FZ-292855-23 | Research Programs: Public Scholars | Stephen William Berry | The Black Prince: The Emancipated Life of Prince Rivers (1824-1887) of South Carolina | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 | $60,000.00 | Stephen | William | Berry | | | | University of Georgia | Athens | GA | 30602-0001 | USA | 2023 | African American History | Public Scholars | Research Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Writing
a biography of Prince Rivers (1824-1887) who was by turns a slave, color sergeant
of the First South Carolina Volunteer division of the Union Army, a South
Carolina state legislator, and first mayor of Hamburg, SC.
Prince Rivers may be the most consequential American about whom Americans know almost nothing. An enslaved carriage driver from Beaufort, South Carolina, Rivers escaped to become color sergeant, Company A, First South Carolina Volunteers -- the highest-ranking Black member of the first Black regiment mustered into Union service. After the war, as the "Black Prince," "The Power of Aiken County," and the leader of the 'sanctuary city' of Hamburg, South Carolina, Rivers created one of the boldest and most successful experiments in interracial democracy in the history of the United States. Largely forgotten today, Rivers will join Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass in the pantheon of the early Black freedom struggle. |
PJ-256344-17 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Georgia | Georgia Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2023 | $636,182.00 | Sheila | | McAlister | | | | University of Georgia | Athens | GA | 30602-0001 | USA | 2017 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 636182 | 0 | 494587.84 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Georgia newspapers published prior to 1963 as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) requests $236,724 from the NEH to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress 110,000 pages of public domain Georgia newsprint, published between 1690 and 1963, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). We also propose to develop a three-part webinar series on text mining the Chronicling America and Georgia Historic Newspaper collections and to develop two primary source sets and two online exhibits featuring Chronicling America and Georgia Historic Newspaper content. |
PY-253089-17 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | University of Georgia | Remus, Celie, and Me: Preserving and Presenting the History and Life behind the Literature of Putnam County | 1/1/2017 - 6/30/2018 | $12,000.00 | Nicholas | | Allen | | | | University of Georgia | Athens | GA | 30602-0001 | USA | 2016 | History, General | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 12000 | 0 | 11999.37 | 0 | A day of local history programming centering on Putnam County, Georgia, and its literary figures, Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker, with community stories and heritage documenting a shared history. With the goal of engaging the local community to expand understanding of the region's history during the tumultuous end of segregation and the struggle for Civil Rights, the project would build on institutional relationships between the University’s Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts, the Georgia Virtual History project, the Putnam County Charter School System, and the Georgia Writers Museum. In an earlier pilot, the applicant has worked to identify characters and places in Harris's Uncle Remus tales and to connect them with documentary information found in the Putnam County archives, including Works Project Administration interviews of former slaves. The applicant has also been using Walker's work in the local schools to study segregation and civil rights and has conducted 75 oral histories with community members. The proposed project would use the works of Harris and Walker to widen the "lenses through which the past can more fully and meaningfully come alive." Documents and photographs provided by community members would be digitized and oral histories recorded. Also planned are public readings of works by Harris and Walker, talks by local history scholars, and a preview of a play on the history of the region that is currently in production. Finally, the collected materials would be exhibited at the Georgia Writers Museum and made available through the Georgia Virtual History website.
Putnam County is where both Joel Chandler Harris and Alice
Walker were born to learn hard lessons about the world around them, a world
they changed in literature. Our project is part of an embedded commitment to
involve the larger community in telling its own stories, both as context for,
and document of, this crucial American literary landscape. The grant will allow
us to plan, promote, stage and share a day of local history programming in
spring 2017, with an exhibition and website.
The local history day event will include stations for scanning documents
and photographs, recording oral histories, listening to local music and public
readings from selected pieces specifically relating to Putnam County by Joel
Chandler Harris and Alice Walker, as well as talks by local history scholars,
and a preview of one short segment of a local history play being produced in
conjunction with this larger project.
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ZH-258495-18 | Challenge Programs: Humanities Access Grants | University of Georgia | An American Literary Landscape: Life, History, and Memory in Putnam County, Georgia | 5/1/2017 - 9/30/2023 | $100,000.00 | Nicholas | | Allen | | | | University of Georgia | Athens | GA | 30602-0001 | USA | 2017 | History, General | Humanities Access Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 100000 | 0 | 87523.9 | An oral history program for high school
students in Putnam County, Georgia, focused on the African American experience.
One of America’s most complex literary landscapes is virtually unknown to most of its citizens, and even to most residents of the state in which it exists. The birthplace of figures as diverse as Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker, Putnam County, Georgia, has a current poverty rate of 17% for those under the age of eighteen, according to the 2010 census. Our proposal is designed to engage Putnam County High School students and their teachers in curating oral histories of their own community. The project is an extension of an established partnership between the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia and the Putnam County Charter School System to include Georgia Humanities and the National Archives and Records Administration. Our goal is to enable students and teachers to collect and share stories of Putnam County residents through segregation and Civil Rights to the present. |