
p r e p a r a t i o n f o r t h e o p e n i n g of a s t u d y c e n t e r f e a t u r i n g c o m p u t e r i z e d
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N e w York City Ar ea ( c o n t i n u e d ) :
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New York, NY
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c o r r e s p o n d e n c e , a n d 2 8 0 l i n e a r f e e t o f r e c o r d s f r o m t h e a r c h i v e s of t h e A m e r i
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T h e c o l l e c t i o n will be a v a i l a b l e for res e a r c h .
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J o s h u a H e s c h e l , o n e of t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t J e w i s h r e l i g i o u s p h i l o s o p h e r s a n d
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T h e s e v o l u m e s c o m p l e t e t h e r e v i s i o n of
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Frank Anshen
Stony Brook, NY 11794
SUNY, Stony Brook Main Campus
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I n t e r n a t i o n a l i s m in t h e 1 9 t h C e n t u r y
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$750.00
R o s a l i n d M.V. D e p a s
Brooklyn, NY 11205
CUNY, K i n g s borough Community College
The
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I m p a c t of W i l l i a m M o r r i s ' s I d e a l s i n B e l g i u m
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N e w York Ci ty A r e a ( c o n t i n u e d ) :
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White Plains, NY 10603
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P a c e U n i v e r s i t y C o l l e g e of W h i t e P l a i n s
P R O J E C T T I T L E : T h e I m a g e in P r i n t :
The
15th and 16th Cent u r i e s
(continued)
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Shlomo Eidelberg
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Forest Hills, NY 11375
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Yeshiva University, New York City
P R O J E C T T I T L E : T h e B o o k of C u s t o m s b y J i f t a c h J u s p a S h a m m a s h :
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t h e 1 7 t h - C e n t u r y 30 Y e a r s W a r
L e s l i e E. E i s e n b e r g
Lynbrook, NY 11563
New York University,
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Mamaroneck, NY 10543
CUNY, Lehman College, Bronx
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FE-21402-87 (Travel
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New Y o r k C i t y
P R O JE CT TITLE: Late P r e h i s t o r i c C ul tur al A d a p t a t i o n in Central Tennessee:
Insights from the R e - e x c a v a t e d Go r d o n To wn Site
Anne Barbeau Gardiner
CUNY, John Jay College
PROJECT TITLE: John D r yden's
J a m e s V. H a t c h
N e w York City, NY 10012
CUNY, City College
PROJECT TITLE: Biography
$750.00
A Bi bl i o g r a p h y of Books, Scores, and
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$750.00
. F E - 2 1 2 4 0 - 8 7 (Travel to C o l l e c t i o n s )
Idea
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History
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$750.00
of
Playwright,
T h o m a s F. H e f f e r n a n
G a r d e n City, NY 11530AdelphiUniversity
PROJECT TITLE: Wilson Heflin's
L e o J. H o a r , J r .
Scarsdale, NY 10583
Fordham University, Bronx
PROJECT TITLE: Benito Perez
Poet,
and
Professor Owen Dodson
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$750.00
Melville's
Whaling
Years
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$750.00
Galdos
and
El
B e r n i c e W. K l i m a n
Glen Head, NY 11545
Nassau Community College, Garden City
P R O J E C T T I T L E : M a c b e t h in P e r f o r m a n c e :
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Correo
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1870-72
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$750.00
Materials
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NEH-87-047-L
Education,
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h an d T r a v e l t o C o l l e c t i o n s
NEW YORK
(continued)
N e w York C i t y A r e a ( c o n t i n u e d ) :
B a r b a r a G. L a n e
Ne w York, NY 10128
CUNY, Queens College, Flushing
P R O J E C T T I T L E : A S t u d y of H a n s M e m l i n g :
T h o m a s F. M a t h e w s
New York, NY 10021
New York University
PROJECT TITLE: Reinterpreting
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FE-21359-87 (Travel
His
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New York, NY 10003
New York University
PROJECT TITLE: The American
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and
the Church
o f St.
Catherine's
o n Mt.
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FE-21140-87 (Travel
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Allan
Heidi Thomann Tewarson
Stony Brook, NY 11790
Columbia University, New York
Movement
$75 0.00
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Sinai
$750.00
$750.00
Poe.
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FE-21247-87 (Travel
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Nixon
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Influence
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Hillsdale, NY 12529
C U N Y , Q u e e n s b o r o u g h C o m m u n i t y C ., B a y s i d e
P R O J E C T T I T L E : T h e U n i t e d S t a t e s in t h e A g e
Kenneth Silverman
New York University
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and
the D e v e l o p m e n t
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of E m p l o y e e
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FE-21518-87 (Travel
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City
PROJECT TITLE: The Quest ion of Jewish Identity in the Family of Rahel Levin
Va r n h a g e n
Michael Wreszin
CUNY, Queens College
P R O J E C T T I T L E : D w i g h t .M a c d o n a l d :
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FE-21187-87 (Travel
$750.00
A Biography
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$60,325.00
Rochester, NY 14607
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$5,000.00
P R O J . D I R . : A n d r e w H. E s k i n d
P R O J E C T T I T L E : S u r v e y of P h o t o g r a p h i c H o l d i n g s in A m e r i c a n C o l l e c t i o n s
T o s u p p o r t t h e e x p a n d i n g a n d u p d a t i n g of t h e I n d e x to A m e r i c a n P h o t o g r a p h i c
C o l l e c t i o n s and e n h a n c i n g access to the i n f o r m a t i o n t h r o u g h e l e c t r o n i c and
print media.
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Education,
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h a n d T r a v e l to C o l l e c t i o n s
NEW YORK
Projects
(continued)
R o c h e s t e r I n s t i t u t e of T e c h n o l o g y
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$98,798.00
Rochester, NY 14623
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P R O J . D I R . : J a m e s M. R e i l l y
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T o s u p p o r t r e s e a r c h o n t h e e f f e c t i v e n e s s of s e l e n i u m t r e a t m e n t in p r o l o n g i n g
t h e s t o r a g e l i f e of s i l v e r g e l a t i n m i c r o f i l m .
T h i s t r e a t m e n t p r o m i s e s to
p r o t e c t m i c r o f i l m a g a i n s t o x i d a t i o n w h i c h c a n m a k e p a r t s of t h e t e x t i l l e g i b l e .
Schenectady:
S h a r o n B. G m e l c h
Schenectady, NY 12308
Union College, Schenectady
PROJECT’
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Syracuse, NY 13210
Syracuse University
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F E - 2 1 7 1 3 - 8 7 (Travel
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Merrill:
Alaskan
of R e i m s
# # #
Cathedral
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Collections)
Photographer
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FE-21220-87 (Travel
Glass
to
$750.00
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
July 1987 Gr a n t s and O f f e r s for
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h and T r a v e l t o C o l l e c t i o n s P r o j e c t s
N ORTH CA RO L IN A
Boo ne A r e a :
Appalachian State University
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$120,000.00
Boone, NC 28608
P R O J . D I R . : Allen Wells
P R O J E C T T I T L E : E l i t e P o l i t i c s and R u r a l R e b e l l i o n in Y u c a t a n , 1 8 9 0 - 1 9 1 5
T o s u p p o r t a s t u d y of p o l i t i c s and s o c i e t y in Y u c a t a n b e f o r e a n d d u r i n g the
Mexican Revolution, 1890-1915.
Th omas K. Keefe
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$750.00
Blowing Rock, NC 2 8 6 0 5
A p p a l a c h i a n Sta te University, Boone
PROJECT TITLE: The Acta and Itinerary of the First Year of the Re i g n of
King R i ch ar d I: A Study of the W i t n e s s Lists
Chapel H i l l :
U n i v e r s i t y of N o r t h C a r o l i n a , C h a p e l H i l l
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$65,956.00
Ch a p e l Hill, NC 27514
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$5,000.00
P R O J . D I R . : L a u r e n c e D. S t e p h e n s
P R O J E C T T I T L E : B i b l i o g r a p h i c a l R e s e a r c h , A m e r i c a n O f f i c e o f L 1A n n e e
Philologique
To support the p r e pa ra ti on of the A m e r i c a n c o n t r ib ut io n to three volumes of
L'Annee P h i l o l o g i g u e , the annual in ternational bibliogr ap hy of c las sical
studies.
U n i v e r s i t y of N o r t h C a r o l i n a , C h a p e l Hill
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$102,321.00
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
APPROVED MATCH
$5,000.00
PROJ.DIR.:- G e o r g e Kan e
P R O J E C T T I T L E : A G r a m m a r a n d G l o s s a r y f o r t h e T h r e e V e r s i o n s of P i e r s P l o w m a n
T o s u p p o r t p r e p a r a t i o n of a c o n s o l i d a t e d g l o s s a r y f o r t h e t h r e e v e r s i o n s of t h e
1 4 t h - c e n t u r y p o e m P i e r s P l o w m a n a n d a d e s c r i p t i v e g r a m m a r of i t s l a n g u a g e .
M o n i c a H. G r e e n
C h a p e l Hill, NC 27514.
U n i v e r s i t y of N o r t h © a r o l i n a , c h a p e l
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21307-87 (Travel
$750.00
Hill
P R O JE CT TITLE: A Cato lo gue of Early Medi eval Gy n e c o l o g i c a l L it er a t u r e
Charlotte:
Iris B. C a r l t o n - L a N e y
A P P R O V E D OUTR IG HT
$750.00
Charlotte, NC 2 8 2 2 3
Univer si ty of No rth Carolina, Char lo tte
PROJECT TITLE: Social Sett le men ts for Blacks During the Progres si ve Era
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NEH-87-047-L
Education,
July 1987 Gran t s and O f f e r s for
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h an d T r a v e l to C o l l e c t i o n s
, N OR TH C A R OL IN A
Davidson:
C o l i n S. S m i t h
D avidson, NC 28036
Davidson College
PROJECT TITLE: The
(continued)
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21392-87 (Travel
Landscape
Durham:
D a v i d B. G a s p a r
Durham, NC 27708
Duke University
P R O J E C T TITLE: Slav e r y and
1624-1834
Paintings
Internal
$750.00
to Collections)
of E u g e n e D e l a c r o i x
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the
Projects
Economy
of
the
British
R e s e ar c h T r i a n g l e P a r k :
National Humanities Center
R e s . T r i a n g l e Pk, NC 27 7 0 9
PROJ.DIR.: Charles Blitzer
P R O J E C T T I T L E : P o s t d o c t o r a l F e l l o w s h i p s at
T o s u p p o r t p o s t d o c t o r a l f e l l o w s h i p s in the
Islands,
$750.00
to
Collections)
$750.00
A P P R O V E D O UT RI GH T
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of the Greek hi storian Xe no phon's
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U n i v e r s i t y of N o r t h C a r o l i n a , W i l m i n g t o n
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Hillsborough:
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H i l l s b o r o u g h , NC 27278
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
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Minor Works
to
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1920-80
N E H - 8 7 - 0 4 7- L
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D akota titles important for research.
# # #
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
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OHIO
Athens:
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Athens, OH 45701
Ohio University
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C i n c i n n a t i , OH 45220
P R O J . D I R . : A b r a h a m J. P e c k
P R O J E C T T I T L E : The W o r l d J e w i s h
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$83,680.00
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$20,000.00
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p r e p a r a t i o n of f i n d i n g a i d s ( s t a n d a r d c o l l e c t i o n r e g i s t e r s , i n v e n t o r i e s , c a r d
c a t a l o g u e e n t r i e s , etc.) for the c o l l e c t i o n . T h e a r c h i v e s cov e r the H o l o c a u s t
a n d t h e p o s t - w a r d e v e l o p m e n t of w o r l d J e w r y .
U n i v e r s i t y of C i n c i n n a t i
C i ncinnati, OH 45221
P R O J . D I R . : L l o y d C. E n g e l b r e c h t
P R O J E C T T I T L E : A r c h i t e c t H e n r y C.
Trost
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,
Marion:
G r e g o r y S. R o s e
M a r i o n , OH 43302
Ohio State University, Marion Branch
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1920-40
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Projects
(continued)
Oxford:
Miami University
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Oxford, OH 45056
PROJ.DIR.: Michael O'Brien
P R O J E C T T I T L E : T h e O r i g i n s of S o u t h e r n T h o u g h t
T o s u p p o r t a s t u d y of t h e i n t e l l e c t u a l h i s t o r y o f t h e a n t e b e l l u m S o u t h b y
e x a m i n i n g the fi g ur e s who c o n s t i t u t e d the s ou t he r n i n t e l l i g e n t s i a and the wor k s
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A d a t a b a s e o n t h e s e i n t e l l e c t u a l s is p l a n n e d .
Toledo:
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Tole d o , OH 43623
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t h r o u g h the m i d - 1 9 6 0 s
To. s u p p o r t t h e p r e p a r a t i o n of a b o o k w h i c h w i l l d e s c r i b e t h e t e c h n i c a l a d v a n c e s
m a d e by U.S. s c i e n t i s t s from 1950 t h r o u g h the m i d - 1 9 6 0 s , and d i s c u s s the way
t hey w e r e i n f l u e n c e d by the social, p o l i t i c a l and i n s t i t i t u t i o n a l
c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of A m e r i c a n s c i e n c e .
D o n K. R o w n e y
Toledo, OH 43615
Bowling Green State University
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1930-42
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F E - 2 1 3 7 9 - -87 ( T r a v e l
and
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Education,
July 1987 Gra n t s and O f f e r s for
OK L A H O M A
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Stillwater, OK 74074
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
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Education,
J u l y 1 98 7 G r a n t s a n d O f f e r s f o r
OR EG ON
Beaverton:
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Beaverton, OR 97007
Cultural Heritage Foundation, Portland
PROJECT TITLE: Plains Indian Hide Painting
Lexicon
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F E - 2 1 1 0 1 - 8 7 (Travel
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Corvallis:
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Corvallis, OR 97331
Oregon State University
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FE-21 1 9 9 - 8 7 (Travel
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to
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Style
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1905-20
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F E -21345-87 (Travel
$750.00
Eugene
PR OJ EC T TITLE: The In fluenc e of Walt whit man 's Leaves of Gra ss on the
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M a v i s E. M a t e
Eugene, OR 97403
U n i v e r s i t y of O r e g o n , E u g e n e
P R OJECT TITLE: The Peasant Land
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FE-21234-87 (Travel
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R a n d a l l E. M c G o w e n
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Steven Shankman
Eugene, OR 97405
P R O J E C T T I T L E : E d i t i o n of P o p e ' s
in
15th-Century
Sussex
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FE-21 1 9 4 - 8 7 (Travel
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to
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$750.00
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England
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$750.00
I Iiad, with
Introduction
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Explanatory
Notes
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Mt. H o o d :
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M t . Hood, O R 9 7 0 4 1
Unaffiliated
P R OJECT TITLE: The
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Molson Basketry
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# # #
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Museum,
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Montreal
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Education,
P E N N SY L VA NI A
Ardmore:
Maria deJong Ellis
Ardmore, PA 19003
Unaffiliated
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PR O JE CT TITLE: Han db ook of Old B a b y lo nian C h r o n o g r a p h y and C hr on ol ogy
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T o s u p p o r t t h e c r e a t i o n of a c o m p r e h e n s i v e h a n d b o o k of B a b y l o n i a n y e a r n a m e s
a n d t h e d o c u m e n t s t h a t b e a r t h o s e y e a r n a m e s f o r t h e p e r i o d 2 0 0 0 B.C. to
1600 B.C.
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Carlisle, PA 17013
Dickinson College
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at R o m e
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Wilson College
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DuBois:
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Pennsylvania State Univ.,
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PROJECT TITLE:
to
$750.00
Collections:
le M u r a
to
$750.00
Collections;
to
$750.00
Collections;
Pottery from the Rachi Site at Isthmia, Gr ee ce
Du
Bois
Campus
PROJECT TITLE: B i b l i o g r a p h i c a l Re se arch on Edward Young in Irish and
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Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
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Harrisburg, PA 17108 .
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P R O J . D I R . : R o b e r t M.s;Dructor
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T o s u p p o r t t h e a r r a n g e m e n t a n d d e s c r i p t i o n o f 3 , 9 8 4 c u b i c f e e t o f r e c o r d s of
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
T h e a r c h i v e s w i l l be p l a c e d in s e r i e s o r d e r , a n d
r e c o r d s w i l l be p r e p a r e d and e n t e r e d i n t o an a c c e s s i b l e c o m p u t e r d a t a base.
Middletown:
G a r r y L. H a g b e r g
Mi d d l etown, PA 17057
Pennsylvania State University,
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Wittgen st ei n, Meaning, and A e s t h e t i c Theory
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Education/
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P EN N SY L VA NI A
(continued)
Philadelphia:
INSTITUTIONS:
A m e r i c a n S c h o o l s of O r i e n t a l R e s e a r c h
PROJ.DIR.: Seymour Gitin
S u b j e c t s at t h e A l b r i g h t
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Institute
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and Related
To support p o s t d oc to ral fell ows hips in archa eo lo gy and related subjects at the
Al br i g h t Institute of A r c h ae ol og ic al Research, Jerusalem.
A m e r i c a n S c h o o l s of O r i e n t a l
P R O J . D I R . : D a v i d W. M c C r e e r y
Research
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$29,500.00
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PR OJ EC T TITLE: Postdo ct oral F e ll owship s in Ar cha e o l o g y and Rel ated
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PRO JEC T DESCRIPTION:
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A m e r i c a n Center of Or ie nt al Research, Amman, Jordan.
U n i v e r s i t y of P e n n s y l v a n i a
P R O J . D I R . : A l b e r t L. L l o y d
P R O JECT TITLE: An Etymological
Dictionary
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$149,385.00
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$15,000.00
R T - 2 0 7 9 3 - 8 7 (R e s e a r c h ■
Programs)
of O l d H i g h G e r m a n
To support work on the Et ym olo gical Dictio n a r y of Old High G e r m a n .
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$101,929.00
P h i l a d e l p h i a , PA 19104
APPROVED MATCH
$15,000.00
P R O J . D I R . : E r i e V. L e i c h t y
P R O J E C T T I T L E : E n h a n c e m e n t o f Access t o t h e M e s o p o t a m i a n D o c u m e n t s in t h e
University Museum
T o s u p p o r t t h e p r e p a r a t i o n of a c o m p u t e r i z e d c a t a l o g u e o f t h e 3 0 , 0 0 0
M e s o p o t a m i a n c u n e i f o r m t a b l e t s h o u s e d in t h e u n i v e r s i t y m u s e u m .
They cover
2,000 years, i n c l u d i n g the S u m e rian, A k k a d i a n , K a s s i t e , and A s s y r i a n
ci v i l i z a t i o n s .
*
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$67,458.00
PROJ.DIR.: Arnold Thackray
P R O J E C T TITLE: C orn or O il?
T h e A m e r i c a n S y n t h e t i c R u b b e r P r o g r a m and the
E v o l u t i o n of t h e M o d e r n P e t r o c h e m i c a l i n d u s t r y
T o s u p p o r t a s t u d y of t h e h i s t o r y o f t h e i n t e n s e r e s e a r c h p r o g r a m t o p r o d u c e
s y n t h e t i c r u b b e r i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s d u r i n g W o r l d W a r II.
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NEH-87-047-L
Education,
PENNSYLVANIA
P h il a d e l p h i a
(continued)
(continued)
INDIVIDUALS:
T e r r y M. P a r s s i n e n
Temple University
P R O J E C T T I T L E : R e v i e w of F o r e i g n O f f i c e
O f f i c e , in Kew, B r i t a i n ,
traffic.
N a n E. W o o d r u f f
C o l l e g e of C h a r l e s t o n , SC
PROJECT TITLE: Sout h e r n Farm Workers
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21606-87 (Travel
$750.00
Collections;
f i l e s at t h e B r i t i s h P u b l i c R e c o r d
f o r a m o n o g r a p h o n t h e h i s t o r y o f drug
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21470-87 (Travel
and
to
the D i s i n t e g r a t i o n
of
$75 0.00
Share
Cropping
Pittsburgh:
INSTITUTIONS:
U n i v e r s i t y of P i t t s b u r g h
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$93,873.00
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
APPROVED MATCH
$5,000.00
P R O J . D I R . : D e a n e L. R o o t
P R O J E C T TITLE: C a t a l o g u e of F o s t e r Hall C o l l e c t i o n
PROJECT'DESCRIPTION:
T o s u p p o r t c a t a l o g u i n g t h e F o s t e r H a l l C o l l e c t i o n of A m e r i c a n m u s i c m a t e r i a l s
at t h e S t e p h e n F o s t e r M e m o r i a l , a n d e n t e r i n g t h e c a t a l o g u i n g d a t a i n t o a
n a t i o n a l b i b l i o g r a p h i c data base.
INDIVIDUALS:
R i c h a r d A. L a n d e s
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
PROJECT TITLE: Aq u i t a n i a n R e s ponses
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-2 1 2 8 7 - 8 7 (Travel
to H u g h
Capet's
Coronation,
to
$750.00
Collections)
987-1010
L e s t e r C. O l s o n
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$750.00
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 F E - 2 1 3 5 3 - 8 7 ( T r a v e l t o Collections)
P R O J E C T T I T L E : E m b l e m s of A m e r i c a n C o m m u n i t y : A S t u d y i n t h e R h e t o r i c a l
I c o n o l o g y of t h e A m e r i c a n R e v o l u t i o n
# # #
N E H - 8 7- 0 4 7- L
Education,
RHODE
Providence:
Brown University
P r o v i d e n c e , RI 0 2 9 1 2
P R O J . D I R . : T h o m a s R. A d a m s
PROJECT TITLE: A Chronological Guide
in E u r o p e , 1 4 9 3 - 1 7 7 6
Projects
ISLAND
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$122,327.00
APPROVED MATCH
$81,373.00
to W r i t i n g s on the A m e r i c a s Published
To support p r e p a r a t i o n of the two final volumes of E u r o p e a n A m e r i c a n a , a sixvolume chr ono logical guide to writi ngs on the Am er icas pub l i s h e d in Europe,
1492-1750.
John Carter Brown Library
P r o v i d e n c e , RI 0 2 9 1 2
PROJ.DIR.: Norman Fiering
P R O JECT TITLE: Postdoctoral
Fellowships
at
the J oh n
Carter
Brown
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FE-21186-87 (Travel
Wordsworth
Edition,
Volume
$30,000.
Programs)
L i b r a ry
to
$ 7 5 0 . 00
Collections
to
$750.
Collections
21
M a r y S. L e w i s
C a m b r i d g e , MA 02138
B r o w n U n i v e r s i t y , P r o v i d e n c e , RI
P R OJECT TITLE: Antonio Gardano, Venetian
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
F E - 2 1 1 9 6 - 8 7 (Travel
Music
# # #
Printer,
1538-69
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1
B r u c e E. G r a v e r
P r o v i d e n c e , RI 0 2 9 1 8
Providence College
PR O J E C T TITLE: The Cornell
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
O 1
O 1
1
Brown University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$152,000.00
P r o v i d e n c e , RI 0 2 9 1 2
P R O J . D I R . : E r n e s t S. F r e r i c h s
P R O J E C T T I T L E : J u d a i c S t u d i e s fo r F a c u l t i e s of L i b e r a l A r t s C o l l e g e s and
Universities
T o s u p p o r t a s u m m e r i n s t i t u t e a n d a f o l l o w - u p c o n f e r e n c e o n t h e s t u d y of
F o r m a t i v e J u d a i s m (1st t h r o u g h 7th c e n t u r i e s ) .
NEH-87-047-L
Education,
P r e s e r v a t i o n , R e s e a r c h a n d T r a v e l to C o l l e c t i o n s P r o j e c t s
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston:
J a n i s A. T o m l i n s o n
C h a r l e s t o n , SC 2 9 4 0 1
Unaffiliated
PRO J E C T TITLE: Patronage
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FE-21111-87 (Travel
of C l a u d e - J o s e p h V e r n e t
# # #
by
the Prince
$750.00
to Collections)
of A s t u r i a s
N E H - 8 7 - 0 4 7- L
Education,
T EN NE SS EE
J e f f e r so n C i t y :
T h o m a s B. M i l l i g a n
Jef f e r s o n City, TN 37760
Carson-Newman College
P R OJECT TITLE: Thematic Catalogue
Cramer.
Memphis:
T h o m a s J. N e n o n
Memphis, TN 38152
Memphis State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
of
the M u s i c a l
Works
$750.00
of J o h a n n B a p t i s t
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
F E - 2 1 5 0 0 - 8 7 (Travel
$75 0.00
P R O J E C T TITLE: The Fo un da tion of Hus ser l' s Regio nal O n t o l o g i e s
Nashville:
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37204
P R O J . D I R . : P a u l a A. C o v i n g t o n
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RC-21462-87 (Research
$63,726.00
Programs)
P R OJE CT TITLE: Latin Am erica n and Caribb ean Studies: A Critical Guide to
R e s e a r c h Sources
To support the com pilat io n of an inte rd iscip li na ry research guide to Latin
America and the Caribbean.
The guide will include essays on research tr ends
and methodol ogies, an annotated bibliography, and a list of collections.
NEH - 8 7-04 7-L
Education,
July 1987 G r a n t s and O f f e r s for
TEXAS
Arlington:
B e t h S. W r i g h t
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Arlington, TX 76019
U n i v e r s i t y of T e x a s , A r l i n g t o n
P R O J E C T T I T L E : F r e n c h R o m a n t i c L i t h o g r a p h s of T h e m e s f r o m W a l t e r
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Rensselaer Polytechnic
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Old Dominion University
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and M a r t y r d o m
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Antiquity
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Approximately 2 , 0 0 0 t i t l e s
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D a v i d J. T r a v i s
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U n i v e r s i t y of W a s h i n g t o n
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Walla Walla, WA 99362
Whitman College
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West Virginia University
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Burnaby, B.C.,
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'
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t r a n s c r i p t i o n of h i s c h o r e o g r a p h i c n o t a t i o n of L ' A p r e s - M i d i d ' u n F a u n e
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The Netherlands
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HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT FUNDS 46 NEW MUSEUM PROJECTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Institutions in 23 States Receive Grants Totaling $5.3 Million
WASHINGTON, July 31 — Museums across the country are beginning work on a
variety of exhibitions and related projects — ranging in focus from paintings by
Chinese women artists to the life and times of Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen
— all supported by new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney today announced $5.3 million in new grants for 46
projects at museums and historical organizations.
The grants, which were awarded
to institutions in 23 states, will support the planning and assembling of
permanent, temporary and traveling exhibitions, as well as catalogs and public
programs related to those shows.
"These exhibitions will help bring subjects such as history, anthropology,
archaelology and art history to millions of people," said Cheney.
"By interpreting
works of art and material artifacts, these NEH-funded projects help us to
understand our own culture and the cultures of other nations."
The following projects are among those receiving the new NEH grants announced
today:
* An exhibition, catalog and educational programs focusing on modernist
architecture in postwar family homes, sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles;
* A traveling exhibition examining the Spanish exploration and colonization of
the Carribean and southeastern United States, sponsored by the University of
Florida in Gainesville;
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July 31, 1987
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* A temporary exhibition, public programs and a catalog exploring Frank Lloyd
Wright's architectural commissions in Madison, Wise., sponsored by the
University of Wisconsin at Madison;
* A traveling exhibition, catalog and related educational programs covering
paintings by Chinese women artists in the past seven centuries, sponsored by
the Indianapolis Museum of Art;
* A permanent exhibition on the history of Brooklyn, exploring issues such as
ethnicity, community identity, work and leisure, sponsored by the Brooklyn
Historical Society, and
* A traveling exhibition and catalog focusing on 15th- and 16th- century
African sculpture and its artistic and historic relationship to the
Renaissance, sponsored by the Center for African Art in New York.
Cheney also noted that there are 43 exhibitions and related projects which
received Endowment funding that are currently open to the public at different sites
around the United States.
These current projects, which include several touring
exhibitions, were made possible by NEH grants awarded in recent years.
The NEH-funded museum exhibitions currently open to the public include a
traveling exhibition that explores Hidatsa Plains Indian society as it changed from
a traditional way of life to modern reservation existence, now at the Minnesota
Historical Society in St. Paul and "Miracle at Philadelphia:
The Constitutional
Convention Bicentennial," an exhibition on the framing of the U.S. Constitution,
housed at Independence National Park in Philadelphia.
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July 31, 1987
Page 3
NEH estimates that a combined audience of millions will view the current
exhibitions by the completion of their tours.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency that
supports research, scholarship, education and public programs in the humanities.
# # #
EDITORS AND WRITERS, PLEASE NOTE: Attached are a list of new NEH grants to
museums and historical organizations and a fact sheet describing current
exhibitions supported by NEH.
NEH-87-048-L
Grants to Museums ana Historical Organizations
1987
Following is a state-by-state list of new grants announced August 1987.
ALASKA
Juneau:
Alaska State Museum
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$26,322.00
Juneau, AK 99801
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Thomas D. Lonner
PROXCT TITLE: Many Worlas, Many Meanings; The Crest Art of Klukwan
To support planning for a three-year exhibition on Tlingit ceremonial art,
"Many Worlds ana Many Meanings: The Crest Art of Klukwan."
MEDIA CONTACT: Thomas 0. Lonner, 907/465-2901
ARIZONA
Tucson:
University of Arizona
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$58,635.00
Tucson, AZ 85721
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Bruce E. Hilpert
PROJECT TITLE: An Ethnographic Examination of the Native Peoples of the
Southwest
To support planning for a permanent exhibition on the native American peoples
of the Southwest.
MEDIA CONTACT: Bruce E. Hilpert, 602/621-4895
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venues and some will tour for several years. This list provides details, only'for those
exhibitions and projects which will be open to the public at some point between now and
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Thru 9/87
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Native Alaskan Artists
Thru 7/87 Bade Institute of
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Thru 10/87 Lawrence Hall of
Science
Berkeley
Ocean Voyaging in
Polynesia
8/87-10/87_ Los Angeles County
Museum of'Art,
Los Angeles
American Design Reform , MA-2
8/87-10/87
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
Machine Age 1920-1941
10/87-1/88,, Los,Angeles County
Museum of Art
Los Angeles
Chinese Ceramics
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Farmers to Factories
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NEH-87-04-9-C
NEH CONSTITUTIONAL CALENDAR
July — August 1987
To encourage better understanding and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution in its
Bicentennial year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded since 1982
more than $22 million in grants for projects on the Founding document. Among these are a
wide range of public meetings, symposia, conferences, institutes, seminars and radio and
television broadcasts scheduled to occur in the coming months.
NEH plans to provide this calendar of Bicentennial events every month. . It will
contain events scheduled in the next two months which might be of interest to journalists
in the print and electronic media.
Those entries marked with an (*) describe events sponsored by state humanities
councils, which receive major funding from NEH. All other entries describe projects that
have received.funding directly from the Humanities Endowment.
Please note that some of the events listed may not be open to the public. Reporters
apd writers wishing to attend part of a conference or other program should call the
contact person provided.
Events (such as museum exhibitions) that are currently underway and will continue for
several months are listed at the beginning of the calendar. Programs on public radio or
public television are listed separately at the end. Please check local listings for
scheduled broadcasts in your area.
For more information on any of the projects listed below, •contact NEH Media Relations
at 202/786-0449.
— 'Ongoing Programs —
Through July 3
Mississippi
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
"The Constitution." A summer institute for 36 secondary school
teachers of American government from Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi, who will study the history and principles of the
Constitution. Contact James A. Robertson, 601/266-4209 or Joseph
Parker, 601/266-4310.
Through July 11
California
Stanford University, Stanford.
"Political Experience and Thought in the Making of the Constitution."
A seminar for law school professors focusing on the political
background of the 1787 convention, the debates in Philadelphia, and
the arguments underlying specific provisions of the Constitution and
Bill of Rights. Contact Jack Rakove, 415/725-5650.
NEH Constitutional Calendar
July — August 1987
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— Broadcasting —
. Spring, Summer 1987 Various Public Radio Stations.
Throughout U.S.
"Dateline 1787." A series of half-hour radio programs, with a
simulation of news reporting as it might have been done at the 1787
Constitutional Convention, produced'by National Radio Theater of
Chicago and broadcast on public radio stations throughout the summer.
Contact Robin Lievers, 312/751-1625.
Spring, Summer 1987 Various Radio Stations.
Throughout U.S.
"Constitutional Journal." Eighty-eight radio programs, each three
minutes long, sponsored by the American Studies Center, and planned
for broadcast on commercial and public radio stations. Contact Marc
Lipsitz, 202/488-7122.
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(more)
NEH-87-050-N
Contact:
the Humanities
Media Relations
Washington, D .C. 20506
(202) 786-0449
Marguerite Sullivan
(Philadelphia August 5-7)
Noel Milan
202/786-0446 (Office)
215/238-6000
202/786-0449 (Office)
301/268-4309 (Home)
EMBARGOED
FOR RELEASE;
AUGUST 7, 6:30 P.M. (EST)
HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT NAMES ROBERT NISBET 1988 JEFFERSON LECTURER
Distinguished Historian and Sociologist Will Speak
in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 1988
PHILADELPHIA, August 7 - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has
named Robert Nisbet, a renowned historian and sociologist and the Albert Schweitzer
Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, to be the Jefferson Lecturer in the
Humanities for 1988.
Nisbet*s selection was announced by the National'pouncil- on the Humanities, the
advisory body of the NEH, which is holding its quarterly meeting in Philadelphia to
commemorate the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.
The Jefferson Lecture, established in 1972, honors the intellectual and civic
accomplishments exemplified by Thomas Jefferson and provides an opportunity for a
distinguished humanist to explore matters of broad concern in a public lecture.
The annual NEH Jefferson Lecture, the hightest honor conferred by the federal
government for outstanding achievement in the humanities, carries a stipend of
$10,000.
Nisbet is the 17th recipient to be honored with this award.
Nisbet will lecture on progress and community, two themes on which he has
written extensively, in an address to be presented on May 11, 1988, in Washington,
D.C., and at another site to be announced.
NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney praised Nisbet's selection.
scholar of uncommon wisdom and extraordinary achievement.
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"Robert Nisbet is a
Throughout his
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August 7, 1987
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professional life he has rigorously pursued an understanding of the major ideas and
forces driving human society.
His books and articles have been recognized
throughout the world as invaluable contributions to the disciplines of history and
sociology.
The NEH is proud to bestow upon him the honor of the Jefferson
Lectureship."
Nisbet has received many honors, including Italy's Award of Merit (1957), and
the prestigious Ingersoll Award in the Humanities (1985).
He has been elected to
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and
the Society of American Historians.
From 1975-78, he served on the National
Council on the Humanities.
Born September 30, 1913, in Los Angeles, Nisbet earned his bachelor's, master's
and Ph.D. degrees in social theory at the University of California, Berkeley in the
late 1930s.
In 1970 he received the honorary Berkeley Citation.
In 1939 he began his teaching career at Berkeley where he remained until 1952.
He subsequently taught at the University of California, Riverside (1953-1972), the
University of Arizona at Tuscon (1972-1974), and Columbia University (1974-78)
where he held the Albert Schweitzer chair.
He has held visiting appointments at
the University of Bologna (1956), Princeton University (1963-64), where he was a
Guggenheim fellow, and Smith College (1971), where he was a William Allan Neilson
Professor.
After his retirement from Columbia in 1978, Nisbet joined the American
Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C., as a Resident Scholar.
He has also
been a Phi Beta Kappa National Visiting Scholar 1971-72.
Nisbet is the author of many books, including, The Quest for Community (1953),
The Sociological Tradition (1966), Twilight of Authority (1975) and History of the
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August 7, 1987
Page 3
Idea of Progress (1980).
He is currently finishing a book to be titled, The
Present Age. He is a veteran of World War II and served as a U.S. Army staff
sergeant in the Pacific.
Previous Jefferson Lecturers have been Forrest McDonald (1987), Leszek
Kolakowski (1986), Cleanth Brooks (1985), Sidney Hook (1984), Jaroslav Pelikan
(1983), Emily T. Vermeule (1982), Gerald Holton (1981), Barbara Tuchman (1980),
Edward Shils (1979), C. Vann Woodward (1978), Saul Bellow (1977), Robert Penn
Warren (1976), John Hope Franklin (1975), Paul A. Freund (1974), Erik H. Erikson
(1973) and Lionel Trilling (1972).
supports research, scholarship, education and general public programs in the
humanities.
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Media Relations
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NEH-87-051-C
NEH CONSTITUTIONAL CALENDAR
August — September 1987
To encourage better understanding and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution in its
Bicentennial year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded since 1982
more than $22 million in grants for projects on the Founding document. .Among these are a
wide range of public meetings, symposia, conferences, institutes, seminars and radio and
television broadcasts scheduled to occur in the coming months.
This NEH calendar of Bicentennial events contains events scheduled in the next two
months which might be of interest to journalists in the print and electronic media.
Those entries marked with an (*) describe events sponsored by state humanities
councils, which receive major funding from NEH. All other entries describe projects that
have received funding directly from the Humanities Endowment.
Please note that some of the events listed may not be open to the public. Reporters
and writers wishing to attend part of a conference or other program should call the
contact person provided.
Events (such as museum exhibitions) that are currently underway and will continue for
several months are listed at the beginning of the calendar. Programs on public radio or
public television are listed separately at the end. Please check local listings for
scheduled broadcasts in your area.
For more information on any of the projects listed below, contact NEH Media Relations
at 202/786-0449.
— Ongoing Programs —
Through August 1
Colorado
Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., Boulder.
"The Young Republic: American Life and Culture, 1783-1830." A
four-week institute for elementary and middle school teachers.
Contact James Giese, 303/492-8154.
Through August 7
Colorado
Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
"The Genius of the American Constitution." A seminar for law school
professors examining the intellectual background of the American
Constitution, the debates surrounding the framing and other topics.
Contact Timothy Fuller, 303/473-2233, Ext. 583.
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Through August 7
New York
Fordham University, Bronx.
"Thomas Jefferson: The Intellectual on a Mission." A seminar for
secondary school teachers focusing on Jefferson's political and social
philosophy. Contact Robert F. Jones, 212/579-2279.
Through August 7
New York
Canisius College, Buffalo.
"The Federalist and the Constitution." A seminar for secondary school
teachers examining the Federalist papers and the Constitution in both
the historical and contemporary contexts. Contact Peter J. Galie,
716/883-7000, ext. 787.
Through August 7
Florida
University of Florida, Gainesville.
"Understanding the Constitution." A collaborative institute offered
by the University and local public schools for 30 secondary school
teachers, who will study the Constitution and rule of law in U.S.
history. Contact Augustus M. Burns, 904/392-0271.
Through August 7
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"American Courts: A Bicentennial Perspective." A summer seminar for
college teachers on the changing structure and function of American
courts over the last 200 years. Contact Joel B. Grossman,
608/263-2414.
Through August 7
California
University of Redlands, Redlands.
"Republicanism at the Founding: The Federalist-Antifederalist
Debate." A seminar for secondary school teachers that will examine
the two main points of view in the debate over the creation and
ratification of the Constitution. Contact Gordon Lloyd, 714/793-2121.
Through August 14
New York
New York University, New York.
"The Origins of Constitutional Supremacy." A seminar for law school
professors exploring the origins of the concept of the Constitution as
law superior to legislation. Contact William E. Nelson, 212/998-6269.
Through August 28
Ohio
Ohio Historical Center, Columbus.
"Liberty's Legacy." Traveling exhibition interpreting the
bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance, sponsored by the Big Ten
Alumni Association. Contact Gary Ness, 614/297-2300.
Through Sept. 19
New York
New York Public Library, New York.
"Are We To Be a Nation? The Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution."
A major interpretive exhibition showing the drafting and ratification
of the Constitution, with programs scheduled at the Research Library
and several branches. Contact Diantha Schull, 212/930-0840.
(more)
August — September
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Through September
Michigan
Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.*
"The Constitution in a Changing America." A slide-tape presentation
and historical dramatization focusing on the changing interpretations
of the Constitution. Contact James R. Van Bochove, Jr., 313/271-1620,
ext. 523.
Through November
Louisiana
Parish School Districts.*
"The Blessings of Liberty." A poster exhibit telling the story of the
ratification of the Constitution and explaining the Bill of Rights and
later amendments. Contact Kathryn Mettelka, 504/523-4352.
Through November
Minnesota
Various Locations.*
"The Blessings of Liberty." A poster exhibit telling the story of the
ratification of the Constitution and explaining the Bill of Rights and
later amendments. Contact Deborah Leuchovius at the Minnesota
Humanities Commission, 612/224-5739.
Through November
Hawaii
Public and Private Secondary School Libraries.*
"The Blessings of Liberty." Statewide tour of 39 schools of a poster
exhibit with an accompanying lecture presentation at each site.
Sponsored by the Hawaii Association of School Librarians. Contact
Saburo Ebisu, 808/262-4004 or Violet Harada, 808/732-1402.
Through November
Massachusetts
Old Sturbridge Village.
"The Constitution: Its Impact on Men and Women in the Early
Nineteenth Century." Weekend programs for the general public
exploring how the Constitution was taught, comprehended, and
implemented as a symbol and model in early 19th-century America.
Contact Kristi Kienholz, 617/347-3362, ext. 265.
Through November
Nevada
State High Schools.*
"State Bar of Nevada Constitution Bicentennial Education Project." A
series of mock trials held throughout the state that raise various
issues about due process of law and the right to life, liberty, and
prosperity. In-service workshops for teachers and constitutional
forums will also be held. Contact Phyllis Darling, 702/799-8468.
Through December
Pennsylvania
Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.
"Miracle at Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention Bicentennial
Exhibition." Interpretive exhibition focusing on the framing of the
Constitution, sponsored by the Friends of Independence National
Historical Park. Contact Carolyn Hubbard, 215/597-7919.
Through December
Pennsylvania
195 Public Locations.*
"The Blessings of Liberty." Poster exhibit on the writing and
ratification of the Constitution. Contact Joseph Kelley, 215/925-1005.
(more)
August — September
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Through April 1988 Various Locations.*
Nevada
"Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution." A series of programs that
includes public forums on the campus of the University of Nevada at
Las Vegas and public lectures and discussions in rural communities.
Contact Andrew C. Tuttle, 702/739-3307.
Through June 1988
Nevada
Various Locations.*
"Nevada: From Its Territorial Beginnings to Shaper of the Nation's
Constitution." A display of original documents related to early
statehood and the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments,
sponsored by the Nevada State Library and Archives. Contact Jeffrey
Kintop, 702/885-5210.
Through 1988
Throughout U.S.
Various Locations.
"Are We To Be a Nation?" An interpretive exhibition illustrating the
drafting and ratification of the Constitution, assembled by the New
York Public Library and presented as a traveling exhibition by the
American Library Association, Chicago. Contact Peggy Barber,
312/944-6780.
— August —
August 1
Maryland
Friendsville.*
"We the Friendly People: Celebration of the 200th Birthday of the
U.S. Constitution." Bicentennial salute including a parade, speeches,
a dramatic presentation, and historical review. Contact Rebecca
Aaron, 301/625-4830.
August 1
Hawaii
Hilo.*
"The 1787 Constitutional Convention: Background, Conflicts and
Resolution." Dramatic presentation based on the Constitutional
Convention, followed by discussion, sponsored by the Hawaii Council on
Legal Education. Contact Rhoda Miller, 808/948-8600.
August 1-11
New Hampshire
Cooke Memorial Library, Tamworth.*
"Building a Nation, Building a State: New Hampshire, 1780-1800." An
exhibit illustrating life and thought in the state during the founding
period. Contact Etta Madden, 603/224-4071.
August 3-7
Pennsylvania
Colonial Northampton Intermediate Unit, Nazareth.*
Seminar for teachers on the Constitution. Contact Carol
215/759-7600.
August 6
New Jersey
Johnson & Johnson Corporate Cafeteria, New Brunswick.*
"Remember the Ladies: American Women's Revolutionary Experience,
1776-1789." Lecture by Mary Lou Lustig. Contact Marsha K. Anderson,
201/932-7726.
(more)
Rinehart,
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August 12-25
New Hampshire
Union Hall, South Tamworth.*
August 13
Pennsylvania
Slifer House Museum, Lewisburg.*
"The Constitution and the Military in American History."
Joylon P. Girard. Contact Donna Ray, 717/524-2271.
August 15
Minnesota
Lonsdale Schoolhouse, Lonsdale.*
"In the Spirit of the Founders: The Development of the Minnesota
Constitution." Lecture by William Lass. Contact Evy Nordley,
612/433-2286.
August 17-21
Pennsylvania
Berks County Intermediate Unit, Reading.*
Seminar for teachers on the Constitution, sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Contact Sally Sentner, 215/779-7111,
ext. 212.
August 18
Kansas
Emporia Public Library, Emporia.*
"Rights and Liberties." Book discussion led by Sister Mary Lenore
Martin, Saint Mary College. Contact Roger Carswell, 316/342-6524.
August 19
Minnesota
Kahler Hotel, Rochester.*
"Constitutional Blind Spots: Just Who Were the People?"
Joan Gunderson. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
August 19
Kansas
Butler County Historical Society, El Dorado.*
Book discussion led by Dr. Francis Heller of the University of
Kansas. Contact: Bill Galvani, 316/321-9333.
August 19
New Hampshire
Gilman Library, Alton.*
"1787-1788: Years of Decision — Attitudes and Reactions in the Lakes
Region." Lecture by William Taylor. Contact Patricia Merrill,
603/875-2550.
August 21
Minnesota
Grand Marais Public Library, Grand Marais.*
"The Constitution as Popular Culture." Lecture by Norman Rosenberg.
Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
Aug. 21-Sept. 5
Ohio
Blennerhasset Island*
"Eden on the River." A musical drama about Aaron Burr's meeting with
Harmon Blennerhasset, leading to Burr's trial for treason. Contact
Robb Hankin, 614/373-0079 or 304/428-3988.
August 25
Kansas
"Separation of Powers." Book discussion led by Sister Mary Lenore
Martin, Saint Mary College. Contact Roger Carswell, 316/342-6524.
(more)
Lecture by
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August 26
Kansas
Aug. 26-Sept. 9
New Hampshire
Chocorua Public Library, Chocorua.*
August 30
Minnesota
Pioneer Village, Ada.*
"Federal or National: The Constitution and the Nature of the New
Republic." Lecture by Gerald Schnabel. Contact Evy Nordley,
612/433-2286.
August
Ohio
Schiappa Library, Steubenville.*
"Traveling Exhibit on the Northwest Ordinance of 1787." Poster
exhibit and presentations on the significance of the Ordinance and its
influence on the shaping of the government and settlement of the Old
Northwest. Contact Dorothy Huestis, 614/264-0033, or Linda Stuller,
614/264-6166.
August
Ohio
Department of Natural Resources Pavilion, Ohio State Fair,
Columbus.*
exhibit and presentations on the signicance of the Ordinance and its
Northwest. Contact Mike Canavan, 614/265-6981.
August-September
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Alliance for Teaching Humanities
in the Schools, Philadelphia.
"American History through the Philadelphia Experience." The first
year of a three-year collaborative project with the Philadelphia
school system, designed to improve the teaching of history in grades
5, 8, and 11. Contact Judith F. Hodgson, 215/665-1400.
— September —
September 1
Kansas
"Federalism." Book discussion led by Sister Mary Lenore Martin, Saint
Mary College. Contact Roger Carswell, 316/342-6524.
September 1-30
Connecticut
New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven.*
"Connecticut and the Constitution." An exhibition on the state's role
in the ratification of the Constitution. Contact Laurie McCallum,
203/347-6888.
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Sept. 1-Nov. 23
Minnesota
Lakefield High School, Lakefield.*
"That Delicate Balance." A videotape series on the U.S. Constitution.
Sept. 1-Nov. 30
Ohio
Mercer County Historical Museum, Celina*
"North by Northwest." A poster exhibit and lecture series on the
Northwest Ordinance, and a display of the photos and documents of
Captain James Riley, a surveyor and settler of Mercer County. Contact
Joyce Alig, 419/586-6065.
September 2
Kansas
Sept. 4-0ct. 28
Indiana
Lilly Library, Bloomington.
"Liberty's Legacy." Traveling exhibition interpreting the
bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance, sponsored by the Big Ten
Alumni Association. Contact Frank Jones, 812/335-5022.
September 4-6
Indiana
Indiana University, Bloomington.
"The Northwest Ordinance: Liberty and Justice for All." Lectures and
a conference on the history and significance of the Northwest
Ordinance, sponsored by the Indiana University Alumni Association.
Contact Frank Jones, 812/335-5022.
September 8
Kansas
Civic Building, Emporia.*
"Hamilton vs. Jefferson." Debate with Rhodes scholar Clay Jenkinson
and Prof. Mel Kahn. Contact Roger Carswell, 316/342-6524.
September 9
Kansas
"The World of Jefferson and Hamilton." Seminar with Rhodes scholar
Clay Jenkinson and Prof. Mel Kahn. Contact Roger Carswell,
316/342-6524.
September 9-29
New Hampshire
State House, Concord.*
September 10
Minnesota
Landmark Center, St. Paul.*
"Living with the Living Constitution." Lecture by Paul Murphy,
recipient of the Minnesota Humanities Commission Annual Lecture
Award. Contact Mark Gleason, 612/224-5739.
September 10
New Mexico
Socorro Public Library, Socorro.*
"The U.S. Constitution in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1800."
by Jeffrey Brown. Contact Sherry Krukowski, 505/835-1114.
(more)
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September 10
Kansas
Bradford Memorial Library, El Dorado.*
"Hamilton vs. Jefferson." Debate with Rhodes scholar Clay Jenkinson
and Prof. Mel Kahn. Contact Bill Galvani, 316/321-9333.
September 11 •12
Michigan
University of Michigan-Flint.*
"Jefferson Meeting on the Constitution." A meeting for the citizens
of Flint and Genessee County to examine the institutions of American
government. The program features talks by constitutional and
humanities scholars. Contact Lynda Ianni, 517/355-0160.
September 13
Ohio
Allen County Museum, Lima.*
"High Iron Community Film Series." A series of five films dealing with
the railroad tradition in the United States. Contact Marilyn
Hellmann, 419/224-6873.
September 13 20,
27,28
Kansas
Finney County Public Library, Garden City.*
"Hamilton vs. Jefferson" and "The World of Jefferson and Hamilton."
Debate and seminar with Rhodes scholar Clay Jenkinson and Prof. Mel
Kahn. Contact Mary Ploger, 316/276-3941.
September 15
Kansas
Pioneer Memorial Library, Colby.*
"The Federalist Papers." Book discussion led by Prof. Richard Heil,
Fort Hays State University. Contact JoAnne Sunderman, 913/462-7563.
September 15
Minnesota
Roseville City Hall, Roseville.*
"Constitutional Blind Spots: Just Who Were the People?"
September 16
Virginia
Center for Judicial Studies, Cumberland
A public symposium on the 6th Amendment to the Constitution, part of a
series of four symposia entitled "The Bill of Rights: Theory and
Development" organized by the Center. Contact Dan Peterson,
202/544-1776.
September 17
Minnesota
St. Michael-Albertville Middle School, St. Michael.*
"Deciding the Nation's Future: The Politics of Constitution-Making."
Lecture by John Howe. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
September 17
Minnesota
Winona State University, Winona.*
"Minnesota Cases that Influenced U.S. Constitutional Law."
Millard Gieske. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
September 17
Minnesota
Elmore Bank, Elmore.*
"The Origins of the American Constitution."
Hunter. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
September 17
New Mexico
Socorro Public Library, Socorro.*
"Women and the U.S. Constitution: A History." Lecture by Janine A.
Young. Contact Sherry Krukowski, 505/835-1114.
(more)
Lecture by
Lecture by
Lecture by N. Doran
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September 17
New York
State University of New York, Geneseo
"The Jefferson Presidency and Constitutional Beginnings." One of a
series of public lectures and a conference focusing on the presidency
and the Constitution. Contact Alan Shank 716/245-5371.
September 17
Maryland
Chesapeake College, Wye Mills.*
"An Eastern Shore Study of the U.S. Constitution." A lecture series
that focuses on the ways in which the U.S. Constitution has evolved,
exploring such issues as "The Constitution and the Growth of
Presidential Power." Contact Conway Gregory, 301/822-5400, Ext. 330.
September 17
- California
The Claremont Institute.
"Constitutional Statesmanship Lecture."
Contact Chris Flannery, 714/621-6825.
September 17-18
Alabama
Samford University, Birmingham.*
"The Alabama Jefferson Meeting on the Constitution." Delegates and
observers will meet to study selected constitutional issues. Contact
Martha Corretti, 205/870-2300.
September 18-19
New Mexico
Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos.*
"Jefferson Community Meeting on the Constitution." A series of
debates about key constitutional issues by William Dabney, Paul
Bardacke, Michael Riccards, and other distinguished scholars. Contact
Jo Baer, 505/662-2256.
September 18-19.
Louisiana
Louisiana State University, Shreveport.*
"Shreveport-Bossier Jefferson Meeting on the Constitution." A
citizen's forum for debate and discussion about various provisions of
the Constitution and proposed amendments. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
will be the keynote speaker. Contact Susie Morgan, 318/226-9100.
September 19
Maryland
Hagerstown Junior College*
"Washington County Jefferson Meeting." A meeting focusing on proposed
changes to the Constitution dealing with the structure of federal
government. Contact Doris McCloskey, 301/625-4830.
September 19
New Hampshire
State House, Concord.*
"The Governor's Forum." A day-long celebration including lectures,
seminars by constitutional scholars, and musical presentations.
Contact Etta Madden, 603/224-4071.
September 21
Minnesota
Nobles County Courthouse, Worthington.*
"Women's Rights Under the Constitution." Lecture by Catherine
Zuckert. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
September 22
Minnesota
Ortonville Public Library, Ortonville.*
"Minnesota Cases that Influenced U.S. Constitutional Law."
Millard Gieske. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
(more)
Lecture by Harry V. Jaffa.
Lecture by
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September 22
Kansas
"The Portable Thomas Jefferson." Book discussion led by Prof. Richard
Heil, Fort Hays State University. Contact JoAnne Sunderman,
913/462-7563.
September 29
Kansas
"Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Political Issues."
Book discussion led by Prof. Richard Heil, Fort Hays State
University. Contact JoAnne Sunderman, 913/462-7563.
September 29
Minnesota
Stillwater Public Library, Stillwater.*
"Constitutional Blind Spots: Just Who Were the People?" Lecture by
September 29
Minnesota
Blaine Library, Blaine.*
"The Constitution as Popular Culture."
September
Ohio
Heidelburg College, Tiffin.*
Northwest. Contact Kenneth Davison, 419/448-2040.
September
Ohio
Ohio University Belmont, St. Clairsville.*
Northwest. Contact Victor Rutter, 614/695-1720.
September-October
Ohio
Great Western School, Ohio University Belmont, St. Clairsville.*
"The One-Room School Revisited." In conjunction with the bicentennial
of the Northwest Ordinance, students will spend a school day in a
one-room school house. Other programs on early Ohio culture will be
open to the general public. Contact Michael McTeague, 614/695-1720,
ext 201.
(Fall 1987)
Illinois
University of Illinois, Chicago.
a conference on the history and significance of the Northwest
Contact Patrick Hayes, 217/333-1474.
(Fall 1987)
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
a conference .on the history and significance of the Northwest
Contact Gayle Langer, 608/262-2551.
(more)
Lecture by Norman Rosenberg.
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— Broadcasting —
Aug. 27-Sept.
Alabama
7
Channel 6, WBRC, Birmingham.*
"The Constitution: 200 Years in the Making." Twenty, one-minute
television segments examining the historical background of the
Constitution and its present issues. Contact Martha Corretti,
205/870-2300.
Sept. 1-Nov. >
Minnesota .
Lakefield Cable Television Channel, Lakefield.*
"That Delicate Balance." A videotape series on the U.S.
Constitution. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
Sept. 10-Dec. •
Minnesota
Channel 3, Local Community Access Cable
Television, Worthington.*
"That Delicate Balance." A videotape series on the U.S.
Constitution. Contact Evy Nordley, 612/433-2286.
Spring, Summer 1987 Various Public Radio Stations.
Throughout U S.
"Dateline 1787." A series of half-hour radio programs, with a
simulation of news reporting as it might have been done at the 1787
Constitutional Convention, produced by National Radio Theater of
Chicago and broadcast on public radio stations throughout the summer.
Contact Robin Lievers, 312/751-1625.
Spring, Summer 1987 Various Radio Stations.
Throughout U S.
"Constitutional Journal." Eighty-eight radio programs, each three
minutes long, sponsored by the American Studies Center, and planned
for broadcast on commercial and public radio stations. Contact Marc
Lipsitz, 202/488-7122.
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HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT CHAIRMAN CITES THREAT TO "AMERICAN MEMORY"
Report Calls for Changes in Teaching History, Literature and Languages
in U.S. Public Schools
WASHINGTON, August 30 —
America's elementary and secondary schools are failing to
teach students about their shared past and culture, says Lynne V. Cheney, Chairman of
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Cheney's comments appear in American Memory:
A Report on the Humanities in the
Nation's Public Schools, part of a Congressionally mandated study written by the NEH
Chairman and released today.
In it she says that history and literature are not being
adequately taught in public schools.
The fundamental problem, Cheney says, is that our system of elementary and secondary
education stresses skills rather than knowledge, based on the erroneous notion "that we
can teach our children how to think without troubling them to learn anything worth
thinking about ... (and) that we can teach them how to understand the world in which
they live without conveying to them the events and ideas that have brought it into
existence."
By emphasizing the process of learning over content, schools are producing students
with startling gaps in knowledge of history and literature* the report says.
Cheney
cites data from an NEH-funded survey showing more than two-thirds of American
17-year-olds unable to place the Civil War within the correct half-century or unable to
identify the Reformation or Magna Carta. The same survey showed that vast majorities of
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School districts should invest less in curriculum supervisors, instructional
overseers, and other mid-level administrators and more in paraprofessionals and
aides who can relieve teachers of time-consuming custodial and secretarial duties.
This will help accomplish two important goals: It will give teachers time to study
and think; and it will put them, rather than outside education specialists, in
charge of what goes on in the classroom.
Restoring the humanities to their proper place in America's elementary and secondary
schools, Cheney argues, will help students acquire familiarity with the past that they
will find useful in their lives.
"We would wish for our children that their decisions be informed not by the wisdom
of the moment, but by the wisdom of the ages; and that is what we give them when we give
them knowledge of culture," Cheney writes in the report's conclusion.
"The story of
past lives and triumphs and failures, the great texts with their enduring themes -these do not provide the answers, but they are a rich context out of which our
children's answers can come."
supports education, scholarship, research and public programs in the humanities.
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Single copies of American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public
Schools are available from the Office of Publications and Public Affairs, National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.* Washington, D.C. 20506.
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American
Advisory
Group
on
Memory
History
Teacher
the Arts
John Drisko
History Teacher
Falmouth High School
Falmouth, Maine
D a n i e l J. B o o r s t i n
T h e L i b r a r i a n of C o n g r e s s
W a s h i n g t o n , D.C.
Glenn Brooks
Dean
Colorado College
Colorado Springs,
Literature
Stephen Donadio
P r o f e s s o r of A m e r i c a n
Literature
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont
W i l l i a m B. A l l e n ,
P r o f e s s o r of G o v e r n m e n t
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, California
Janice Baker
High School English
B a l t i m o r e S c h o o l of
Baltimore, Maryland
and
E. D. H i r s c h
Kenan Professor of E ngl ish
U n i v e r s i t y of V i r g i n i a
Charlottesville, Virginia
L e o n R. K a s s
Professor, The College and The
C o m m i t t e e on S o c i a l T h o u g h t
U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o
Chicago, Illinois
Colorado
Jo Bruno
Elementary School Principal
PS 189
Brooklyn, New York
Helen Lojek
A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r of
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho
Ron Calgaard
President
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
English
R e g i n a l d A. M a c D o n a l d
S u p e r i n t e n d e n t of S c h o o l s
South Portland Public Schools
South Portland, Maine
Nancy Coombs
Teacher
Leal Elementary School
Urbana, Illinois
Maynard Mack
S t e r l i n g P r o f e s s o r of E n g l i s h ,
Emeritus
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Charlotte Crabtree
Professor, Graduate School
of E d u c a t i o n
U n i v e r s i t y of C a l i f o r n i a
Los Angeles, California
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Constance Matthews
English Department Head
Amherst-Pelham Regional
High School
Amherst, Massachusetts
Linda Miller
English Teacher
Pelham Memorial High
Pelham, New York
Helen Vendler
Kenan Professor of English
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
B e r n a r d A. W e i s b e r g e r
Free-lance Historian
Elizaville, New York
School
V i r g i n i a T. W h a t l e y
Teacher
Oglethorpe Elementary
Atlanta, Georgia
James Morris
Program Director
A n d r e w W. M e l l o n F o u n d a t i o n
New York# New York
Gordon Wood
P r o f e s s o r of H i s t o r y
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
K a r e n H. M u n r o
Coordinator, The National
Faculty, Northwest Region
Olympia, Washington
Outside
R i c h a r d E. P e t e r s
History Teacher
Mount Vernon
Community High School
Mount Vernon, Iowa
Diane Ravitch
A d j u n c t P r o f e s s o r of
and Education
Columbia University
Teachers College
New York, New York
School
Presenters
M a x A. E c k s t e i n
Professor, School of Education
Queens College
Ci t y U n i v e r s i t y of N e w York
New York, New York
History
Harriet Tyson-Bernstein
Writer and Textbook Analyst
Council for Basic E d u c a t i o n
W a s h i n g t o n , D.C.
Arthur Woodward
Professor, Graduate School
U n i v e r s i t y of R o c h e s t e r
Rochester, New York
R o n a l d A. S h a r p
P r o f e s s o r of E n g l i s h
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio
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Miriam DeCosta-Willis
P r o f e s s o r of R o m a n c e L a n g u a g e s
LeMoyne-Owen College
Memphis, Tennessee
Myriam Met
Coordinator of F oreign Lang u a g e s
Montgomery County Public Schools
Rockville, Maryland
Claud DuVerlie
A s s o c i a t e P r o f e s s o r of
U n i v e r s i t y of M a r y l a n d
Baltimore, Maryland
Maureen O'Donnell
Latin Teacher
T h e W. T. W o o d s o n
Fairfax, Virginia
B i l l i e D. G a i n e s
Foreign Language
Atlanta, Georgia
French
High
School
Mary Louise Peabody
Foreign Language Specialist
L o u i s i a n a D e p a r t m e n t of E d u c a t i o n
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Consultant
Sol Gittleman
Academic Vice President/Provost
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
Paola Malpezzi Price
A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r of I t a lian
and French
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
Jan Herrera
Foreign Language
Teacher Recruitment
Colorado State Department
Denver, Colorado
Maureen Regan
Associate Professor
of F o r e i g n L a n g u a g e s
State U n i v e r s i t y of N e w York
Potsdam, New York
Elizabeth Hoffman
German Teacher
Burke High School
Omaha, Nebraska
Outside
Presenter
C. Edward Scebold
Executive Director
American Council on
the Teaching of
Foreign Languages, Inc.
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
R i c h a r d A. L a F l e u r
P r o f e s s o r of C l a s s i c s
U n i v e r s i t y of G e o r g i a
Athens, Georgia
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Some Comments on American Memory:
A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools
by Lynne V. Cheney, Chairman
National Endowment for the Humanities
* Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post: "(A) devastating analysis ....
What gives the document its force is, first, it summarizes the case against
American education with clarity and pith, and second, that it does so wi-th
unimpeachable authority."
*
George F. Will, Newsweek:
"She has authored a miracle ...."
*
James J. Kilpatrick, syndicated columnist:
"... a blockbuster ..."
* Charles McDowell, Richmond Times-Dispatch, on P B S 's Washington Week in
Review: "It's as persuasive a report as I've read since I've been in
Washington."
* Jim Bohannon, Mutual Broadcasting's Larry King Show :
29 pages in all, which should be read by every American."
"A slim red book,
* The San Francisco Examiner: "a provocative report ....
The study is a
lively one, full of substantive ideas on what can and must be dofte."
* The Cincinnati Po s t : "... perceptive ....
widest possible audience."
*
The Wichita Eagle and Beacon:
American Memory deserves the
"... a warning our nation must not ignore."
* The Denver Post: "... should be required homework for every parent,
teacher and school official this fall."
*
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Since the National Endowment for the Humanities released American
Memory, authored by Mrs. Cheney, in the fall of 1987, the response from the
press and the public has been overwhelming.
Across the country, people are
paying attention to her troubling message.
Nearly every major U.S. daily newspaper has featured the report in its
news sectionsr opinion columns and editorial pages.
She has appeared on
numerous television programs, including "The Today Show," "Good Morning
America," "Firing Line" and "This Week with David Brinkley," and she
delivered a major address at the National. Press Club carried live by C-SPAN.
To date NEH has received more than 50,000 requests for copies of
American Memory. Foreign individuals and governments (including even the
Soviet news agency Ta s s ) have also joined in asking for copies of the
report.
Clearly, American Memory has struck a chord world-wide among people
concerned about the future of our children.
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Have Our Kids
Lost Their Past?
Our schools flunk history and literature
he fall term hasn’t even begun yet
but it’s already clear th a t John
ny—th at infamous American
schoolboy—is about to get anoth
er bad report card. Back in the
’70s he flunked reading and writing. By
the time the ’80s arrived he’d picked up
F ’s in m ath and science. Ju st last year he
failed geography when he couldn’t tell
Brazil from the United States on a map.
This week the National Endowment for
the Humanities will issue a long-awaited
study on how history and literature
are taught, and the message won’t be
reassuring.
After testing 8,000 17-year-olds in the
spring of 1986—80 percent of whom were
finishing a year’s worth of American his
tory—the NEH found th a t 68 percent
didn’t know when the Civil War hap
pened, and one out of three thought Co
lumbus arrived after 1750. The literature
T
scores were no less alarming:
84 percent didn’t know who
wrote "Crime and Punish
m ent,” 64 percent didn’t know
who wrote "The Canterbury
ARTH U R GRACE— NEWSWEEK
Tales” and 60 percent couldn’t
Indicting
educators:
NEH
chairman
Cheney
identify Walt W hitman as the
author of "Leaves of Grass.”
Already this summer, Johnny’s folks civilization is endangered because stu
have had plenty to upset them. First, they dents don’t know w hat it is.
sat in the sun poring over the season’s
The Cheney study, which took six
surprise best sellers—"The Closing of the months, concluded th a t there’s too much
American Mind” by Allan Bloom and focus on practical education such as
"Cultural Literacy” by E. D. Hirsch Jr.— phonetic reading skills for elementary
which offer similarly scary evidence about students and vocational training for
everything their kids don’t know. Fueling high schoolers. "Skill training,” Cheney
their concern, the American Federation of says, "began to drive more traditional of
Teachers released a study in July th at ferings, like ancient history, out of the
hammered away at the inadequacy of his curriculum.” Her three specific culprits—
tory textbooks. Now comes Lynne V. Che unimaginative curricula, poor textbooks
ney, NEH chairman and author of the and inadequately educated teachers—are
report, with her sobering news: Western familiar to school reformers. But the reB. Fyodor Dostoevsky
C. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
D. Arthur Conan Doyle
What 17-Year0lds Don’t Know
P arents won’t be happy to learn th a t large percentages of the
American teens who took the NEH quiz could not correctly
answer multiple-choice questions sim ilar to those below.
7Death Comes for
the Archbishop?
W ho w ro te
C olum bus d is
hen w a s th e U.S.
I Wco vhene r Admiderica?
w ritten?
2 WC onstitution
A. 1450-1550
B. 1550-1650
C. 1650-1750
D. 1750-1850
A. Before 1750
B. 1750-1800
C. 1800-1850
D. After 1850
3
W hen w a s W orld
W ar I?
A Before 1850
B. 1850-1900
C. 1900-1950
D. After 1950
W hich b e st d e sc r ib e s
Magna Carta?
A The Constitution
of the Roman Empire
B. The foundation of the
British parliamentary
system
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Neglected poet? Whitman
C. H ie charter for the
U.S. Congress
D. An essay by Aristotle
5
W ho w rote The Canter
bury Tales?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. William Shakespeare
C. Leo Tolstoy
D. Mark Twain
6
W ho w ro te Crime and
Punishment and The
Brothers Karamazov?
A. Leo Tolstoy
A Emily Dickinson
B. Agatha Christie
C. Willa Cather
D. Edith Wharton
8
W hich Am erica n p o et
w ro te Leaves o f Grass!
A Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Carl Sandburg
9
W hich reg io n
d id Faulkner m o stly
w rite about?
A The Midwest
B. New England
C. The Southwest
D. The South
ANSWERS
1.A; 2.B; 3.C; 4.B; BA; 6.B; 7.C; 8.A; 9 D
Continued from previous page:
Newsweek: "Have Our Kids Lost Their Past?"
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port depicts them in staggering detail.
Curricula: To Cheney, the problem begins
in elementary schools. No longer do young
children hear about Honest Abe or Betsy
Ross. Instead, elementary schools often use
the "expanding environment” concept of
social studies, which belabors obvious de
tails about the family in first grade, the
neighborhood in second and the community
in third. "No wonder most children think
social studies are boring,” says Cheney.
Then, in the higher grades, writes Cheney,
"the concept of history [has become] sub
merged” in curricula with a more contem- i
porary focus. And English courses have
de-emphasized the teaching of literature,
stressing "language arts”—th a t is, commu
nications skills—instead. The lack of rigor
ous standards for graduation is a problem in
some states: in Maine a student can get
credit for such courses as Introductions to
Careers and Business Communications.
Textbooks: Classic literature accounts for
no more than 10 percent of the content of
texts for elementary-school children, com
pared with McGuffey’s Reader of yore
which offered up Dickens, Longfellow and
Shakespeare. Now educators look for books
th a t satisfy formulas about how many new
words or long sentences a child can absorb.
Cheney found a story called "The Shoemak
er and the Elves” th at had deleted all refer
ences to elves, shoes and shoemakers in the
quest for "readability.”
Teacher training: Cheney reports th at too
often teachers know too little about the
subjects they’re asked to teach. Elementary-education majors, who teach every
subject, typically spend 41 percent of their
college class time in education courses,
leaving little time to pick up any general
knowledge to pass on. The demand for highschool coaches has also perverted educa
tional values: in Iowa, one in five history
teachers is a physical-education major, of
ten with the minimum number of history
credits to qualify for certification.
Undoubtedly the NEH will hear from a
barrage of educators this week. Many will
protest th a t Cheney’s reforms could con
tribute to the national dropout problem. "If
we force marginal students to meet more
requirements,” said the American Voca
tional Association’s lone Phillips, "we
l could cause them to leave the system com' pletely.” Some may resist on philosophical
grounds. "Yes, you’ve got to know the
names of the states,” says Mississippi
secondary-curriculum coordinator Nancy
Brown, "but I don’t want th a t on the front
burner.” Others will simply throw up their
hands: "You can’t do everything for a
youngster,” says Cobb County, Ga., admin
istrator Stanley Wrinkle. "Students have a
right to their own personal time.” Johnny
will be glad to hear it.
J a m e s N . B * K E R u )i< ft P a t W i n g e r t
in Washington andToDD Barrett in Atlanta
Frontpage
MONDAY, AUGUST 31,1987
Humanities Education: ‘Startling Gaps’
,
Schools Emphasize Skills Over Knowledge Study Says
By Barbara Vobejda
Washington Post Staff Writer
American schools are producing students
with “startling gaps in knowledge” of history
and literature, teaching them how to think
without giving them anything to think about,
the National Endowment for the Humanities,
charged yesterday.
rr
The endowment said that 68 percent of
high school students questioned in a new sur
vey could not place the Civil War within the
correct half-century.
The survey of nearly 8,000 17-year-olds
found that 43 percent could not place World
War I in the correct half-century, 39 percent
could not do the same for the writing of the
U.S. Constitution and nearly a third placed
the date of Columbus’ discovery of the New
World after 1750.
The survey, portions of which were an
nounced by NEH before the scheduled re
lease date next month, also found students
ignorant of major literary figures.
In a report critical of the nation’s elemen
tary and secondary schools, endowment
chairman Lynne V. Cheney blamed the poor
state of humanities education on several fac
tors, including a curriculum that emphasizes
skills over knowledge, a system of teacher
training that stresses methods over subject
CONTINUED
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page A 1, "Humanities Education: 'Startling Gaps'"
Study Finds ‘Startling Gaps’ in Student Knowledge of Humanities
HUMANITIES, From A1
matter and textbooks that have become “an
overcrowded flea market of disconnected
facts.”
"Usually the culprit is ‘process’—the belief
tltol-we can teach our children how to think
Vfithout troubling them to learn anything
Worth thinking about,” Cheney wrote. "In our
scfiBols today we run the danger of unwitting
ly proscribing our own heritage.”
;;The report recommended fundamental
changes, including an end to the widespread
system of teacher certification based on com
pletion of college-based training programs
and a move away from textbook selection
committees and the heavy reliance on text
books in the classroom.
.The harsh message in “American Memory:
AIReport on the Humanities in the Nation’s
Public Schools’*follotos several years of a na
tional education reform movement that
brought more rigorous course requirements
and basic skills tests for students but dealt
little with the content of courses.
‘^ “Educational reform was in the air, but the
humanities were seldom a part of it,” Cheney
wrote.
She urged that schools restructure their
curriculum, concentrating more on meaning
ful subject matter and less on skills. While
both are important, she said, schools have
neglected content by overemphasizing the
process of learning and skills ranging from
drawing conclusions and predicting outcomes
to filling in forms.
“Perhaps the most obvious indicator of how
process-driven our schools have become is
the dominant role played by the Scholastic
Aptitude Test,” the report said. “Looming
over our educational landscape is an exam
ination that, in its verbal component, carefully
avoids assessing substantive knowledge . . . .
Whether test-takers have studied the Civil
War, learned about Magna Carta or read
‘Macbeth’ are matters to which the SAT is
studiously indifferent.”
The NEH report, mandated by Congress
and written by Cheney, was based on contri
butions of more thaa. three dozen experts,
including outgoing Librarian of Congress
Daniel J. Boorstin; Columbia University
Teachers College professor Diane Ravitch,
who cowrote the survey of 17-year-olds, and
University of Virginia professor E.D. Hirsch,
author of a recent book recommending that
schools teach a core of basic facts and con
cepts to improve what he calls “cultural lit
eracy.”
Cheney relied on the results of the NEHfunded survey of 17-year-olds, 80 percent of
whom were enrolled in an American history
course in spring of 1986, when they took the
multiple-choice test.
The students’ lack of knowledge about lit
erature was equally disturbing, NEH said,
reporting that 84 percent could not identify
Feodor Dostoevsky as the author of “Crime
and Punishment” and 67 percent could not
say in what region of the country William
Faulkner set his novels.
Nearly two-thirds could not identify Geof
frey Chaucer as author of “The Canterbury
Tales,” 60 percent could not name Walt Whit
man as the American poet who wrote "Leaves
of Grass” and the majority was unfamiliar
with classics written by Dante, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Jane Aus
ten.
The report recommends that educational
institutions and states discard long-held prac
tices of teacher certification and adopt a sys
tem in which certification is granted by an
independent body, as it is for doctors and law
yers.
Today many states accept completion of an
accredited college education program as ev
idence that a prospective teacher is eligible
for certification. That leaves the certification
in the hands of those who educate the teach
er, resulting in what Cheney calls a “conflict
of interest.” Were there independent certi
fication, prospective teachers could take only
those education courses that would help them
pass a certification requirement and spend
more time studying history, literature and
language, the report said.
"I was struck . . . by the passionate testi
mony of teachers [who] feel they wasted their
time by taking education courses,” Cheney
said in an interview. Elementary school
teachers, who must teach a range of subjects,
typically spent more than 40 percent of their
undergraduate years taking education
courses, according to the report.
, The report also recommended that schools
abandon much of what is taught as “social
studies” and replace it with the systematic
study of history. Also, foreign language study
should start in grade school and include the
history and culture of other nations.
Cheney suggested that states and school
districts disband textbook selection commit
tees and allow teachers to choose their books,
a change that may lead publishers to include
more substantive material and good literature
in their texts. Teachers should also be al-,
lowed to rely less on textbooks and more on
original works of literature and other books.
School districts should reduce the number of
instructional specialists and other midlevel ad
ministrators and use the funds to hire teacher
aides, who could relieve teachers of custodial
and secretarial duties, the repo# said.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1987
Study: Schools neglect
what’s worth teaching
By CATHY SHAW
Herald Staff Writer
America's schools are producing
too many graduates w ho know
nothing about the Magna Charta
and w ho can’t place the Civil War
In the proper century, says a
report released Sunday by the
National Endowment for the Hu
manities,
“The problem Is that the empha
sis Is on w ays of knowing rather
than on rwhat to know ,” said
endowment Chairman Lynne Che
ney, w ho wrote the report, Ameri
can Memory: A Report on the
Humanities in the Nation's Public
Schools.
The endowment Is an indepen
dent federal agency created in
1965 to support scholarship, re-
searcn, education and public pro
grams in the humanities.
Cheney said she visited about a
dozen schools nationwide over 10
months and found the same story
from state to state.
“Curricula, textbooks, teacher
training — they’re all of a piece,"
she said. "They evolved in the era
o f progressive education, with the
emphasis on teaching practical
skills, and the focus on how to
teach, rather than what to teach.”
As a result, students can find the
main idea in a paragraph, but the
paragraph is not worth reading. It
Is bland textbook prose instead of
John Locke or Herman Melville.
Cheney's thesis Is similar to the
Frost Page
Co^tinu£di^from previous page:
The Miami Herald, Monday, August 31, 1987, Page
"Study: Schools neglect what's worth teaching"
cultural literacy advocated by
English professor E.D. Hlrsch,
w ho served on the study's adviso
ry group.
"But he's talking aboiit familiar*
Ity with basic concepts." said
Cheney, a former magazine editor,
teacher and author. "We’re talking
about knowledge.”
Dade County administrators said
they w ere familiar with Hirsch's
thesis but had not seen Cheney's
report yet.
"We recognize the problems
we're having not only in literature
and English, but also In social
studies, said Deputy Superinten
dent Paul Bell, who has created a
study group to come up with
specific recommendations by the
end of the year.
"These will be recommendations
for Dade as w ell as the stale,
because Florida plays a major
role," he said. :
Says Lori Parrish, vice chairman
of the Broward School Board:
"Researchers are like scientists
and attorneys — there are alw ays
tw o sides.
"What's knost Important is not
‘Do you know the answer?' It's
'Do you know how to find the
answer?’ ”
As one o f several large states
that adopt textbooks statew ide.
Florida has Influence on their
content. California recently exert
ed its considerable influence by
dem anding that state-adopted
textbooks stop ignoring the role of
religion In American history.
Cheney’s study, mandated by
Congress in 1985, says the main
culprit in students' inability to
name the main language spoken in
Latin America is “ 'process* — the
belief that w e can teach our
children how to think without
troubling them to learn anything
worth thinking about."
Calling history a path to the
future, she writes: "A system of
education that fails to nurture
memory of the past denies its
students a great deal: the satisfac
tions of mature thought, an attach
ment to abiding concerns, a per
spective on human existence."
Although a com m ittee of es
teemed educators said in 1982 that
cultural content should be central
to learning, that idea gradually
gave w ay to the notion that
students should prepare for life as
homemakers and trades workers.
Ancient history gave w a y to
“Introduction to Careers” and
“Business Communications.’* Cer
vantes gave w ay to "Spanish for
Hotel Management.”
To match the curriculum, text*
books sacrificed style to satisfy
readability formulas that dictate
sentence length and diction.
“With vital connections and
colorful words lost, w hat' w as
once meaningful and compelling
becomes pointless and dull,” Che
ney wrote.
What can be done?
W hile w aiting for textbooka to
change, teachers should “enlighten
their students with real books —
real w orks by real authors in the
same form in which they are read
by the rest of us."
Teachers in training should take
more courses in history and litera
ture. few er in education. Teachers
in the classroom should be relieved
of nonteaching duties, the study
says.
Herald staff writer Dan. Hotly
contributed (o (his article.
to
Schools get low grades
in history and literature
; By Dale Mezzacappa
loquirct Staff Writet
.
.
.
' The nation’s Schools are failing to ' points as the current best-sellers The
teach American students adequately
Closing of the. American Mind by Al
. about history, literature or their own
lan ftloom and Cultural Literacy by
cultural heritage, according to a con- ■ ' E D. Hirsch. Both books, in different
gressionally mandated study by the ‘ ways, criticize the nation’s higher
National Endowment.for the Human-sl alid lower educational systems for
ities released today. •
:
‘ failing to educate students broadly
*• American schools, according to ' enough in the liberal arts, leaving
them without essential knowledge of
NEH chairm'arisLyrine Cheney, operhistory, culture and literature.
, ate on "the belief that we can teach
Cheney's report refers often to a
our children how Jo think without
1987 survey of high school students,
; troubling them to learn anything
funded by NEH, which found that
; worth thinking about.”
"more than two-thirds of the nation’s
. Moreover, she said, teachers are
17-year-olds are unable to locate the
not given enough opportunity "to ' Civil War within -the correct half
become more knowledgeable about
century. More than two-thirds can
the subjects that they teach.”
not identify the Reformation or Mag
na Carta.”
Cheney wrote the 41-page report,
-‘‘American Memory: A Report on the
In addition, the survey found, stu
‘Humanities in the Nation's Public
dents are, by and large, unfamiliar
Schools,” after consulting ufith advi
with the work of such w riters as
sory groups made up of -educators
Dante, Chaucer, Dostoevsky, Jane
and after visiting schools a round the
Austen, Walt W hitm an,'N athaniel
‘country. •
......
^ Hawthorne, Herman Melville and
Cheney says that concern about-1 Willa Cather.
“A system of education that fails to
the content 01 history and literature
nurture memory of the past denies
. courses is seldom part of the recent
its students a great deal: the satisfac
educational reform movements that
*iiave stressed “back to basics,” strict tions of mature thought, an attach
ment to abiding concerns, a perspec
e r graduation standards and teacher
tive on human existence,” the report
accountability.
'
She indicts schools for not giving . said.
Cheney traces the current situastudents enough knowledge about
. th eir own heritage and says that
i good teachers seeking to enrich the
C o n t i n u e d.
curriculum are often frustrated by
school bureaucracies.
"Long relied upon to transmit
. knowledge of the past to upcoming
' generations, our schools today ap
pear to be about a different task,”
Cheney wrote.
‘‘Instead of preserving the past,
they more often disregard it, some
times in the name of ‘progress’ — the
idea that today has little to learn
from yesterday,” she said.
“But usually the culprit is ‘process’
— the belief that we can teach our
children how to think without trou
bling them to learn anything worth
thinking about, the belief that we
can teach them how to understand
the world in which they live without
conveying to them the events and
ideas that have brought it into exist• ence.”
Cheney makes some of the same
Continued from preceding page:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday, August 31, 1987
Study says U.S, school^ are
in history, literature and culture
tion to the views of progressive edu books of blandness born of fear of
cators early in this century who "ar controversy, as well as outright dis
gued that what most students needed honesty, distortion and misguided
was not study in history and litera revisionism.
ture, but preparation for homemakGroups on the right accuse schools
ing arid for work in trades."
of failing to teach that the American
As a result, schools valued practi form of government is superior to
cal training more than intellectual others and that the traditions, laws
stimulation, she said.
and culture of Western civilization
Collapsing history into ‘‘social are dominant in world history.
studies” and literature into “lan
Liberal groups agree that schools
guage arts” furthered the erosion, do a bad job at teaching American
Cheney wrote. Despite recent efforts history and Western civilization. The
to require more social studies and liberals also argue, however, that
language arts courses for gradua more attention must be paid to other
tion, many students — especially I cultures and peoples, and that the
those in vocational-education pro educational treatment of these cul
grams — satisfy such requirements tures should be on an equal footing
with courses such as “introduction t with what is taught about Western
to careers” and “business communi I civilization.
cations," rather than with solid his
: But conservatives regard this aptory or literature courses.
She says that while there has been 1 proach as “globalism,” arguing that
a recent upswing in the teaching of this undercuts the standing of the
foreign languages, language instruc . United States in the world.
For her part, Cheney says that “it is
tion is often given in a job-training
context — as in a course called sometimes argued that the story of
"Spanish for Hotel Management" — ! our nation’s past and the Western
’and is rarely accompanied by a study tradition that forms our heritage is
Of the cultures from which the lan irrelevant to a population that in
creasingly comes from other tradi
guage developed.
, The books used to teach reading in tions, but I would argue that the
elementary schools are filled with , opposite is true. While \ye need to
watered-down, dull stories following ; know as much as we can'about all
strict formulas for vocabulary con i: people everywhere, our first goal has
tent and sentence length rather than to be to comprehend this nation, all
■ with exciting children’s literature, its virtues and faults, all its glories
✓.
she argues. “With vital connections and failures."
'a n d colorful words lost, what was ! Cheney adds her voice to the grow] once meaningful and compelling be ing criticism about the inadequacy
comes pointless and dull,” Cheney of textbooks. A study by the Ameri
concludes.
can Federation of Teachers released
Cheney, who is m arried to U.S. Rep. earlier this summer concludes that
Dick Cheney (R., Wyo.), said that the most commonly used high school
current educational reformists have world history textbooks do not give
emphasized basic skills, math and students the knowledge they need to
science in an effort to help the ! understand democracy.
United States compete more effec- j
The study, written by historian
tively in the world economy through
Paul
Gagnon, concluded that in the
a more-qualified work force. But
such an approach, she said, needs to five most widely used texts “the
ideas and principles of democracv
be taken a step further.
are left unclear, incomplete. Its ori
“World competition is not just gins, adventures, needs and signifi
about dollars but about ideas,” Che cance . are nowhere systematically
ney wrote'.' “Our students need to presented.”
know what those ideas are, need to
"Relying on such books alone,
understand our democratic institu
tions, to know their origins in West teachers cannot teach, and students
ern thought, to be familiar with how cannot grasp, the compelling story of
and why other cultures have evolved peoples' struggles for freedom, selfgovernment and justice on Earth,”
differently from our own.”
he said.
The debatfe over educational con
The Philadelphia public school sys
tent, especially regarding, history
and literature, has always had politi tem, with a grant from NGH, is in the
cal overtones and is> now beginning midst of extensive revisions of both
to heat up anew. Groups on the right its American history and world his
and left alike accuse history text tory curricula.
M o n d a y m o r n in g , A u g u s t 31, 1987
Report says schools
neglect humanities
By AJeta Watson
M ercury N ew t Education Writer
Despite the push for ed u cation reform , A m erican
schools still n eg le ct history and literatu re to the point
where a g e n e r a tio n o f stu d e n ts p o s s e s s e s o n ly a
sketchy u nderstanding of its o w n cu ltu re, arg u es a
national report on the hum anities.
"By allowing the erosion of h istorical con sciousness,
we do to ourselves w hat an unfriendly nation bent on
our destruction m igh t,” w rites Lynne V. C henev, head
of the National E n dow m en t for the H um anities m a
report lo C on gress that w a s re le a sed Sunday. In our
schools today we run the d an ger o f unw ittingly pro
scribing our culture."
To underscore her point, Cheney
referred to a 1987 survey of the
nation's 17-year-olds conducted by
Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn
for the National Assessment of Ed
ucation Progress. Two-thirds of the
students couldn’t place the Civil
War In the correct half-century, a
third didn’t know that Columbus
sailed before 1750, nearly half
couldn’t Identify Chaucer as author
of “The Canterbury Tales,” and
two-thirds didn’t know William
Faulkner's books were set in the
Sooth.
“There ate some things they did■n't know that 1 find appalling,”
Cheney, a former college English
professor, said in a telephone interFriday.
Those gaps in the national mem
ory, she said, are directly linked to
poorly written textbooks that fall
to convey the significance of the
past. Inadequately prepared and
overburdened teachers, and an ed
ucation system that emphasises
skills over knowledge.
“Usually the culprit Is ‘process'
— the belief that we can teach our
children how to think without troubling them to learn anything worth
thinking about/’ Cheney writes,
“the belief that we can teach them
how to understand the world in
which they live without conveying
to them the events and Ideas that
have brought it Into existence.”
The report, “American Memo
ry,” was ordered by Congress when
it renewed funding for the NEH, a
federal agency that issues grants
for research and education In his
tory, literature, languages, archae
ology, ethics and the arts.
The paper comes nearly two
months after the California State
Board of Education approved a
new plan for history and social
science that calls for better-writ
ten textbooks with more emphasis
on the place of religion, black slav
ery and patriotism in United States
and world history.
Cheney deliberately echoes the
language of the 1983 report “A Na
tion at Risk,” which inspired the
national education reform move
ment. That pamphlet compared
the mediocre performance of
American schools to “an act of
war” committed by “an unfriendly
foreign power.”
“It was intentional because the
‘A Nation at Risk’ report was won
derful in drawing our attention to
the problems of our schools, but It
did have the focus on math ami
science and basic skills,” Cheney
said. “I hope more than one person
catches that echo because I think
It’s crucial to make tfee i
for the humanities."
While educators hare concen
trated on math and science in
struction, history and literature
have languished, Cbeney contend
ed.
*7 think that we are last a very
pragmatic people, and It’s been
easier to show why the study of
math, for example, fir science Is
important,” Chensy said. “The pay
off Is obvious and It’s been cast In
the form of ‘If our Uds don’t know
math, we’ll lose out to the Japa
nese.’ The importance of history is
not that obvious.”
Frmt
tit’s been easier
to show why the
study of math . . .
is important. The
importance of
history is not that
obvious. J
— L y n n » V. Chmney,
N a tio n * ! E ndow m ent
fo r th e H u m an itfo a
Cheney caQs for tint* history,
literature and language dasses for
all students; Improved textbooks
that present the Importance o( past
events and literature; sad teacher
preparation programs that devote
more time to subject matter stady
than educational theory.
CONTINUED
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The San Jose Mercury News, Monday, August 31, 1987, Front Page
"Report says schools.."
California scboolschtef Bill Ronlg hailed “American Memory” aa
additional aupport (or his efforts to
revitalize history and literature In
struction.
“I think they're right on target,"
Honig said of the report's conclu
sions.
Cheney, In turn, praised Califor
nia as a leader in re-emphasizing
the humanities.
“I talk about California a lot aa
the hope of the future,” Cheney
said.
But veteran English teacher
Claire Pelton expressed some res
ervations. The problem la more
complex than the report might
suggest, said Pelton,, a San Jose
Unified School District curriculum
supervisor who also serves on the
National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards established by
the Carnegie Forum.
Schools focus co skills such as
recognizing the mftin idea In a
paragraph because they’re Judged
on standardised Mat results that
have little to do with accumulated
knowledge, Peltori pointed out
"We tend to look at all of educa
tion In terms of One 'No. 2 penciland-paper test’ result, and that
kind of pressure hits this schools,”
she Baid.
“1 think we’re going to address
these problems,” she said, “but I
want to add that we’re really not
going to solve these problems and
give all students a common core of
history and literature until we
have smaller class sizes. You can’t
do It with 35 to 40 kids in a class.”
MONDAY
Front Pag©
A U G U S T 31, 1987
syOL. 301 NO. 91
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Study says schools prefer
to teach ‘how,’ not ‘what’
By Will Englund
American educators are so con
cerned with trying to teach “skills” In
English and history th a t they are
neglecting to teach very m uch In the
way of content, according to a report
by th e National Endowment for th e
H um anities th a t w as made public
yesterday.
“The culprit Is ‘process’ — the
belief that we can teach our children
h o w to th in k w ithout troubling
them to learn anything worth think
ing about," charges th e report,
“American Memory," w ritten by the
endow m ent’s chairm an, Lynne V.
Cheney.
Mrs. Cheney cites the results of a
survey earlier this year showing that
more th a n two-thirds of the nation’s
17-year-olds could not place the Civil
W ar In th e correct half-century or
Identify the Reformation or Magna
Carta; th a t “vast majorities" are u n
familiar with Dante, Chaucer, Dosto
evski, A usten, W hitm an, H aw
thorne, Melville or Cather.
This dem onstrates “how lam en
tably far we have gotten in forgetting
th e past," Mrs. Cheney said in an
interview last week.
She said she is not arguing sim
ply th a t students should be given a
heavy dose of facts but th a t there
a re nevertheless certain “linchpin
facts" and “shared symbols” th a t ev
ery student should “internalize.”
“There’s nothing wrong with a lit
tle memorization," she said.
The report strongly reflects the
th in k in g of some of th e prom inent
nam es In education reform, especial
ly those who have been popular
am ong conservatives. E. D. Hlrsch
Jr., for Instance, the apostle of “cul
tu ra l literacy," whose best-selling
book Includes a list of those things
an y educated A m erican should
know, served on one of two panels
See
HUMANITIES,
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The Baltimore Sun
Monday, August 31, 1987
HUMANITIES, from
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th a t advised Mrs. Cheney and th e
NEH staff. So did Diane Ravitch, the
historian of education a t Columbia
University, who h a s spoken out at
G oucher College a n d elsew here
against th e “expanding environ
ments" and "life skills' approach to
social studies a t th e expense of In
struction In history.
. “A system of education th a t fails
to n u rtu re memory of th e p ast de
ities Its students a great de^J: th e
satisfactions of m ature thought, a n
attachm ent to abiding concerns, a
perspective on hum an existence,"
th e report says. “Indeed, we p u t our
sense of nationhood a t risk by failing
to familiarize our young people with
the story of how the society in which
they live came to be."
I The report puts th e blam e for the
lack of historical an d literary con
te n t in American public education
on the training of teachers and ad
m inistrators and on the textbooks.
.» “A great deal of time is w asted in
education courses," Mrs. Cheney
said. The report argues th at prospec
tive teach ers should spend more
tim e taking college courses in their
subject areas and less time studying
educ?tion. But th e problem, she
said, is th a t school adm inistrators
also w ent through college studying
education, so they are ‘quite natural
ly" biased in favor of teaching learn
ing skills and against content.
! Janice Baker, an English teacher
a t B altim ore's School for the A rts
who also served on one of the advi
sory panels, spoke out strongly in
support of Mrs. Cheney in an inter
view last week.
• “There is no connection between
having education courses and being
a good teacher," she said. “There is a
connection betw een know ing your
subject and being a good teacher."
• And a teacher! she said, w on’t
teach w hat he doesn't know.
• W hat happens, the report found,
is th a t students spend their time on
m andated exercises such as “finding
th e main idea” — often with no re
gard to w hether the m ain idea in a
canned passage is worthw hile or
compelling.
CcLb)
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P 1-.
; But Glen W. Cutlip, th e branch
chief in charge of language and
. learning improvement a t the Mary
land D epartm ent of Education, de
fended w hat he called the “process
skills” approach — after acknow l
edging th a t his own training is in
education, not in English literature.
“T here’s Just more knowledge
th a n we can expect children to learn
iii 12 years," h e said. “We believe
th a t the two things you need are a
language ability and a learning abili
ty“We have to be very concerned
about th e stu d e n ts who are not
achieving very well" — and it is up
to public school educators to find the
approach th a t will work, he said.
“We have a lot of people like this
in the schools. A classical education
is n ’t going to help everyone. We
, need to help them find w ays to
learn. You can ’t Just p u t a great book
In front of them and call it an educa
tion."
Beverly L. Corelle, head of th e
M aryland S tate T eachers Associa
tion, agreed som ew hat w ith both
sides. For a teacher to know only
subject m a tte r an d nothing about
pedagogy, she said, “is not enough."
“You can learn all the French lit
eratu re in th e world, b u t get eaten
alive by a high school French class if
you don’t know how to deal with
those 16-year-olds."
On th e other h and, sh e said, a
wise teacher spends time “stretching
minds" and passing on culture even
- if it's not in th e curriculum . The
problem, she aigued, is th a t mastery
of skills is easily m easured by shortansw er testing, and th a t m astery of
the great questions of literature or
the great lessons of history is not.
“Inner city kids have a kind of
right-answer, wrong-answ er kind of
education," Ms. Baker, of the School
for the Arts, said.
The NEH report also strongly crit
icized th e lack of content in tex t
books. while acknow ledging th a t
they are written to the specifications
of school administrators.
The report concludes w ith these
recommendations:
□ More tim e should be devoted to
th e study of history, literature and
foreign languages.
□ Reading texts should contain
“more recognizably good literature
and less formulaic writing."
□ “History texts should present
the events of the p ast so th a t their
significance is clear."
□ “Teachers should be given op
portunities to become more knowl
edgeable about th e subjects th a t
they teach."
□ Teachers should not be certi
fied by the sam e people who oversee
their training, because this perpetu
ates th e em phasis on education
courses th at are of little value.
□ “School districts should invest
less in curriculum supervisors. In
stru ctio n al overseers a n d o ther
mid-level adm inistrators and more
in paraprofessionals and aides who
can relieve teachers of time-consum
ing custodial and secretarial duties."
M o n d a y , August 31, 1987
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Do texts keep
pupils in dark
about history?
ft.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Teachers
and text books that emphasize skills
over content are keeping US. chil
dren Ignorant of history and litera
ture, the chairman of the
F.ndn«m>nlrfor the
^
yesterday.
Lynne V. Cheney, In a study or
dered by Congress, urged elementary
and secondary schools to devote more
time to history, literature and foreign
languages.
Her in.OOO-word report, "American
Memory,” also previewed a forth
coming NEH-sponsored survey that
found dramatic gaps in teen-agers'
knowledge of epochal events, includ
ing when the Civil War occurred,
when the Constitution was written
and even when Columbus discovered
the New World.
“Most elementary reading books
contain little literature ” Mrs. Cheney
said. Instead of learning about King
Arthur, Joan of Arc or President
'Washington, children are subjected to
dry, contemporary prose aimed at
teaching such skills as how to make
grocery lists and <ise the telephone
book, she said.
"Knowledge of the ideas that have
Molded us and the ideals that have
mattered to us functions as a kind of
t'lvic g lu e” Mrs. Cheney wrote. "In
our schools today, we run the danger
of u n w ittin g ly p ro scrib in g our
heritage."
Mrs. Cheney said the 1370,000 sur
vey of nearly ft.non 17-year-olds in the
spring of 19BB by the National Assess
ment of Educational Progress found
68 percent could not place the Civil
137lh Y*ar, Ho. 243
War " w ith in th e c o r r e c t ,ia lfcentury''
Thirty-nine percent could not pface
the Constitution within the correct
half-century and 43 percent did not
know when World War I took place
Thirty-two percent did not know Co
lumbus landed "before 1750i," the cor
rect answer on a multiple-choice test
She laid the blame at the door of
textbooks and teachers who "empha
size the process of learning rather
than its content."
Mrs. Cheney lamented the Scholas
tic Aptitude Ttest was "studiously In
different" to "whether test-takers
have studied the Civil War, learned
ab out M agna C a rta or read
Macbeth "
She expressed concern that foreign
language courses emphasize oral pro
ficiency at the expense of the culture
of other lands, but she welcomed the
rebound in language enrollments in
high schools — 29 percent of students
studied a foreign language In I99S-M.
up from 21 percent in 1978 — and said
grade school is the time to start
The $69,000 study * n prepared
with advice from two panels of col
lege professors and school teachers.
C ^ i c a c o f nftune V o n a a v A uo u st
*987
Sect*?H i
Study: Schools lax on content
By Casey Banas
Education wntw
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The nation’s public schools sic
failing to teach history and
literature adequately because
they emphasize the process o f
learning instead o f the content,
the Rational Endowment for the
humanities said Sunday.
In a study requested by Con
gress to assess the state o f
humanities education in Ameri
can public schools, the federal
agency said that teaching stu
dents about “practical life” has
driven out an emphasis on “in
te lle c tu a l lif e ” th at w as a
hallmark o f public schools dur
ing the early pan of the 20th
Century.
“Instead o f preserving the
past, they more often disregard
it, sometimes in the name o f
‘progress’: the idea that today
has little to team from yester
day,” said Lynne Cheney, chair
m an o f th e N a tio n a l E n
dowment for the Humanities, an
independent federal agency that
supports education, scholarship,
research and public programs in
the humanities and has an annu
al budget o f S138 million.
By emphasizing the process o f
learning over content, schools
are producing students with
startling gaps in knowledge of
history and literature, according
to the report.
It cites a National Assessment
o f Educational Progress report
scheduled for release Sept. 10
finding more than two-thirds of
8,000 American 17-year-olds
tested this year were unable to
place the Civil War within the
correct half century in a mul
tiple-choice question with six
possible responses.
That same study also will re
port that a majority o f 17-yearolds tested were unable to iden
tify writers whose works are con
sidered classics, including Geof
fr e y C h a u c e r . N a t h a n ie l
Hawthorne. Walt Whitman and
Herman Melville.
A curriculum that focuses on
skills at the expense of knowl
edge. textbooks containing little
meaningful content and a system
o f training teachers emphasizing
how to teach rather than what
will be taught all must share the
blame in producing high school
students “who do not firmly
;rasp the facts o f history and
iterature,” the report said.
Many schools across the na
tion have upgraded science and
mathematics courses in response
to a widespread call for educa
tional reform that, began in
198V
f
Teens flunk on Civil War date
Across the United States,
When was the Civil War?
8,000 17-year-olds were tested
A. Before 1750. (3.7 per
this year on history and litera
cent.)
ture by the National Assess
B. 1750-1800. (22.6 percent.)
ment of Educational Progress,
which periodically tests stu
C. 1800-1850. (38.4 per
dents of various ages to deter cent.)
mine their knowledge in specif
D. 1850-1900. (32.2 per
ic subjects. The testing was cent.)
funded by the National En
E 1900-1950. (2.5 percent )
dowment for the HumanitiesF.
After 1950. (.6 percent)
One question on the test,
and the percentage of students
S ource: N a tio n a l E n
giving each answer, was:
dowment for the Humanities.
“History and literature were
not emerging as central concents
in the various state, regional and
national commissions looking at
education,” the report said. “Ed
ucational reform was in the air,
but the humanities were seldom
a pan o f i t ”
The new report dearly is an
attempt to gain a share of the
spotlight for humanities in educadonal-reform drdes.
It recalled that in 1892, a re
form com m ission o f scholars
known as the Committee of Ten
called for a new emphasis on
history and literature, and its
call for a curriculum based on
in tellectual life prevailed in
American public schools into the
early pan o f the 20th Century.
But then schools changed, em
phasizing the process of learning
rather than its content, though
both are important in the teach
ing o f history and literature, the
report said.
The report also said: “Current
reformers have emphasized the
necessity o f paying close atten
tion to what our children learn
as well as how they learn, but
their message has proved diffi
cult to translate into the class
room.”
For example, new curriculum
rules have been issued in Texas
mandating “essential elements”
for three required E nglish and
language arts high school cours
es. They include how “to vary
rate of reading according to pur
pose” and how “to recognize rel
evant details,” but only one in
the more than 100 mentions
m a jo r lite r a r y w ork s and
authors.
The problem extends further
with a proliferation o f curriculums in which students can ful
fill English and social studies
graduation requirements with
courses such as “Introduction to
Careers” and “Business Com
munications.”
Reading textbooks used in
many classrooms contain few se
lections from classic children’s
literature, not even much good
prose, the report said. Textbook
writers “produce a variety o f
materials, mostly aimed at devel
oping skills, everything from
how to recognize cause and ef
fect to how to make grocery lists
and use the telephone book,” it
added.
What elementary school chil
dren read “seems particularly va
cuous when compared to what
grade-schoolers once studied,”
the report said.
“In the early decades o f this
century, they read myths, fables,
stories from the distant past and
tales o f heroes. . . . exercising
their imaginations and beginning
to develop a sense o f life in
other times.”
Likewise, history textbooks
also are disappointing, the re
port said. Many weigh 3 pounds
and are heavy with facts, “but
seldom were those facts made
pan o f a compelling narrative,
pan o f a drama with individuals
at center stage.” it continued.
“The human ambitions and as
pirations that are both the
motivating force o f history and
its fascination were largely ab
sent”
The repon concluded about
history textbooks that they “are
poor in content, and what con
tent 'they do contain is not pre
sented in a way to make anyone
care to remember it.”
Teacher-preparation programs
require time for courses in learn
ing how to teach that might be
better spent studying history and
literature, the repon contended.
Elementary, school' teachers, ex
pected to teach everything from
mathematics to history, tvpicalh
must spend 41 percent of ther
time in undergraduate study tak
ing courses in education.
Among the report’s recoin
mendauons is that much in the
school curriculum labeled as
“social studies” should be re
placed by a systematic study c
history, and that “endurin
works o f literature” should be
pan of every student’s academj
life every school year.
Restoring humanities to the
proper place in the schools wi.
help students acquire familiarii
with the past that they will fin
useful in their lives, Cheney saic
“We would wish for our chL
dren that their decisions be ir.
formed not by the wisdom c
the moment, but by the wisdor
o f the ages,” she said. “Th
story o f past lives and triumph
and failures, the great texts wii
their enduring themes— these d
not provide the answers, bt
they are a rich context out c
which our children’s answers ca
come.”
G E O R G E
Learning From
the Giants
This is the
season to honor
those teachers
who do not
produce
‘flat-souled’ pupils
ove of learning has drawn American youths back to
their books. Well, OK, the lash of the law helped,
but in any case schools are humming after a sum
mer in which worrying about education has been in
season. The best-seller list includes E. D. Hirsch
J r.’s "Cultural Literacy,” adaunting assortment ofinformation Hirsch says must be mastered before true literacy can
be claimed. Even higher on the list is Allan Bloom’s "The
Closing of the American Mind,” an analysis of the damage
done by higher education today. Now comes "American
Memory,” an elegant essay in which Lynne V. Cheney,
chairm an of the National Endowment for the Humanities,
argues th at inadequate teaching ot history in public schools
is putting at risk our national character, dissolving the
sense of nationhood th at is our civic glue and threatening to
condemn our nation to perpetual infancy.
She has authored a miracle, a government report that
does not read like something w ritten by a fractious commit
tee united only by hatred of the English language. She notes
a survey th a t shows, for example, th a t two-thirds of Ameri
ca’s 17-year-olds cannot locate the Civil War in the correct
half century, and warns: by allowing the erosion of histori
cal consciousness, we do to ourselves what an unfriendly
nation bent on our destruction might. Novelist Milan Kundera has described how the Soviet Union has methodically
set about destroying the historical memory of Czechoslova
kia, proscribing her literature and tearing down historical
monuments, in order to destroy the Czech sense of nation
hood. In our schools today we run the danger of unwittingly
proscribing our own heritage. She says we are scanting our
past in the name of "progress” and "process.”
A wit once wrote a Ten Commandments for Americans,
beginning: "I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of
the house of the European tyrants into my own land, Ameri
ca: Relax!” The sense th a t our nation represents a progres
sive rupture with the past breeds complacency about dis
pensing with the serious study of history, which sinks into a
bog called "social studies.” The men who made the nation
knew better. They thought about what they could learn
from the decline of Athens and Rome.
The study of history is also injured by the educationists’
emphasis on "process.” It involves, Cheney says, believing
we can teach children how to think without troubling them
to learn things worth thinking about—th a t we can teach
them how to understand their world without teaching them
the events and ideas th a t brought-it into being. Cheney
recalls th at in "Life on the Mississippi” Mr. Bixby tells
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young Sam Clemens, "My boy, you’ve got to know the shape
of the river perfectly. It’s all there is to steer by on a very
dark night.” Cheney says th a t emphasizing process rather
than substance produces students who do not have the shape
of the world in their minds.
This nation, which began relatively recently on a conti
nent th at was a blank slate to be written on, has always had
pressing practical concerns of commerce, agriculture, engi
neering. Consequently there has been a constant tug on
education toward the utilitarian. Such concerns (and educa
tional fads, such as the idea th at young people learn best
when blown along by the inconstant winds of their own
inclinations) take a toll on the serious teaching of history
and literature, which are the core of the liberal-arts
curriculum.
The term "liberal arts” connotes a certain elevation above
utilitarian concerns. Yet liberal education is intensely use
ful. Liberal education does not just equip the individual to
function effectively in freedom, it confers freedom, in this
sense: it makes the individual autonomous. Autonomy in
volves the ability to rise above the world we have received
from previous generations and to judge the given by the
standard of the good. Judgm ent m ust be grounded not only
in the philosophic study of history, which is a pageant of
passionate arguments about the good, but of literature, too.
Literature courses—not the thin gruel of "language arts”
stressing "communication”—should be galvanic experi
ences for young people hungering for glimpses of the good.
One permissible ideal: History properly taught, not as a
sm attering of data but as a spectacle of human striving,
offers riveting examples of the range of human behavior.
Literature is rich in examples of noble hum an types, and it
is often by visions of the high th a t we are elevated. Some
say it is utopian for Cheney to think th a t the thrill of such
learning can be given to the public-school population.
Cheney replies: "By their nature, the humanities disci
plines ought to be the easiest to bring to everyone. While
some students will need more help than others with the
language of Shakespeare’s plays, for example, the themes
th at animate the plays—love, honor, betrayed, revenge—
are familiar to all and interesting to all.”
The idea th at education should be first and primarily the
transmission of treasures implies th a t some things are
clearly and permanently more precious than others. This in
tu rn involves acceptance of the idea th a t there are discover
able and teachable standards superior to whatever "values”
young people pluck from the smorgasbord of life. Education
th at flinches from insisting on th a t idea produces children
who are (in Bloom’s phrase) "flat-souled,” whose worlds are
devoid of ideals. But contemporary education often teaches
th a t there is only one permissible ideal—a world cleansed of
dangerous confidence in our ability to know the good. Rela
tivism is enjoined because certitude, the product of hubris, is
considered inherently arbitrary and m ust be the forerunner
of fanaticism. Fanaticism is dangerous and the goal of life,
teaching implies, is safety.
But the real hubris is in thinking we can dispense with the
transmission of the achievements of the giants of other
generations, on whose shoulders we stand. The result of not
attending to th at transmission, of stressing process over
substance, will be (Bloom again) the "reanimalization of
man.” Between us and th a t night stands a thin line of the
best teachers. So September is the season for honoring those
teachers who understand their vocation as Miss Julia Morti
m er did in Eudora Welty’s novel "Losing Battles”: "She
didn’t ever doubt but th a t all worth preserving is going to be
preserved, and all we had to do was keep it going, right from
I where we are, one teacher on down to the next.”
Opinion • Commentary
WEDNESDAY. SEP1EMCLR k 1987
Empty Education
Point o f Rocks.
FREDERICK COUNTY school
bus. Its red lights flashing,
stopped on Route 2 8 In th e
.middle of tow n. Most of the vehicles
halted watting w ere pickups. In the
« a r iy rural rush hour.
On a porch between the road and
th e C h essle track s, h alf a dozen
A
By Ernest B. Furgurson
gft>w n-ups w a tch ed a s children
alighted from th e bus. The last pupil
off w as a bright-faced girl with a tag
Around her n eck , like a piece of air
lin e luggage.
Everybody there — the family on
th e porch, the b u s driver, the drivers
cff th e tru ck s and cars patiently
waiting, especially the girl herself —
sm iled that such a sunny, promising
child had Just m ade It through her
first day at school. 1. and likely oth
ers w atching, thought back to m y
own first day. so long afio.
And then a s 1 drove on. I thought
the other way. ahead to the rest of
th is girl's d ays at school. My ow n
future and that of my children is tied
tip with what sh e and thousands of
other flrst-graders learn betw een
now and th e tim e they graduate
from high school — and become eligfole voters.
That part w as not a s pleasing
That sam e day. voters In B alti
more were approaching mayor and
city council election s, and can d i
dates were debating about who won
earlier debates. In Iowa and New
Ham pshire, presidential contenders
w ere w orking every crossroads,
talk in g about free trade and taxes
and arm s control. Across the nation,
there w a s a m assive consciousnessraising effort a s w e approached the
bicentennial of our Constitution.
And on that sam e day. the read
in g fraction o f the electorate could
h ave learned that an extensive sur
vey had found that m any American
high school students know very little
about thin gs like elections, debates,
trade, taxes, arm s or the C onstitu
tion — In short, about the history of
their country.
H um aallies survey questioned 6 ,0 0 0
17-year-olds, 8 0 percent of them Just
com pleting a course In U.S. history.
It found that 4 3 p ercen t could not
say In w hat half-century World War
D took place, and 3 9 percent could
not do the sam e for the writing of the
C onstitution. Higher p ercen ta g es
cam e up blank on sim ple questions
about the world's great literature.
Earlier such studies have dem on
strated a n abysm al lack o f k n o w l
edge about geography, m ath, science
and of course basic English.
A t lea st so m e of th e cou n try
cares: two books about th is vacuum
Decisions about war
and peace, poverty
and prosperity depend
on some shared idea of
what has gone before.
have becom e surprise best sellers
th is year — Allan Bloom 's "The
Closing of the American Mind1' and
E D Hirsch s "Cultural Literacy."
Lynne Cheney. NEH chairm an,
asserts that "skill training" has tak
en precedence over learning in our
schools The problem s include dull
co u rses, dum bed-dow n textb ook s
and teachers w ho are schooled In
how-to rather than what.
Courses have becom e like scram
bled eggs. History Is part o f "social
stu d ies " English Is part o f "lan
guage arts." Teaching, even m en
tioning ba§4c courses is discouraged,
apparently because it might frighten
stud en ts away.
First reaction am ong educators to
the NEH study does not promise dra
m atic corrective action. O ne sa y s
that If m arginal stu d en ts are re
quired to learn m ore, it w ill ju st In
crea se th e dropout rate. A nother
sa y s th e faculty c a n ’t do everything,
that stu d en ts h ave "a right to their
ow n p erson al tim e." He m ay h ave
slipped and said stu d en ts w h en he
m eant teachers.
Along th e Potomac. I headed back
toward W ashington, w here billions
o f dollars are sp en t every day and
d ecision s about w ar and peace, pov
erty and prosperity depend on som e
shared know ledge of w hat h a s gone
before. 1 w ondered w h at th ese su r
vey find in gs m ean t for all of u s at
th e end of th e 1 9 9 0 ‘s, w h en today's
flrst-graders will start to vote.
Will our country be run by a n
educated m inority, a cultural a ris
tocracy that und erstan ds how today
relates to yesterday? Will the alarm s
raised today h ave an y effect, p er
h aps change this established trend
toward em pty education, or will we
go on the easy way?
Back hom e. 1 flitted through NEA
Today, a paper published by the big
gest teacher's union. It had a cover
blurb about "W hat m otivates to
day s stud en ts: S tu d en ts describe
the teachers w ho turn them on — to
learning!" A geographically s c a t
tered group of'obvious exceptions to
th e national rule told how they had
been energized to learn m ath, sc i
en ce. E n g lish , even history. . T he
com m on thread w as their teachers'
enthusiasm .
For exam ple. Jennifer Roberts, of
Exeter. Rhode Island, said sh e didn't
like history until "her teacher played
the role of Phil D onahue, h osting a
slave ow ner, a n abolitionist and a
sla v e." T h e w h o le ex ercise w a s
taped and played back — and after
that, "the cla ss w as eager to learn
about Frederick D ouglass's life.”
A m om ent o f silen ce, please, for
America In the 2 1 st Century.
T he W ash in g to n Post
JONATHAN YARPLEY
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Lynne Cheney, Indicting the Educationists
I
n recent years we’ve been inundated
Cheney minces no words about who is
bureaucracies, they will become all the
with homiletic reports on the state of '' to blame for this: “Education specialists
more so as their numbers increase. The
American education, so it’s tempting
dismal, inescapable fact of American
who think in terms of process rather than
to ignore yet another: Lynne Cheney’s
primary and secondary education—and,
content,” the “educational theorists,
“American Memory: A Report on the
administrators and bureaucrats” who
more and more, of higher education as
Humanities in the Nation’s Public
well—is
that it is in the hands of people
have
imposed
on
the
public
schools
their
Schools.” The temptation must be
who
are
anything
but teachers, people
conviction
that
“the
purpose
of
education
resisted. Cheney's report, which was
is to teach students how to think rather
who are indifferent if not hostile toward
issued last week, is a devastating analysis
than imparting knowledge to them.”
the very knowledge that any responsible
of the price we are paying for the
, bureaucratization of American education;
educational system seeks to transmit.
These are the people who have inflicted
though Cheney tries hard to look on the
upon the schools tfre stunting sophistry
They are alumni of schools of "education
1 positive side, honesty and intelligence
that emphasize teaching and
that "schools should concern themselves
compel her to accentuate the negative.
not with intellectual life but with practical administrative “process” while slighting,
There is little in "American Memory”
life”—th£ people who have turned
if not actually neglecting, what is to be
that will come as a surprise to anyone
taught. Thus “a survey of 17 major
history
into
"social
studies”
and
English
who has followed postwar American
institutions in the South showed that
into
"language
arts,”
and
have
given
education with reasonable care. What
primary importance to "instructional
future teachers had a weaker general
gives the document its force is, first, that
education curriculum than most arts and
it summarizes the case against American ■objectives," "learning activities,”
education with clarity and pith, and,
"teaching strategies” and “evaluative
science graduates,” while "of particular
second, that it does so with
measures.”
concern to the history profession is the
unimpeachable authority. Cheney herself
value placed on coaching ability when
All of this educationist cant may be
, is deservedly respected not merely as
history teachers are hired.”
hogwash but it has become the received
chairman of the National Endowment for
wisdom,
and
going
against
it
as
Small wonder that the system
the Humanities but as a published author;
forthrightly
as
Cheney
does
is
an
act
of
produces
students who do not know whei
many members of the advisory
not-inconsiderable courage. It is even
the Civil War and World War I were
■committees that helped her with the
j report are well-known figures in
grittier for someone in her position to
fought, who think that the principal
! education at all levels. "American
pounce as vigorously as she does on the
language of Latin America is Latin, who
■ Memory” is anything except a dispatch
Scholastic Aptitude Test, which she
have no acquaintance with the
from the bush leagues.
correctly identifies as, under the present
Reformation or Chaucer, with the Magn?
Like virtually all government reports it
system, for too many students “the single
Carta or Dostoevsky. They know how to
concludes on an upbeat note, with various
most crucial experience of their academic
fill out an application for a driver’s
cheerful recommendations for hauling
lives.” She rightly says it is a test that, “in
license, and indeed they know (more or
the humanities out of the trough into
its
verbal
component,
carefully
avoids
less) how to drive, but Shakespeare and
which the educationists have pushed
assessing substantive knowledge gained
. them. These recommendations are
Mozart and Faulkner are not within their
j’ uniformly sensible, and no doubt put
from course work,” but she does not go
ken. They are in the deepest and truest
forward in ail sincerity, and if wishes
far enough. The public schools have
sense ignorant people, yet the American
were horses they would all be in effect
become fixated on the SATs, andnow
system of public education has certified
tomorrow morning. But wishes are not
concentrate on teaching students to
them as educated.
horses and the odds against any of these
improve their scores not in order to
It is, as Cheney says, a system that
proposals ever being widely adopted are,
educate them but to deflect criticism of
"denies its students a great deal: the
if not insuperable, dauntingly high. So we
the schools’ effectiveness. Test-taking is
satisfactions of mature thought, an
do better to look on the darker side, to
all; education is nothing.
consider what the report has to say about
attachment to abiding concerns, a
things as they actually are, and as they
Further, it is certain to remain that
perspective on human existence”; indeed
* are certain to remain into the foreseeable
way so long as the educationists are in
it is a system that holds students in
future.
charge. The prospects for showing them
contempt, for its underlying assumption
i
"Long relied upon to transmit
the door are not good. "Between 1960
is that they are incapable of genuine
knowledge of the past to upcoming
and 1984,” Cheney points out, *%hile the
learning, only of absorbing "practical”
generations,” Cheney writes, “our schools
number of teachers grew by 57 percent
instruction for “vocations.” It also denies
today appear to be about a different task.
and the number of principals and
them the knowledge of the past upon
Instead of preserving the past, they more
supervisors by 79 percent, the number of
often disregard it, sometimes in the name
which to live in the present and to plan
other staffers, from curriculum
of ‘progress’—the idea that today has
for the future. A citizenry ignorant of
little to learn from yesterday. But usually
specialists to supervisors of instruction,
past wars is a citizenry that will elect
; the culprit is ‘process’—the belief that
was up by almost 500 percent. Resources
leaders no less ignorant, and thus liable
; we can teach our children how to think
are increasingly being drawn into salaries
to lead it into wars It neither wants nor
without troubling them to learn anything
for people wh o. . . inevitably steer in the
supports. That alone should be ample
worth thinking about, the belief that we
direction of process rather than content, ; "practical” reason for giving students the
- can teach them how to understand the
toward skills rather than substance,”
"intellectual” education that the
world in which they live without
These people are already deeply
educationists, in their own blissful
conveying to them the events and ideas '
. that have brought it into existence.”
ignorance, so scornfully spurn.
entrenched, and as is true of all
S tic ]X )a $f)in g to n S S tttcs
MONDAf SEPTEMBER 7,1987 /PAGE All
GUEST COLUMN / STEPHEN GREEN
Troubling doubts on education
A
timely report from Lynne
V. Cheney, chairm an of the
N.ation,alJgjn{l,t)Mneat.j9r
th e H u m a n itie s , h a s
raised some provocative and trou
bling questions about the quality of
literature and history instruction in
America’s elem entary a n d secon
dary schools.
As might be expected from the
head of an organization dedicated to
promoting the arts, literature, phi
losophy and culture in general, Mrs.
Cheney is worried that the human
ities have been bypassed by the re
cent education reform movement.
_ According to th e dismaying evi
dence in her rep o rt to Congress,
Mrs. Cheney has sound reasons for
concern. F ar too many of the stu
dents who now a re returning to
classrooms across the nation are
about to be subjected to dismal
courses of instruction. They are en
rolling in classes that will fail to pro
vide them even the most rudim en
tary know ledge of history and
literature.
, Consider the profoundly disturb
ing r e s u lts o f an endow m entcom m issio n ed su rv ey o f 8,000
American 17-year-olds. More than
half were unable to place the dates
of the A m erican Civil War within the
correct half-century. M ore than half
were unable to identify the author of
“The Canterbury Thles,” define the
Renaissance and identify H erm an
Melville. More than half had no
knowledge of the M agna Carta.
Furtherm ore, other surveys have
uncovered equally shocking data.
For instance, a recent poll sponsored
by the H earst Corp. found that 45
percent of those surveyed errone
ously identified the U.S. Constitution
as the source of Karl M arx’s phrase,
“from each according to his ability,
to each according to his need.”
Stephen Green, managing editor
OfCopley News Service’s Washington
bureau, is a nationally syndicated
columnist.
Mrs. Cheney’s report is titled
“A m erican Memory.” Perhaps a
m ore accurate title would have been
“America’s Lack of Memory.”
Literature and history a re the ve
hicles used to transm it a nation’s cul
tu re and values along the chain of
generations. As the Cheney report
makes clear, America’s heritage of
literature and history has not been
effectively passed along to the
young. Consequently, there is grave
danger to the nation’s traditional
dem ocratic values.
History and literature convey the
fa c ts and sym bols of W estern
civilization and America’s political
and cultural traditions. An under
standing of the political theory be
hind the Constitution and knowledge
of the struggle to obtain and main
tain freedom are essential if future
generations are to cherish and pro
tect their political legacy.
When totalitarian rulers inten
tionally distort historical facts to jus
tif y th e ir destru ctio n of basic
fre e d o m s, A m ericans m u st be
arm ed with the truth about the past
in order to defend their heritage ef
fectively.
Mrs. Cheney perceptively has fin
gered t hree suspects as the culprits
responsible for the lamentable lack
of knowledge about history and lit
erature — school curricula that give
m ore importance to specific skills
than actual knowledge, teacher edu
cation that enshrines methods of in
struction rather than knowledge of
the subjects to be taught, and the
bland and disjointed textbooks that
fail to convey the excitem ent of lit
erature and history.
Obviously it is essential to retain
some stress on teaching practical
skills. But Mrs. Cheney clearly is
ju s t i f i e d in c a llin g f o r m o re
classroom emphasis on cultural con
tent. H er recom m endations a re
right on the mark.
The systematic study of history
and the classics of literature ought
to be required of every student.
Whenever possible, students should
be asked to read from original lit
erary works and historical doc
uments. Tteachers ought to take more
college courses in the subjects they
will teach and fewer in the methods
of pedagogy. Reading texts should
have m ore literature and less sim
plistic writing. History books should
should clearly convey the signifi
cance of the past.
But first things first.
At the start of a new academic
year, Mrs. Cheney’s report ought to
be on the required reading list for
every local school board member,
and indeed, for anyone interested in
preserving America’s priceless leg, 'acy of literature and history.
B 6 Sunday, September 6,1987
AN I ND E P E N D E N T N E WS P A P E R v
For the Humanities
YNNE CHENEY, chairman of the National The report rightly condemns these tendencies
Endowment for the Humanities, liaa an and the resultant situation, where, as Mrs. Cheepiphany" when a schooi board official, ney says, "the curriculum chart... I says students
asked why her students didn’t know the history of should practice ‘finding the main idea’—and nevthe Civil War or the author of “Moby Dick,"
er mind if the main idea is worth finding.”
responded, "They know how to look it up.” Mrs.
Its straightforward and simple recommendaCheney’s realization—that by focusing unduly on tions—devote more school time to the humanities,
teaching students “learning skills,” educators use original sources, free up teachers’ time and
have all but abandoned the attempt to teach them improve their textbooks—are good, even though
content—forms the theme of her short report, this report does not take up the reasons these
"American Memory: A Report on the Humanities apparently ludicrous shortcomings are so widein the Nation’s Public Schools,” which the NEH ■ spread in the first place. It does not, for instance,
released the other day. “American Memory,” like address the widespread unwillingness of authorities
so many recent education-reform reports, offers a to dictate what children shotdd learn—an abdication
clear diagnosis of an awful situation, plus modest which has a great deal to do with the rise in
suggestions. That is welcome. But after so many
popularity of supposedly neutral “skills.”
such reports, the question remains how the probMrs. Cheney sets forth an inspirational prescriplems raised can actually be attacked.
tion for better textbooks and recommends more
This report notes that real history, real litera- direct use of real storybooks and literature not
ture and foreign language study have all but faded written in accordance with deadening "readability
from the curriculum in favor of “communications formulas." But the commercial incentives and inter
skills” and "social studies,” which proceed to est-group pressures that have brought textbooks to
“belabor what is obvious even to six-, seven- and their current moribundity will be a problem. The
eight-year-olds”—for example, that people live in National Education Association, the status quo in
families and children, go to school. Teacher train- camate, has endorsed the report in guarded phras
ing relies heavily on courses in method—to the es, but there is not much likelihood that it will do
exclusion of courses reinforcing their love of, or anything to advance Mrs. Cheney’s call for the
evep expertise in, the subjects they will teach, schools to “invest less in curriculum supervisors,
Even university faculties in the humanities, seem- instructional overseers and other mid-level adminisingly those most directly concerned with the trators.” As an institution outside the education
transmission of culture to the young, tend to pay establishment, the NEH is free to see clearly and
more attention to potential university teachers criticize, but that freedom curtails its scope for
and to convey the message that teaching h'-mani- follow-up. Sooner or later, the education establish
e s to grade school or high school isn’t important.
ment must pick up the ball. Will it?
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Friday, September 4,1987
On target
Most educational studies have
the staying power of Chinese
food. But the recent report from
the National Endowment for the
Humanities regarding the sorry
state of history and literature in
struction in American public
schools provides plenty of sub
stance that ought to be digested
by every school district through
out the nation.
Not since the spring of 1983,
when the National Commission
on Excellence in Education
scored the mediocrity in U.S.
public schools, has a report been
so consistently on the mark as to
their shortcomings and what
should be done to correct their
deficiencies.
NEH Chairman Lynne Cheney
hits the ground running in the re
port’s foreword when she notes
that the humanities have been ne
glected in the educational-reform
movement that has swept across
the country during the last four
years. She makes her case with a
wealth of statistics that disclose
an appalling ignorance among
students concerning history and
literature.
For example, more than twothirds of the 17-year-olds sur
veyed could not place the Civil
War within the correct half-cen
tury. Nor were they familiar with
either the time or the signifi
cance of the Reformation or the
Magna Carta. These students be
lieve that Karl Marx’s phrase:
“From each according to his abil
ities, to each according to his
needs” is contained in the U.S.
Constitution. Likewise, most of
them are unfamiliar with the
works of Dante, Chaucer, Dos
toevsky, Austen, Whitman,
Hawthorne, Melville, and Cather.
How, Mrs. Cheney asks, can
students who know virtually
nothing about their cultural heri
tage make informed judgments
about the present? The answer, of
course, is that they cannot.
In order to reverse this ômi
nous trend, she recommends a
restructuring of anemic social
studies and language-arts curri
cula to breathe some life into his
tory and literature. She would
begin by replacing courses that
stifle the students’ imagination
with comprehensive studies of
the past and special emphasis on
great authors. She would require
that history and literature text
books contain lively writing and
original sources instead of the
formulaic fare that is common
place.
She would also give classroom
teachers greater freedom to se
lect the books used in their cours
es. This makes much more sense
than leaving such decisions to ed
ucational bureaucrats, most of
whom haven’t set foot in a class
room in years.
Gathering steam, Mrs. Cheney
takes on teacher-training pro
grams that emphasize process at
the expense of content. Apart
from student teaching, most
teachers consider their education
courses to be a colossal waste of
time. California recognized as
much in 1970 when it required
teachers to earn a degree in the
subject they are going to teach
before they enter the classroom.
Unfortunately they must take a
fifth year of education classes be
fore they are certified to teach.
The state makes an exception for
high-need areas, such as math
and science, where a bachelor’s
degree and successful completion
of the National Teachers’ Exami
nation will suffice.
Mrs. Cheney would make it
easier for bright, knowledgeable
persons to enter the classroom in
all academic disciplines by ex
panding the certification routes.
She’s right of course. Such flexi
bility could entice to the teaching
profession many talented per
sons, who otherwise bristle at
spending a year slogging their
way through methods classes.
Further, all teachers should be
encouraged to earn graduate
credits in their content area, in
stead of getting their tickets
punched in pedagogy.
These are just some of the nu
merous highlights in the percep
tive NEH report that should be
required reading for anyone con
cerned about the worrisome state
of public education in the United
States.
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Resuscitating the humanities
The National Endowment for the
H um anities has discovered — what
else? — that America has-been short
changing the humanities. 'The Na
tional Science Foundation has already
told us that the nation is neglecting
graduate studies in engineering and
mathematics (in which 40 percent of.
the enrollees these days come from
abroad). And the Modern Language
Association is sure to weigh in on the
deplorable state of foreign language
instruction, though it’s said, sotto voce,
to be getting a bit better.
We couldn’t agree more on the hu
manities front, even though there
seems to be a yet-another-turn-of-thewheel aspect to the NEH’s latest report.
Secretary of Education William J. Ben
nett, the last NEH chairman, was la
menting the decline of the humanities
in 1984, when he found entire congre
gations of college students unable to
identify, much less discourse upon,
Shakespeare or Rembrandt.
Unsurprisingly, the new report says
that the public schools are just as bad
as the colleges. Most 17-year-olds, it
says, can’t date the Civil War within a
half-century, and don’t even ask about
Dante, Whitman or Melville. The pro- .
posed antidotes? More time devoted to
the study of history, liberating teach' ers. from education courses and secre
tarial duties, using original works in
stead o f dum bed-dow n, form u laic
texts.
Sounds good, if rather tame. But
w hile the NEH has taken the bellows
to the cause of the humanities, quoting
Cicero’s injunction, “To know nothing
of what happened before you were
born, is to remain fdrever a child,” a
counter-trend is burning brightly.
Textbook censorship attempts, accord
ing to People for the American Way,
jumped 20 piercent during the last
school year.
They grew despite th e fact that
“basal Teaders,” the main: classroom
fare of young readers, -have been
stripped not only of controversy, but
of color and flights Of style — a devel
opment the hum anities report laments
at great length. As former teacher Su
san Ohanian writes in this m onth’s
Atlantic, the texts have come to resem
ble M elville’s Bartleby the Scrivener:
“pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, in
curably forlorn.” Hardly inviting, in
other words.
What good are basal readers, the
NEH educators argue, if they don’t
inspire students to keep reading? And
perhaps discovering one day the won
derful, humanizing world of Herman
Melville and of Bartleby, the pathetic,
haunting creaiure of his imagination.
Wednesday, September^ 1987
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Editorial Page
Unsigned articles a re theopinion of The World-Herald.
Textbooks Part of the Problem
New Look at Education
Finds Areas of Concern
Is instruction on how to get along in
today’s world driving the nation’s cultural heritage out of some classrooms?
Are som e schools discarding instruction about the country’s history
and traditions in the name of progress?
The National Endowment for the
Humanities has raised surh nnssihili-
ties in its recent critique of American
education. Expressions of concern b y
Lynne Cheney, the endowment’s director, are a thoughtful addition to the
debate over the quality of American
education.
Ms. Cheney describes today’s public
school textbooks as “an overcrowded
flea market of disconnected facts”
that belabor such obvious bits of information as the fact that people live in
families and that children go to school,
Children leam how to drive cars and
make grocery lists instead of how their
nation came to be established and how
the Bill of Rights applies to them.
Bland, watered-down textbooks are
part of the problem, she said.
Simplicity has too often replaced variety and depth in the curriculum. The
19th-century authors of classic young
people’s literature, including Robert
Louis Stevenson, Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcotl, Lewis
Carroll, Charles Dickens and Charlotte
Bronte, typically wrote in the rich,
complex vocabulary of their time.
Young readers had to reach to understand. Many of today’s books for young
people are calibrated to age groups,
The unfortunate result is that young
readers aren’t as challenged to share
and appreciate the culture of their ancestors.
Literature isn’t the only area that
‘has been watered down. There was a
time when a solid grounding in the
country’s history and traditions was a
central part of any child’s education,
Today, Ms. Cheney said, 68 percent of
a group of 17-year-olds tested recently
couldn’t place the Civil War within the
correct half-century,
Studies indicate that children have
-not given up reading and homework
just to watch television. But it makes a
difference what they are given to read,
if texts and other readings are bland
and uninformative, as Ms. Cheney and
a number of other critics have alleged,
the young minds influenced by them
will be bland and uninformed,
True, more is being done today to
salvage children who might have fallen
behind and dropped out in earlier
times. The idea that the schools are for
everybody, not just for those who can
keep up, has broadened the base of
American education.
But surely it should be possible to
keep th e slo w er students from
dropping out without watering the curriculum down for everyone. Surely it is
possible to devise history books that
will teach the framework of history so
the students don’t go out into the world
ignorant of such pivotal events as the
Constitutional Convention, the Civil
War and the development of the frontier.
It is the responsibility of the adults
in society to pass the culture of their
nation and its traditions to th'e next
generation. The National Endowment’s report, “American Memory,”
suggests that a sti-onger effort may be
needed.
'-TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ,8; ;*967
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Back to school
ACK to school again. Kids have
homework to do in the evenings
' once more, the department stores
have had their big sales - and newspaper
columns are filled with dire commentaries
on the state of American education.
Currently at the center of attention is a
report by Lynne Cheney, chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
called “American Memory: A Report on
the Humanities in the Nation’s Public
Schools."
The report discusses a survey taken
last year of some 8,000 American high
schoolers, which found large percentages
of them unable to say when Columbus
discovered the new world, when the Jap
anese bombed Pearl Harbor, or who wrote
“The Canterbury Tkles."
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.. Young people are. not being properly
schooled in the humanities; too much at
tention has been put on the techniques
and processes of learning, rather than the
content of what is learned, the report has
found.
But there have been times - not too
long past - when learning techniques
have seemed very important indeed.
Basic literacy skills cannot be taken for
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granted in the United States today. Basic
comprehension of how sentences consist
of subjects and verbs working together,
with help from modifiers and cot\iunctions and other elements, represents a
major achievement for many.
And certainly with all the push by
various states and regions to compete for
valuable high-technology industry, the
math/science/computers cluster has been
getting extra attention, presumably at the
expense of Chaucer and history. The right balance between the practi
cal and the cultural has, obviously, yet to
be found. A consensus has yet to be estab
lished on how much history and literature
it is reasonable to expect young people in
a pluralistic society to learn in the video
age.
American culture has long since moved
away from being a pale imitation of Euro
pean imports - but not to the point that
the Old World antecedents of, say, the
Declaration of Independence, are no
longer relevant. One task that lies ahead
for educators will be to make the case for
the humanities, and prove their value in
society at large rather than just for
scholars.
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. . . and here’s a major task for the schools
The report on hum anities education
The report — prepared by NEH chair
in A m erican public schools published m an Lynne Cheney with the advice of
yesterday by the National Endow m ent m ore than 30 teachers and academ ics —
for the H um anities (NEH) m akes dis concludes th at b ec au se h is to ry is n o t
turbing reading.
bein g ta u g h t “in o u r schools to d ay ,
The report — based upon an N EH test w e r u n th e d a n g e r o f u n w ittin g ly
adm inistered to 8000 17-year-old high p ro sc rib in g o u r ow n h e rita g e .”
It is a n a la r m in g p ro s p e c t — fo r
school students last y ear — reveals
th a t m any schoolchildren display a A m e ric a 's c u ltu ra l a n d p o litic a l
, dism aying lack of knowledge about the h e r ita g e is th e g lu e b in d in g a m o st
literatu re and the historical events th at e th n ic a lly d is p a ra te n a tio n to g e th e r.
have m olded A m erica’s political and
T he ethnic differences a re subm erged
cultural developm ent
in a com m on and well-defined a p
• F o r exam ple, 68 percent of the stu proach to life, liberty and governance
dents could not place the Civil W ar — som etim es described a s a national
w ithin the correct half of the 19th Cen philosophy.
tu ry , while 43 percent h ad a sim ilar dif
B ut it is a philosophy w hich cannot be
ficulty dating World W ar L
passed on, as if by birthright. It can
• Some 39 percent w ere equally igno only be tau g h t — in schools an d in im
ra n t about the date of the w riting of the m ig ran ts' citizenship classes.
Constitution and a th ird of the children
These are the stakes:
tested thought th at C hristopher Colum
People who do not understand the re
bus discovered th e New World som e public's origins — and how it is governed
tim e after 1750.
— cannot be expected to share a sense of
• A large m ajority w as also unac com m on purpose This m eans th at they
quainted with classical authors, includ cannot always be expected to exercise
ing Chaucer, Dante, Walt Whitman, N a th eir duties as citizens responsibly.
thaniel Hawthorne, H erm an Melville,
T hat’s a frightening prospect — one
Jan e Austen and Feodor Dostoevsky.
th a t m ust be addressed with urgency.
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Anthony H. Campbell, Managing Editor
Chuck Green, Editorial Page Editor
Sue F. Smith, Associate Editor
William H. Hornby, Senior Editor
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A nation of dullards
One-third of the 8,000 students
HROUGHOUT most of Colo
who
were tested in the spring of
rado, this is back-to-school
1986
didn’t know that Columbus
week. It’s a time when most par
landed
“before 1750,” the correct
ents feel an odd mixture of relief i
answer
on the multiple-choice ex
and anxiety — happiness that j
am;
nearly
two-thirds failed to
summer is over and the kids are
finally out of the house, but con pick Geoffrey Chaucer as the au
cern that the place where they’ll thor of “The Canterbury Tales.”
The danger in all this, of course,
spend the next nine months may
is not simply that these young
not do them much good.
will never be able to win a
This year, parents have more sters
game of “Trivial Pursuit.” It’s
reason than usual to worry. The that they will never be able to en
National Endowment for the Hu joy life to the fullest, either as in
manities has ]ust issued a report dividuals or as participants, in the
charging that the public schools larger society.
.are grinding out a nation of d u ll-;
As Cheney puts it, “Our history
.JO'ds — young people who may and our literature give us symbols
know how to think, but don’t know to share: they help us all, no mat
anything worth thinking about.
ter how diverse our backgrounds,
Reading the report, compiled feel part of a common undertak
by NEH chairman Lynne C heney,!
a Wyoming native who went to ing."
To rectify the problem and safe
college in Colorado, should be re-1 guard our sense of purpose as a1
quired homework for every par nation, the federal report recom-j
ent, teacher and school o fficia l, mends that students be required
this fall. It describes, in often elo- i to devote more study tim e to his
quent prose, how American chil tory, literature and foreign lan
dren are being cheated by an edu guages; that textbooks be made
cational system that stresses
more substantive, and that teach
skills at the expense of knowledge.
ers be given a chance to learn
Today’s schools, Cheney asserts
more about subjects they teach.
in “ American Memory,” tend to
In Colorado, some progress al
em phasize the learning process
ready has been m ade toward
and neglect the acquisition of sub achieving those goals. Prospective
ject matter. As a result, they turn
teachers, for example, no longer
loose huge numbers of future citi are allowed to graduate from col
zens who can write a grocery list
lege with a major in elementary
or look up a phone number, but
education alone; they must choose
have never heard of Luther Bur a traditional field of study. And
bank or Alexander Graham Bell.
people with bachelor’s degrees
The report’s conclusions are
may become certified as teachers
based in part on a survey, which .without going through the normal
revealed that 17-year-olds have
route, in which pedagogy is em
startling gaps in their knowledge
phasized over experience.
of history and literature — the
keys to understanding our culture
and finding meaning in our per
sonal lives.
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Much more can be done at the
local level, however. Parents
must insist that reading classes in
elementary schools expose their
children to more excerpts from
the classics of literature, and that
social studies classes introduce
them to great figures of the past.
School boards, for their part,
should find ways to give teachers
more time to study and think —
perhaps by letting aides handle
more of the petty classroom
chores that keep good teachers
from doing what thpy wore re2lly
hired to do.
Such reforms won’t be done
overnight. But if parents doii’i
stan applying pressure now, ihis
year’s first-graders may graduate
from high school with tragically
limited intellects. They’ll go into
the 21st century with the ability to
read a map, but no sense of what
direction their lives should take.
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EDITORIALS
Teach Children Facts as Well as Skills
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A lot of American p aren ts d o n ’t think their 39 percen t of Am erican stu d e n ts surveyed
children are g etting a good education. Arid, a did n o t know — within half a century — when
new stu d y of Am erican education argues, the th e U.S. C onstitution was ad o p ted , 43 p er
cen t d id n 't know when World War I took
uneasiness is well-founded.
The study was ordered by C ongress and place and 32 percent failed to recognize “b e
w ritten by Lynne Cheney, chairm an of, the fore 1750” as th e correct m ultiple choice a n
N ational Endow m ent for th e H um anities, swer. to th e question of w hen C olum bus
with th e heiiToTa panel o r Scholars anti ettTK landed in th e New World. Sixty-four percent
failed to choose C haucer as th e a u th o r of
cators from all over th e U nited S tates.
It found th a t to o m uch em phasis is being “T he C anterbury T ales" an d 60 percen t
placed on skills and th e process of learning couldn’t nam e W hitm an as th e p o e t who
and too little on subject m atter, “One can see w rote “Leaves of G rass."
In short, stu d e n ts are being given snippets
th e im balance in th e opening pages of a te a c h
er’s guide to a widely used textbook sereies,” of textbook literatu re ra th e r th a n th e litera
Cheney writes. "Scores of skills to be ta u g h t tu re itself, and th ey ’re being ta u g h t “social
are set fo rth . . .T h e cultural co n ten t of learn stu d ies” instead of history, geography, politi
ing, on th e o ther hand, is given only brief m en cal science, econom ics and th e o th er subjects
tio n .” And, as a recent article in New York required to u n d ersta n d a dem ocratic society
Newsday noted, far to o m uch em phasis is and function in it.
And, th e study contends, teachers are simi
placed on learning how to pass a reading te st
and far too little on actually learning to read.
larly ill-prepared, spending far to o m uch tim e
In preparing her study, Cheney found th a t on pedagogy an d n o t nearly enough leam -
ing th e subjects th ey eventually will teach.
Coincidentally, a G allup poll of p aren tal a t
titu d e s ab o u t schools was released around
th e sam e tim e th e C heney stu d y appeared.
T he poll found th a t p a re n ts overwhelmingly
would prefer to u g h er, m o re d em an d in g
schools th a t require s tu d e n ts to tak e m ore
basic courses like m ath , science and th e h u
m anities and allow fewer electives.
W hat Cheney and G allup found are like tw o
segm en ts of a m ap th a t displays th e ro u te
tow ard im proved ed u catio n in th is country.
P erh ap s as a co nsequence of th e g re at
1960s cry for “relevance" in education, too
m any of th e n atio n ’s y o u n g sters are abysm al
ly schooled in th e fundam ental m aterial th a t
c o n stitu te s an ad e q u ate ed u catio n . T oo
m any teach ers are train ed to teac h — b u t n o t
sufficiently grounded in th e co n te n t of th eir
subjects. No one h as to b e an expert to p e r
ceive th e rem edies: T h e m ap m akes th em
self-evident.
j r j j c B k t f f y it t g to n C b tte *
W ed n esd a y, S e p te m b e r
2, 1987 / p a g e a9
Up in the morning and off to school. . .
Just in time for the school year, the Na quiz show, consorted with George Fenneman
and got his m essages from a stage-prop
tional Endowment for the Humanities has
released a com prehensive survey o f the duck? There may not be much point, either,
American adolescent’s command of the hu in trying to teach the fundamentals o f dem o
cratic government or the distinctiveness of
manities. The study concludes that an
the American achievement in institutionaliz
alarming percentage o f Am erica’s kids are
ing freedom. Anyone who believes Columbus
— well, a little moronic.
Of the nearly 8,000 17-year-olds surveyed arrived on these shores about the sam e time
— 80 percent of whom were enrolled in an that Jefferson and Washington were begin
American history course in the spring of
ning to change their view s on King G eorge
1986 — 68 percent could not place the Amer III is not in a good position to grasp the mean
ican Civil War within the proper half cen ing of the Bill of Rights. The political philos
tury; 43 percent were similarly incapable of ophy behind modern dem ocracy would be
placing the First World War; 39 percent were pretty much lost on som eone who may be
unable to date the drafting o f the U.S. Consti lieve that Aristotle was Jackie’s second hus
tution, and nearly a third believed Columbus
band — assuming he has ever heard of Jackie
discovered America after 1750.
and her first husband.
There’s more: 60 percent of the students
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and
could not identify Walt Whitman as the poet according to NEH chairman Lynne Cheney,
who wrote “Leaves of Grass" (don’t ask what
the responsibility for the trivialization of
they thought the title meant) and 67 percent
American education belongs to the educa
could not name the region in which writer
tional establishment. The problem is that fu
William Faulkner set his novels. Most had not
ture public school teachers can spend up to
heard of Dante, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Her 40 percent o f their undergraduate careers
man M elville or Jane Austen, and nearly two- taking education courses instead o f classes
thirds did not know G eoffrey Chaucer as the
in which they actually learn something about
author o f “The Canterbury Ikies.”
what they are going to teach, and “the cul
Such findings are not all that unusual.
prit,” says Mrs. Cheney, “is ‘process’ — the
Public opinion surveys often “prove” that belief that we can teach our children how to
many Americans are unfamiliar with the ele think without troubling them to learn any
ments of American government and with ba thing worth thinking about.”
sic information about the world they live in.
Mrs. Cheney, echoing them es now com
One customary response to such findings is
mon in educational reform, properly urges a
to wonder how we can ever beat the Russians
greater emphasis on subject matter, as op
if our children don’t know anything. But that
posed to “skills’’ in thinking; the disband
may be the least of the problems arising
ment of “textbook selection committees,” by
from the NEH study.
which uniform and m ediocre books are
The survey reduces to the purely hypo adopted en masse; and the abandonment of
thetical many of .the .current.disputes over .teacher .certification rules that promote in
public education. It is hardly possible, for
structors more ignorant o f their subjects
instance, to teach students much about the
than the youngsters they are supposed to in
theories of evolution and creation if they
struct.
think Charles Darwin was a Roman Emperor
After all the billions that local, state and
and Genesis is the name o f a drug rehab
federal governments have spent on educa
center. Sin.ce most teenagers probably know
tion, after all the studies and agencies and
that The Monkees were a 1960s rock group,
commissions devoted to “excellence," the
it would be fruitless to try to persuade high .public schools are turning out a generation
school students that mankind is descended
of philistines that would have humiliated the
from them. Or imagine teaching European
Dnieper Cossacks. Taxpayers and parents
history to kids who think Napoleon is a guy
have good reason to reach for their pitchforks
who has to fulfill his naval commitment be and take to the streets, but the real victim s
fore returnio.g. to the Los Angeles Raiders
are the kids themselves. As they grow older,
With that kind-of darkness settling over the
they may try to find out exactly what Robert
American intellect, what hope is there to E. Lee did in the attack on Pearl Harbor or
understand subjects like nuclear engineer whether Henry VIII signed the Declaration
ing, bio-technology and electronic communi of Independence; they may occasionally re
cations?
flect on why so much around them seem s so
As far as teaching the nature of commu incomprehensible; and perhaps someday
nism is concerned, how do you explain it to they will discover that their teachers have
someone who thinks Marx used to host a TV
cheated them out of their rightful heritage.
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B u W F L L E ’S
Knowle^gfômes before skills
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OT TOO MANY years ago, the edu- tered to us” because they function as as a
cated person was considered to be kind of “civic glue” holding the nation to-
one who was “w ell rounded” and gether. “Our history and our literature give
knowledgeable in a variety o f disciplines — vis symbols to share; they help us all, no
not only in science and mathematics but in matter how diverse our backgrounds, feel
•history, literature and languages. But some- part o f a common undertaking.”
how, the humanities got pushed aside as
She makes excellent points, which edthis country raced pell mell to develop indi- ucators, parents and officeholders should
viduals who had skills to advance techno- heed. TTje fundamental problem, Mrs. Chelogical and economic goals.
ney contends, is that the schools are stressIt has becom e highly important to ing “skills” rather than “knowledge.” Chilknow how to use a computer and how to dren are being taught how to make a living,
finance a business. But now surveys show but they are failing to absorb the historical
that many school children cannot place the perspectives and great ideas that have made
Civil War or World War I within the correct life worthwhile in the United States,
h alf century. Many have no inkling when
Mrs. Cheney suggests that less emphaColumbus made his voyages to the New sis be placed on the results o f Scholastic
World, or why the Constitution was written. Aptitude Tests (SATs) and more on how
Many are unfamiliar with the writings or much “substantive knowledge” students are
. id eas o f Chaucer, Dostoevsky, M elville, absorbing in a broad range o f subjects. She
Whitman and Faulkner, whose works are recommends teacher training that stresses
regarded as classics.
subject matter over rnethodolgy, and wants
In “American Memorv: A Report on teacher certification to be granted through
th e H um anities in m e fJauon s Punnv an independent body. She also says teach: -Schf*ols. Lynne V . Cnenev.-chairwoman of ers should play a stronger role in choosing
tne ^National Endowment for the Humani- textbooks.
ties emphasizes it is also important that
Mrs. Cheney is on the mark. Our nachildien know about “the ideas that have tional amnesia rnusi be cured. Otherwise we
molded us and the ideals that have mat will no longer be a people
CHICAGO
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SEP 7 1987
Schools need new
Rx for curriculum
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'EDITORIAL
U.S. education olficials are callingfor an expansion ol
nationwide testing of students, to increase lucal and state
accountability.
Their purpose may be worthwhile. But before Congress
moves ahead with the legislation proposed by the federal
Education Department, we urge education experts to
outline a comprehensive prescription for schools.
Otherwise the $26 million cost of the proposed testing
expansion would just clutter the road map of where
schools should be going.
For example, a humanities report issued last week calls
for an overhaul of school curricula to include more U.S.
history and classical literature.
The National Endowment for the Humanities, in a
study requested.by Congress, criticizes public schools for
teaching students practical skills, to the detriment of their
intellectual life. Schools emphasize the process of learning
rather than its content, according to the report. They
don’t know when the Civil War was, but they know how
to look it up.
Are we giving schools conflicting demands? Do we want
students to score highly on basic reading and mathematics
skills tests? Or do we want students to read and appreci
ate “Macbeth”? Or both?
Common sense argues that the two goals are connected.
Skills are important, but so is content. “How can mental
skills be developed except through exercise on materials
that are challenging and substantial?" asked Lynne V.
Cheney, chairman of the NEH.
That doesn’t mean that school reform has failed. While
some of the reform movement has been aimed at what our
children are learning, mosi has been aimed at practical
skills.
Basic skills, mathematics and science have gotten most
of the attention in reform measures. It’s time to expand
thfr reform to the humanities—history, literature and
foreign languages.
Of the 8,000 17-year-olds surveyed in Mrs. Cheney’s
report, swne 39 percent could not place the U.S. Constitu
tion within the correct half-century, and 43 percent did
not know when World War 1 occurred. Even Christopher
Columbus was a mystery to 32 percent of the students,
who did not know that he landed “before 1750.”
What’s needed to correct the balance? The cures should
be at the local level, in curriculum and in textbook
selection. For example, many students take no more than
three or four years of history in 12 years of school. Often
history is shunted aside in favor of less-academic clgsses
like driver education and “values clarification” that fill
the social studies requirements for graduation.
Textbooks are another area for improvement. More
than 20 states adopt textbooks on a statewide basis. Even
local textbook committees can get bogged down by an
infinite checklist of demands: to avoid controversies! sub
jects, to include women and blacks, to be up to date, to
teach particular skills. Whether the textbook engages
students can get lost in the shuffle.
If there’s a second round of school reform, u h a t
children learn as well as ho w they learn it should get
attention.
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Schools and the knowledge gapsjDiroRiAL
Reports that t>» percent of American 17-yearolds cannot place the Civil War within the correct
half<entury should not be released at the start of
the school year. September is a time for new shoes,
clean notebooks, bright hopes and eager, optimistic
young people. There will be plenty of time later for
discouraging words — and critical crowds blaming
the schools for all of society’s failures.
But Americans need to know the knowledge
gaps among the young so that the schools, the'
• students — and their parents — can work harder
to fill the voids.
The youthful ignorance about the Civil War was
mentioned frequently last week in the National
Endowment for the Humanities' report on the sad
state of history and literature in the classroom.
There w ere other shocks. “ By vast majorities,”
said Lynne V. Cheney, author of the study ordered
by Congress, “ students demonstrate unfamiiiarity
with writers whose works are regarded as classics:
Dante. Chaucer, Dostoevsky, Austen, Whitman,
..Hawthorne./Melville.and Cather.”
Some 39 percent of 8,000 17-year-olds, who
took the N ational A ssessm ent of Educational
Progress test in the spring of 1986. could not place
the Constitution within the correct half century.
Thirty-two percent did not know that Columbus
landed “ before 1750,” the correct answer on the
ftiultiple-choice test, and 43 percent did not know
when World War 1 occurred. Sixty-four percent did
not pick Chaucer as the author of The Canterbury
Tales and 60 percent failed to name Whitman as the
poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.
C heney urged elem en tary and second ary
schools to devote more time to history, literature
and foreign languages (starting in the elem entary
grades). She blamed the knowledge gaps on teach
ers and textbooks that emphasize skills over con
tent — although she emphasized that too many
clerical duties rob teachers of the tim e to teach. She
recommended that future teachers be freed from
the excessive study of “ education cou rses” and get
a broad background in the liberal arts. She .also
urged schools to hire fewer curriculum supervisors
and more classroom aides to give teachers time to
study, think and teach.
By curious coincidence, Cheney's challenge for
the schools to devote more time to the humanities
was issued on the same day that William P. Bennett,
secretary of education in the Reagan adm inistra
tion. called for the schools to emphasize the basic*
such as mathematics and science. ^Bennett was
Cheney’s predecessor at the Natiofiai Endowment
for the Humanities.
1
American students need a solid grounding in the
humanities and the sciences. The schools are trying
to do the best job they can. They need highly
qualified, well-paid teachers with smaller ci?.>?.r*
and time to provide individual atteniicc: t o ;ii;
students. Most of all. they need help from parents
who ought to monitor homework and send iheir
children to school — ready and willing tc learn.
C o n tin u e d from p r e v i o u s p a g e :
San F r a n c i s c o C h r o n i c l e :
"Back t c S c h o o l"
And then there are those pallid textbooks
— “vacuous” tom es bought in bulk through a
system that trios “to satisfy almost every in ter
est group im aginable excep t our ch ildren .”
H ere, California gets a pat on the back, and
m u ch of this accolade should go to S uperinten
d en t o f Schools Bill Honig for show ing th e w ay
to th e rest o f th e country.
i
“W ith th e developm ent of a new history
curriculum ,” th e report said, “California is
sen d in g a pow erful and sim ple m essage to te x t
book publishers: Give us books that en gage
students; give us books that put th e facts o f th e
past into com pelling narratives and stim ulating
intellectual form ___
“W hether California’s clout will b e su ffi
cien t to get th e m achine to produce a largely
unfam iliar product rem ains to be seen .”
T he report also m akes plain th e im portance
o f encouraging good teachers — and p reserv
ing, protecting and d efending them once th ey
are in th e system . This is vital to allow im agina
tion and intelligence free rein; to avoid sw am p
in g teach er talents in adm inistrative trivia and
restrictive “lesson plans.”
★
★
★
- ' TH IS IS A DOCUMENT about th e im por
tan ce o f transm itting culture (and ours is a
patchw ork of myriad influences) from one g en
eration to th e next. America must not lose her
m em ory. As the report emphasizes: “By reach
ing into th e past, w e affirm our hum anity.”
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Created by Congress with the passage of the National Foundation on the Arts and
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d e s c r i b e s his e x p e r i e n c e s w i t h " t h e i n d o m i t a b l e
r e l i g i o u s m e n a n d w o m e n " of C h i n a ' s F i v e T e r r a c e M o u n t a i n r a n g e a n d t h e
t r e m e n d o u s v a l u e of f i e l d r e s e a r c h t o h i s t r a n s l a t i o n of a n e l e v e n t h - c e n t u r y
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E n d o w m e n t for the H u m a n i t i e s (NEH), today an no u n c e d p lans to e s t a b l i s h a
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It ci tes c u r r i c u l a that give
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p oo r in content,
t e x t b o o k s that are
and t e a c h e r - t r a i n i n g p r o g r a m s that p l a c e too little
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in U.S.
Endowment
will
continuing
encouraging
history
scholars
research.
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and
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organizations
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the
and
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teachers,
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the Humanities
Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
NEH-87-057-A
HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT CHAIRMAN TO VISIT CHICAGO
On Friday, October 16, 1987, Lynne V. Cheney, Chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities and author of American
M e m o r y , the recent report on the state of teaching of history,
literature and foreign languages in our public schools, will be
in Chicago and available for interviews.
The
report,
are
shortchanging
ignorant
with
of
of
in
past
the
daily
troubling
their
their
prominently
columns
its
news
message
students
and
and
culture,
sections,
newspapers
about
leaving
has
been
editorial
nationwide
since
how
them
our
schools
woefully
featured
pages
its
and
opinion
release
in
late August.
Mrs. Cheney will be available for interviews throughout the day
on Friday, October 16.
For more information or to arrange an
interview, please call Robin Latham or John McGrath at
202/786-0449.
# # #
the Humanities
Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
NEH-87-058-A
NEH
On
CHAIRMAN
Tuesday,
TO ADDRESS
October
National
Endowment
American
Memory:
Public
20,
for
1987,
the
A Report
S c h o o l s , will
BRADFORD
Lynne
COLLEGE
V.
Humanities
LEADERSHIP
Cheney,
(NEH)
FORUM
Chairman
and
author
on
the
Humanities
in
the
address
the
Leadership
Forum
the
Kemper
of
the
of
Nation's
at
Bradford
College.
The
Forum
Street,
will
Bradford
contact:
Casey
American
schools
place
at
8:00
Coburn,
M e m o r y , with
are
woefully
ignorant
of
at
pm.
in
of
the
daily
The
Bradford
its
their
their
news
event
past
on
South
is
TO
THE
and
OPEN
and
culture,
editorial
nationwide
Main
PRESS,
617/372-7161.
message
students
sections,
newspapers
Theatre
College,
troubling
shortchanging
prominently
columns
take
since
about
how
leaving
has
pages
its
our
them
been
and
featured,
opinion
release
in
late August.
Mrs.
the
more
Cheney
day
on
will
Tuesday,
information
Latham
or
also
John
or
be
available
October
to
McGrath
20,
arrange
at
for
and
an
Wednesday,
interview,
202/786-0449.
#
# #
interviews
throughout
October
please
21.
call
For
Robin
NEW
NEH-87-059-N
EMBARGOED:
Contact:
the Humanities
Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
Karen
Myers
U s e of t h i s m a t e r i a l is e m b a r g o e d
6:00 p.m. (EDT), Monday, O c t o b e r
202/786-0449
301/474-7856
(office)
(home)
until
12, 1 9 8 7
HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT ANNOUNCES MERIT AWARDS
TO EIGHT STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS
WASHINGTON,
Humanities
have
of
has
received
their
V.
today
state
Nebraska,
1988
Cheney,
that
were
"The
—
The
that
National
eight
Awards
in
state
for
from
Endowment
humanities
excellence
in
councils
developing
increased
humanities
in
their
the
for
the
councils
all
aspects
superior
This
to
Maine,
year's
Merit
submitted
Cheney
have
demonstrated
knowledge
and
states."
OVER-
for
Merit
performance
Mrs.
-
made
by
country.
literature,
respective
were
proposals
said
public
Endowment,
Kentucky,
recommended
history,
disciplines,"
each
Wyoming.
biennial
sustained
in
Humanities
Illinois,
councils
for
the
$50,000
and
27
across
state
"These
of
Virginia
councils
programs
humanities
Awards
of
Connecticut,
selected
eight
promoting
Chairman
Merit
recognized
awards.
Merit
Oklahoma,
humanities
being
announced
councils
Awards
12
operations.
Lynne
said
October
languages
in
Awards
in
and
announcing
their
are
other
the
leadership
understanding
of
in
the
NEH News - Merit Awards
October 12, 1987
Page 2
Every
other
Endowment
the
past
years.
a proposal
two
proposals
excellence
Merit
state
District
of
Merit
councils
all
the
the
of
council's
goals
by
for
the
work
the
during
next
reviewers
public
reviewers
and
panelists
the
of
the
range
overall
of
their
studied
that
operations
sectors.
program.
topics
Programs
two
and
and
reached.
aspects
to
academic
quality
for
audiences
matched
humanities
in
by
brief
Division
the
of
funds
addition
All
NEH
local
Virgin
in
to
represent
Islands
1984,
State
are
The
and
demonstrate
are
eligible
for
their
are
all
states,
the
and
made
50
Puerto
through
Rico.
the
Programs.
awarded
funds
by
annual
awarded
to
NEH
to
selected
funding
state
from
state
the
councils
must
be
contributions.
description
councils
councils
established
Award
Endowment.
state
both
rated
its
evaluated
proposals,
Columbia,
Awards,
Endowment's
A
are
the
submits
Awards.
The
Merit
in
council
describes
from
also
of
state
assesses
intellectual
are
variety
that
proposals
the
the
each
and
selected
examining
consider
the
years
These
panelists
In
year,
receiving
of
some
Merit
of
the
Awards
programs
is
listed
supported
by
below:
The Connecticut Humanities Council sponsored "Humanities
P r o g r a m s f o r O l d e r A d u l t s , " a p r o j e c t c o n s i s t i n g of t r a v e l i n g
e x h i b i t s , d i s c u s s i o n p r o g r a m s and f i l m p r o g r a m s in t h e s t a t e ' s
senior centers and nursing homes.
Other Council-supported
p r o g r a m s i n c l u d e a grant to C o n n e c t i c u t P u b l i c T e l e v i s i o n for a
s t u d y of p l a y w r i g h t E u g e n e O ' N e i l l a n d g r a n t s f o r a s e r i e s of
s u m m e r i n s t i t u t e s for t e a c h e r s on t o p i c s s u c h as the U.S.
Constitution and W i l l i a m Shakespeare.
[Executive Director:
B r u c e F r a s e r , (203) 3 4 7 - 6 8 8 8 ] .
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NE H News - M e r i t A w a r d s
O c t o b e r 12, 1987
Page 3
The Illinois Humanities Council will continue "Inventing
Illinois," a six-year programmatic theme that encourages
pro j e c t s on the state's rich cultural history.
The Council has
s u p p o r t e d m a n y p u b l i c .p r o g r a m s w i t h i n t h i s t h e m e , e x a m i n i n g
s u c h t o p i c s as t h e r o l e of w o r k in t h e l i v e s of I l l i n o i s a n s a n d
of t h e i r c o m m u n i t i e s a n d t h e r o l e of l e a d e r s a n d l e a d e r s h i p , as
e x e m p l i f i e d by s u c h f i g u r e s as A b r a h a m L i n c o l n .
The Council
also supported the c i t y - w i d e " M e t r o - H i s t o r y Fair" for high
s c h o o l s t u d e n t s in C h i c a g o , a n d it c o n t i n u e d t o b r i n g t e a c h e r s
an d u n i v e r s i t y s c h o l a r s t o g e t h e r in t e a c h e r i n s t i t u t e s .
R o b e r t J. K l a u s , ( 3 1 2 ) 9 3 9 - 5 2 1 2 ] .
The Kentucky Humanities Council supported six "Kentucky
L e g a c i e s " p r o g r a m s in w h i c h s c h o l a r s and m e m b e r s of c o m m u n i t y
groups used local archives to develop slide/tape presentations
or e x h i b i t s on K e n t u c k y h i s t o r y .
This initiative will enable
the C o u n c i l to wo r k wi t h the s tate l e g i s l a t u r e to i n c o r p o r a t e
h u m a n i t i e s s c h o l a r s h i p in p l a n s for c e l e b r a t i n g t he 1992
b i c e n t e n n i a l of K e n t u c k y s t a t e h o o d .
In a d d i t i o n t o its s u p p o r t
for t eacher seminars on the U.S. Constitution, the Co u n c i l has
a l s o s u p p o r t e d a w o r k s h o p in w h i c h t e a c h e r s and u n i v e r s i t y
professors discussed teaching high school students about
classical Greece, the Mid d l e Ages and the Renaissance.
R a m o n a L u m p k i n , (606) 2 5 7 - 5 9 3 2 ] .
The Maine Humanities Council supported workshops for the
s t u d y of H e b r e w a n d G r e e k a n d a c o n f e r e n c e on t h e l a t e s t f o r m s
of G e r m a n E x p r e s s i o n i s m in p a i n t i n g .
O n e g o a l of t h e C o u n c i l
is to d r a w h i g h s c h o o l a n d c o l l e g e f a c u l t y t o g e t h e r in " T h e
Maine Academic Collaborative," which will sponsor seminars,
institutes and academic alliances.
D o r o t h y S c h w a r t z , (207) 7 7 3 - 5 0 5 1 ] .
The N e b r a s k a C o m m i t t e e for the H u m a n i t i e s spo n s o r e d "A
C e l e b r a t i o n of the B i c e n t e n n i a l of the U.S. C o n s t i t u t i o n , " a
study group program that examined American constitutional
d evelopment during the past 200 years.
The Committee also
d e v e l o p e d " E x p l o r i n g the H i s t o r y of the G r e a t P l a i n s in L o c a l
M u seums," a statewide project p r e p a r i n g and c o o r d i n a t i n g
e x h i b i t s in six c o u n t y m u s e u m s d e m o n s t r a t i n g t h e b r e a d t h of the
Nebraskan experience.
M a t e r i a l s from L a k o t a Sioux life, the
early f rontier days, w omen's life on the plains, railroad
t o w n s , t h e b o o m a n d b u s t p e r i o d s in a g r i c u l t u r e a n d a W o r l d W a r
II m i l i t a r y c a n t e e n i l l u s t r a t e d t h e m e s f r o m d i f f e r e n t
h i s t o r i c a l p e r i o d s on the G r e a t Plains.
J a n e R e n n e r Hood, (402) 4 7 4 - 2 1 3 1 ] .
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OVER
-
NE H News - M er it Awa rd s
O c t o b e r 12, 1987
Page 4
The Okla h o m a F oundation for the H umanities established a
traveling humanities exhibit collection and booking service
( T R A C K S ) d e s i g n e d e s p e c i a l l y for u s e in s c h o o l s .
The
F o u n d a t i o n a l s o s p o n s o r e d t h e O k l a h o m a L e c t u r e in the
H u m a n i t i e s and d e veloped a reading and d i s c u s s i o n series that
e x p l o r e d the i n t e r a c t i o n of N a t i v e A m e r i c a n and i n c o m i n g
c u l t u r e s in the S o u t h e r n P l a ins.
A n i t a May, (405) 8 4 0 - 1 7 2 1 ] .
The V i r g i n i a F oundation for the H umanities and Public
Policy funded a traveling exhibit and catalogue on Black
History called "Don't Grieve After Me."
In addition, the
F o u n d a t i o n s p o n s o r e d p r o g r a m s as d i v e r s e as " G o r b a c h e v ' s F i r s t
300 Days," a s y m p o s i u m on J e f f e r s o n ' s S t a t u t e for R e l i g i o u s
Fr e e d o m and reading and d i s c u s s i o n p r ograms on V i r g i n i a h i s t o r y
at t e n s m a l l m u s e u m s t h r o u g h o u t t h e s t a t e .
[Executive
Director:
R o b e r t C. V a u g h a n , ( 8 0 4 ) 9 2 4 - 3 2 9 6 ] .
The Wy o m i n g Council for the Humanities sponsored the
Statewide Humanities Leadership Project which brought teachers
a n d a d m i n i s t r a t o r s to t h e U n i v e r s i t y of W y o m i n g f o r i n t e n s i v e ,
t w o - w e e k s e s s i o n s w i t h m e m b e r s of t h e h u m a n i t i e s f a c u l t y in
s u c h a r e a s as l i t e r a t u r e , p h i l o s o p h y , h i s t o r y and art histor y.
T h e W y o m i n g C o u n c i l a l s o s u p p o r t e d an i n n o v a t i v e r e a d i n g and
d i s c u s s i o n p r o g r a m that took books and s c h o l a r s to r a n chers and
their families and a successful Speakers Bureau that presented
m o r e t h a n 250 p r o g r a m s to a w i d e v a r i e t y of a u d i e n c e s in r u r a l
areas.
D e n n i s F r o b i s h , (307) 7 6 6 - 6 4 9 6 ] .
The
federal
and
National
agency
public
Endowment
that
programs
for
supports
in
the
the
Humanities
research,
humanities.
#
#
#
is
an
scholarship,
independent
education
ADVISORY
the Humanities
Media Relations
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Media Relations
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NEH-87-062-A
HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT
SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF
TO
On
Saturday,
Chairman
opening
of
the
address
Achievement
in
October
17,
National
at
the
1987,
Endowment
University
a Diverse
Culture.
at
9:30
for
of
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
ROCHESTER CONFERENCE
the
a.m.,
John
Humanities
Rochester's
Agresto,
(NEH),
Conference
Deputy
will
on
give
the
Student
Dr.
Agresto
will
speak
on
"What's
the
Hubbell
Auditorium
on
the
Worth
L e a r n i n g ."
The
conference
campus
and
School
of
is
OPEN
will
TO
Education,
Agresto
has
be
THE
held
PRESS.
written
and
published
law,
political
also
Duke
University,
For
or
John
more
at
information
McGrath
at
Contact:
Arthur
Woodward,
university
Graduate
716/275-3941.
Constitutional
taught
at
the
or
widely
philosophy,
to
National
Kenyon
an
Endowment
#
the
education
College
schedule
#
in
and
the
interview,
for
#
and
areas
the
of
the
humanities,
technology.
University
contact
Humanities,
of
Robin
He
has
Toronto.
Latham
202/786-0449.
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Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
Contact:
Noel Milan
202/786-0449
301/268-4309
202/786-r0449
703/525-9478
J oh n M c G r a t h
(office)
(home)
(office)
(home)
F OR I M ME D IA TE R EL E A S E
N EH A N N O U N C E S N E W G R A N T S FOR E L E M E N T A R Y AN D S E C O N D A R Y S C H O O L T E A C H E R S
" T e a c h e r - S c h o l a r " A w a r d s W i l l Fund S a b b a t i c a l s for H u m a n i t i e s S t u d y
W A S H I N G T O N , Nov. 2 —
E l e m e n t a r y and s e c o n d a r y school t e a c h e r s will
have new o p p o r t u n i t i e s to e n ri c h their k no w l e d g e of history,
literature,
f o r e i g n l an gu ag es and other h u m a n i t i e s d i s c i p l i n e s under a p r o g r a m a n n o u n c e d
today by L y n n e V. Cheney, C h ai r m a n of the N a t i o n a l E nd o w m e n t for the
H u m a n i t i e s (N E H ).
\
N E H ' s new T e a c h e r - S c h o l a r P r o g r a m will p r o v i d e gran ts to a l l o w t ea ch er s
s a b ba t ic al leave for one a ca de mi c year of fu l l-time,
the h um a nities.
i n d e p e n d e n t study in
T e a c h e r - S c h o l a r s will receive N EH s t i p e n d s that may be as
high as $ 2 7 , 5 0 0 to replace the a p p l i c a n t ' s salary or to su pp l e m e n t
s a b b a t i c a l pay up to the amount of the a c a d e m i c - y e a r salary.
G i v e n a s u f f i c i e n t number of q u a l i f i e d applicants,
the E n d o w m e n t will
n am e one T e a c h e r - S c h o l a r from each state, the D i s t r i c t of C ol um bi a, P u e r t o
R i c o and the V i r g i n Islands.
"One c o m m o d i t y that t ea chers c l e a rl y need is time —
time to think," said Cheney.
time to study and
"This new N E H p r o g r a m will g i v e o u t s t a n d i n g
t ea ch e r s a break from their c l a s s r o o m duties and a d m i n i s t r a t i v e cho re s and
p r o v i d e them a c h a n c e to b e c o m e more k n o w l e d g e a b l e about the s u b j e c t s they
teach. "
In late A ugust, NEH p u b l i s h e d a C o n g r e s s i o n a l l y m a n d a t e d report w r i t t e n
by Chene y on the state of h u m a n i t i e s e d u c a t i o n in A m e r i c a n p u b l i c schools.
(OVER)
NEH News — T e a c h e r - S c h o l a r P r o g r a m
N o v e m b e r 2, 1987
Page 2
The
report,
place
be
too
given
little
more
languages
Each
planned
the
entitled
or
American
emphasis
on
opportunities
other
of
humanities.
subject-area
to
humanities
applicant
course
M e m o r y , says
to
the
study
NEH
learn
and
recommends
history,
programs
that
literature,
teachers
foreign
disciplines.
focusing
on
the
intellectual
quality
*
the
significance
of
*
the
relevance
the
the
the
of
the
topic
plan
Program
important
evaluate
*
of
teacher-training
study
about
Teacher-Scholar
will
that
to
primary
applications
proposed
and
the
must
submit
and
a
thoroughly
secondary
according
texts
in
to:
plan;
materials
to
applicant's
be
studied;
and
teaching
responsibilities.
"This
program
themselves
Cheney.
have
at
a mastery
NEH
and
will
deadline
for
September
For
of
to
teachers
renew
that
their
students
disciplines,
from
an
opportunity
enthusiasm
benefit
the
teachers
for
most
who
to
teaching,"
from
are
challenge
said
teachers
dedicated
to
teaching."
begin
taking
applications
submissions.
early
Grant-funded
information,
D.C.
National
for
20506.
contact
the
that
supports
in
humanities.
the
next
study
year,
could
Division
Humanities,
Telephone:
Endowment
agency
the
and
believe
their
Endowment
Washington,
The
NEH
excellent
with
begin
as
a May
1988
early
as
1989.
more
National
offer
intellectually
"We
learning
will
for
education,
the
1100
of
Education
Pennsylvania
Programs,
Avenue,
N.W.,
202/786-0377.
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scholarship,
# # #
is
an
independent
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and
public
federal
programs
who
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(202) 786-0449
NEH-87-064-F(R)
Some Comments on American Memory:
A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools
by Lynne V. Cheney, Chairman
National Endowment for the Humanities
* Jonathan Yardley, The Washington P o s t : "(A) devastating analysis ....
What gives the document its force is, first, it summarizes the case against
American education with clarity and pith, and second, that it does so with
unimpeachable authority."
*
George F. Will, Newsweek:
"She has authored a miracle ...."
*
James J. Kilpatrick, syndicated columnist:
"... a blockbuster ..."
* Charles McDowell, Richmond T i m e s - D i s p a t c h , on P B S 's Washington Week in
R e v i e w : "It's as persuasive a report as I've read since I've been in
Washington."
* Jim Bohannon, Mutual Broadcasting's Larry King Show : "A slim red book,
2 9 pages in all, which should be read by every American."
* The San Francisco E x a m i n e r : "a provocative report .... The study is a
lively one, full of substantive ideas on what can and must be done."
* The Cincinnati P o s t : "... perceptive ....
widest possible audience."
*
The Wichita Eagle and B e a c o n :
American Me m o r y deserves the
"... a warning our nation must not ignore."
* The Denver P o s t : "... should be required homework for every parent,
teacher and school official this fall."
*
*
*
Since the National Endowment for the Humanities released American
M e m o r y , authored by Mrs. Cheney, in the fall of 1987, the response from the
press and the public has been overwhelming. Across the country, people are
paying attention to her troubling message.
Nearly every major U.S. daily newspaper has featured the report in its
news sections, opinion columns and editorial pages.
She has appeared on
numerous television programs, including "The Today Show," "Good Mo rning
America," "Firing Line" and "This Week with David Brinkley," and she
delivered a major address at the National Press Club carried live by C-SPAN.
To date NEH has received more than 50,000 requests for copies of
American M e m o r y . Foreign individuals and governments (including even the
Soviet news agency T a s s ) have also joined in asking for copies of the
report. Clearly, American Mem o r y has struck a chord world- w i d e among people
concerned about the future of our children.
#
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the Humanities
Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
NEH-87-065-N
Contact:
Karen Myers
2 0 2 / 7 8 6 - 0 4 4 9 (office)
3 0 1 / 4 7 4 - 7 8 5 6 (home)
HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT AWARDS MORE THAN $46 MILLION T O INSTITUTIONS, INDIVIDUALS
G r a n t s M a d e in 42 S t a t e s a n d t h e D i s t r i c t o f C o l u m b i a
W A S H I N G T O N , N o v e m b e r 20 —
T h e N a t i o n a l E n d o w m e n t f o r t h e H u m a n i t i e s (NEH)
h a s a w a r d e d m o r e t h a n $ 4 6 m i l l i o n in n e w g r a n t s f o r edu c a t i o n , l i b r a r y
p r o g r a m s , m e d i a p r o j e c t s , p u b l i c p r o g r a m s , p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d research.
The
f u n d s w i l l s u p p o r t p r o j e c t s in lit e r a t u r e , history, p h i l o s o p h y a n d o ther
humanities disciplines.
L y n n e V. C h e n e y , C h a i r m a n of t h e H u m a n i t i e s E n d o w m e n t , a n n o u n c e d t h a t 338
outright and matching grants were made to institutions, organizations and
i n d i v i d u a l s i n 42 s t a t e s a n d t h e D i s t r i c t of C o l u m b i a .
N E H ha s a w a r d e d g r a n t s i n y o u r area.
E n c l o s e d is a c o m p l e t e list of t h e s e
g r a n t s a r r a n g e d b y c i t y and, s t a t e .
" T h e s e a w a r d s r e f l e c t t h e E n d o w m e n t ' s c o n t i n u e d s u p p o r t of p r o j e c t s that
p r o v i d e A m e r i c a n s w i t h g r e a t e r a w a r e n e s s a n d a p p r e c i a t i o n of t h e h u m a n i t i e s , "
C h e n e y said.
"The w i n n e r s of t h e s e n e w g r a n t s a r e t o b e c o m m e n d e d f o r
p r o m o t i n g s c h o l a r s h i p a n d i m p r o v i n g e d u c a t i o n in m a n y h u m a n i t i e s d i s c i p l i n e s . "
T h e n e w projects include publications, conferences, seminars and
i n s t i t u t e s f o r teac h e r s , m e d i a p r o j e c t s a n d c o m m u n i t y symposia.
T h e U n i v e r s i t y of M i s s o u r i , f o r e x a m p l e , r e c e i v e d a g r a n t t o t r a n s c r i b e
t w o n e w l y d i s c o v e r e d m a n u s c r i p t s of 1 7 t h - c e n t u r y E n g l i s h p o e m s , i n c l u d i n g 46
w o r k s b y J o h n Donne.
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NEH News - Awards
November 12, 1987
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In o b s e r v a n c e of t h e f i v e - h u n d r e d t h a n n i v e r s a r y of C o l u m b u s ' s v o y a g e t o
t h e N e w World, a grant was awarded to the Center for Medieval and R e n a i s s an c e
s t u d i e s at t h e U n i v e r s i t y of C a l i f o r n i a , L o s A n g e l e s , t o c o n d u c t a c o n f e r e n c e
o n t h e c u l t u r a l inpa c t of t h e S p a n i s h I n q u i s i t i o n o n S p a i n a n d t h e N e w W o r l d .
S u m m e r s e m i n a r s f o r b o t h s c hool t e a c h e r s a n d c o l l e g e t e a c h e r s w i l l be he l d
at v a r i o u s i n s t i t u t i o n s .
A t B o w d o i n C o l l e g e i n B r u n s w i c k , M a i n e , for
i n s t a n c e , s c hool t e a c h e r s w i l l e x a m i n e sources, c r i t i c a l e s s a y s and
p r o d u c t i o n s of S h a k e s p e a r e ' s K i n g L e a r ; at S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y , c o l l e g e
t e a c h e r s w i l l d i s c u s s a v a r i e t y of G r e e k t e x t s t o g a i n a b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d i n g
of tlie r o l e of r e l i g i o n in G r e e k cultu r e .
O l d S t u r b r i d g e V i l l a g e in M a s s a c h u s e t t s w i l l h o s t s u m m e r s e m i n a r s f o r
t e a c h e r s of g r a d e s 3 - 8 t o s t u d y l i f e i n A m e r i c a b e t w e e n 1 7 9 0 - 1 8 4 0 a n d d e v e l o p
m a t e r i a l s t o b e u s e d i n t h e cla s s r o o m s .
V a r i o u s p r o j e c t s t h a t w i l l b r i n g u n d e r s t a n d i n g of t h e h u m a n i t i e s t o
i
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general audiences include a grant to Rutgers University to p roduce a
documentary,
" E d i s o n a n d t h e A r t of I n v e n t i o n , " t h a t w i l l f o c u s o n T h o m a s
E d i s b n ' s t e c h n i c a l d r a w i n g s and sket c h e s ; a g r a n t t o t h e L o u i s i a n a L i b r a r y
A s s o c i a t i o n for a d u l t r e a d i n g a n d d i s c u s s i o n p r o g r a m s in p u b l i c l i braries;
and,| a g r a n t t o A r e n a S t a g e in W a s h i n g t o n , D .C., t o d e v e l o p s t u d y g u i d e s a n d
t o e x p a n d h u m a n i t i e s c o n t e n t in t h e i r p u b l i c a t i o n s .
I
T h e N a t i o n a l E n d o w m e n t f o r t h e H u m a n i t i e s w a s e s t a b l i s h e d in 1965 a s a n
i n d e p e n d e n t f e d e r a l g r a n t - m a k i n g a g e n c y t o p r o m o t e p r o g r e s s a n d s c h o l a r s h i p in
t h e ihumanities.
# # #
NATIONAL ENDOWM E N T POP THE HUMANITIES
G r a n t s A n n o u n c e d N o v e m b e r 1987
ALABAMA
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Birmingham:
Jefferson State Junior College
A P P R O V E D OOTR.
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Birmingham, AL 35215
EH-20707-87
PROJ.t)IR.: A g n e s R. P o l l o c k
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P R O J E C T TITLE: F a c u l t y R e n e w a l and D e v e l o p m e n t t h r o u g h Interd\
Humanities Seminars
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T o s u p p o r t a s e r i e s of f i v e i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a r y f a c u l t y s e m i n a r s ba^
c o n t e n t of e x i s t i n g h u m a n i t i e s h o n o r s c o u r s e s .
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U n i v e r s i t y of A l a b a m a , B i r m i n g h a m
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$67,452.00
Birmingham, A L 35294
GN-23174-87
P R O J . D I R . : W i l l i a m C. C a r t e r
P R O J E C T TITLE: D o c u m e n t a r y F i l m o n t h e L i f e and W o r k s of M a r c e l P r o u s t
T o s u p p o r t the w r i t i n g of t h e s c r i p t f o r a 6 0 - m i n u t e d o c u m e n t a r y f i l m on t h e
l i f e a n d w o r k o f F r e n c h n o v e l i s t M arcel Proust, 1871-1922.
Normal:
Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University APPROVED OUTFIGHT
$88,581.00 .
Normal, AL 35762
ET-20056^87
P R O J . D I R . : B e s s i e W. J o n e s
P R O J E C T TIT LE: R e l i g i o u s ’H i e r a r c h y and F e u d a l S t r u c t u r e in M e d i e v a l L i f e
and Thought
T o support a f o u r -week summer seminar for the university faculty on the texts
of f o u r m a j o r m e d i e v a l auth o r s : A q u i n a s , D a n t e , Chaucer, a n d F r o i s s a r t .
Tuscaloosa:
U n i v e r s i t y of A l a b a m a
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$4,554.00
RP-21028-87
P R O J . D I R . : M a l c o l m M. M a c D o n a l d
P R O J E C T T I T LE: A S e l e c t i o n of H e b r e w M e l o d i e s , b y L o r d B y r o n a n d I s a a c
N a t h a n , edit e d b y F r e d e r i c k B u r w i c k a n d Paul D o u g l a s s
T o s u p p o r t t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of lyric p o e m s b y L o r d B y r o n that w e r e w r i t t e n t o b e
sung t o m u s i c b a s e d o n H e b r e w m e l o d i e s .
T h i s f a c s i m i l e of t h e o r i g i n a l e d i
t i o n will d e s c r i b e t h e c o l l a b o r a t i o n b e t w e e n B y r o n and c o m p o s e r I s a a c N a t h a n .
U n i v e r s i t y of A l a b a m a
APPROVED OUTFIGHT
$2,522.00
RP-21027-87
P R O J . D I R . : M a l c o l m M. M a c D o n a l d
P R O J E C T T I T LE: T r a v a i l in a n A r a b L and, b y S a m u e l R o m a n e i l i , T r a n s l a t e d by
Y edida Stillman and N orman Stillman
T o s u p p o r t t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of an a n n o t a t e d t r a n s l a t i o n of the p o e t and
playwright Samuel R o m a n e l l i ’
s a c c o u n t o f his s o j o u r n in M o r o c c o d u r i n g t h e
y e a r s 1786-90.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOP THE HUMANITIES
Grants Announced November 3987
ALASKA
Fairbanks:
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99701
PROJ.DIR.: Suzanne Summerville
P R O J E C T TITLE: O r p h e u s : A C r e a t o r ' s
APPROVED -OUTRIGHT
FV-20757-87
M y t h in the H i s t o r y of O p e r a
T o s u p p o r t a s u m m e r s e m i n a r f o r s c hool t eachers.
# # #
$54,812.00
ARIZONA
Tucson:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$141,011.00
Tucson, AZ 85721
EH-20736-87
PROJ.DIR.: Peter E. Medine
PROJECT TITLE: John Milton: A Summer Institute 1988
To support a six-week institute for college teachers on Milton's AREOPAGITICA,
PARADISE LOST, and SAMSON AGONISTES.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Tucson, AZ 85721
FS-21756-88
PRCJ.DIR.: Roger L. Nichols
PROJECT TITLE: New Directions in Native American History
To support an eight-week summer seminar for college teachers.
$68,019.00
APPROVED OUTPIGHT
Tucson, AZ 85721
FS-21810-88
PROJ.DIR.: Edgar A. Dryden
PROJECT TITLE: The Theory of American Romance
PROJECT. DESCRIPTION:
To support an eight-veek summer seminar for college teachers.
$77,131.00
'
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$5,436.00
Tucson, AZ 85719
FP-21018-87
PROJ.DIR.: Gregory L. McNamee
PROJECT TITLE: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai, by Katsu Kokichi,
Translated by Teruko Craig
To support the publication of an annotated translation from the Japanese of an
autobiography by a Tokugawa samurai.
# # #
Grants An n o u n c e d ’
November 1987
CALIFORNIA
Berkeley:
Clarity Educational Productions, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Berkeley, CA 94710
GN-23244-87
PROJ.DIR.: Connie E. Field
PROJECT TITLE: One Summer in Mississippi
To support planning for a feature-length’dramatic.film on the 1964 Mississippi
Freedom Summer Project.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$299,454.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
APPROVED MATCH
$68,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Bernard R. Gifford
ES-21499-87
PROJECT TITLE: Constitutionalism: Two Centuries of Freedom Under Law
To support a two-year project on the American Constitution featuring two
four-week summer institutes and academic-year follow-up activities.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Berkeley, CA 94720
FS-21751-88
PROJ.DIR.: Gregory Vlastos
PROJECT TITLE: The Philosophy of Socrates
$75,282.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$80,063.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
FS-21777-87
PROJ.DIR.: Anne L. Middleton
PROJECT TITLE: Late-Medieval Lives: Representing the Self in History and
Literature
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Berkeley, CA 94720
FS-21835-88
PROJ.DIR.: David Daube
PROJECT TITLE: Biblical Law in Historical Perspective
$79,528.00
University of California, Eerkeley
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$50,024.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
FV-20816-87
PROJ.DIR.: Eric J. Sundquist
PROJECT TITLE: The American Dream and Ethnic Identity in Modern Literature:
THE GREAT GATSBY, BREAD GIVERS, and INVISIBLE MAN
To support a summer seminar for school teachers.
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CALIFORNIA (continued)
Berkeley (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
£25,000.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
APPROVED MATCH
$15,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Robert P. Hughes
RX-20928-87
PROJECT TITLE: The Role of Christianity in the History of Russian Culture
T o s u p p o r t a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n f e r e n c e o n C h r i s t i a n i t y in R u s s i a o v e r t h e p a s t
millenium.
University of California Press
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$6,000.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
RP-21068-87
PROJ.DIR.: Lynne E. Withey
PROJECT TITLE: Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in
Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster
To support the publication of a scholarly study that examines the role and
function of the grammarian in late antiquity. This volume will be part of
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL. HERITAGE series.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$3,500.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
RP-21069-87
PROJECT TITLE: Stravinsky and THE RITE OF SPRING: The Beginnings of a
Musical Language, by Pieter van den Toorn
To support the publication of a study of Igor Stravinsky's ballet score, THE
RITE OF SPRING.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$6,900.00
Berkeley, CA 94720
RP-21070-87
PROJECT TITLE: Orlando Innamorato, by Matteo Maria Boiardo, translated by
Charles Ross
To support the publication of an English translation of Boiardo's 15th-century
epic romance, ORLANDO INNAMORATO, which will be printed with the Italian text
EN FACE.
Davis:
University of California, Davis
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$68,129.00
Davis, CA 95616
FV-20744-87
PROJ.DIR.: William T. Jackson
PROJECT TITLE: Classics on the Frontier Experience: Turner, Parkman,
Twain, Powell, Roosevelt and Cather
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La Jolla:
University of California, San Diego
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$50,000.00
La Jolla, CA 92093
APPROVED MATCH
$2,500.00
PROJ.DIR.: Leonard D. Newmark
RT-20755-87
PROJECT TITLE: Albanian-English Dictionary
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:,
To support the creation of a data base consisting of all the words and icioms
included in extant dictionaries of the Albanian language. The data base will
be used to produce a comprehensive Albanian/English dictionary.
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
.
PROJ.DIR.: Diego Catalan
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED MATCH
$25,232.00
RT-20387-84
PROJECT TITLE: Description, Editing, and Analysis of the Pan-Hispanic
Romancero as a Model of Open-Structured Narratives
To support work on the General Catalogue of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero ar.c an
international conputerized archive of the Romancero.
Los Angeles:
KCET-TV
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00 ‘
GN-23228-87
PROJ.DIR.: Bette Y. Cox
PROJECT TITLE: The Story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, a 19th-Century
Black Opera Singer
To support script revision for a 30-minute television program for children
ages 8 to 12, about Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, a 19th-century black opera
singer, as part of a series about black American composers and performers.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$74,515.00
FS-21818-87
PROJ.DIR.: Martin Stevens
PROJECT TITLE: The Ellesmere Chaucer and Towheley Plays Manuscripts: The
15th-Century Handwritten Book as Literary Source
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$79,C24.0C
FS-21819-87
PROJ.DIR.: Robert Wohl
PROJECT TITLE: Culture and Politics in Europe in the Era of the Liberal
Crisis, 1880-1945
To support an eicht-week summer seminar for college teachers.
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Los Angeles (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$3,900.00
RP-21045-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ernestine S . E l s t e r
PROJECT TITLE: Achilleion: A Neolithic Settlement in Northern Greece,
by Marija Gimbutas, Dan Shimabuku, and Shan Winn
To support publication of the excavation reports from Achilleion, a prehistoric
site in Thessaly.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Los Angeles, CA S0024
APPROVED MATCH
$4,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Robert I. Burns
RX-20909-87
PROJECT TITLE: Cultural Encounters: The Impact of the Inquisition in
Spain and the New World
To support an international conference on the Inquisition in Spain and the N ew
World, concentrating on its role in the development of the New World.
University of Southern California
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$85,316.00
FS-21848-87
PROJ.DIR.: John E. Elliott
PROJECT TITLE: Karl Marx as a Social Theorist: An Interdisciplinary
Approach
Riverside:
University of California, Riverside
SUPPLEMENT
Riverside, CA 92521
APPROVED MATCH
$175,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Henry L. Snyder
RC-21036-86
PROJECT TITLE: T h e Third Triennium of the North American Contribution to
the 18th-Century Short Title Catalogue
To support continuation of the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue,
through the addition of 300,000 records for items available in British reposi
tories. This catalogue is a bibliography of books and other items printed in
the English language from 1701-1800.
San Diego:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
San Diego, CA 921S2
FV-20817-87
PROJ.DIR.: Kathleen B. Jones
PROJECT TITLE: Authority, Democracy, and the Citizenship of Women:
Locke, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft
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$63,500.00
Hobbes,
San Francisco
Film Arts Foundation
SUPPLEMENT
San Francisco, C A 94103
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$25,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Pat D. Ferrero
GN-22408-85
PROJECT TITLE: A Legacy of Hearts and Hands
To support postproduction costs for the NEH-funded film A LEGACY OF HEARTS AND
HANDS.
Humanities West
APPROVED MATCH
$60,000.00
San Francisco, CA 94118
GP-21389
PROJ.DIR.: Elaine M. Thornburgh
PROJECT TITLE: Ejrranities West: Explorations of History, Arts, and Ideas
To support a three-year series of lectures, musical and dance demonstrat ions,
dramatic readings, and discussions to provide a comprehensive view of the fine
arts, history, literature, and philosophy of selected historical periods.
Santa Barbara:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$72,728.00
Santa Barbara, C A 93106
FV-20838-87
PROJ.DIR..: Walter H. Capps
PROJECT TITLE: AJexis de Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: Religion in a
Democratic Society
To support a sunr->er seminar for school teachers.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Santa Barbara, C A 93106
FV-20840-87
PROJ.DIR.: Giles B. Gunn
PROJECT TITLE: Eerman Melville's MOBY-DICK
T o support a sunder seminar for school teachers.
$75,883.00
Santa Cruz:
University of California., Santa Cruz
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$172,174.00
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
EH-20737-87
PROJ.DIR.: Gabriel Berns
PROJECT TITLE: The Translation Institute: Literary Translation as a Model
fcr Teaching Languages and the Humanities
Tc support an institute on literary translation models for teachers of modern
languages. The focus will be on the translation process and the historical,
cultural, and stylistic issues involved in the effort to recreate the text.
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Santa Cruz (continued):
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
PROJ.DIR.: John 0. Jordan
PROJECT TITLE: Victorian Novels of Selfhood:
Eyre
To support a four-week institute in which 25
the West coast will study GREAT EXPECTATIONS
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
ES-21486-87
$118,867.00
Great Expectations and Jane
high school English teachers from
and JANE EY R E . ’
Stanford:
Stanford University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Stanford, CA 94305
FS-21838-87
PROJ.DIR.: Michael H. Jameson
PROJECT TITLE: Religion and Society in Ancient Greece
$88,880.00
Stanford University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$7,300.00
Stanford, CA 94305
RP-21017-87
PROJ.DIR.: Grant Earnes
PROJECT TITLE: The Byzantine Revival, 780-842, by Warren Treadgold
To support the publication of a scholarly assessment of the Byzantine revival,
a social, cultural, and political renaissance of the late 8th to the mid-9th
century.
Stanford University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$7,000.00
Stanford, CA 94305
APPROVED MATCH
$1,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Grant Barnes
RP-21023-87
PROJECT TITLE: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, edited by Timothy
Hunt
To support the publication of the first volume in an edition of the poetry of
Robinson Jeffers.
Stanford University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$5,300.00
Stanford, CA 94305
RP-21025-87
PROJ.DIR.: Grant Barnes
PROJECT TITLE: The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray, by Abraham
Ascher
To support the publication of a comprehensive account of the revolution of
1905, an event pivotal to Russia's development in the 20th century.
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COLORADO
Bo u l d e r :
APPROVED CUTRIGHT
£154,473.00
Boulder, C O 80309
APPROVED MATCH
$143,307.00
PROJ.DIR.: Paul M. Levitt
ES-21480-87
PROJECT TITLE: Writing About Literature: An Institute for Secondary School
Teachers
To support a four-week national institute on writing about literature.
Colorado Springs:
Colorado College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$59,559.00
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
FV-20746-87
PROJ.DIR.: Timothy Fuller
PROJECT TITLE: Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism:
Aquinas, Locke, Adams, and THE FEDERALIST
CONNECTICUT
Hartford:
Trinity College, Hartford
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Hartford, CT 06106
FV-20731-87
PROJ.DIR.: Drew A. Hyland
PROJECT TITLE: The Nature of the Individual in Nietzsche
PROJECT' DESCRIPTION:
$63,885.11
Trinity College, Hartford
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$57,251.00
Hartford, CT 06106
FV-20764-87
PROJ.DIR.: James A. Miller
PROJECT TITLE: Four Classic Afro-American Novels: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHINCGOD, NATIVE SON, INVISIBLE MAN, and SONG OF SOLOMON
N e w Haven:
Conn. Players Fnc., Inc/Long Wharf Theatre
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$433.00
New Haven, CT 06511
APPROVED MATCH
$30,258.00
PROJ.DIR.: James D. Luse
GP-21397-87
PROJECT TITLE: Offstage Perspectives Program
T o support a series of panels and publications to examine the human condition
through political, sociological, historical, psychological, and literary per
spectives, drawing on the theatrical offerings of a N e w England stage.
Yale University
SUPPLEMENT
New Haven, CT 06520
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$55,945.00
PROJ.DIR.: Hesung C. Koh
ES-21271-86
PROJECT TITLE: Supplement to a Summer Institute on Korean History and
Culture in an East Asian Context
T o support activities following a summer institute on Korean history and
c u l t u r e t o p r e p a r e c u r r i c u l a r m a t e r i a l s o n K o r e a a n d E a s t A s i a for u s e in
s c h o o l s t h r o u g h o u t the country.
Storrs:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$396,826.00
Storrs, CT 06268
EH-20697-87
PROJ.DIR.: Marvin R. Cox
PROJECT TITLE: Implementing a Model Course in Western Civilization
To support a cooperative faculty development project that will involve univer
sity and high school teachers in a model Western civilization course.
# # #
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington:
American Historical Association
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$18,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
$4,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Noralee Frankel
RX-20920-87
PROJECT TITLE: Conference on Women in the Progressive Era, 1890-1925
T o support a national conference on the relationship between women, the family,
and politics in the Progressive Era.
American History Media Center
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
GN-23177-87
PROJ.DIR.: Tim Rackler
PROJECT TITLE: Hamilton, Jefferson and the Federalist-Republican Conflict
To support planning for a 60-minute documentary with two one-man dramatic per
formances exploring the philosophical differences between Alexander Hamilton
and Thomas Jefferson.
Catholic University of America
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
_ FS-21766-88
PROJ.DIR*: Ruth Steiner
PROJECT TITLE: Liturgy and Hagiography in the Western Middle Ages
$66,916.00
Federation of State Humanities Councils
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$39,511.00
GN-23292-87
PROJ.DIR.: Richard A. Wyndham
PROJECT TITLE: American Images
T o support the selection of 13 humanities films that focus on American
biography and the scripting of introductions for an anthology. The goal is to
redistribute the films in an educational package to reach wider audiences
through PBS anc cable.
GWETA, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$25,000.00
GN-23288-87
PROJ.DIR.: Mary E. Aladj
PROJECT TITLE: Promotion for "Shoulder to Shoulder"
To support promotion for the rebroadcast of the six-part dramatic series
"Shoulder to Shoulder," a British Broadcasting Company production about the
Women's Suffrage Movement in England.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (continued)
Washington (continued):
Howard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT .
$80,000.00
ET-20048-87
PROJ.DIR.: Filisha C. Camara-Norman
PROJECT TITLE: A Summer Humanities Institute in French and Afro-Francophone
Literature and Culture for High School Juniors
To support a four-week institute for high school students on the French lan
guage and Francophone literature and culture.
Howard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,479.00
FG-20124-87
PROJ.DIR.: John O. Perpener
PROJECT TITLE: History of Black Concert Dance
To support one year of study toward a doctoral degree for a faculty member at a
Historically Black College or University.
National Academy of Sciences
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
I>715,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
$115,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Mary B. Bullock
RI-20274
■PROJECT TITLE: The Humanities Exchange Programs of the Committee on
Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China
To support the continuation of scholarly exchange and related grant activities
in the humanities with the People's Republic of China.
National Council on the Aging, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$149,334.00
GL-20800-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ronald J. Manheimer
PROJECT TITLE: Silver Editions: Library-Centered Humanities
Programs for Older Adults
To support scholar-led reading and discussion groups and library research p r o
jects for older adults in six library systems across the nation.
Stone Lantern Films, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$25,000.00
GN-23205-87
PROJ.DIR.: Sarah Mondale
PROJECT TITLE: Asylum: The Troubled History of U.S. Mental Institutions
To support script revision for a 60-minute documentary film tracing the
evolution of the philosophy of care for the mentally ill in America, using
the story of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC as a case study.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (continued)
Washington (continued):
University of the District of Columbia
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
FG-20130-87
PROJ.DIR.: Elsie A. Williams
PROJECT TITLE: American Studies: Black American Humor
Washington Drama Society, Inc./Arena Stage
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
;>70,015.00
APPROVED MATCH
$15,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Douglas C. Wager
GP-21382-87
PROJECT TITLE: Arena Stage Humanities Program
To support a series of community symposia and essays to interpret the drama
tic productions offered by the theater during the 1987-88 seasons, and to place
the plays in cultural, historical, and literary context.
# # #
Grants Announced November-1987
FLORIDA
Gainesville:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$171,845.00
’ ES-21479-87
PROJ.DIR.: Richard Hunt Davis, Jr.
PROJECT TITLE: Teaching Africa in the Context of World History and
Civilization: Institute for Secondary Teachers
To support a four-week national institute in which 30 high school social
studies teachers will study African history in the context of world history.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
ES-21488-87
PROJ.DIR.: Austin B. Creel
PROJECT TITLE: Religious Traditions and the Modern World
To support.a four-week institute for secondary school teachers
on Buddhism and Christianity.
$150,000.00
GEORGIA
Albany:
Albany State College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$77,251.00
A l b a n y , G A 31705
ET-20044-87
P R O J . D I R . : J a m e s L. Hill
P R O J E C T T I T L E : T h e I n d i v i d u a l and S o c i e t y :
E x p l o r i n g V a r i a t i o n s in O u r
Poetic Heritage
T o s u p p o r t a f o u r - w e e k i n s t i t u t e for h i g h s c h o o l s t u d e n t s on p o e t r y in W e s t e r n
cu l t u r e .
Atlanta:
Center for Contemporary Media
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Atlanta, GA 30306
GN-23232-87
$90,597.00
PROJ.DIR.: Jed Dannenbaum
PROJECT TITLE: Ralph McGill and His Times
To support postproduction expenses for a 90-minute documentary film on the
southern journalist and civil rights advocate, Ralph McGill, focusing on the
period of changing race relations that he wrote about and influenced.
Clark College, A t l a n t a
.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
A t l a n t a , G A 30314
'
EG-20117-87
P R O J . D I R . : P a t r i c i a B. H u t t o
PR O J E C T TITLE: A m e r i c a n Studies: B l a c k A m e r i c a n Fiction
T o s u p p o r t o n e y e a r of s t u d y t o w a r d a d o c t o r a l d e g r e e for a f a c u l t y m e m b e r at a
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
PROJ.DIR.: Thomas S. Burns
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FV-20726-87
$59,123.00
P R O J E C T T I T L E: E d w a r d G i b b o n and H i s S o u r c e s in L i g h t of N e w D i s c o v e r i e s
T o s u p p o r t a s u m m e r s e m i n a r f o r s c h o o l teachers.
Emory University
A t l a n t a , G A 30322
PROJ.DIR.: R icardo Gutierrez-Mouat
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$53,926.00
FV-20832-87
PROJECT TITLE: Three Latin American Novels of Dictatorship: Works by
Asturias, Carpentier, and Garcia Marquez
Decatur:
Agnes Scott College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$47,475.00
Decatur, GA 30030
EH-20683-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ellen W. Hall
PROJECT TITLE: Teaching Values in the Western Tradition
To support a summer workshop focusing on four major texts that represent
epochs in the Western tradition.
# # #
HAWAII
Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press
Honolulu, HI 96822
'
PROJ.DIR.: Damaris A. Kirchhofer
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RP-21082-87
$7,000.00
PROJECT TITLE: Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation,
by Victor H. Mair
To support the publication of a study of the origins and uses of the earliest
Chinese vernacular narratives known as PIEN-WEN, derived frcm a type of oral
storytelling that used picture scrolls with religious themes.
# # #
ILLINOIS
Chicago:
American Library Association
SUPPLEMENT
Chicago, IL 60611
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$90,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Evelyn F. Shaevel
GL-20616-85
PROJECT TITLE: Library Programming in the Humanities for Young Adults
To support two regional workshops for librarians and scholars in order to
enhance the intellectual approach to the design and implementation of educa
tional programs in the humanities for young adults.
Modern Poetry Association
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Chicago, IL 60680
GN-23158-87
PROJ.DIR.: Joseph A. Parisi
PROJECT TITLE: Movements and Movers in Contemporary American Poetry
To support the planning and development of thirteen 30-minute radio programs on the
history of American poetry since World War II.
Newberry Library
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$185,000.00
Chicago, IL 60610
APPROVED MATCH
$40,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: John H. Long
RT-20859-87
PROJECT TITLE: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
To support a historical atlas of the county boundaries of all states east of
the Mississippi River from their colonial beginnings to 1980.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$163,043.00
Chicago, IL 60637
EH-20738-87
PROJ.DIR.: Daniel E. Garber
PROJECT TITLE: Suirrr.er Institute on Early Modern Philosophy
To support a summer institute for college faculty on the history of early modern
philosophy, 1600-1750.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Chicago, IL 60637
FS-21784-87
PROJ.DIR.: W.J.T. Mitchell
PROJECT TITLE: Verbal and Visual Representation
$66,573.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$69,493.00
Chicago, IL 60637
FS-21849-88
PROJ.DIR.: John A. Brinkman
PROJECT TITLE: Assyrian and Babylonian Enpires, 745-539 B.C.: Political
and Cultural History
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Chicago, IL 60637
PROJ.DIR.: Harry A. Hoffner
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RT-20612-85
PROJECT TITLE: Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the
To support preparation of the HITTITE DICTIONARY.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Chicago, IL 60680
FS-21814-88
PROJ.DIR.: Mark Krupnick
PROJECT TITLE: American Cultural Criticism., 1915-65
$47,036.00
$68,670.00
APPROVED -CUTRIGHT
$50,733.00
Chicago, IL 60680
GP-21415-87
PROJ.DIR.: Gene W. Ruoff
PROJECT TITLE: T h e Romantics and Us
To support a series of lectures and a two-day conference explicating the artis
tic relationships between the artists of the romantic period and the artists
and audience of contemporary times.
DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$4,820.00
DeKalb, IL 60115
RP-21046-87
PROJ.DIR.: Mary L. Lincoln
PROJECT TITLE: Government and Peasant: The Prehistory of the Stolypin
Reforms, 1861-1906, by David Macey
To support publication of a study of the role of the Imperial Russian
bureaucracy in the Stolypin Reforms.
Skokie:
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$15,513.00
Skokie, IL 60076
EH-20706-87
PROJ.DIR.: Pearl R. Karp
PROJECT TITLE: A Course for Teachers in 20th-Century Genocide and
Holocaust Studies
To support a course for nontraditional learners in holocaust and genocide
studies to tie offered three times in 1987-88.
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ILLINOIS (continued)
Urbana:
!>250,000.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
University of Illinois, Urbana
APPROVED MATCH
$399,699.00
Urbana, IL 61801
G
M
23616-87
P R O J . D I R . : Michael Mullin
PROJECT TITLE: Design by Motley: An Interpretive Exhibition
To support an interpretive exhibition, educational programs, and publications
about set and costume designs from the Motley Collection, examining how these
designs interpret dramatic texts and reflect the culture of an age.
University of Illinois, Urbana
Urbana, IL 61801
PROJ.DIR.: Barton M. Clark
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTPIC-HT
$13,192.00
RC-21286-86
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation and Indexing of D'Arcy Collection
T o support a change in the technique required for microfilming the D'Arcy
Collection of advertisements dating from 1890 to 1970.
# # '#
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT PCJR THE HUMANITIES
INDIANA
Bloomington:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FS-21757-87
PROJ.DIR.: Denis Sinor
PROJECT TITLE: The Concept of the "Northern Barbarian"
$74,814.00
$26,000.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$5,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
RX-20935-87
PROJ.DIR.: Kenneth R. Johnston
PROJECT TITLE: Possible Sublimities: International Symposium on
Romanticism
To support an international conference on recent directions in inte rdisciplinary research on romanticism.
£6,000.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
j '
APPROVED MATCH
$1,000.00
RP-21048-87
PROJ.DIR.: Janet B. Rabinowitch
PROJECT TITLE: Writings of Charles S . P e i r c e . ..vol. 4, 1879-84, edited
by Christian Kloesel, Max Fisch, et al.
To support the publication of Volume 4 in the edition of the writings of
American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
Notre Dame:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$160,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
$20,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Terry V. F. Brogan
RT-20803-87
PROJECT TITLE: Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Third Rev. Ed.
To support a revised edition of the PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POETRY AND
POETICS.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FV-20736-87
PROJ.DIR.: Janet E. Smith
PROJECT TITLE: Friendship, Love, and Wisdom: Plato and Aristotle
$50,707.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$47,450.00
FV-20747-87
PROJ.DIR.: Thomas V. Morris
PROJECT TITLE: Pascal's PENSEES: Faith, Reason, and the Meaning of Life
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INDIANA (continued)
Notre Dame (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$7,600.00
RX-20901-87
PROJ.DIR.: James T. Cushing
PROJECT TITLE: Conference on Philosophical Problems from Quantum Theory
To support an international conference on the implications of quantum theory,
including recent developments, for the various branches of the discipline of
philosophy.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
$12,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: J. Samuel Valenzuela
RX-20937-87
PROJECT TITLE: Labor Movements in Transition to Democracy
To support an international conference on the role of labor movements in
national transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.
West Lafayette:
Purdue University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$55,000.00
West Lafayette, IN 47907
FV-20756-87
PROJ.DIR.: William L. McBride
PROJECT TITLE: Jean-Paul Sartre as Philosopher-Writer: Four Genres
# I #
IOWA
Mt. Vernon:
Cornell College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Mt. Vernon, IA 52314
FV-20770-87
PROJ.DIR.: William E. Carroll
PROJECT TITLE: Galileo: Religion and Science
ST 7 3
mt
$63,166.00
KENTUCKY
Lexington:
French Forum, Publishers
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$1,485.00
Lexington, KY 40505
RP-21081-87
PROJ.DIR.: Raymond C. La Charite
PROJECT TITLE: Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome: A Critical Edition...,
edited by Mary Speer
To support the publication of an edition of the 12th-century romance, LF ROMAN
DES SEPT SAGES DE ROME.
Kentucky Educational Television
APPROVED OUTFIGHT
$20,000.00
Lexington, KY 40502
GN-23201-87
PROJ.DIR.: Guy Mendes
PROJECT TITLE: Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
To support planning for a feature-length drama about the life and work of
Henry Clay.
# # #
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge:
Louisiana Library Association
PROJ.DIR.: James 0. Segretto
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
GL-20797-87
P R O J E C T TITLE: A m e r i c a n V i s t a s :
R e a d i n g P r o g r a m s in H i s t o r y
T o s u p p o r t a s e r i e s of s c h o l a r - l e d r e a d i n g and d i s c u s s i o n p r o g r a m s ,
A m e r i c a n Vi stas, i n p a r i s h l i b r a r i e s t h r o u g h o u t L o u i s i a n a .
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouce, LA 70893
PROJ.DIR.: Beverly Jarrett
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RP-20996-87
$199,899.00
entitled
$3,984.00
P R O J E C T TITLE: W o r k i n g w i t h t h e F o u n d e r , C a r t e r G. W o o d s o n , 1928-1930, by
Lorenzo Greene
T o s u p p o r t the p u b l i c a t i o n of a m e m o i r of C a r t e r G. W o o d s o n , f o u n d e r a n d d i r e c
t o r of t h e A s s o c i a t i o n f o r t h e S t u d y o f N e g r o L i f e a n d H i s t o r y a n d e d i t o r of
t h e J O U R N A L O F N E G R O H I S T O R Y , b y L o r e n z o Greene, W o o d s o n ' s c l o s e asso c i a t e .
Louisiana State University
PROJ.DIR;: Beverly Jarrett
.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RP-21009-87
$2,840.00
P R O J E C T TITLE: T h e U n i o n L e a g u e M o v e m e n t in A l a b a m a a n d M i s s i s s i p p i . . .
Dur i n g Reconstruction, by Michael Fitzgerald
P R O J E C T DESCRIPTION::
To support the publication of a study of the Union League, the first important
political organization in the Reconstruction South.
L o u i s i a n a State University
PROJ.DIR.: Beverly Jarrett
APPROVED O U T R I G H T
RP-20995-87
$2,733.00
P R O J E C T TITLE: T h e L e t t e r s of H e n r y J a m e s t o E d m u n d G o s s e , e d i t e d by
Rayburn Moore
T o s u p p o r t t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of a v o l u m e of s e l e c t e d l e t t e r s w r i t t e n b y H e n r y
J a m e s t o t h e E n g l i s h m a n of l e t t e r s , E d m u n d Gosse.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FS-21817-88
PROJ.DIR.: James Olney
PROJECT TITLE: The Forms of Autobiography
$78,711.00
Southern University, Baton Ro u g e
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,797.00
FG-20121-87
PROJ.DIR.: Janet J. Montelaro
PROJECT TITLE: English Literature
T o support one year of study toward a doctoral degree for a faculty member at a
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LOUISIANA (continued)
New Orleans:
Great River Project
N ew Orleans, LA 70125
PROJ.DIR.: Edward C. Kurtz, Jr.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
GN-23198-87
$40,000.00
P R O J E C T TITLE: T h e G r e a t R i v e r P r o j e c t
T o s u p p o r t t h e w r i t i n g of one s c r i p t f o r a p r o p o s e d t h r e e - p a r t d r a m a t i c m i n i
s e r i e s on t h e d i s c o v e r y and s e t t l e m e n t of t h e M i s s i s s i p p i R i v e r valley.
Loyola University, New Orleans
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$45,385.00
FV-20841-87
PROJ.DIR.: Barbara C. Ewell
PROJECT TITLE: Linking Region, Gender, and Genre in the Stories of
Chopin, Welty, O'Connor, and Walker
To support a summer seminar for school
teachers.
# # #
MAINE
Brunswick:
Bowdoin College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Brunswick, ME 04011
FV-20723-87
PROJ.DIR.: Herbert R. Coursen
PROJECT TITLE: KING LEAR: Script and Production
$53,053.00
MARYLAND
Baltimore:
Coppin State College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$129,580.00
Baltimore, MD 21216
EH-20698-87
PROJ.DIR.: Delores G. Kelley
PROJECT TITLE: Coppin Critical Reading Project
To'support a series of faculty seminars on the critical reading of central
texts to be introduced into the general education curriculum.
Johns Hopkins University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$200,842.00
Baltimore, MD 21218
EH-20756-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ronald Paulson
PROJECT TITLE: Image and Text: The 18th Century
To support an institute on visual images and verbal texts from England, France,
America, Italy, and Germany in the period 1720-1820 to introduce faculty
members-teaching in the humanities to this interpretive approach.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$100,060.00
Baltimore, MD 21218
APPROVED MATCH
$75,000.00
PROJ-.DIR.: George B. Udvarhelyi
G P - 21391-87
PROJECT TITLE: Medicine and the Humanities: A Continuing Dialogue
T o support a two-year series of coordinated lectures, symposia, colloquia, and
film discussion and the development of a video anthology exploring the inter
section of medicine and the humanities.
Johns Hcpkins University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$100,284.00
Baltimore, MD 21218
APPROVED MATCH
$25,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Jerome Kruger
PS-20125
PROJECT TITLE: Investigation of the Effects of Re-sizing Papers in Book
Conservation
To support a research project on the effects of re-sizing on book paper and the
longevity of books that have been rebound. The findings are expected to add tc
the understanding and practice of conservators and preservation administrators.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$10,000.00
Baltimore, MD 21211
RP-21049-87
PROJ.DIR.: Eric Halpern
PROJECT TITLE: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, by John Gabriel
Stedman, edited by Richard and Sally Price
To support the publication of an 18th-century account of an expedition to
Surinam that will include the reproduction of some 80 plates that were engraved
by William Blake, among others, for the 1796 edition of the work.
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MARYLAND (continued)
Baltimore (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$4,900.00
Baltimore, MD 21211
RP-20983-87
PROJ.DIR.: Eric Halpern
PROJECT TITLE: I.A. Richards: An Intellectual Biography, by John Paul
Russo
To support the publication of an intellectual biography of literary critic
I.A. Richards.
College Park:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FS-21753-88
PROJ.DIR.: Stephen G. Brush
PROJECT TITLE: Development of the Modern Scientific World View
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
APPROVED M A T C H
PROJ.DIR.: Charles E.- Butterworth
RX-20918-87
PROJECT TITLE: The'Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy
$71,658.00
$18,000.00
$2,000.00
T O support an international conference on the political dimensions of Islamic
p h i l o s o p h y , s p e c i f i c a l l y as t h e y e m e r g e d in t h e t e a c h i n g s of m e d i e v a l M u s l i m
philosophers.
# # #
MASSACHUSETTS
Amherst:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Amherst, MA 01003
FS-21776-88
PROJ.DIR.: Gareth B. Matthews
PROJECT TITLE: Issues in the Philosophy of Childhood
T o support an eight-week summer seminar for college teachers.
$64,495.00
Boston:
Eoston University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FV-20837-87
B o s t o n , MA 02215
P R O J . D I R . : Paul B. W o o d r u f f
P R O J E C T TIT LE: S o c r a t e s t h e T e a c h e r
$54,384.00
$60,324.00
Boston University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FV-20847-87
Boston, MA 02215
PROJ.DIR.: Bonnie Costello
PROJECT TITLE: Observation and Reflection in Modern American Lyric:
Williams, Frost, Moore, and Bishop
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:To support a summer seminar for school teachers.
WGBH Educational Foundation
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$300,420.00
Boston, MA 02134
APPROVED MATCH
$300,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Peter S. McGhee
GN-23278-87
PROJECT TITLE: Columbus and the Age of Discovery
T o support production of seven 60-minute documentaries about Columbus's
voyages, the cultural environment in which they took place, and the legacies of
the European contacts with America.
Cambridge:
Exit Films, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$324,183.00
Cambridge, MA 02140
GN-23155-87
PROJ.DIR.: Frederick Wiseman
PROJECT TITLE: The Dying Patient
T o support the production of a film examining the relationship of ethical,
religious, medical, and legal issues to dying patients in an intensive care
unit of a major metropolitan hospital.
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$4,693.00
Cambridge, MA 02139
RP-21060-87
PROJ.DIR.: James N. Hullett
PROJECT TITLE: Color for Philosophers, by Clyde Laurence Hardin
To support the publication of a study on the philosophy of color. This book,
intended primarily for an audience of philosophers, draws on new scientific
studies and theories.
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MASSACHUSETTS (continued)
Cambridge (continued):
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Cambridge, MA 02138
ES-21492-87
PROJ.DIR.: Sally Schwager
PROJECT TITLE: American History: The Female Experience
To support a three-year project on women in American history.
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTR I G H T
Cambridge, MA 02138
■
FS-21802-87
PROJ.DIR.: Everett T. Mendelsohn
PROJECT TITLE: The Social History of Science
$150,000.00
$77,599.00
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$78,092.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
FV-20836-87
PROJ.DIR.: Gregory Nagy
PROJECT TITLE: Principles.of Classical Lyric: A Comparative Approach
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHTCambridge, MA 02138
FV-20856-87
PROJ.DIR.: John E. Murdoch
PROJECT TITLE: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
$79,205.00
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
APPROVED MATCH
$2,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Nathan I. Huggins
RX-20922-87
PROJECT TITLE: Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System
To support an international conference on slavery and the development of the
Atlantic trading system.
Harvard University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Cambridge, MA 02138
APPROVED MATCH
$15,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Hilary Putnam
RX-20949-87
PROJECT TITLE: Peirce and Contemporary Thought: The Charles S. Peirce
Sesguicentennial International Congress
To support an international conference on the thought and works of Charles
Sanders Peirce.
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MASSACHUSETTS (c o ntinued)
Great Barrington:
Simon's Rock of Bard College
Great Barrington, MA 01230
PROJ.DIR.: Patricia Sharpe
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FV-20808-87
$51,455.00
P R O J E C T TITLE: W o m e n a n d F i c t i o n : J a n e Austen, C h a r l o t t e B r o n t e , V i r g i n i a
Woolf, and Alice Walker
Medford:
Tufts University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
M e d f o r d , M A 02155
APPROVED M A T C H
PROJ.DIR.: Steven Hirsch
EH-20730-87
PROJECT TITLE: World Civilizations Program at Tufts University
$112,557.00
$143,529.00
T o support a three-year project to cre a t e a world ci v i l izations p r o g r a m focus
ing o n t h r e e t w o - s e m e s t e r , h u m a n i t i e s - c e n t e r e d c o u r s e s , " C u l t u r e s t h r o u g h
Calendars,p "Memory and Identity," and "Conceptions of the Earth."
Tufts University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Medford, MA 02155
FS-21799-87
PROJ.DIR.: Norman Daniels
PROJECT TITLE: Justice and Health Care
$77,885.00
Tufts University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$55,748.00
Medford, MA 02155
FV-20740-87
PROJ.DIR.: Hewscn A. Ryan
PROJECT TITLE: Origins of a Central American Ethos: The POPUL VUH and the
Conquistadors
South Hadley:
New England Foundation for the Humanities
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$260,817.00
South Hadley, MA 01075
GL-20802-87
P R O J . D I R . : Guy S. Hermann
PROJECT TITLE: The Constitution at 200
To support a series of programs focusing on the framing of the U.S. Constitu
tion as revealed through biography, documents, historical writings, and other
literature.
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MASSACHUSETTS (continued)
Sturbridge:
Old Sturbridge Village
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$101,250.00
Sturbridge, MA 01566
APPROVED MATCH
$64,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Peter S. O'Connell
ES-21490-87
PROJECT TITLE: Social Change in America, 1790-1840: A Training Institute
for Teachers of Grades 3-8
To support a three-year project on American history in the early national
period, 1790-1840.
Waltham:
Brandeis University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$69,584.00
Waltham, MA 02254
FS-21804-88
PROJ.DIR.: Morton N. Keller
PROJECT TITLE: American Political History in Comparative Perspective
PROJECT DESCRIPTION::
To support a six-week summer seminar for college teachers.
# # #
MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$105,000.00
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
APPROVED MATCH
$25,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Jerome M. Clubb
RT-20853-87
PROJECT TITLE: Completion of a Computer Data Base on Family Life and
Conditions in the United States, 1888-1936
PROJECT DESCRIPTION’
:
To support the completion of a computer data base of family expenditures and
living conditions in the United States from 1935 to 1936, based on a survey
conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$61,961.00
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
FS-21827-88
PROJ.DIR.: Williar P. Malm
PROJECT TITLE: Sharasen: The Musical Heart of 19th-Century Japanese
Theater and Social Life
# # #
MINNESOTA
St. Peter:
Gustavus Adolphus College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
St. Peter, MN 56082
FV-20821-87
PROJ.DIR.: Douglas N. Leonard
PROJECT TITLE: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
# # #
$46,753.00
MISSISSIPPI
Jackson:
Millsaps College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$67,795.00
Jackson, MS 39210
EH-20715-87
PROJ.DIR.: Harrylyn G. Sallis
P R O J E C T TITLE: Mill s a p s College L e a d e r s h i p Seminars in the Humanities
T o support six humanities seminars to be presented in the next three years for
nontraditional learners from the c o r p o r a t e and professional community in
Jackson, Mississippi.
Jackson State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$79,983.00
Jackson, MS 39217
ET-20051-87
PROJ.DIR.: Dernoral Davis
PROJECT TITLE: The Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Quest for
Equality
To support an institute for high school students on the intellectual and
philosophical origins of the U.S. Constitution.
Jackson State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
Jackson, MS 39217
PG-20128-87
PROJ.DIR.: Tommie H. Stewart
PROJECT TITLE: Frank Silvera's AMERICAN THEATRE OF BEING
# # #
MISSOURI
Columbia:
University of Missouri, Columbia
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$4,954.00
Columbia, MO 65211
RP-21080-87
PROJ.DIR.: Susan M. Denny
PROJECT TITLE: The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts of the Poems of
John Donne and Others, edited by Ernie Sullivan ■
To support the publication of a facsimile and transcription of two Renaissance
verse manuscripts, unknown to scholars until 1977. These manuscripts include 46 poems by
works by John Donne and other works by members of his circle.
# # #
MONTANA
Helena:
Montana Historical Society
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$8,240.00
Helena, MT 59620
GP-21394-87
PROJ.DIR.: Jennifer J. Thompson
PROJECT TITLE: Centennial S y m p o s i u m of the Northern Tier States' History
To support plann i n g of a symposium explicating the social and cultural history
of Washington, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, and W y o m i n g — to be held
in conjunction w i t h the states' centennials in 1989 and 1990.
NEBRASKA
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
APPROVED MATCH
$22,747.00
Lincoln, NE 68588
RP-21033-87
PROJ.DIR.: Debra K. Turner
PROJECT TITLE: Equipment Purchase to Enhance Publishing Effectiveness
PROJECT' DESCRIPTION::
To support the purchase of updated computer equipment that will enable the
University of Nebraska Press to increase its effectiveness as a publisher of
scholarly books in the humanities.
# # #
NEVADA
Las Vegas:
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$70,316.00
Las Vegas, NV 89154
EH-20717-87
PROJ.DIR.: Christopher C. Hudgins
PROJECT TITLE: Faculty Development Summer Seminar: Teaching Masterpieces
of World Literature II
PROJECT DESCR I P T I O N :
To support a six-week summer seminar designed to reacquaint faculty members
with major works in neoclassical, romantic, and realist/modern literatures.
Reno:
Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Reno, NV 89557
GN-23211-87
PROJ.DIR.: Danny L. McGuire
PROJECT TITLE: Allensworth
To support the planning of a feature-length television dramatization of the
life of Allen Allensworth, 1842-1914, and the issues surrounding his establish
ment in California of an all-black town in 1908.
NEW JERSEY
Hoboken:
Films in Progress, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Hoboken, NJ 07030
GN-23240-87
PROJ.DIR.: Robert E. Clan
P R O J E C T TITLE: A Man Against His Times: Ala b a m a Governor James E.
"Big Jim" Folsom
T o support planning for a feature-length film dramatizing the life and career
of A l a b a m a governor James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, who held office from 1947 to
1951 and from, 1955 to 1959.
Madison:
N e w Jersey Shakespeare Festival
APPROVED CUTRIGHT
2519,514.00
Madison, NJ 07940
APPROVED MATCH
$36,796.00
PROJ.DIR.: Ellen R. Barry
GP-21395-87
PROJECT TITLE: N e w Jersey Shakespeare Festival Annual Colloquia Weekends
T o support three years of annual three-day colloquia on the dramatic offerings
of t h e N e w Jersey Shakespeare Festival.
Morristown:
John Trumbull Patriot-Artist Association
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
Morristown, NJ 07960
GN-23139-87
PROJ.DIR.: Marge G. Dahle
PROJECT TITLE: John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution
To support planning for a two-hour drama on the life and art of John Trumbull,
1756-1843, American historical and portrait painter.
New Brunswick:
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$25,000.00
N ew Brunswick, NJ 08903
GN-23197-87
PROJ.DIR.: Reese V. Jenkins
PROJECT TITLE: Edison and the Art of Invention
To support the writing of a script for a 60-minute documentary that will
examine the creative process of invention by exploring the work of Thomas
Edison and the world in which he lived.
Princeton:
International Research & Exchanges Erd/ APPROVED OUTRIGHT
15500,000.00
American Council of Learned Societies
APPROVED MATCH
15500,000.00
Princeton, NJ 08540
RI-20272
PROJ.DIR.: Allen H. Kassof
P R O J E C T TITLE: Adva n c e d Research E x c h a n g e s and Related Grant Ac t i v i t i e s
in the Soviet Union and E a s t e r n Europe
To support the continuation of advanced research, scholarly exchange, and
related grant activities in the humanities with the Soviet Union and the
socialist countries of Eastern Europe.
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NEW JERSEY (continued)
Princeton(continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$180,000.00
Princeton, NJ 08544
EH-20755-87'
PROJ.DIR.: John Cooper
PROJECT TITLE: Aristotle's Metaphysics, Biology, and Ethics
To support a six-week institute on Aristotle for college teachers of Greek
philosophy.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$78,611.00
Princeton, NJ 08544
FS-21761-88
PROJ.DIR.: Thomas P„ Roche, Jr.
PROJECT TITLE: Romance and Dramatic Form: Sidney, Shakespeare, and the
English Renaissance
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$94,029.00
Princeton, NJ 08544
FS-21762-87
PROJ.DIR.: Alvin B. Kernan
PROJECT TITLE: Literature as a Socially Constructed Reality, 1740-1980
P r i n ceton Un i v e r s i t y
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Princeton, NJ 08544
FS-21809-87
PROJ.DIR.: Emory B. Elliott
PROJECT TITLE: History and t h e Novel in America
$83,305.00
P r i n c e t o n Univer s i t y
Princeton, NJ 08544
PROJ.DIR.: Hans Aarsleff
$76,138.00
APPR O V E D CUTRIGHT
FS-21826-88
PROJECT TITLE: Reflections on Language and the Nature of Man:
through Romanticism
T o support a n eight-week summer seminar for college teachers.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Princeton, NJ 08544
FS-21831-87
PROJ.DIR.: Francois Rigolot
PROJECT TITLE: Modern Critical Theory and French Narrative
PRO J E C T DESCRIPTION:
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17th Century
$88,907.00
N E W JERSEY (continued)
Princeton (continued):
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Princeton, NJ 08544
FS-21833-87
PROJ.DIR.: Victor H. Brombert
PROJECT TITLE: The Modern Anti-Hero
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Princeton, NJ 08544
FS-21854-88
PROJ.DIR.: Walter Hinderer
PROJECT TITLE: Concepts and Ideas of German Drama
$100,443.00
$89,658.00
Princeton University Press
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$7,620.00
Princeton, NJ 08540
RP-20993-87
PROJ.DIR.: Margaret H. Case
PROJECT TITLE: Artisans of Banaras, 1880-1986, by Nita Kumar
To support the publication of a study of the religious and cultural life of the
artisan class in Banaras, India.
# # #
N E W MEXICO
1
querque:
ersity of N e w Mexico
E
-
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$37,445.00
querque, NM 87131
EH-20719-87
pj.DIR.: Paul E. Davis
OJECT TITLE: P e r s p e c t i v e s on the Western Tradition
fojECT DESCRIPTION: ,
I support the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a n e w literature
ourse focusing on m a j o r W e s t e r n texts and on selected n o n - W estern texts.
NEW YORK
Albany:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$129,727.00
SUNY Res. Fdn./Central Admin
EH-20745-87
Albany, NY 12246
PROJ.DIR.: Wayne M. O'Sullivan
PROJECT TITLE: Teaching the Western Heritage
To support an academic-year faculty study project on selected topics in
Western civilization for teachers in SUNY's two-year colleges.
Ann-on-Hudson:
Bard College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$137,317.00
Ann-on-Hudson, NY 12504
ES-21489-87
PROJ.DIR.: Mark H. Lytle
PROJECT TITLE: The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1929-45
To support a four-week national institute in which 30 high school social
studies teachers will study American history from 1929 to 1945.
Binghamton:
SUNY Res. Fdn./Binghamton
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$119,024.00
Binghamton, NY 13901
EH-20743-87
PROJ.DIR.: Paul E. Szarmach
PROJECT TITLE: Institute on "Arthur of Avalon: Medieval and Modern"
To support an institute on Arthurian myth in its medieval and modern manifes
tations.
SUNY Res. Fdn./Binghamton
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Binghamton, NY 13901
FV-20722-87
PROJ.DIR.: Paul Finkelman
PROJECT TITLE: The Creation of the American Constitution
Bronx:
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Fordham University
FS-21823-88
Bronx, NY 10458
PROJ.DIR.: Ewert H. Cousins
PROJECT' TITLE: The Journey in Medieval Christian Mysticism
$46,875.00
$60,115.00
Fordham University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$45,447.00
Bronx, NY 10458
FV-20792-87
PROJ.DIR.: Sue Ellen Holbrook
PROJECT TITLE: Reading Sir Thomas Malory's Arthuriad, LE MORTE DARTHUR
N E W YORK (continued)
Bronxville:
Sarah Lawrence College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Bronxville, NY 10708
FV-20721-87
PROJ.DIR.: Robert A„ McDermott
PROJECT TITLE: William James' VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
$55,057.00
Flushing:
CUNY Res. Fdn./Queens College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$300,000.00
Flushing, NY 11367
APPROVED MATCH
$35,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Richard McCoy
ES-21496-87
PROJECT TITLE: Shakespeare Institutes for Secondary School Teachers in New
York City
To support a series of three summer institutes in which New York City teachers
will study selected plays of Shakespeare.
CUNY Res. Fdn./Queens College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$150,000.00
Flushing, NY 11367
GL-20805-87
PROJ.DIR.: David Cohen
PROJECT TITLE: Public Library Discussions For and About N e w Americans
To support a series of lectures and reading and discussion programs for new
immigrants to explore the themes of individualism and family through American
literature and history.
Geneseo:
SUNY Res. Fdn./College at Geneseo
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Geneseo, NY 14454
FV-20733-87
PROJ.DIR.: William R. Cook
PROJECT TITLE: The 13th-Century "Lives" of St. Francis of Assisi
SUNY Res. Fdn./College at Geneseo
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Geneseo, NY 14454
FV-20734-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ronald E. Herzman
PROJECT TITLE: Dante's COMMEDIA"
PROJECT DESCRIPTION :
Hempstead:
Hofstra University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Herrpstead, NY 11550
FS-21846-88
PROJ.DIR.: Anna Balakian
PROJECT TITLE: Dada and Surrealism Revisited
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$66,414.00
$64,945.00
$74,169.00
Ithaca:
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$74,114.00
Ithaca, NY 14853
FS-21760-87
PROJ.DIR.: Daniel R. Schwarz
PROJECT TITLE: Critical Perspectives on the Early 20th-Century British
Novel
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Ithaca, NY 14853
FS-21773-88
P R O J . D I R . : Sander L* Gilman
PROJECT TITLE: Humanities and Medicine
$74,268.00
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$78,035.00
Ithaca, NY 14853
FS-21786-87
PROJ.DIR.: Sidney G. Tarrow
PROJECT TITLE: Historical Studies of Collective Action and Political Change
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Ithaca, NY 14853
FS-21806-88
PROJ.DIR.: James Webster
PROJECT TITLE: Musical Form and Drama in Mozart's Operas
$67,789.00
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$2,000.00
Ithaca, N Y 14853
RP-20998-87
PROJ.DIR.: Bernhard Kendler
P ROJECT TITLE: T h e Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. V, edited by Robert N.
Hudspeth
To support the publication of Volume 5 in the edition of the letters of
Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century American critic and writer.
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$7,700.00
Ithaca, NY 14853
APPROVED MATCH
£5,000.00
RP-21000-87
PROJECT TITLE: Wordsworth: The 13-Book Prelude, edited by Mark Reed
To support the publication of a two-volume edition of the 1805 and 1819
stages of coirposition of THE PRELUDE, the central work of Wordsworth's
maturity.
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Ithaca (continued):
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$3,365.00
Ithaca, NY 14853
RP-21001-87
PROJECT TITLE: Shorter Poems, 1807-20, By William Wordsworth, edited by
Carl H. Ketcham
To support the publication of an edition of Wordsworth's shorter poems composed
between 1807 and 1820.
Cornell University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$3,000.00
Ithaca, NY 14853
RP-21010-87
PROJ.DIR.: John G. Ackerman
PROJECT TITLE: Resurrection and the Renewal of the Age: The Emergence of
the Babi Movement in Qajar, Iran, by Abbas Amanat
To support the publication of a study of the mid-19th-century Islamic millen
nial movement that was the last attempt to reform the Shi'ite faith predominant
in Iran today.
New York City:
American Academy in Rone
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$64,560.00
New York, NY 10021
FS-21841-88
PROJ.DIR.: Larissa Bonfante
PROJECT TITLE: The Religious, Political, and Social Significance of Roman
Costume
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
!!120,000.00
N ew York, NY 10017
APPROVED MATCH
$180,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Christina M. Gillis
RI-20283
PROJECT TITLE: American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant Program t o Enable
Scholars to Participate in International Meetings Abroad
To support a three-year renewal of a program of individual travel grants to
enable American scholars in the humanities to attend international meetings
held outside North America.
APPROVED MATCH
$100,000.00
New York, NY 10017
RI-20273
PROJ.DIR.: Jason H. Parker
PROJECT TITLE: Universities Service Centre, Hong Kong
To support the establishment of a consortium of university-based China studies
programs to administer the Universities Service Centre, Hong Kong.
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N ew York City (continued):
New York, NY 10017
PROJ.DIR.: Douglas Greenbera
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$85,000.00
RR-20003-86
PROJECT TITLE: American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowships for Recent
Recipients of the Ph.D. Degree
To support a program of fellowships for recent recipients of the Ph.D. degree
in the humanities.
New York, NY 10017
PROJ.DIR.: Christina M. Gillis
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$50,000.00
RR-20002-86
PROJECT TITLE: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Program
T o support a program of fellowships for post-doctoral research in the
humanities.
New York, NY 10017
PROJ.DIR.: Douglas Greenberg
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTRIGHT .
$10,000.00
RR-20001-86
PROJECT TITLE: American Council of Learned Societies Grants-in-Aid
T o support a program of grants-in-aid for post-doctoral research in the
humanities.
An American Portrait
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$19,921.00
New York, NY 10011
GN-23192-87
PROJ.DIR.: Thomas P., Johnson
PROJECT TITLE: Remembering Pearl Harbor
To support planning for a 90-minute television documentary examining JapaneseAmerican relations and the events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Columbia University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$180,000.00
New York, NY 10027
EH-20695-87
PROJ.DIR.: David J. Rothman
PROJECT TITLE: Medicine and Civilization
To support the design and implementation of an interdisciplinary course that
examines the values and institutions which have shaped medical care in Western
civilization.
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N E W Y ORK (continued)
N ew York City (continued):
Columbia University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
N ew York, NY 10027
FS-21808-87
PROJ.DIR.: Andrew J. Nathan
PROJECT TITLE: Political Development of China: Maoism and Reform,
1949-88
$74,316.00
Columbia University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$70,419.00
New York, NY 10027
FV-20743-87
PROJ.DIR.: Peter J. Awn
PROJECT TITLE: The Islamic Vision in Religion and Literature: Four
Classical Texts
Columbia University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
New York, NY 10027
FV-20766-87
PROJ.DIR.: Julian H. Franklin
PROJECT TITLE: John-Locke and the Foundations of Liberal Theory
$78,725.00
Columbia University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$84,399.00
N ew York, NY 10027
FV-20767-87
PROJ.DIR.: Howard Stein
PROJECT TITLE: Masterworks of American Drama: O'Neil, Williams, Miller, and
Albee
Columbia University
N ew York, NY 10027
PROJ.DIR.: Ronald J. Grele
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$5,319.00
APPROVED MATCH
$2,500.00
RC-21046-85
PROJECT TITLE: Computerization of the Catalogue and Master Biographical
Index of the Oral History Collection
To support the completion of a project to computerize the catalogue and master
biographical index of the Oral History Collection.
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New York City (continued):
Columbia University
PROJ.DIR.: Marvin I. Herzog
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
RT-20549-85
PROJECT TITLE: The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language
T o support work on the GREAT DICTIONARY OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE.
$75,000.00
CUNY Res. Fdn./City College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$150,000.00
New York, NY 10031
ES-21482-87
PROJ.DIR.: Saul N. Brody
PROJECT TITLE: Western Literature Summer Institute for Teachers
To support a four-week institute for high school teachers on novels,
lyric poetry, and short stories in Western literature.
CUNY Res. Fdn./City College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$150,000.00
New York, NY 10031
GL-20788-87
PROJ.DIR.: Betty L. Jenkins
PROJECT TITLE: W e Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: Black-Owned Book Publishing
In the United States, 1817-1987
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:;
To support a keynote address, an exhibition, lectures, a book fair, a one-day
conference on the history and current state of black book publishing in the
Unitec States, and a conference on publishing black children's literature.
CUNY Res. Fdn./Grad,, School & Univ. Center
APPRO V E D O U T R I G H T
N ew York, NY 10036
FS-21860-88
P R O J . D I R . : Morris Dickstein
PROJECT TITLE: The Thirties: Literature and Culture
T o support a six-week summer seminar for college teachers.
$69,640.00
Department of Overseas Missions
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000.00
New York, NY 10115
GN-23254-87
PROJ.DIR.: George M. Miller
PROJECT TITLE: James Weldon Johnson's GOD'S TROMBONES
To support planning for a television program featuring a performance of and
commentary on James Weldon Johnson's GOD'S TROMBONES (1927), a book of seven
African-American sermons in verse.
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NEW YORK (continued)
Exiles Project
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$263,424.00
New York, NY 10036
APPROVED MATCH
$140,000.00
PRDJ.DIR.: Richard Kaplan
GN-23280-87
PROJECT TITLE: The European Intellectual Exiles (1933-42) and Their
Impact on America
To support production of a two-hour documentary about the European refugee
scholars, artists, and intellectuals who migrated to the United States prior to
World War II.
Film News Now Foundation
APPROVED OUTPIGHT
$800,609.00
New York, NY 10018
GN-23173-87
PROJ.DIR.: Susan M. Williams
PROJECT TITLE: China in Revolution, 1911-1949
To support the production of a two-hour historical documentary film about China
during the years 1911-49.
Global Village Vid e o Resource Center, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$292,888.00
■New York, NY 10013
APPROVED MATCH
$25,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: John L. Reilly
GN-23227-87.
PROJECT TITLE: The Beckett Project
To support the writing of a script for a 60-minute documentary on the life and
art of Samuel Beckett and production of a companion 60-minute program present
ing three of his plays along with introductory and linking commentary.
Institute for Research in History
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$157,410.00
New York, NY 10010
GN-23145-87
PROJ.DIR.: Midge Mackenzie
PROJECT TITLE: Shoulder to Shoulder
To support the production of new introductions to, and the rebroadcast of, the
six-hOur dramatic series, SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.
Learning in Focus, Inc.
New York, NY 10017
PROJ.DIR.: Robert Geller
PROJECT TITLE: Rites of Passage: American
To support the production of two 60-minute
stories for a serie;s for young people ages
Stories" by Harold Brodkey and "The Hollow
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
APPROVED MATCH
GN-23182-87
Short Stories
$500,000.00
$450,000.00
dramatizations of American short
13 to 18: "First Love and Other
Boy" by Hortense Calisher.
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
.$100,083.00
N ew York, NY 10168
APPROVED MATCH
$50,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Richard A. Siegel
GP-21405-87
PROJECT TITLE: Independence and Interdependence: Jewish Culture in Israel
and America
To support a multi-disciplinary program of conferences, synposia, lecture
series, film series, radio programs, exhibitions, and community-initiated
public activities to explore Jewish culture in Israel and America.
New York Public Library
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$15,000.00
N ew York, NY 10018 •
APPROVED MATCH
$4,621.00
PROJ.DIR.: Diantha D. Schull
GL-20803-87
PROJECT TITLE: Planning Exhibition and Related Public Programs and Inter
pretive Material for "Printing and the French Revolution"
To support the planning of an interpretive exhibition and programs on printing
and the French Revolution of 1789.
N e w York University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$150,343.00
N ew York, NY 10003
. APPROVED MATCH '
$50,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: Leslie Berlowitz
GP-21407-87
PROJECT TITLE: The French Revolution and its Modern Legacy: A Bicentennial
Reappraisal
To support a series of public lectures.and film discussion programs for a com
prehensive historical assessment of the French Revolution and its international
impact over the past 200 years.
New York University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
N ew York, NY 10003
FS-21793-87
PROJ.DIR.: Robert Bailey
PROJECT TITLE: The Music of Wagner
$76,212.00
Touchstone Center for Children
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$7,000.00
N ew York, NY 10128
GN-23153-87
PROJ.DIR.: Richard Lewis
PROJECT TITLE: "In the Time Before" Radio Programs
To support planning for six 15-minute radio program segments for children that
will examine creation myths of indigenous cultures.
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N E W Y O R K (continued)
N e w Y o r k (continued):
St. Bonaventure :
S aint Bon a v e n t u r e University
i>6,717.00
St. Bonaventure, N Y 14778
APPROVED MATCH
$1,500.00
PROJ.DIR.: Conrad L. Harkins
RP-21026-87
PROJECT TITLE: A d a m de Wodeham, L e c t u r a Secunda, Vo l u m e 2, edited by
Ladislao G e d e o n Gal
T o support the publication of V o l u m e 2 of the LECTURA SECUNDA of A d a m de
Wodeham, the 14th-century philosopher and interpreter of Duns Scotus and
W i l l i a m of Ockham.
Syracuse:
Syracuse U n i v e r s i t y
APPR O V E D OUTRIGHT
Syracuse, NY 13244
FS-21803-88
PROJ.DIR.: Jona t h a n F. Bennett
PROJECT TITLE: C o n s e q u e n t i a l s t T h e o r i e s of Morality
T o support a six-week summer seminar f o r college teachers.
$83,783.00
Syra c u s e Un i v e r s i t y Press
$5,500.00
Syracuse, N Y 13244
RP-21014-87
P R O J . D I R . : W a l d a Metcalf
P R O J E C T TITLE: Punched D e c o r a t i o n of G i l d e d Surfaces on Late Medieval
Panel Painting, Vol. 1, by Mojmir Frinta
T o support the publication of the first volume of a two-volume s t u d y of the
d ecoration of gilded surfaces on late medieval Italian panel paintings.
# # #
NATIONAL D D O W M E N T FOR THE HUMANITIES
Grants Announced November ]987
N O R T H CARO L I N A (continued)
Charlotte:
U n i v e r s i t y of N o r t h Carolina, Charlotte
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
i>325,000.00
Charlotte, NC 28223
APPROVED M A T C H
$120,000.00
PROJ.DIR.: A n i t a W. Moss
ES-21495-87
PROJECT TITLE: T h e Teaching of Literature, Writing, and Critical Thinking
T o support a three-year project, including three summer institutes for
teachers of grades K through 12, o n British and Amer i c a n literary classics.
Durham:
D u k e University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$163,623.00
Durham, NC 27706
EH-20750-87
P R O J . D I R . : Marcel Tetel
PRO J E C T TITLE: Perspectives on Monta i g n e and His T i m e
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:T o support an institute for college faculty on the literary and historical contexts of
t h e ESSAYS
of Michel de Montaigne.
N o r t h Carolina Central University
$27,500.00
Durham., NC 27707
FG-20131-87
PROJ.DIR.: Carlton E. Wi l s o n :
PROJECT TITLE: A S t u d y of the Black Community in Liverpool, England,
1918-45
Raleigh:
N o r t h Carolina S t a t e University
APPR O V E D OUTRI G H T
Raleigh, NC 27695
FV-20753-87
PROJ.DIR.: Mary A n n F. Witt
PROJECT TITLE: Theatricality and Rea l i t y in M o d e r n E u r o p e a n Drama:
Pirandello, Brecht, Sartre, and Genet
T o support a summer seminar for school teachers.
$63,279.00
N O R T H DAKOTA
Bismarck:
Ch a u t a u q u a Society, Inc.
$201,050.00
Bismarck, N D 58501
APPROVED MATCH
$59,200.00
PROJ.DIR.: Clay S. J e n k i n s o n
GP-21387-87
PROJECT TITLE: V i s i o n s of America: Summer Scholars-in-Residence
T o support 16 one- w e e k scholarly residencies over two summers in the Dakotas,
Nebraska, and Kansas. Scholars will lead discussions about Thomas Jefferson,
Alexander Hamilton, E l i z a b e t h Stanton, Abigail Adams, and Henry Adams.
# # #
OHIO
Cleveland:
Cleveland S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y
$6,000.00
Cleveland, O H 44115
R X - 2 0 925-87 .
PROJ.DIR.: Laura M a r t i n
PRO J E C T TITLE: Cleve l a n d Conference on Mayan Text and Discourse
T o support a n international conference on Mayan linguistics, focusing on the
analysis of p a t t e r n s of discourse.
Columbus:
O h i o State U n i v e r s i t y Rese a r c h Foundation
$50,573.00
Columbus, O H 43210
FV-20760-87
PROJ.DIR.: W i l l i a m W. Dunham
P ROJECT TITLE: T h e Great Theorems of Mathematics in Historical Context
T o suppport a summer seminar for school teachers.
O h i o State University, M a i n Campus
$75,853.00
Columbus, O H 43212
FV-20704-87
P R O J . D I R . : Frank R. Silbajoris
PROJECT TITLE: A r t and L o v e in Do s t o e v s k y and Tolstoy: THE BROTHERS
''
K A R A M A Z O V and ANNA KARENINA
Gambler:
Ke n y o n College
$59,430.00
Gambier, O H 43022
FV-20728-87
P R O J . D I R . : Harry M. Clor
P R O J E C T TITLE: T o c q u e v i l l e on Modern D e m o c r a c y and Human Well Being
P eter M. Rutkoff
$55,000.00
Gambier, O H 43022
R O - 2 1 583-87
K enyon College
PROJECT TITLE: N e w Y o r k Modern: The Avant G a r d e and The City, 1900-70
To support the p r e p a r a t i o n of a study of the 20th-century N e w York artists who
created the movement known as modernism. Artists in the period 1900-70
will be examined, with the focus on intellectual and urban history.
Hiram:
H i r a m College
$125,620.00
Hiram, O H 44234
EH-20749-87
PROJ.DIR.: Carol C. Donley
PROJ E C T TITLE: Institute for Humanities and Medicine
P ROJECT DESCRIPTION:
T o support a n institute to help medical personnel and college faculty
incorporate humanities texts and issues into col l e g e curricula, medical
schools, and the clinical environment.
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OHIO (continued)
Wilberforce:
Central State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
Wilberforce, OH 45384
FG-20118-87
PROJ.DIR.: Lee L. J. Ingham
PROJECT TITLE: Philosophy
PROJ E C T DESCRIPTION:
H istorically Black College or University.
# # #
OKLAHOMA
Langston:
Langston University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$72,480.00
Langston, O K 73050
•
ET-20049-87
PROJ.DIR.: Neva Joy Flasch
P ROJECT TITLE:. L i t e r a r y Perspectives on the Impact of W a r in the Western
World
T o support a four-week institute for high school students on literature and
war in the W e s t e r n tradition.
# # #
OREGON
Bend:
Central Oregon Community College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$70,494.00
Bend, O R 97701
FV-20724-87
PROJ.DIR.: Jarold W. Ramsey
PRO J E C T TITLE: Native American Literature, from Traditional to M o d e r n
Portland:
Reed College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$52,640.00
Portland, O R 97202
FV-20717-87
PROJ.DIR.: Lisa M. Steinman
PROJECT TITLE: The Place of Poetry in Modern America: Williams, Stevens,
and Moore
# # #
PENNSYLVANIA
Easton:
L a f a y e t t e College
A P P R O V E D OUTR I G H T
Easton, PA 18042
.
FV-20763-87
P R O J . D I R . : June Schlueter
PROJECT TITLE: Rea d i n g S h a k e speare in Performance: MACBETH
$50,769.00
Kutztown:
Kutz t o w n Univer s i t y
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$48,049.00
Kutztown, PA 19530
FV-20782-87
P R O J . D I R . : August J. Nigro
PRO J E C T TITLE: Thomas' Hardy and T.S. Eliot: Litera t u r e and L a n d s c a p e
Philadelphia:
Commu n i t y College of Phil a d e l p h i a
APPR O V E D OUTRIGHT
$252,214.00
EH-20721-87
P R O J . D I R . : Karen Bojar
PROJ E C T TITLE: Incorporating Cultural Literacy as an Explicit Goal in the
Introductory E n g l i s h Composition course
T o support a summer institute for c o l l e g e faculty on methods of incorpor
ating cultural literacy into com p o s i t i o n courses.
Society of Architectural Historians
PROJ.DIR.: Adolf K. Placzek
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED MA T C H
$60,000.00
RO-21228-86
PROJECT TITLE: The BUILDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES: Connecticut and Michigan
Volumes
T o support p r e p a ration of two volumes (Connecticut and Michigan) of a multi
volume, stat e-by-state series on the buildings of t h e United States.
T e m p l e University
APPROVED OUTR I G H T
$10,000.00
RP-21057-87
PROJ.DIR.: David K. Bartlett
P ROJECT TITLE: W i l l i a m Henry J a c k s o n and the Transformation of A m e r i c a n
Culture, by Peter Hales
T o support the p u b l i cation of a study of the American p h o t o grapher W i l l i a m
Henry Jackson, 1843-1942.
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PEN N S Y L V A N I A (continued)
Philadelphia (continued):
Univer s i t y of Penn s y l v a n i a
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
.$69,435.00
FS-21816-88
PROJ.DIR.: Peter Conn
P ROJECT TITLE: T h e A m e r i c a n 1930s: Art and Politics in the Depres s i o n
FS-21844-88
PROJ.DIR.: Alfred J. Rieber
P ROJECT TITLE: Ru s s i a and Its Borderlands
P ROJECT D E S C R I P T I O N :
T o support an eight-week summer seminar for col l e g e teachers.
$77,902.00
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
F V - 2 0 7 71-87
PROJ.DIR.: Irma S. Lustig
P RO J E C T TITLE: Boswe l l ' s Journal and the LIFE OF J O H N S O N
T o support a summer seminar for school teacheirs.
$62,047.00
U niversity of Pennsylvania
APPR O V E D O U T R I G H T
FV-20772-87
P R O J . D I R . : John W. McCoubrey
PROJECT TITLE: Paintings as Texts
$76,271.00
U n i v e r s i t y Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press
APPROVED CUTRIGHT
$7,450.00
University Park, P A 16802
R P - 2 1 075-87
P R O J . D I R . : Philip Winsor
P RO J E C T TITLE: Fasciclus Morum: L a t i n Text and Eng l i s h Translation,
edited and translated by Siegfried W e n z e l
T o support the publication of an English translation of a 14th-century Latin
handbook for preachers.
Pennsylvania State University Press
$ 5 , COO.00
University Park, P A 16802
RP-21078-87
PROJ.DIR.: Philip Winsor
P ROJECT TITLE: A e g e a n Painting in the Bronze Age, b y Sara A. Immerwahr
T o support the p ublication of a synoptic work on A e g e a n painting in the Bronze
Age.
# # #
RHODE ISLAND
Newport:
New p o r t Public L i b r a r y
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$173,604.00
• Newport, RI 02840
GL - 2 0 8 0 4 - 8 7
PROJ.DIR.: Eileen H. W a r b u r t o n
PRO J E C T TITLE: C O M M O N GROUND: The Migration of Y a n k e e Cul t u r e from
Seacoast to W e s t e r n Reserve, 1790-1860
T o support a series of programs at libraries in four states on the cultural
continuities between several N e w England states and the "near frontier" of the
O h i o Western Reserve.
Providence:
$83,595.00
Brown University
FS-21759-88
Providence, RI 02912
P R O J . D I R . : Jacob Neu s n e r
P RO J E C T TITLE: T h e A n a l y s i s of Religous Systems: T h e C a s e of Ancient
Jud a i s m
T o support an eight- w e e k summer seminar for col l e g e teachers.
$19,000.00
Brown University
$5,000.00
APPROVED MATCH
Providence, RI 02912
R X - 2 0 899-87
PROJ.DIR.: Barbara S. Lesko
P ROJECT TITLE: Conference: W o m e n in the Ancient Near East
T o support an international conference on women in the ancient N e a r East.
# # #
SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia:
University of South Carolina, Columbia
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$57,777.00
Columbia, SC 29208
FV-20708-87
PROJ.DIR.: Patrick G. Scott
PROJECT TITLE: Local Roots and Cultural Identity: Wordsworth, Tennyson,
and Hardy
Tc support a sunder seminar for school teachers.
University of South Carolina, Columbia
APPROVED CUTRIGHT
Columbia, SC 29208
FV-20727-87
PROJ.DIR.: James S. Cutsinger
PROJECT TITLE: Coleridge and the Imagination
# # #
$60,448.05
TENNESSEE
Johnson City:
James Agee Film Project
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$50,302.00
Johnson City, T N 37601
GN-23156-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ross H. Spears
PROJECT TITLE: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Book and its Legacy
To support the writing of a script for a 90-minute documentary on the multiple
legacies of LET US N O W PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by photographer Walker Evans and
author James Agee.
Knoxville:
East Tennessee Historical Society
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$78,566.00
Knoxville, T N 37902
GP-21388-87
PROJ.DIR.: Mark V. Wetherington
PROJECT TITLE: Journey Through Southern History: A Senior Adult Education
Program
To support film and book discussion programs for senior citizens that explore
southern history from colonial times to the present and early 20th-century
American history.
Nashville:
American Assn. for State and Local History
APPROVED CUTRIGHT
$168,519.00
Nashville, TN 37201
GM-23613-87
PROJ.DIR.: Larry E. Tise
PROJECT TITLE: History M u s e u m Common A g e n d a Planning Project
To support the planning for two conferences that are designed to strengthen
history museums as interpreters of American history.
Tennessee State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT $80,000.00
Nashville, T N 37203
. ET-20047-87
PROJ.DIR.: Clayton C. Reeve
PROJECT TITLE: The Constitution and Its Cultural Context
To support a four-week institute for high school students on the historical and
cultural development of the American Constitution.
Vanderbilt University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$73,022.00
Nashville, TN 37240
FS-21783-88
PROJ.DIR.: Paul K. Conkin
PROJECT TITLE: The American Regulatory and Welfare State, 1887-1987
# # #
TEXAS
Austin:
ISHI: Film Project, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$43,860.00
Austin, T X 78723
GN-23261-87
PROJ.DIR.: N. Jed Riffe
PROJECT TITLE: Ishi, The Last Yahi, a Biographical, Documentary Film
To support the writing of a script for a 60-minute documentary about the life
of Ishi, the last surviving Yahi Indian, and his relationship with anthropolo
gist Alfred Kroeber.
Texas Humanities Resource Center, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$118,000.00
Austin, TX 78701
GL-20808-87
PROJ.DIR.: Frances M. Leonard
PROJECT TITLE: Cuzco Art and Colonial Life in the Land of Peru
To support circulating program packages that explore the history, culture, and
art of the viceroyalty of Peru and examine and analyze colonialism as an
influential part of the American experience.
University of Texas, Austin
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Austin, TX 78712
FS-21796-87
PROJ.DIR.: W. Roger Louis
PROJECT TITLE: End of the British Empire
$72,515.00
University of Texas, Austin
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$5,000.00
Austin, TX 78713
RP-20991-87
PROJ.DIR.: Theresa J. May
PROJECT TITLE: Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an
Appalachian Baptist Church, by Jeff Titon
To support the publication of a study of an Appalachian community that focuses
on religious thought and behavior as expressed through language and song.
College Station :
Texas ASlY Research Foundation
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
College Station, TX 77843
FV-20710-87
PROJ.DIR.: Hamlin L. Hill
PROJECT TITLE: The Heritage of HUCKLEEERRY FINN
To support a sunder seminar for school teachers.
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$62,000.00
TEXAS (continued)
College Station (continued):
Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX 77843
PROJ.DIR.: Donald A. Frey
SUPPLEMENT
APPROVED MATCH
RO-21235-86
PROJECT TITLE: The Nautical Archaeology of Ships of Discovery
T o support the cleaning, conserving, analyzing, and replicating
artifacts collected from the Molasses Reef wreck, which is near
north of Haiti. The site is producing information about the age
$82,220.00
£22,220.00
of the
an island
of discovery.
Dallas:
North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$67,807.00
Dallas, TX 75201
GN-23248-88
PROJ.DIR.: Patricia P. Perini
PROJECT TITLE: T h e Fiction of Eudora Welty
T o support the writing of a script for a 90-minute film exploring the fiction
of Eudora Welty.
Houston:
Texas Southern University '
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
Houston, TX 77004
FG-20126-87
PROJ.DIR.: Hermine D. Pinson
PROJECT TITLE: Thematic Study of the Poetry of Melvin B. Tolson
T o support one y e a r of study toward a doctoral degree for a faculty me m b e r at a
Historically B l a c k College or University.
Texas Southern University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$27,500.00
Houston, TX 77004
FG-20127-87
P ROJ.DIR.: Ronald C. Sarrples
PROJECT TITLE: Henry James and the Common Touch
Texas Southern University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
.$59,984.00
Houston, TX 77004
FV-20794-87
PROJ.DIR.: Cary D. Wintz
PROJECT TITLE: Immigration and the Ethnic Community in Urban America
# # #
UTAH
Logan:
Utah State University
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Logan, UT 84322
FS-21824-88
PROJ.DIR.: Donald E. Worster
PROJECT TITLE: The American West: Environment and History
# # #
$54,149.00
VIRGINIA
Annandale:
Educational Film Center
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$260,812.00
Annandale, V A 22003
GN-23269-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ruth S. Poliak
PROJECT TITLE: The Life and Work of Harry Hopkins
To support the production of a 60-minute documentary film on the life and
work of Harry Hopkins, with special emphasis on his role as Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's adviser on foreign policy.
Educational Film Center
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$53,359.00
Annandale, V A 22003
G N - 23274-87
PROJ.DIR.: Ruth S. Poliak
PROJECT TITLE: A Historical Drama Based Upon the Civil War Experiences of
Elizabeth Van Lew
To support the writing of the script for a 60-minute historical television
drama for young people ages 10-13, about a Confederate girl's homefront
experience during the Civil War.
Blacksburg:
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ.
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Blacksburg, V A 24061
FV-20719-87
PROJ.DIR.: Bernard F. Dukore
PROJECT TITLE: Bernard Shaw: His World, His Plays, and His Stage
$69,758.00
Charlottesville :
Cultural Literacy Foundation
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$119,446.00
Charlottesville, V A 22903
ES-21491-87
PROJ.DIR.: Eric D. Hirsch, Jr.
PROJECT TITLE: Creation of Early-Level General Knowledge Tests
To support the creation and publication of general knowledge tests and source
books for elementary and middle schools.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FS-21825-88
PROJ.DIR.: Joseph C. Miller
PROJECT TITLE: Comparative Slavery and History: A Global Approach
$57,038.00
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
FS-21864-88
PROJ.DIR.: Arthur C. Kirsch
PROJECT TITLE: Shakespeare and Human Experience
$73,521.00
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VIRGINIA (continued)
Hollins:
Hollins College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
Hollins, V A 24020
FV-20713-87
PROJ.DIR.: Allie M. Frazier
PROJECT TITLE: Literature of the Holocaust
$62,467.00
Hopewell:
Flowerdew Hundred Foundation
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$226,095.00
Hopewell, VA 23860
EH-20744-87
PROJ..DIR.: James F. Deetz
PROJECT TITLE: A Sumner Institute in the Historical Archaeology of
European Expansion, 1550-1700
To support a five-week institute for college faculty on European expansion
in the 200 years following the voyages of Columbus.
# # #
Grants Announced November 1987.
WASHINGTON
Olyirpia:
South Puget Sound Community College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$215,000.00
Olynpia, W A 98502
EH-20725-87
PROJ.DIR.: Michael W. Shurgot
PROJECT' TITLE: Development of a Comprehensive Humanities Curriculum
PROJECT. DESCRIPTION:
To support the development of a comprehensive humanities curriculum with a core
of new and revised courses, new faculty positions, additional library mate
rials, and activities for faculty development.
Seattle:
Globe Radio Repertory
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$17,810.00
Seattle, WA 98105
GN-23215-87
PROJ.DIR.: John P. Siscoe
PROJECT TITLE: Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE: A Radio Drama Series
To support the writing of scripts for twelve 30-minute radio programs dramatizing
Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE.
Otherworld Children's Media
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$20,000..00
Seattle, WA 98101
‘
GN-23251-87
PROJ.DIR.: Judith A. Walcutt
PROJ E C T TITLE: P l a n n i n g of T w o Long-format R a d i o Dra m a s
T o support p l a n n i n g for the dramatic adaptation t o radio of two works of liter
ature, Jonathan S w i f t ' s GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and L i l l i a n Heilman's WA T C H ON THE
RHINE, for the W G B H R A D I O MOVIES series.
University of Washington
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$2,000.00
Seattle, WA 98145
RP-20988-87
PROJ.DIR.: Naomi B. Pascal
P R O J E C T TITLE: A s i a n America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States
S i n c e 1850, by Roger Daniels
T o support the p u b l i c a t i o n of a history of the Chinese and Japanese immigrant
experience in t h e United States since 1850.
Tacoma:
University of Puget Sound
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$44,464.00
Tacor.2 , WA 98416
FV-20715-87
PROJ.DIR.: Michael J. Curley
PROJECT TITLE: Arthurian Literature of the Middle Ages: YVAIN, THE KNIGHT
OF THE LION, SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, and MABINOGI
To support a surcner seminar for school teachers.
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WASHINGTON (continued)
Toppenish:
Heritage College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$140,369.00
Toppenish, W A 98948
EH-20704-87
PROJ.DIR.: Rose H. Arthur
PROJECT TITLE: Strengthening Introductory Interdisciplinary Courses
To support a project that will strengthen introductory courses by integrating
the great texts of Western civilization with works from native American and
Hispanic American cultures.
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WISCONSIN
Ashland:
Northland College
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$47,102.00
Ashland, WI 54806
FV-20815-87
PROJ.DIR.: Thomas P. Kasulis
PRO J E C T TITLE: Foundations of Japanese Humanism: Six Philosophical
Essays
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS:
Green Bay:
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$180,000.00
Green Bay, WI 54301
EH-20734-87
PROJ.DIR.: David H. Galaty
PROJECT TITLE: Coherence Through Pervasive Courses in Great Works
To support the development of courses on individual great works in
the humanities and the adaptation of these courses to a variety of
curricular contexts.
Madison:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$60,673.00
Madison, WI 53706
' FS-21763-88
PROJ.DIR.: Lloyd F. Bitzer
PROJECT TITLE: Eighteenth-Century British Sources of Early American
Rhetoric
T o support a six-week summer seminar for college teachers.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$8,942.00
Madison, WI 53715
RP-21004-87
PROJ.DIR.: Barbara J. Hanrahan
PROJECT TITLE: Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave
Trade, 1730-1830, by Joseph C. Miller
To support the publication of a detailed study of the slave trade between
Portuguese West Africa and Latin America.
Milwaukee:
University of Wisconsin, M i l w a u k e e
APPRO V E D O U T R I G H T
Milwaukee, WI 53201
FS-21770-87
PROJ.DIR.: Jane Gallop
PRO J E C T TITLE: Feminist Criticism: Issues in Literary T h e o r y
T o support a n eight-week summer seminar for college teachers.
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$65,997.00
WISCONSIN (continued)
Milwaukee (continued):
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee '
APPROVED OUTRIGHT
$38,050.00
Milwaukee, WI 53201
GL-20812-87
PROJ.DIR.: Brian J. Harley
P RO J E C T TITLE: Cartography in the Columbian Encounter
T o support planning for an exhibition and programs on the history of the
Columbian encounter as expressed by historical geography and cartographic
history.
# # #
WYOMING
Laramie:
University of Wyoming
APPROVED OUTOIGHT
$56,759.00
Laramie, WY 82071
FV-20742-87
PROJ.DIR.: Walter G. Langlois
PROJECT TITLE: Ethical Dimensions of the Modern French Novel: Gide,
Malraux, Sartre, and Camus
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the Humanities
Media Relations
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NEH-87-065-F
The Endowment provides three types of funding for programs in the
divisions listed below: federal matching funds, outright funds and a
combination of the two.
- Matching funds are awarded on a one-to-one basis. The applicant must
raise the matching amount in the form of cash, goods or services from
non-federal sources.
- Outright NEH grants are not contingent on the applicants' raising monies
for the project.
Programs Awarding November 1987 Grants
Division of Education Programs
This division provides funds for projects designed to improve education in
the humanities at elementary and secondary schools, and two- and four-year
colleges and universities. NEH also offers grants for projects in humanities
education to academic and professional associations and other educational
institutions. This announcement includes grants from the following programs
within this division:
ES - Humanities Instruction in Elementary and Secondary Schools
EH - Exemplary Projects in Undergraduate and Graduate Education
ET - High School Humanities Instruction at Historically Black
Colleges and Universities
Division of Fellowships and Seminars
Through this division, individuals are given opportunities to pursue
advanced study and research that will enable them to make significant
contributions to thought and knowledge in the humanities. Those individuals
receiving fellowships are able to devote extended periods of uninterrupted
time to investigation, reflection and study. This announcement includes
grants from the following programs within this division:
FG - Faculty Graduate Study Program for Historically Black Colleges
and Universities
FS - Summer Seminars for College Teachers
FV - Summer Seminars for School Teachers
NEH Facts
November 16, 1987
Page 2
Division of General Programs
This division encourages public understanding and appreciation of the
humanities by supporting projects designed for general audiences. Such
projects include interpretive exhibitions, lectures, symposia, reading and
discussion groups, radio and television programs and printed materials. This
announcement includes grants from the following programs wi t h i n this division:
G M - Humanities Projects in M useums and Historical Organizations
G N ~ Humanities Projects in Media
GP - Public Humanities Projects
GL - Humanities Projects in Libraries
Off i c e of Preservation
This office supports projects that address the p r o b l e m of physical
deterioration of significant humanities materials. Projects often focus on
preservation of books and newspapers, but may also involve p r e s e r v a t i o n of
other media such as journals, manuscripts, documents, maps, drawings, plans
and photographs.
Division of R e s e a r c h Programs
This division supports projects in w h i c h scholars conduct important and
influential research in the humanities. S u c h projects include the preparation
for publication of texts, the organization of collections and reference
materials and the development of research through specific regrant programs.
This announcement includes grants from the following programs w i t h i n this
division:
R P - Texts - Publication Subvention
R T - R e f e r e n c e Materials - Tools
RC - Reference Materials - Access
R O - Interpretive R esearch - Projects
RX - Regrants - Conferences
RI - Regr a n t s - for International Rese a r c h
P R - Regrants - in Selected Areas
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N EH CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES GRANT FOR UNCC-PUBLIC SCHOOL PROJECT
Collaboration to Focus on Teaching Literature, Writing, Critical Thinking
CHARLOTTE, N.C., November 17 —
The National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) has announced, a $450,000 grant to the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte (UNCC) to support a collaborative project by the university and the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System to improve the teaching of literature,
writing and critical thinking in the elementary and middle schools.
N EH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney announced the grant this morning at a news
conference on the university campus.
"The Univer s i t y and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools already have a long
and successful tradition of working together o n wri t i n g programs for local
school children," said. Cheney.
"NEH is pleased to support this .exciting
effort to combine writing instruction with the study of great works of
literature."
The project will bring together UNCC faculty members with elementary
school teachers and middle-school English teachers in a program focusing on
important American and British novels, plays, stories and other texts.
Each summer for the next three years, 104 teachers will attend special
institutes held on the UNCC campus.
Under the direction of members of the
university's English and philosophy departments, as well as curriculum
specialists from the school system, teachers will study classic texts.
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November 17, 1987
Page 2
Readings will include Charles Dickens' Great E x p e c t a t i o n s , Wil l i a m Faulkner's
Absalom, Absalom', and Lewis Carroll's Ali c e ' s Adventures in W o n d e r l a n d .
Writing specialists from the school system will also take part in the
institutes to help the participants develop lesson plans.
During the academic year, UNCC faculty members will teach classes in the
elementary and secondary schools and will provide training for teachers w h o do
not attend the institutes.
In addition to the NEH funds, UNCC and the school system will contribute
another $723,915 towards the project, primarily for salaries, wages and fringe
benefits.
Directing the project will be Anita Moss, associate professor of
English at UNCC, and Eugenia Ruth Ball, a curriculum specialist with the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System.
T he p r o g r a m is one of several NEH-supported collaborative projects
currently under way in cities around the United States.
T h e Endowment's
Division of Education Programs funds such projects to h e l p schools and school
systems to establish relationships with neighboring colleges and universities
t o improve the teaching of the humanities at the elementary and secondary
school level.
T h e National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency
that supports education, scholarship, research and public programs in the
humanities.
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F O R IMMEDIATE RELEASE
N E H SUPPORTS T W O MAJOR PROJECTS O N W I L L I A M WORDSW O R T H
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 —
Two major projects a r e ma k i n g the world of W i l l i a m
Wordsw o r t h and the English romantics come alive for both scholarly and general
audiences across the country, thanks to grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH).
T he projects, w h i c h together have been awarded nearly $1.3 m i l l i o n in N E H grants,
are featured in the latest issue of Hu m a n i t i e s , the Endowment's bimonthly magazine.
A mong the proje c t s described are an exhibition of rare manuscripts and paintings
currently on display at t h e N e w York Public Library and the continuing work on a
21-volume edition of Wor d s w o r t h ' s complete works.
"These t w o N E H W o r d s w o r t h projects have m u c h to offer to humanities scholars and
the general public as well," said Lynne V. Cheney, Chairman of the National Endowment
for t h e Humanities.
"The exhibition, scholarly edition and the other wide-ranging
programs have the potential to reach m a n y millions of m u s e u m - g o e r s , teachers, students
and others a round the nation."
"William W o r d s w o r t h and the A g e of Eng l i s h Romanticism," an exhibition that opened
at t h e N e w York Public Library this fall, was funded by N E H with grants totaling
$982,795.
T h e exhibition brings together m o r e than 300 rare manuscripts, historical
documents and artworks, m a n y of wh i c h have never before been seen in this country.
These include the rare 1798 Bristol edition of Lyrical B a l l a d s , a work described in
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December 10, 1987
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Humanities by Peter Funnell, associate director of the exhibition, as "one of the most
revered single volumes ever published in English literature."
The W o r d s w o r t h
exhibition will travel to Bloomington, Ind., in January and to Chicago in A p r i l 1988.
In conjunction with this exhibition, many state humanities councils are supporting
W o r d s w o r t h projects.
Humanities describes several state-supported public programs on
Wordsworth, ranging from publications and local conferences and symposia, to a
full-color po s t e r panel exhibit that will circulate in 49 states and a curriculum
guide for secondary school teachers.
T h e Endowment has also provided $316,443 in grants to prepare and p u b l i s h the
Cornell Wordsw o r t h edition.
Supported by N E H since 1977, the edition will bring
together all of the surviving W o r d s w o r t h manuscripts and will present all variant
readings, from the earliest draft to the final revision.
Volumes published to date
have prompted scholars to reassess Wordsworth's contribution to literature and
development as a poet.
"Most of us now recognize that Wordsworth did not get better as he aged - he got
worse," said Cornell project director Stephen Parrish, "and he lived a long time."
A n article in Humanities discusses h o w Professor Parrish and other scholars at
Cornell, Oxford, No r t h Carolina, L a Salle and Y a l e universities contributed to this
n e w assessment by discovering original versions of Wor d s w o r t h ' s poems under
pasted-over revisions.
The m aga z i n e also features excerpts from early and late
versions of Word s w o r t h ' s most important work, P r e l u d e .
A rticles from Humani t i e s , a publication of the National Endowment for t h e
Humanities, may be reprinted; proper credit is requested.
T h e National Endowment for t h e Humanities is an. independent federal agency that
supports education, scholarship, research and public programs in the humanities.
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the
education
1987
for
and
diverse group
awards
matching
in n e w f i n a n c i a l
institutions
important
"These
awards
First-time
In a n n o u n c i n g
an
in
Endowment
GRANTS
Nationwide
Cheney
programs
each
raise
quality
and
in t h e
dollar
donors;
must
the
from NEH
with
institutions
four
times
the
amount
by t h e E n d owment.
The
$55.8
The National
institutions
stability
dollars
offered
—
IN CHA L L E N G E
Institutions
today.
humanities.
receiving
15
$12.2 million
Endowment
financial
three
Dec.
awarded
cultural
announced
(office)
(home)
(office)
(home)
role
in t he
recognize
support
challenge
their
public
of
funds
will
for
provide
work
grants,
a total
in t h e
Cheney
programs
schools,
cultural
in
the
museums
life
the grantees'
of
other
nation,"
excellent
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to
the
29
scholarly
humanities.
and
our
humanities.
praised
valuable contributions
of
institutions
Cheney
programs
and
plays
said.
challenge
NEH News - Challenge Grants
D e c e m b e r 15, 1 9 8 7
Page 2
them
to generate
new
sources
of
funding
:o s t r e n g t h e n
their
humanities
p r o g r a m s ."
Cheney
said
that
variety
of
faculty
positions,
materials
be
used
this
activities,
and
to
The
just
awards
awarded
since
offered
in N E H
the
typically
the
and
Mass.;
Center,
Museum
of
Foundation,
and
a
university
humanities
Funds
will
also
or
materials.
the
total
number
to
903.
The
grants
to
date
is m o r e
than
federal
dollars
and
institutions
$976
begin
support
exhibiting
1977
million
with
the
by
of
total
$242
grants
federal
money
million.
private
and
matching
organizations
the
current
challenge
end
of
grants.
the
Campaigns
years.
organizations
Museum
of Art,
Penobscot
Nation,
Historic
Hiddenite,
the
Inc.,
receiving
Storrs,
Peabody Museum
Helena;
Inc.,
for
in
exceed
of
journal.
began
four
Maine;
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facilities
bring
will
preservation
a scholarly
humanities
that
Benton
Concord,
Birthplace
of
historical
Museum,
of
renovate
will
over
Searsport,
Philadelphia;
acquisitions,
combined
campaigns
Museum,
Hiddenite
of c o l l e g e
to h umanities
program
include William
Historical
endowment
challenge
extend
Museums
the
announced
available
fund-raising
including
program
Cumulatively,
this
grants
or
collections
through
challenge
the publication
construct
made
NEH
library
maintaining
funds
year's
of
Conn.;
Old
Salem,
Confederacy,
Staunton,
(MORE)
Maine;
Mass.;
Richmond,
Yakima
grants
Marine
Concord
Montana
Tarrytown,
Please Touch
Va.;
challenge
Penobscot
Town,
Hudson Valley,
N.C.;
NEH
N.Y.;
Museum,
Va.;
Woodrow Wilson
Valley
Museum
and
NEW News - Challenge Grants
D e c e m b e r 15, 1 9 8 7
Page 3
Historical
Center,
Association,
Cody,
The
Manoa,
South
Johns
University
Pa.;
and
Mass.;
Buffalo
Bill
Society,
and
programs
Holy
Historical
Ore.;
University,
research,
in t h e
Hawaii
University
of
Illinois,
Mount
Holyoke
Worcester,
College,
at
College,
Mass.;
Hanover,
College,
N.H.;
Haverford,
Richmond.
Japanese
the
are
of
Haverford
Library,
San Antonio
for
for
Cross,
grants
University
Md.;
Dartmouth
include Newberry
Endowment
supports
the
Portland,
Society
111.;
Baltimore,
Durham;
New York;
challenge
Los Angeles;
Galesburg,
of
Hampshire,
Commonwealth
Texas;
that
audience
College
College,
The National
agency
California,
College,
institutions
Numismatic
Antonio,
Knox
of N e w
Virginia
and
receiving
Hopkins University,
Clark
Other
universities
of S o u t h e r n
Hadley,
Lewis
and
Honolulu;
Urbana;
Wash.;
Wyo.
colleges
University
Yakima,
Public
Studies,
Humanities
scholarship,
is
Chicago;
American
Library Foundation,
Seattle,
an
Wash.
independent
education
and
San
federal
general
humanities.
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NOTE TO EDITORS AND WRITERS:
T h i s r e l e a s e is a c c o m p a n i e d b y a f a c t
sheet on the NE H c h a l l e n g e g r a n t s p r o g r a m and a d e t a i l e d "list, s t ate
s t a t e of t h e 29 g r a n t - w i n n i n g i n s t i t u t i o n s w i t h g r a n t d e s c r i p t i o n s ,
grant amounts and media contacts with telephone numbers.
by
the Humanities
Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
N E H - 087-0 71-F
EMBARGOED:
Use of this mater ia] is e m b a r g o e d until
6:00 p.m. (EST), T u e s d a y , D e c e m b e r 1 5 , 1987
NEH
CHALLENGE
GRANTS
D e c e m b e r 1987
The P u r p o s e
Th e c h a l l e n g e g r a n t s p r o g r a m h e l p s i n s t i t u t i o n s and o r g a n i z a t i o n s
w o r k i n g in the h u m a n i t i e s to raise a d d i t i o n a l s u p p o r t from p r i v a t e and
n o n f e d e r a l p u b l i c s o u r c e s to make l o n g - t e r m i m p r o v e m e n t s in the
p r o g r a m m a t i c quali ty, a d m i n i s t r a t i v e e f f e c t i v e n e s s and f i n a n c i a l
s t a b i l i t y of t heir h u m a n i t i e s a c t i v i t i e s .
The a t t a c h e d d e s c r i p t i o n s of
this y e a r ' s a w a r d s s h o w ho w c h a l l e n g e g rant f u nds may be used for a
va r i e t y of p u r p o s e s that c o n t r i b u t e to an i n s t i t u t i o n ' s l o n g - t e r m p l a n
for s t r e n g t h e n i n g its p r o g r a m s in the h u m a n i t i e s .
The Challenge
E a c h d o l l a r the E n d o w m e n t offe rs to an i n s t i t u t i o n r e c e i v i n g a
c h a l l e n g e g rant for the first, time must, in turn, g e n e r a t e at least
thre e n o n f e d e r a l dol lars .
S e c o n d - t i m e g r a n t e e s mu st raise four
n o n f e d e r a l d o l l a r s for e very doll a r of NE H funds.
W a t c h i n g m o n e y must
come from n e w s o u r c e s or r e p r e s e n t i n c r e a s e d c o n t r i b u t i o n s by e x i s t i n g
don ors , u s u a l l y ove r a f o u r - y e a r f u n d - r a i s i n g c a m p a i g n .
The NEH grant
is both a c h a l l e n g e and an honor:
it c h a l l e n g e s the r e c i p i e n t
i n s t i t u t i o n to m a k e a s tro n g c a s e to its d o n o r s and, at the same time,
h e l p s in the f u n d r a i s i n g effort by r e c o g n i z i n g the i n s t i t u t i o n ' s s u c c e s s
in the n a t i o n w i d e c o m p e t i t i o n for t h e s e awards.
Humanities Institutions
R e c i p i e n t s of c h a l l e n g e g r a n t s are m useums, h i s t o r i c a l s o c i e t i e s ,
c o l l e g e s and u n i v e r s i t i e s , l i b r a r i e s and the great v a r i e t y of n o n - p r o f i t
i n s t i t u t i o n s and o r g a n i z a t i o n s w h o s e h u m a n i t i e s a c t i v i t i e s p l a y a vital
role in A m e r i c a n c u l t u r a l life.
T h e E n d o w m e n t r e c e i v e d 184 a p p l i c a t i o n s
for the most recent c h a l l e n g e g r a n t s review.
This year's recipients
in c l u d e 11 museu ms, six u n i v e r s i t i e s , six f o u r - y e a r c o l l e g e s , one
p r o f e s s i o n a l a s s o c i a t i o n , one h i s t o r i c a l s ocie ty ,
one r e s e a r c h libra ry,
one p u b l i c library, one c u l t u r a l c e n t e r and one s c h o l a r l y p u b l i c a t i o n .
Some Statistics
T h e E n d o w m e n t has a w a r d e d 903 c h a l l e n g e g r a n t s s i n c e the p r o g r a m
b e g a n in 1977.
T ot al f e d e r a l m o n e y o f f e r e d in c h a l l e n g e g r a n t s to d a t e
is m o r e than $242. m i l l i o n .
C u m u l a t i v e l y , c o m b i n e d f e d eral and
n o n f e d e r a l f u n d i n g made a v a i l a b l e to h u m a n i t i e s i n s t i t u t i o n s t h r o u g h
this p r o g r a m will be more than $9 76 m i l l i o n by the end of the
f u n d - r a i s i n g c a m p a i g n s that b e g i n with the c u r r e n t gra n ts.
# # #
NEH-087-071-L
EMBARGOED:
Use of this material is embargoed until
6:00 p.m. (EST), Tuesday, December 15, 1987
N E H CHALLENGE GRANTS
December 1987
INSTITUTION, ADDRESS, MEDIA CONTACT
AND GRANT DESCRIPTION
NEH
GRANT
PRIVATE
SECTOR.
MATCH
TOTAL
TO
INSTITUTION
CALIFORNIA
University of Southern California
~
$1,000,000
$4,000,000
$5,000,000
Los A n g e l e s , CA 90089
Media Contact: Charles Ritcheson (213) 743-2543 or W a y n e Sage (213) 743-2215
To establish an endowment that will strengthen 17 areas of the humanities collections
in the university library which have been targeted.for intensive development. Three
quarters of the income will support acquisitions, and the balance will support
additional personnel for cataloguing, processing and preserving the collections.
CONNECTICUT
W i l l i a m Benton Museum of Art
$250,000
$750,000
$1,000,000
S t o r r s , CT 06268
Media Contact: Paul Rovetti
(203) 486-4520
T o support construction of an addition to the museum. This addition will house seven
galleries for the display of permanent collections and a 250-seat auditorium.
HAWAII
U n i v ersity of Hawaii at Manoa
$750,000
^2,250,000
$3,000,000
H o n o l u l u , HI 96822
Media Contact: Chapman Lam (808) 948-7520
T o establish an endowment that will support fellowships for eight faculty annually;
summer research grants for five faculty; two one-semester visiting professorships and
four short-term visitors; scholarly conferences; and library acquisitions in Asian
and Pacific Studies.
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December 15, 1987
Page 2
PRIVATE
TOTAL
NEH
SECTOR
TO
■
______ GRANT______ MATCH_______INSTITUTION
___________
ILLINOIS
N ewb e r r y Library
$1,000,000
$4,000,000
$5,000,000
C h i c a g o , IL 60610
'
M e d i a Contact: Charles T. Cullen or Terry Sullivan (312) 943-9090
T o support an endowment for acquisitions, cataloguing and three staff positions in
reader services, preservation and technical services.
Knox College
$300,000
$1,200,000
$1,500,000
G a l e s b u r g , IL 61401
M e d i a Contact: R i c h a r d D. Nirenberg (309) 343-0112 Ext. 336
To support an endowment for library acquisitions in the humanities and to provide
part of the cost of the renovation of the library building.
Univer s i t y of Illinois, Urb a n a
$1,000,000
$3,000,000
$4,000,000
U r b a n a , IL 61801
M edia Contact: Joan Hood (217) 333-5682
T o establish an endowment to generate revenue for additional library staff in
c ataloguing and preservation, supplies, materials, services and library acquisitions
i n the humanities.
MAINE
Penobscot Nation
$135,027
$405,081
$540,108
Old T o w n , ME 04468
Me d i a Contact: Ann Pardilla (207) 827-7776 or Jean Evans (207) 774-7434
T o support the renovation of a former school as a repository for archaeological
artifacts and historical documents and the purchase of necessary equipment for the
repository and to provide long-term support for the posi t i o n of curator.
Penobscot Marine M u s e u m
$99,000
$396,000
$495,000
S e a r s p o r t , ME 04974
Me d i a Contact: A n n Moffit
(207) 548-2.529
T o support the endowment of new staff positions of librarian and education assistant
and to cover some construction and fund-raising costs.
MARYLAND
$1,000,000
$4,000,000
$5,000,000
B a l t i m o r e , MD 21218
Media Contact: Linda Safran (301) 338-8722
To provide long-term support for the selection, acquisition and preservation of
library materials in the humanities.
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December 15, 1987
Page 3
NEH
AND GRANT DESCRIPTION___________________________ __ _______ G RANT
PRIVATE
TOTAL
SECTOR
TO
MATCH_______ INSTITUTION
MASSACHUSETTS
Concord Museum
$500,000
$2,000,000
$2,500,000
C o n c o r d , MA 01742
Media Contact: Ann Chang (617) 369-9609
T o support an endowment to assist with increased salaries, additional curatorial
positions, historical research and publication and library acquisitions, to support
the costs of renovation and construction to enlarge exhibition and storage space, and
to cover increased operating costs.
Peabody Museum of Salem
$450,000
$1,800,000
$2,250,000
S a l e m , MA 01970
Media Contact: B r y n Evans
(617) 745-1876 E x t . 156
To support the installation of climate control, exhibition cases, security, fire
suppression and lighting components in the n e w Asian Export A r t Wing, to support
fund-raising costs and to provide an operating endowment for the new wing.
Mount Holyoke College
$400,000
$1,600,000
$2,000,000
South H a d l e y , M A 01075
Media Contact: V e e W a i l g u m (413) 538-2222
T o support renovation and construction of a Language Learning Center and the' purchase
of special equipment for language teaching. The new facility will enable faculty and
staff to prepare curricula for students using computers and interactive video.
College of t h e Holy Cross
$600,000
$2,400,000
$3,000,000
W o r c e s t e r , M A 01610
M edia Contact: Julian Plaistead (617) 793-24.19
T o support the endowment of two n e w faculty positions in English and Classics and to
provide research support for the humanities faculty in general.
MONTANA
Montana Historical Society
$3.16,000
$948,000
$1,264,000
Helena, MT 59620
Media Contact: Robert H. Archibald (406) 444-2694
T o support endowment for educational, cataloguing and preservation programs.
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December 15, 1987
Page 4
PRIVATE
NEH
SECTOR
AND GRANT DESCRIPTION________ :___________________________ GRANT______ MATCH
TOTAL
TO
INSTITUTION
N E W HAMPSHIRE
U n i v e r s i t y of N e w Hampshire, Durham
$500,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
D u r h a m , NH 03824
Media Contact: Carmella Caron (603) 862-1460
T o establish an endowment for the new Center for t h e H u m a n i t i e s . ' Funds will be used
to provide research grants and scholarly conferences for the faculty, to establish
lecture series for the general public and to operate a series of summer seminars for
humanities teachers in N e w Hampshire high schools.
Dartmouth College
^
$275,000
$1,100,000
$1,375,000
H a n o v e r , N H 03755
Media Contact: Alex H u p p e (603) 646-3016
T o support an endowment for three annual humanities institutes designed to encourage
cross-disciplinary research and scholarship.
Dartmouth faculty and faculty from
other institutions will p a r t i cipate in these institutes, w h i c h may last f r o m one
ten-week term to a full academic year.
N E W YORK
A m e r i c a n Numismatic Society
$300,000
$900,000
$1,200,000
N e w Y o r k , NY 10032
Media Contact: Sa n d e Elinson (212) 234-3130
To create an endowment whose annual revenues will support graduate seminars,
curatorial and library staff, computerization and ma i n t e n a n c e costs.
Historic Hudson V a l l e y
$750,000
$3,000,000
$3,750,000
T a r r y t o w n , N Y 10591
Me d i a Contact: Catherine Croft (914) 631-8200
T o establish an endowment for salaries for a coordinator of education, a c oordinator
of public programs, a researcher, a site manager and interpretive staff; training and
publications; and honoraria for humanities consultants.
NORTH CAROLINA
Hiddenite Center, Inc.
$70,000
$210,000
$280,000
H i d d e n i t e , N C 28636
M e d i a Contact: Dwaine C. Coley (704) 632-6966
T o support an endowment to cover the costs of appointing humanities consultants and
developing programs.
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Page 5
NEH
GRANT
INSTITUTION, ADDRESS, MEDIA CONTACT '
PRIVATE
SECTOR
MATCH
TOTAL
TO .
INSTITUTION
OR E G O N
Lewis and Clark College
$240,000
$960,000
$1,200,000
P o r t l a n d , O R 97219
Media Contact: Lee Howard ' (503) 244-6161 Ext. 6918
T o support an endowment for a visiting professorship in cross-cultural humanities and
library acquisitions to develop collections in the pertinent disciplines.
PENNSYLVANIA
Haverford College
$250,000 $1,000,000
$1,250,000
Haverford, PA 19041
Media Contact: Pam Sheridan (215) 896-1333 or Holger Hansen (215) 896-1143
T o support the endowment of a professorship in coirparative literature and library
acquisitions in that field of the humanities.
Please Touch Museum
$125,000
$375,000
$500,000
P h i l a d e l p h i a , P A 19103
Media Contact: Portia H. Sperr (215) 567-5551
T o establish an endowment for honoraria for humanities scholars and supplements to
curatorial salaries, as well as to support the costs of renovation and archival and
curatorial work.
TEXAS
San Antonio Public Library Foundation
$250,000
$750,000
$1,000,000
San A n t o n i o , TX 78228
Media Contact: Irwin Sexton or Nancy Gardara (512) 299-7790
To support improvements in the humanities collections and an endowment to pro v i d e
long-term support for further acquisitions in the humanities.
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)
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NEH Facts v- Challenge Grants
December 15, 1987
Page 6
PRIVATE
TOTAL
NEH
SECTOR
TO
AND GRANT DESCRIPTION____________________________________ GRANT______ MATCH_______INSTITUTION
VIRGINIA
Mu s e u m of the Confederacy
$500,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
R i c h m o n d , V A 23219
Media Contact: David B u n d y (804) 649-1861
To support an endowment for salaries, publications, seminars and the on-going
preservation of collections at the W h i t e House of the Confederacy.
Virginia Commonwealth U n i v ersity
$150,410
$451,230
$601,640
R i c h m o n d , V A 23284
Media Contact: Elske V. P. S m i t h or B e t s y Curtler (804) 257-1674
T o establish an endowment for biennial visits by distinguished humanities scholars,
two visiting lecturers during the intervening years and summer stipends for faculty
development.
W o o d r o w W i l s o n Birthplace Foundation, Inc.
$100,000
$400,000
$500,000
S t a u n t o n , V A 24401
Media Contact: Katharine L. Brown (703) 885-0897
To support renovation of a building for collections storage, educational space and
the housing of a permanent exhibition on Wilson, and to support an endowment for
increased operating expenses.
W ASHINGTON
Society for Japanese Studies
$50,000
$150,000
$200,000
S e a t t l e , W A 98195
M edia Contact: Martha Lane (2.06) 543-9302
T o establish an endowment that will provide long-term subsidy for the p u b l i cation of
Journal of Japanese S t u d i e s .
Ya k i m a Valley Mu s e u m and Historical A s s o c iation
$350,000
$1,050,000
$1,400,000
Y a k i m a , W A 98902
M edia Contact: V e r s a C. K'ang (509) 248-0747 or (509) 452-2331
To. support the renovation and expansion of the museum to include greater storage
space, meeting roans, permanent exhibition galleries and archival areas.
W YO M I N G
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
$500,000 $1,500,000
$2,000,000
C o d y , W Y 82414
Media Contact: Larry Means (307) 587-4771
T o support the construction of a n e w wing to house the Center's W i n c h e s t e r Arms
Museum, thus providing additional space for interpretive exhibitions examining
Amer i c a n W e s t e r n history, the history of human conflict and other subjects.
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Media Relations
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independent
education
and p u b l i c
federal
ADVISORY
National Endowment fot
the Humanities
Media Relations
(202) 786-0449
NEH-B7-073-A
NEH CHAIRMAN TO ADDRESS CONVOCATION AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
On Thursday, January 7, at 1] a.m, Lynne V. Cheney, Chairman
of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will address
the Winter Term Convocation at Middlebury College, MiddJebury,
Vt.
Cheney will speak on the role of the humanities in American
education.
The convocation will take place at 11:00 a.m, at Mead Chapel
on the college campus and is OPEN TO THE PRESS.
Local contact:
Ron Nief, Office of Public Affairs, Middlebury College at
802/388-3711, ext. 5196.
Cheney is the author of American Memory;
Humanities in the Nation’s Public Schools.
A Report on the
The report, with its
troubling message about how little students know of their past and
culture, has received extensive national coverage in the press and
on radio and television.
For more information, or to schedule an interview, contact
John McGrath or Karen Myers, 202/786-0449.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent
federal agency that supports research, scholarship, education and
public programs in the humanities.
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