Two one-week workshops for 100 school teachers to study the early years of historic Fort Snelling as a representative military post in the context of Indian relations, economic growth, and westward expansion.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS)is requesting funds to offer two five day workshops tentatively scheduled for July 2006. The teachers will study the early years of historic Fort Snelling as a representative military post in the broader national narrative of Indian relations, economic growth, and westward expansion. By analyzing key moments in Minnesota’s history, teachers will gain the techniques they need to illuminate analogous experiences in their states and to understand the national policies and events that framed them. The workshops will provide classroom tools to illustrate the consequences of territorial expansion in the nineteenth century United States.

To support construction for public programming spaces in the new St. Anthony Falls Heritage Center to be located within the ruins of one of Minneapolis's largest mills.

To enlist Minnesota's six state colleges and the State Historical Society in a state wide effort to collect local historical materials on a regional basis and to establish regional research centers.

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a website, and programs examining the history of World War I and its impact on America.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) seeks support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $75,000 to continue research and development for the "Over Here Project." In partnership with three other leading historical institutions--the National Constitution Center, the National World War One Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California--MNHS is conducting a nationwide search for stories, images, and objects that will help museum visitors gain a more nuanced understanding of the history of World War I and its contested American legacies. The principal product of the project is a major traveling exhibition, with an opening timed for the 2017 centennial of American entry into the War, and a tour from 2017 through 2019. A companion website, public programs, and educational materials will also be developed. The total project budget, estimated at $2,200,000, will be raised from a combination of public, foundation, and corporate sponsorship sources.

Implementation of a mobile application to be integrated into existing museum exhibitions and to expand children’s access to humanities content.

"Play the Past: Humanities for the Next Generation" will integrate new-media platforms into existing museum exhibits at the Minnesota History Center to significantly expand children's access to humanities content, deepen their engagement with history, and hone their critical thinking and collaboration skills.

Implementation for a traveling exhibition, a website, and public programs about Americans in the 1960s with a projected opening date of October 2011.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) seeks support from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Chairman's Special Award program in the amount of $1,000,000 to implement The 1968 Project exhibition. In partnership with three other leading historical institutions-the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California-MHS has conducted a nationwide search for stories, images and objects that illuminate the great and small events of 1968. Products of this documentary project will include a travelling exhibition, a Website, and public and educational programs. The budget for the exhibition, estimated at $2,325,000 will be raised from a combination of public, foundation, and corporate sponsorship sources.

To support planning of a long-range interpretive program based upon Ojibway andother Indian perspectives.

To support planning for a traveling exhibition treating the origins and the history of the development of communities in Minnesota.

To support a traveling exhibition, a catalogue, and educational programming ex-ploring the transition from traditional Hidatsa Plains Indian society to modernreservation life by focusing on three Hidatsa whose lives spanned the period from about 1840 to 1920.

To support planning for a permanent exhibition and public programs on the history of the family in Minnesota.

To support a long-term exhibition and programs at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum, Onamia, on the history of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.

To support a self-study for Fort Snelling, a historic site in the Minnesota Historical Society System.

To support planning for an exhibition, a catalog, and public programs on the history of railroad dining car workers and their role in African American communities from 1880 to 1980.

Planning for a permanent exhibition and related programming interpreting a specific house successively occupied by Germans, Italians, African Americans, and now Southeast Asians.

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An interdisciplinary study of energy-efficient cold storage options for film, magnetic media, and microfilm collections related to the history of Minnesota.

The Minnesota Historical Society requests $40,000 to conduct an interdisciplinary study of energy-efficient cold storage options for select collections in the Society's headquarters building, the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, MN. The levels currently recommended by the International Standards Organization (ISO) for film materials -- photographs and slides, film, microfilm, video and audiotape -- range from 36F to 70F and 20-50% relative humidity. Presently, the History Center maintains levels at 62??F and 36% relative humidity, which while standard for general collections, are not ideal for all film media. Using a single protocol for all collections also produces excessive energy loads. The planning grant would be used to thoroughly investigate the feasibility of and plan for a cold-storage area envisioned as a separate vault within the larger storage area, both to attain optimum environmental conditions for audio-visual collections and to reduce energy consumption.

The digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Minnesota Historical Society proposes to digitize 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers from the period 1690-1963, as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Project. At the end of the project, the Society will transfer to the Library of Congress all digital files, essays, required metadata and duplicate microfilm, per the specifications of the grant. The Society holds the largest collection of Minnesota newspapers of any repository, represented by over 4000 titles. The collection is especially important because of Minnesota's role as a cultural and economic center in the Upper Midwest and its historical significance in the economic development of the entire Northwest. The Society will adhere faithfully to technical guidelines and standards of the NDNP and the Library of Congress; these will continue to be the framework for the work plan.

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers dating from 1880 to 1910 as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Minnesota Historical Society requests $199,108 to digitize 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers from the period 1880-1910, as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities? National Digital Newspaper Project. The project will take two years, from July 2007-June 2009. At the end of the project, the Society will transfer to the Library of Congress all digital files, essays, required metadata and duplicate microfilm, per the specifications of the grant. The Society holds the largest collection of Minnesota newspapers of any repository, represented by over 4000 titles. The collection is especially important because of Minnesota?s role as a cultural and economic center in the Upper Midwest and its historical significance in the economic development of the entire Northwest. The Society will adhere faithfully to technical guidelines and standards of the NDNP and the Library of Congress; these will create the framework for developing the work plan.

To support a project to study research use of business collections and a symposium to develop appraisal criteria for 20th-century U.S. business records.

To support the organization and description of the records of a major beet sugar processing company, 1899-1972, an important American agricultural business.

To support greater access to the society's collection of historical artifacts by converting catalogue records into machine-readable records that can be loaded into a regional database and two national bibliographic utilities.

To continue work on the Minnesota Ethnic History Project. Work will concentrate on patterns of migration, inter-group and intra-group relationships, the religious life of the ethnic groups, the political behavior, and the economic mobility and structure of the groups.

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council