Scholars in Residence Program for teams of scholars to work with middle and high school teachers and students using the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to examine the concepts of disagreement and protest in American history.

The Delaware Humanites Forum will present programs, some by its own initiatives and others in partnership with similar agencies, to examine the concepts of disagreement and protest in all its socially acceptable forms: letters, songs, banners, marches, sit-ins, rallies, etc. The Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, and theDeclaration of Independence, our letters of government, will be the foundation for each part of the variety of programs that will focus on the social action of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

To support the production of a 30-minute film and a companion curriculum guide examining the roles of Delaware's Civil Rights leaders in shaping the nation, intended particularly for use with audiences of young people.

"We the People: A Dialogue for Democracy" is an innovative film project designed to engage youth audiences in classroom and the general population in community settings. The goal is to foster a greater understanding of the historic role of Civil Rights and women's rights leaders in Delaware, and to encourage full civic engagement, especially among youth audiences throughout the state.

to support programs showcasing Delaware's industrial past by partnering with historical societies, research centers, and public and private archival organizations to produce films, public brochures, host symposia, and print catalogues. The goal is to produce a body of rich contemporary materials that will be used by the academic community and engage the general public.

With funding thru the We The People program, the Delaware Humanities Forum will be the convenor among Delaware's historical societies and Delaware's academic institutions to develop a series of public programs showcasing Delaware's industrial heritage. Organizations such as the Society for Industrial Archeology , the University of Delaware's Museum Studies Program and its Center for Historic Architecture and Design, the Delaware Historical Society, and the Center for Material Culture will join forces to look at labor history, agricultural history and environmental history and historic preservation in small industrial towns that dot the state.

To support the costs of constructing an exhibition facility so that significanthumanities scholarship can reach a broader public audience.

Endowment for graduate stipends, curricular enhancement, and professional development in the university's Master's-level Art Conservation program.

Endowment for the Director of Conservation position at Winterthur to enhance thle museum's extensive programs in conservation.

Winterthur Museum requests a $500,000 NEH Challenge Grant to help establish a $2 million endowment to support the position of Director of Conservation and enhance its mission by creating two vital program expansions: the creation of a new post-graduate fellowship program in conservation and funding for staff development and scientific instrumentation. Winterthur’s decision to endow this position is part of the long-range plan to invest in its intellectual leadership. The position is essential to advancing Winterthur’s role in conservation education and research and to expanding the preservation and interpretation of humanities collections at Winterthur, throughout the United States, and increasingly the world. Endowment of the Director of Conservation will guarantee that Winterthur remains competitive in attracting and maintaining the most highly-qualified leaders in the field while enhancing its fundamental educational and research activities.

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To support two new positions: a curator of exhibitions and an education specialist, as well as educational programs for a new Delaware History Museum.

To support the development of general and restricted endowments to support the work of standing committees and development costs.

Hostile Humor in Renaissance France investigates the forms of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays produced in 16th Century France in the period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared. Author Bruce Hayes shows how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever changed the nature of satire and religious debate in France. An open access (OA) edition would broaden the work's availability to its intended audiences of scholars of French and Francophone Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Literary Studies, including undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars located in the Global South, for whom the cost of the book may be a barrier to access. To disseminate the OA edition of Hostile Humor as widely as possible, the UD Press will ensure that electronic open access versions are made available on institutional platforms (e.g., JSTOR, OAPEN).

To support consultative help to the faculty in identifying appropriate means ofintegrating humanities and vocational curricula and of improving student writing in all programs of the college.

To stimulate interest in the humanities among a greater number of undergraduates by offering groups of coordinated related courses, culminating in small interdisciplinary colloquia or seminars. Also to enhance faculty development by fostering the exchange of ideas, course materials, and disciplinary approaches across department lines through summer planning sessions and winter follow up studies.

To support analysis of pictorial materials as sources for historical knowledge and improvements of methods for using visual sources in teaching through sponsorship of 5 undergraduate courses.

To formulate, through the History Media Center, 8 courses based on the analytical study of visual documents. Courses will analyze pictorial materials as sources for historical knowledge, and will improve methods for using visual sources in teaching.

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To establish a Bicentennial College at Philadelphia for the study of teh culture of the area during the colonial and revolutionary period. To be run by a consortium of institutions, including colleges, universities, and certain non-teaching institutions (who will assume the entire financial burden within 5 years and continue it thereafter). Lectures, seminars, and tutorials will be offered to a select group of 100 undergraduates as well as publish programs to the community. Review at the end of the 2nd and 4th years by a panel appointed by consortium members, experts in colonial and revolutionary history who are not participants in the college. NEH funds are for 2nd and 3rd year support. College requires support for 1st two years then becomes self-sustaining.

To develop a series of undergraduate seminars that allow students to learn history by using archival audiovisual resources, especially the largely untapped photograph and newsreel collections in the National Archives. Involves short summer seminars for teachers from other colleges and universities also.

To support the design and trial offering of a graduate course in historical archaeology for students in the Hagley Program, and the dissemination of the results via a small conference.

To develop a 4-year program focusing humanities-related social sciences on the cultural significance of biomedicine. Humanists, in cooperation with biomedical and social scientists, are involved in an interdisciplinary effort which will be of importance to students of the health professions and the humanities. The grant will increase the competency of current and new faculty in interdisciplinary teaching, allows various departments to release faculty for program teaching and also strengthens humanities departments by the addition of courses in the program.

To support the development of humanities courses with significant writing components for science courses: biology and literature, computers and human nature, the culture of science, the nature of scientific inquiry, and philosophy of mind.

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A workshop on bioethics for 50 Delaware high school teachers, half humanists and half scientists; to increase communication between them and by establishingcommon areas of knowledge that utilize both groups' expertise; and to increase their ability to handle classroom materials dealing with bioethical issues.

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To make a comparative study of American slavery and Russian serfdom. Project will deal with what slavery and serfdom meant for the laborer, how they shaped owner ideology, and what their roles were in the social and economic development of the two countries. Since serfdom was a non-racial system, a central focus of project will be to clarify class, racial, and cultural responses, in U.S. through comparison with "purer" but in some ways more complicated system of serfdom.