Transforming Detroit History in the Age of COVID

FAIN: ZPP-283416-22

Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment (Lansing, MI 48933-1521)
Suzanne Fischer (Project Director: May 2021 to December 2021)
Sandra S. Clark (Project Director: December 2021 to January 2026)

The creation of the Detroit Historian position to spearhead state humanities projects using a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility lens.

The Michigan History Center (MHC), the state’s history agency, is requesting $200,000 to advance our mission in Detroit in the light of the ongoing double pandemic. As we reshape our work through a diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility lens, we will continue our pandemic-delayed program development in Detroit, centered on reinterpreting the Ulysses and Julia Grant Home and auditing and expanding the city’s Michigan Historical Markers. NEH funding will help MHC move these important projects forward while giving us breathing space to rebuild our financial capacity.