Program

Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils

Period of Performance

9/1/2008 - 2/28/2010

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$88,150.00 (approved)
$88,150.00 (awarded)


We The People--Nebraska

FAIN: BC-50443-08

Nebraska Humanities Council (Lincoln, NE 68508-1836)
Jane Renner Hood (Project Director: May 2008 to December 2010)
Christopher Sommerich (Project Director: December 2010 to June 2011)

The statewide tour of the Smithsonian exhibition, "New Harmonies," the Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua, activities at the 2008 Nebraska Book Festival, a Humanities Resource catalog, and the tour of Picturing America images to six sites.

The NHC will collaborate with the Smithsonian to bring "New Harmonies" to six communities; work with the Kansas Humanities Council to continue the "Bright Dreams, Hard Times" Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua in two new Nebraska communities; sponsor the 2008 Nebraska Book Festival; fund speakers and educational materials from a new Humanities Resource Center catalog, and distribute "Picturing America" to six sites.