| GE-50955-14 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | WTTW | Vox Humana: The Studs Terkel Radio Archive | 9/1/2014 - 7/31/2015 | $60,000.00 | Tony | | Macaluso | | | | WTTW | Chicago | IL | 60625 | USA | 2014 | Media Studies | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Public Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Planning for an interactive, interpretive website that would allow the public to access the nearly 5,000 oral histories conducted by journalist Studs Terkel as part of his long-running radio show.
The Studs Terkel Radio archive and story machine will create a free digital resource to engage the public with Studs Terkel's audio work, consisting of more than 7,500 radio programs. This interactive web tool will provide the capacity for anyone to engage with and share selections from the archive in new contexts: making new art, telling new stories, and reflecting on contemporary events. |
| MN-253341-17 | Public Programs: Digital Projects for the Public: Production Grants | Window to the World Communications, Inc. | Studs Terkel Radio Archive | 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2020 | $400,000.00 | Tony | | Macaluso | | | | Window to the World Communications, Inc. | Chicago | IL | 60625-4698 | USA | 2016 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Projects for the Public: Production Grants | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Production of an interpretive website organizing the
Studs Terkel archive along with accompanying public programming and curriculum
materials.
The Studs Terkel Radio Archive will utilize extensive humanities scholarship to enable and encourage widespread digital access of the 5,600 interviews and radio programs Studs Terkel recorded between 1952 and 1997 on WFMT. Known for his omnivorous interests in the humanities, sciences, and social movements, his work serves as a remarkable audio history of the 20th century. The collection features conversations with luminaries such as Martin Luther King, Simone de Beauvoir, Bob Dylan, James Baldwin, Margaret Mead, Toni Morrison, Carl Sagan, Louis Armstrong and Cesar Chavez. Terkel also hosted conversations with thousands of average working people commenting on their own experiences living through significant social movements and cultural changes. Support from the NEH would allow us to make this archive accessible, search-able, and engaging, and to build public programs that promote its use to a wide audience. |