Project to prepare a manuscript listing an annotated basic reading list of about ten books on the American Revolution, intended not for scholars or advanced students, but for an intelligent public audience a the educational level of high school senior or first year undergraduate. ABSTRACT: Four distinguished American historians who are members of the staff of the Institute of Early American History and Culture to complete a manuscript listing an annotated basic reading list of about ten books on the American Revolution, intended not for scholars or advanced students, but for an intelligent public audience at the educational level of high school senior or first year undergraduate. This manuscript is to be printed and distributed by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the first in a projected Humanities Reading Lists series. Such a reading list, distributed by the NEH, is expected to have considerable prestige and wide distribution and therefore a greater impact on the publich than others which might be compiled on similar subjects by others.

The preparation and teaching of an undergraduate course in liberty and justice in the contemporary world.

Saint Anselm College proposes to develop a course entitled "Liberty and Justice in the Contemporary World." Our proposal is developed through Saint Anselm's Learning Liberty Initiative, which joins concern for civic and political life with our liberal arts mission. "Liberty and Justice in the Contemporary World" will be offered as an upper-level elective in the College's Humanities program, and will be taught by a team of faculty from five different departments. Our course examines four enduring questions of human nature, liberty, and justice by drawing on seminal texts in the Western intellectual tradition. We seek funding to: a) facilitate faculty discussion and planning of the course's reading list, themes, questions, and pedagogy; b) provide faculty release time for the initial running of the course; and c) fund community-based research elements in the course.

A two-year project to fund a speakers’ series, educational resources, and development of a humanities course on sustainability

To demonstrate the essential value of the humanities and facilitate their continued inclusion in the curriculum a “Spotlight on the Humanities in Sustainability” project at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire is proposed. A speaker series with The Museum of the White Mountains, the development, teaching, and evaluation of two new permanent courses, and creating resources for educators on our campus and beyond will provide students, faculty, and the public with a series of engaging opportunities to learn about the necessity of including humanistic thought in sustainability science. The design of the “Spotlight on the Humanities in Sustainability” project is well supported by research on the outcomes of the activities proposed, which include an innovative immersion course integrating the humanities and environmental science. The project will demonstrate the importance of the humanities to students and the public, will result in the creation of two new permanent courses that integr

New Hampshire's Chautauqua 2004, "American Heroes: Creating a More Perfect Union," a six-day living history festival featuring scholars portraying historical American figures.

New Hampshire's Chautauqua is a six-day living history festival in Keene and Portsmouth comprised of evening presentations by nationally acclaimed scholars assuming personas of historical American figures; day workshops for children and adults; Young Chautauqua presentations by teen-aged students who spend eight weeks studying historical figures and training for onstage presentation; teachers’ professional workshops for K-12 classroom curriculum development; breakfast discussions with Chautauqua scholars; and musical performances. This is the ninth year of Chautauqua in NH.

To support a variety of programs and book discussion across the state that focus on important events and principles in American history and culture, and to support "Vote! Heritage and Privilege," a four-part workshop for public school teachers on the history of voting in the United States.

The NH Humanities Council will dedicate its We the People grant to three major initiatives in 2006. Taken together, Humanities To Go, What is New Hampshire Reading, and the Teacher Workshop, “Vote! Heritage and Privilege,” will reach thousands of New Hampshire citizens with reflective, informative, and interactive programs on American history and culture. Many topics and scholars are new, and new staff energy and ideas are refreshing these long-standing, perennially-successful initiatives.

Humanities To Go, a statewide program of lectures and living history presentations.

We the People grant funds will enable the NH Humanities Council to offer essential opportunities for discovery and life-long learning through Humanities To Go, our most popular programming vehicle. Over 10,000 NH residents will examine American history and culture through a broad range of lectures and living history presentations in every discipline of the humanities. These funds also will support the promotion of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ new initiative, Picturing America.

To support "Humanities to Go" which provides nearly 20,000 New Hampshire residents with opportunities to examine American history and culture through a broad range of lectures and living history presentations in every discipline of the humanities.

We the People grant funds will enable the NH Humanities Council to offer essential opportunities for discovery and life-long learning through Humanities to Go, our most popular programming vehicle. Nearly 20,000 NH residents will examine American history and culture through a broad range of lectures and living history presentation in every discipline of the humanities.

A residential program for 72 K-12 educators that would take an interdisciplinary approach to studying colonial and ecological history in the Great Bay Estuary.

In 2025, we will host 72 K–12 educators for a residential workshop, From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England, which we first ran in 2023. Our primary site will be what is known as the Great Bay Estuary, a distinctive ecosystem that formed an important English colonial frontier in the 17th century and has been occupied for millennia by Abenaki/Penacook peoples, who know it as P8bagok. Each of the first four days will consider, in depth, the lives of a different population experiencing global colonialism, placing the experiences of Native Americans and African Americans alongside narratives of what would eventually become the white majority, with a final day for curriculum building. We will include background reading and lectures, but place-based encounters will be at the heart of the workshops.

Planning of a permanent exhibition of the city's history for a new cultural center, enhancements to the Black Heritage Trail, creation of a new Footsteps of Washington Trail, and a website to include downloadable maps, podcasts, and other pertinent tour materials.

UNH's Center for New England Culture and the Portsmouth Historical Society propose to develop a permanent exhibit of the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to revise and enhance the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, and to create a new Footsteps of Washington Trail. This plan will facilitate cultural tourism and community interest in history. Portsmouth is a unique site for heritage tourism, since it has been a microcosm of American history over four centuries in which the very fabric of each period is still present, but it needs a comprehensive and new interpretation that will present this history to the public. The proposed exhibit will provide orientation for all the historic sites in Portsmouth. The exhibit and accompanying interpretive media and self-guiding materials will focus on important themes in American history, expecially the Revolutionary and early national eras, and the era of immigration and international conflicts, 1890 - 1920.

To support construction of an addition to the library and to establish endowments for the acquisition of books and periodicals in the humanities.

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To be used for the construction of a new Humanities Center and for faculty development.

To support endowment for the improvement of the teaching of the humanities in New Hampshire's public schools by providing professional development opportunities for teachers.

An endowment to redesign and relaunch the “Humanities to Go” (HTG) speakers bureau program.

The New Hampshire Humanities Council will transform its popular Humanities to Go speakers bureau into a portable and accessible “center for the public humanities.” Not a bricks-and-mortar project, this “center” will exist in every city and town in New Hampshire. Through Socratic discussions, experiential opportunities and reinvigorated presentations, NH residents will be given the tools and knowledge that enable them to connect local stories, concerns, and traditions with global questions about the human condition. The infrastructure is in place -- the partnerships; the delivery mechanism; and the statewide credibility now enjoyed by Humanities to Go. The need is for occasions for the public not only to listen but to experience and practice the humanities. This new endeavor promises to deliver the intellectual joy and civic virtue of the humanities throughout NH and far into the future.

Restoration of the 1750 Penhallow House to preserve existing architectural elements, remove later additions, and stabilize the structure. Once rehabilitated, the building would be used to tell the story of resident Kenneth D. Richardson, a leader in the Civil Rights movement and the first African American supervisor at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

The restoration of Penhallow House will preserve a c. 1750 historic house at Strawbery Banke Museum, enabling the Museum to create an exhibit to interpret the history of an African American family in the mid-1950s during the Civil Rights Movement, the first house exhibit of an African American family in Portsmouth, NH.

Construction of a new library building in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire.

The town on Mont Vernon will construct a new library on town-owned land to replace the current library, the Daland Memorial Library, built in 1909. The current library is too small to service the community and will be repurposed by the town for municipal functions.

To support the establishment of an endowment for humanities publications.

To support the endowment of educational programs and the position of scholar-in-residence, construction of a new educational center, and the renovation of two historic buildings.

To support fundraising expenses as well as renovation and expansion of existingspace to develop an education center and to provide climate control for the European collections.

To support endowment of faculty development, scholarly conferences, lecture series for the general public, and a series of summer seminars for humanities teachers in New Hampshire high schools.

Endowment to fund partial salary for the position of director of educational programming in local history.

To support consultant help in developing a humanities core course.

To support consultative help to faculty in strengthening the University's instructional activities which have an international focus and in developing humanities curricula which focus on an analysis, understanding, and appreciation of major global issues.

To support consultative assistance to foreign language faculty who wish to design language minors for vocational and technical students, increase departmental enrollments, and strengthen the overall contribution of language study to curriculum through collaboration with other liberal arts departments.

To create a 2 year integrated course in the Humanities required of all Freshman and sophomores; incorporating Music and Art History, improving language instruction, and creating comparative cultures courses.