Funding is requested to provide salary support for university humanities faulty and staff to enable smaller courses at a time when greater instructional capacity is needed to respond to the coronavirus crisis. Funding also provides for increase in on-line humanities programming.

To support programming addressing Western Virginia's separation from Virginia and the issues that led to statehood, and West Virginia's immediate enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education.

The West Virginia Council will explore two U. S. historical events and examine their impact on our state: 1) Western Virginia’s separation from Virginia and the issues that led to its statehood and 2) The Brown v. Board decision, contested by many southern states, but immediately enforced in West Virginia. Programs include lectures, a WV Statehood exhibit, and RFPs for programs, media projects, publications, and teacher institutes. Targeted audiences include African Americans, local communities affected by desegregation, teachers, university audiences, and underserved rural areas.

To support exploration of American and West Virginia historical events and examination of their impact on WV citizens. Target audiences will be underserved black populations and the southern counties.

The Council will explore American and West Virginia historical events and examine their impact on our state’s citizens. Programs will include history lectures, exhibits, and RFPs for lectures, panel discussions, fellowships, exhibits, reenactments, and conferences. Targeted RFP audiences will include all West Virginians with a particular emphasis on the underserved black population and our southern counties.

To support grants on American history and culture; a lecture series in Charleston; and programming connecting Picturing America to the history of art in West Virginia.

The Council will explore American and West Virginia history and culture and examine their impact on state citizens. This will be accomplished through delivery of direct program lectures and requests for grant proposals for projects including lectures, panel discussions, fellowships, publications, exhibits and media projects that communicate the significance of our history and culture.

To support the 2010 McCreight Lecture in the Humanities, and to support grants throughout the state on a wide variety of topics in American history and culture.

The project applies We the People funds of the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the presentation of history and culture-related programs developed by the West Virginia Humanities Council and through grants awarded by the Humanities Council to organizations across the state.

To support an increase in the operating endowment to enhance adult interpretative programming and improve collections installation and to increase outreach programs.

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Acquisition and renovation of the MacFarland/Hubbard House in Charleston as a site for humanities programs.

The construction of a new public library branch to expand library service and deliver more humanities programming to the Barboursville, West Virginia, community.

The project will replace the Barboursville (WV) branch library of the Cabell County Public Library system with a new 14,000 square-foot facility. The current building is deteriorating and molding via water damage from cracked underground drainage pipes and water runoff from uphill parking lots. Usage statistics show that in 2017 Barboursville Branch generated 32% of the materials circulation of the seven library branches combined, and it is regularly visited by twenty-five elementary school classes. Barboursville computer usage, wireless Internet use, program attendance, notary transactions, and number of people entering the facility also significantly exceeds the other branches. The new larger building (on a parcel of land donated by the city) will not only house a larger materials collection, but will also support more extensive humanities programming, as it will have additional meeting rooms, one with an external entrance, providing after-hours access to the building.

A demonstration grant to design and teach a one-semester course on the coal industry in America; its basic structure, its technical development, and the impact of its growth on the lives of West Virginians.

To provide for a one semester course on the coal industry in America.

West Virginia University wishes to develop a humanities program that has a western civilization orientation but in the context of Appalachian culture in order both to encourage enrollment in humanities courses and to help students understand the culture in which they live.

Consultant help is sought in examing existing strengths within the humanities department and in formulating plans whereby the department can serve fully the technological schools and programs of the University, this making the humanities more marketable to suit present trends.

Consultant help is sought in developing an interdisciplinary studies program.

The College will engage a consultant to assist in a reassessment of its philosophy of humanities education, to design interdisciplinary curricula relating humanistic knowledge and professional education, to help the members of various faculties work more closely together.

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To support the development of a CD-ROM, teachers' guide, and other materials on the history of coal mining in West Virginia.

To support a program of public education among all twenty-six colleges and universities in West Virginia.

To support a comprehensive curricular reform program in the humanities through course development workshops, faculty research activities, a visiting scholars program, and the acquisition of library materials.

To support the development of a master's degree program in Public History with an emphasis upon Historical Editing, Archives Management, and Historic Site Interpretation and Preservation. Project includes two faculty development workshops on archives and oral history.

To revise objectives in the humanities, particularly, to prepare a new course integrating factors presently found in required social studies, history of civilization, art, and music, and some additional units in literature. New resources in teaching-learning methods will be tapped. The program will oberserve the fundamental similarities in various ages of man's history in an effort to show how comprehensive knowledge of man's past tempers and informs his present.

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To support a four-week institute for 30 local teachers and ten nationally selected teachers on the Roman family in ancient history and literature.

To support a three-week institute for twenty-five schoolteachers that would explore Appalachian culture and history through literature, music, and theater.

Shepherd University proposes its third three-week seminar for public school teachers that will delve into the subject of Appalachian literature and culture. A literature of unexpected cultural diversity, the Appalachian literary works and topics that we have selected for the seminar will provide a deeper understanding of the complexity and cultural range of a region that encompasses the twelve states following the ridge of mountains stretching from New York to Georgia. The quality and depth of the Appalachian writers that will be explored in the seminar will allow participants the opportunity to listen to the variety of voices from this region. Participants will also take part in an Appalachian storytelling workshop led by an award-winning storyteller and listen to lectures about playwriting and dramatic storytelling. They will explore Appalachian music and tour the Appalachian heartland.

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A book-length study of country music and record production in Nashville, Tennessee, 1955-1973.

Nashville Cats: Record Production in Nashville, 1955-1973 will be the first history of record production during country music’s so-called “Nashville Sound” era. This period of country music history produced some of the genre’s most celebrated recording artists, including Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Floyd Cramer, and marked the establishment of a recording industry that has come to define Nashville in the national and international consciousness. Yet, despite country music’s overwhelming popularity during this period and the continued legacy of the studios that were built in Nashville during the 1950s and 1960s, little attention has been given to the ways in which recording engineers, session musicians, and record producers shaped the sounds of country music during the time. Drawing upon a rich array of previously unexplored primary sources, this book will be the first to take a global view of record production in Nashville during this key time.