| BR-264610-19 | Public Programs: Historic Places: Implementation | University of South Carolina | Free and Equal: The Promise of Reconstruction in America | 4/1/2019 - 5/31/2022 | $280,000.00 | Spencer | | Platt | | | | University of South Carolina | Columbia | SC | 29208-0001 | USA | 2019 | Public History | Historic Places: Implementation | Public Programs | 280000 | 0 | 280000 | 0 | Implementation
of a tour through Beaufort County, South Carolina, exploring the story of
Reconstruction using a mobile app, website, and information kiosk.
A public history project that informs, interprets, and facilitates the understanding of reconstruction history in Beaufort, South Carolina as well as nationally. |
| BR-271425-20 | Public Programs: Historic Places: Implementation | Old Sturbridge, Inc. | Foundations of Interpretation | 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2023 | $250,000.00 | Rhys | | Simmons | | | | Old Sturbridge, Inc. | Sturbridge | MA | 01566-1138 | USA | 2020 | Public History | Historic Places: Implementation | Public Programs | 250000 | 0 | 250000 | 0 | Implementation of a new interpretive plan at Old Sturbridge Village expanding tours to reflect the diversity of early New England.
Foundations of Interpretation aims to address key components of Old Sturbridge Village’s new Interpretation and Education Plan as part of a broader, museum-wide commitment to relevancy and visitor engagement. The plan outlines the initiatives that Old Sturbridge Village will undertake to create more impactful visitor experiences, connect with a broader audience, and better reflect the diversity of New England both past and present. The $500,000 being requested from NEH for Foundations of Interpretation will support an expanded staff training program, updated interpretive guides for all staffed exhibits, the development of purposeful learning and social-emotional targets, and improved interpretive signage, as well as a two-year Position in the Public Humanities. |
| BR-285415-22 | Public Programs: Historic Places: Implementation | Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Inc. | The Joseph and Rachel Moore Tenement Home | 5/1/2022 - 4/30/2024 | $400,000.00 | David | | Favaloro | | | | Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Inc. | New York | NY | 10002-3102 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | Historic Places: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a sixty-minute guided tour and interactive media exploring the lives of African Americans and Irish immigrants in nineteenth-century New York City.
The Tenement Museum seeks a $400,000 Public Humanities Projects implementation grant to complete permanent exhibit fabrication and tour development for the “Joseph and Rachel Moore Tenement Home.” The new permanent exhibit takes the form of a recreated apartment in the Museum’s 97 Orchard Street tenement. Today a National Historic Landmark, the building was home to nearly 7,000 people from 15 different nations between 1863 and 1935. Now the Museum will recreate the tenement home of Joseph and Rachel Moore, a Black family who lived in Lower Manhattan during the 1860s. The exhibit will trace Joseph’s history from his free Black community of Belvidere, New Jersey, through his family's migration to New York City for economic opportunity, and the community they built in their neighborhoods and workplaces. It will also employ interactive digital storytelling to examine the era’s Black press, contextualizing both the Moores’ story and the Museum’s research. |