| CZ-50206-09 | Challenge Programs: Special Initiatives | Lancaster County Historical Society | Lancaster County Campus of History | 9/1/2007 - 7/31/2013 | $500,000.00 | Thomas | Robert | Ryan | | | | Lancaster County Historical Society | Lancaster | PA | 17603-3125 | USA | 2008 | History, General | Special Initiatives | Challenge Programs | 0 | 500000 | 0 | 500000 | Endowment for a Research Assistant and Curatorial Intern as well as research fellowships, and annual programming for the new Campus of History
The Lancaster County Campus of History is a humanities-centered joint project of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. NEH challenge funds will create an endowment to support a new roster of research fellowships, key humanities staff, engaging public programming, and facilities maintenance of a new 26,000-square-foot addition to the historical society that will accommodate new research facilities, archival, library, and collections storage areas, exhibition galleries, learning centers, and a multi-use auditorium. Our principle objectives are to enhance and expand humanities-based programming to better explore foundational themes of American history by demonstrating the relationship between local, regional, and national stories, events, and people; and to create a new paradigm for local historical organizations as centers for critical historical reflection on America's past. |