Humanities Tennessee (Nashville, TN 37206-3607)
Robert Cheatham (Project Director: May 2007 to January 2013)
Timothy Henderson (Project Director: January 2013 to May 2011)
BC-50380-07
Grants for State Humanities Councils
Federal/State Partnership
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Totals (outright + matching):
$110,660 (approved)
$110,660 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2007 – 3/31/2009
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Incorporating the Themes of "We the People" into the Programming of Humanities Tennessee
We the People funding will support sessions devoted to American history and culture at the Southern Festival of Books; strengthen the six small museums and cultural organizations hosting the "New Harmonies" exhibit; and make grants, including one to support a teacher institute on the civil rights movement in Tennessee.
Humanities Tennessee's 2007 "We the People" project will support: seven or more sessions on American history and culture at the 2007 Southern Festival of Books; organizational assessments and the development of strategic plans for six local history organizations hosting the "New Harmonies" Museum on Main Street tour in 2008; and grants that examine local or state history in the context of American history, including a teachers' institute that examines the Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee.
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