Our Stories, Our Future

FAIN: BC-50224-04

Pennsylvania Humanities Council (Philadelphia, PA 19102-4121)
Joseph J. Kelly (Project Director: May 2004 to August 2004)
Laurie Zierer (Project Director: August 2004 to June 2012)
Laurie Zierer (Project Director: June 2012 to September 2006)

Speaker presentations and book discussions on topics in American history and a grant program to support projects that explore the contemporary relevance of the nation's founding documents.

“Our Stories, Our Future”will be a statewide initiative for stories from American history with urgent importance for our future. Centered in regrants, the initiative will be complemented by Commonwealth Speaker presentations on American history and two literature programs in the Read About It! book discussion series: “Facts in Fiction: The Civil War,” exploring the war through the genre of historical fiction; and “American Life Stories,” exploring the diverse peoples who make up America. through the genre of memoir.