"The Great Michigan Read," a statewide literature and literacy initiative focused on Ernest Hemingway's short-stories collection THE NICK ADAMS STORIES. Activities include reading and discussion groups, exhibits, a Hemingway film festival, and a Michigan author homecoming.

Statewide literature/literacy initiative for young adults-seniors featuring E.Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories; encourages citizens to read the same book, attend supporting programs. Grants available to nonprofits to encourage programming for reading/discussion groups, speakers, exhibits, Hemingway film festivals; Model T caravan recreating the Hemingway family’s 1917 journey from Chicago to Petoskey, and a Michigan author homecoming are just some of the programs to be offered.

In a book on “Machiavellian politics,” I will argue that in the Discourses he uses Rome to criticize Sparta as the model of republican government. But having displaced the classical “aristocratic” notion of republicanism with a nascent model of checks and balances, he acknowledges that Roman conquests destroyed freedom everywhere. Instead of trying to conquer their neighbors, he urges his Florentine republican readers to form a federation with them. Machiavelli thus presents a new understanding of republican politics later adopted in the U.S. The “armed prophet” he praises in the Prince nevertheless remains an ever present political option and threat.

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Research and writing leading to publication of a literary and historical study about the translation, reception and popularity of works by American author Ernest Hemingway in the Soviet Union, from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Ernest Hemingway’s translated works enjoyed immense popularity in the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, the Soviet government had hoped to co-opt Hemingway as a supporter of the Soviet experiment, but his true impact was realized in the 1960s as a counter-culture figure representing the American ideal of personal liberty. Even so, Hemingway was afforded in 1971 a “Soviet biography” fitting for a Soviet writer. Of particular interest are the ways in which Soviet cultural appropriations of American cultural figures played a role in the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union. This work explores the Soviet aspects of the translation, interpretation and consecration of Hemingway. The Soviet Union first accepted Hemingway for their own political and social agenda (antifascism), only some thirty years later to find that he represented the ideals of personal freedom that Soviet citizens desired, undermining the official positive pronouncements about the collective.

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To support production of a series of three 60-minute documentary films on the 20th-century American novelists Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film on the American author, Ernest Hemingway.

Hiring of a consultant to undertake a preservation assessment and develop an emergency preparedness plan, and purchase of archival storage supplies for Special Collections and University Archives. The collections include local history, personal papers, named collections, and nearly 5,000 rare books that range from a 16th-century edition of "The Aeneid" to first editions of Ernest Hemingway's novels, all of which support research, education, and lifelong learning among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community.

The department of Special Collections and University Archives at the Pepperdine University Libraries seeks $6,000 in funding to conduct a preservation and emergency preparedness consultation. The University will hire a consultant, preservation expert Julie Page of the California Preservation Program, to assess Pepperdine University’s Special Collections and University Archives. The focus of the assessment will be the environmental conditions of the space and an emergency response plan. While also surveying the physical materials included in the collection, Ms. Page will comment specifically on collection maintenance, storage conditions, recommended treatments, supplies, and enclosures. The recommendations provided will inform the development of both short-term and long-term policies and practices related to the care and preservation of materials, including the proper implementation of an environmental monitoring system.

Three fellowships a year for two years.

This proposal requests funding for three years of publicity and three years of fellowships to continue a highly successful program of residential humanities fellowships at the Newberry Library. Over three decades, this program has generated a rich and documented harvest of humanities scholarship while serving as a catalyst for the creation of a dynamic intellectual community within this research institution. The proposal details the achievements and impact of the program and outlines the library's procedures for publicity, selection, and orientation of fellows.

The preparation for print publication of volumes 3-5 of a projected 17-volume edition of American author Ernest Hemingway's complete letters. (36 months)

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, being published by Cambridge University Press, is a comprehensive scholarly edition of the some 6,000 surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), about 85% previously unpublished. Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, Hemingway made a profound impact on modern prose. His life and work still command enormous popular as well as scholarly interest worldwide. The letters not only provide important new biographical information and insights into the artistic achievement of this most influential American writer, they constitute a running eyewitness history of much of the twentieth century. The edition is planned for publication in 17 volumes at two-year intervals. Volumes 1 and 2 (spanning 1907-1925) were published in 2011 and 2013. The Project is requesting three-year funding (October 2015-September 2018) to see into print volumes 3 and 4 and complete the manuscript of volume 5, encompassing Hemingway's letters from 1926 through 1934.

Preparation for print publication of volumes 6, 7, and 8 of a scholarly edition of the letters of American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). (36 months)

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway is a comprehensive scholarly edition of the 6,000 surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), 85% previously unpublished, planned for 17 volumes. A 1954 Nobel Laureate, Hemingway made a profound impact on modern prose and still commands enormous popular and scholarly interest worldwide. The letters afford new insights into the life and work of this most influential American writer and narrate a running eyewitness history of the 20th century. With prior NEH support, Vols. 1-5 (1907-May 1934) were published by Cambridge University Press between 2011 and 2020; an electronic edition was launched in August 2020. The entire project is expected to be completed in 2044. Our proposal responds to the "A More Perfect Union" initiative. We are requesting 3-year funding to publish Vol. 6, submit Vol. 7, and begin work on Vol. 8, spanning June 1934-1942. https://www.cambridge.org/hemingway-letters; https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/hemingway-letters-project.

Work on the first four volumes (encompassing the years 1908-39) of a twelve-volume scholarly edition of Hemingway's letters. (36 months)

This project will result in the publication by Cambridge University Press of a comprehensive scholarly edition of the estimated 6,000-7,000 letters of Ernest Hemingway, only about ten percent of them ever published. Hemingway's pioneering contributions to American literature made a profound and lasting impact on modern English-language prose style, and his life and work still command enormous popular as well as scholarly interest worldwide. Besides providing new biographical and artistic insights into the achievement of this most influential American writer, the letters constitute a running eyewitness account and cultural history of much of the twentieth century. This edition will be published in twelve volumes over the next fifteen years. We are requesting a three-year funding to see into print volumes 1 and 2, to complete and submit volume 3, and to continue volume 4, together encompassing Hemingway's letters through 1939.

To support preparation of an encyclopedia of the references to people, places, events, and cultural artifacts mentioned in Ernest Hemingway's novels, short stories, plays, and non-fiction works.

Production of twelve documentaries for radio and podcast on twentieth-century American history and culture.

Radio Diaries’ The Audio History Project is a public radio and podcast series that explores American history in ways that illuminate the present. We approach history as investigative journalists, producing stories that encourage listeners to explore, question, and learn about America’s complex past.

Public educational programs related to the Hemingway Highway project including traveling exhibits, reading programs, community discussions, GPS-enabled cell phone app tours, writer symposia, humanities summits, and a related website.

The partners in this grant application (NWCCD/Sheridan College, Wyoming Humanities Council, Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research and the Ucross Foundation) are proposing an initiative to celebrate Ernest Hemingway in Wyoming. Hemingway will act as a springboard or cartographer of imaginative geographies that will help us establish and deepen connections among communities in Wyoming. Centered on the continued relevance of Hemingway as both writer and icon, several targeted activities will take advantage of Hemingway’s connections to the state to link and thus create humanities communities along what we are dubbing the Hemingway Highway. The result of these efforts will be a durable humanities network which includes the state’s one university, eight community colleges, public libraries, historical societies and arts organizations.