Lancaster County Historical Society (Lancaster, PA 17603-3125)
Thomas Robert Ryan (Project Director: February 2008 to February 2014)
CZ-50206-09
Special Initiatives
Challenge Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals (matching):
$500,000 (approved)
$500,000 (offered)
$500,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2007 – 7/31/2013
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Lancaster County Campus of History
Endowment for a Research Assistant and Curatorial Intern as well as research fellowships, and annual programming for the new Campus of History
The Lancaster County Campus of History is a humanities-centered joint project of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. NEH challenge funds will create an endowment to support a new roster of research fellowships, key humanities staff, engaging public programming, and facilities maintenance of a new 26,000-square-foot addition to the historical society that will accommodate new research facilities, archival, library, and collections storage areas, exhibition galleries, learning centers, and a multi-use auditorium. Our principle objectives are to enhance and expand humanities-based programming to better explore foundational themes of American history by demonstrating the relationship between local, regional, and national stories, events, and people; and to create a new paradigm for local historical organizations as centers for critical historical reflection on America's past.
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