| 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. |
| BR-297117-24 | Public Programs: Historic Places: Implementation | Lancaster County Historical Society | Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy | 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2026 | $499,956.00 | Thomas | Robert | Ryan | | | | Lancaster County Historical Society | Lancaster | PA | 17603-3125 | USA | 2024 | U.S. History | Historic Places: Implementation | Public Programs | 499956 | 0 | 499956 | 0 | Implementation of permanent exhibitions at the new Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy, and a two-year Position in Public Humanities to hire a museum educator.
The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy will explore the lives of two influential, yet underrepresented historic figures. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) was a radical legislator during the Civil War and Reconstruction. His advocacy helped spearhead the “Second Founding” of the United States. Lydia Hamilton Smith (1815–1884), a free woman of color and Stevens’ housekeeper, defied barriers to become a successful businesswoman. Her commitment to Stevens enabled some of his greatest accomplishments and reveals the role of women in 19th-century political movements. Located in the historic property owned by Stevens and later by Smith, interpretive content will explore their contributions while providing context for the significant events they lived through. Exhibitions and immersive media experiences will invite visitors to investigate issues of equality, citizenship, democracy, and racial justice in the 1800s and in the United States today. |