Museum of the Big Bend receives $750,000 grant as NEH announces $33 million for 213 Humanities Projects Nationwide - Odessa American: Good News
 Posted: Thursday, December 24, 2020 5:00 am
ALPINE The Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University closes out the year on a high note after learning of receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The Museum received a NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building grant, which leverages federal funds to incentivize private investment in the nationâs cultural institutions.
âAs we conclude an extremely difficult year for our nation and its cultural institutions, it is heartening to see so many excellent projects being undertaken by humanities scholars, researchers, curators, and educators,â said NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede. âThese new NEH grants will foster intellectual inquiry, promote broad engagement with history, literature, and other humanities fields, and expand access
Four Princeton faculty members awarded NEH grants
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Dec. 21, 2020 9:24 a.m.
Four Princeton faculty members have received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Alison Isenberg, professor of history, received a $30,000 grant for research and writing “Uprisings: The Impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination and the Case of Trenton, New Jersey, a book on unrest in Trenton, New Jersey, in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history, received a $60,000 grant for research and writing “Race and Law in the American West, 1850–1924,” a book on Chinese immigrants and the law in the American West, 1850–1924.
NEH has given out $33 million for 213 humanities projects in the United States.
Credit: Sul Ross State University Author: Zach Leff Updated: 10:21 AM CST December 19, 2020
ALPINE, Texas The Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University received a massive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The museum received $750,000 from the organization as part of the $33 million that NEH is giving out nationwide.
The grant is a Infrastructure and Capacity Building grant, which helps leverage federal funds to give away to national cultural institutions.
“As we conclude an extremely difficult year for our nation and its cultural institutions, it is heartening to see so many excellent projects being undertaken by humanities scholars, researchers, curators, and educators,” says NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede. “These new NEH grants will foster intellectual inquiry, promote broad engagement with history, literature, and
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National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants
The final round of funding for the year totals $32.8 million and will support 213 projects across the country.
This round of funding will enable the production of an interactive timeline of African-American music at Carnegie Hall.Credit.Evan Agostini/Invision, via Associated Press
Dec. 16, 2020
Carnegie Hall, the National World War I Memorial in Washington and the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis are among the 213 beneficiaries of new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities that were announced on Wednesday.
The grants, which total $32.8 million, will support projects in 44 states, as well as in Washington and Puerto Rico, at museums, libraries, universities and historic sites. They will enable the production of an interactive timeline of African-American music at Carnegie Hall, preserve collections of Appalachian history at Appalshop archives in Kentucky, and support the use of X-ray spectrosc