Program

Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants

Period of Performance

4/1/2012 - 3/31/2015

Funding Totals

$625,000.00 (approved)
$625,000.00 (awarded)


Civil War 150: Exploring the War and its Meaning Through the Words of Those Who Lived It

FAIN: GI-50416-12

Library of America (New York, NY 10022-1006)
Max Rudin (Project Director: August 2011 to October 2015)

Funding details:
Original grant (2012) $500,000.00
Supplement (2013) $125,000.00

Implementation of a multiformat project that would encourage public exploration of the transformative impact and contested meanings of the Civil War through the words of a wide variety of first-hand participants.

The Library of America requests a grant in the amount of $686,367 in partial support of "Civil War 150," a major national program designed to encourage public exploration of the transformative impact and contested meanings of the Civil War through the words of a wide variety of first-hand participants.