| BC-50373-07 | Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils | Nebraska Humanities Council | "We The People--Nebraska" | 9/1/2007 - 12/31/2008 | $75,250.00 | Jane | Renner | Hood | | | | Nebraska Humanities Council | Lincoln | NE | 68508-1836 | USA | 2007 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Grants for State Humanities Councils | Federal/State Partnership | 65250 | 10000 | 65250 | 10000 | In partnership with the Kansas Humanities Council and the state Library Commission, Center for the Book, and Department of Education: creation of a new Chautauqua, materials from the Resource Collection made available to schools at a reduced fee, and the distribution of the "Between Fences" exhibit to six communities as well as the state capitol.
NHC will work with the Kansas Humanities Council to produce a new Chautauqua, "Bright Dreams, Hard Times," with scholars portraying FDR, Huey Long, Aimee Semple McPherson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Will Rogers; collaborate with the Smithsonian to bring "Between Fences" to six communities; cooperate with the NE. Library Commission and the NE. Center for the Book to sponsor the 2007 Nebraska Book Festival; and present speakers from the Humanities Resource Center and distribute a new HRC catalog. |