The development of curriculum and educational digital resources on Omaha tribal culture, drawing on artifacts and information collected by 19th-century Native American anthropologist Francis La Flesche.

Integration of new digital resources from a collection created by famous anthropologist Francis La Flesche into Native Studies courses, develop digital exhibit with student interns for community members and development of specialized materials for senior citizen participants.

Employment of 12 staff across four departments, as well as eight summer interns, in order to preserve museum collections and enhance digital programs.

Housed in the former Omaha Union Station, a National Historic Landmark since 2016, The Durham Museum serves as the largest history museum in the Omaha, Nebraska region and a major attraction for both families and students. The museum closed on March 16 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will remain closed until statewide health directives indicate it is safe to reopen. As the museum faces significant earned income shortfalls due to its closure, it is faced with difficult choices to sustain our momentum, continue our collections preservation and digitizing efforts, generate new history-based content to engage the public, and maintain adequate cleaning, pest control, and maintenance of its exhibitions and collections. This grant will help alleviate these challenges by enabling the museum to retain critical staff that support our mission through preserving and sharing our region’s history and maintain our public spaces and collections areas through the end of 2020.

A one-year planning grant to develop an interdisciplinary, humanities-based concentration for biology and psychology majors.

Doane University proposes a $35K Planning Grant to develop a new Emphasis in Integrated Humanities Program (EIHP). Faculty from English, biology, and psychology will develop a pilot program for students majoring in biology or psychology. The EIHP will provide humanities-based skills in creative and critical thinking and communication and tailor the content of a major to the ethical and expressive emphases integral to study in the humanities. Experiential learning is a required component for all undergraduate students at Doane and will be integral to the EIHP. During the grant, the project team will finalize the design, structure, and expected student learning outcomes, including the volume and nature of coursework that will be required and the development of new courses. The EIHP will be approved for implementation in 2019-2020 for a cohort of biology and psychology students and could eventually expand to numerous other disciplines and ideally serve as a model to other institutions.

A three-year project to implement a new general education certificate program in integrated humanities for psychology and biology majors.

Doane University proposes a $100K Humanities Connections Implementation Grant to implement a new Certificate in Integrated Humanities Program (CIHP). Faculty from the Departments of English, Biology, and Psychology will lead implementation of the CIHP which will be designed for students of any undergraduate major, but particularly in areas of health and social services. The objective of this proposal is to develop three pathways towards certification within the general education core by the end of the grant period – Opioids & Addiction, Fear in the Present Age, and Medicine in America – that will take a multidisciplinary approach to explore a contemporary issue. Each pathway will include three components: (1) two new and innovative eight-week courses called short courses; (2) two revised sections of complementary introductory courses from the undergraduate core curriculum; and (3) a capstone course designed to synthesize the knowledge, values, and skills acquired within each pathway.

To produce a course design for the Cultural History of the Great Plains, one full course lesson, and one additional script for a full course lesson. The full course will be designed by a group of scholars selected from all over the country and assisted in certain topic areas by further specialists in the history of the Great Plains. The course will be directed at students at universities and the general viewing public throughout the U.S.

To support an academically sound multi-media course for the non-campus student.

The Great Plains Chautauqua "From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion and Cultural Change;" and Capitol Forum, a program for high school students that uses the humanities to explore American democracy.

The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) requests $48,030 to support two programs: Chautauqua and Capitol Forum on America's Future. The We The People funding will be used to help underwrite the Great Plains Chautauqua, "From Sea to Shining Sea; American Expansion and Cultural Change, 1790-1850" in Sidney and Lexington, Nebraska during the summer of 2005. The 2004-5 Capitol Forum, a curriculum-based program created by Brown University will help encourage approximately 1800 Nebraska high school students to better understand American democratic values and, thus, combat civic apathy.

To support the production of a new Chautauqua entitled "Visions for Amereica: Notable Nebraska Reformers," featuring William Jennings Bryan, George Norris, Grace Abbott and Marlcolm X; expansion of Capitol Forum on America's Future to additional high school students in western and rural parts of Nebraska; and to expand presentations on American history and culture in the Council's Speakers Bureau.

The NHC will produce an original chautauqua "Visions for America: Notable Nebraska Reformers," featuring scholars portraying William Jennings Bryan, George Norris, Grace Abbott, and Malcolm X. WTP funding will help the Council extend "Capitol Forum on America's Future" to students from western and rural high schools and provide additional speaker bureau programs to low-income schools and other non-profit organizations.

The statewide tour of the Smithsonian exhibition, "New Harmonies," the Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua, activities at the 2008 Nebraska Book Festival, a Humanities Resource catalog, and the tour of Picturing America images to six sites.

The NHC will collaborate with the Smithsonian to bring "New Harmonies" to six communities; work with the Kansas Humanities Council to continue the "Bright Dreams, Hard Times" Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua in two new Nebraska communities; sponsor the 2008 Nebraska Book Festival; fund speakers and educational materials from a new Humanities Resource Center catalog, and distribute "Picturing America" to six sites.

To support an increased number of speakers for the Humanities Resource Center Speakers Bureau; the 2011 Chautauqua "Bright Dreams Hard Times: America in the Thirties," offering enchanced programming for young people; the planning and programming for the Nebraska tour of "Journey Stories" traveling exhibition; and the expansion of the Capitol Forum to high school students and teachers in small, far-western Nebraska communities.

The Nebraska Humanities Council requests a We The People grant of $88,150 to support four projects that are core programs within the NHC's strategic plan. The Humanities Resource Center speakers bureau will provide over 400 programs on U.S. and Great Plains history and culture across the state, reaching children and adults in communities of all sizes. The "Bright Dreams, Hard Times: America in the 1930s" Chautauqua will bring scholars portraying President Franklin Roosevelt, Louisiana Governor Huey Long, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, writer, Zora Neale Hurston, and humorist Will Rogers to a Nebraska community for four days of humanities programming. "Capitol Forum on America's Future" will offer over 1,000 high school students an opportunity to examine key issues facing the United States from the perspective of the humanities. Museum on Main Street will bring an American history exhibition directly to the citizens of six small, rural communities.

Two one-week workshops for eighty school teachers at Fort Robinson National Historic Landmark on the role of the fort in American history from 1868 until the end of World War II.

The Great Plains were witness to dramatic shifts in power during the 19th Century, with rapid expansion transforming it into a world of refugees competing for resources and adapting to new realities. Fort Robinson National Historic Landmark is among America's most historically diverse sites, illustrating the story of the American West for more than a century. Nebraska Wesleyan proposes to host two teacher workshops at this vital historic site in 2010. The "Shifting Power on the Plains" seminars will improve the way history is taught in classrooms by providing teachers with the knowledge and resources to ignite their student's curiosity and learning. Participants will be immersed in the historic and geographic context while living in historic structures within the boundaries of Fort Robinson. Teachers will work with academic historians, visiting scholars, curators, and master teachers to form a learning community in a remarkable historic place.

Two one-week Landmarks workshops for fifty community college faculty members to study Plains Native American history and culture from the eighteenth century to the present day.

"Legacies and Landmarks of the Plains Native Americans" consists of two one-week NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops held during summer 2012 for fifty community college faculty members on Plains Native American history and culture from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hosted by Central Community College in Columbus, Nebraska, the project focuses on three Great Plains tribes: the Pawnee, the Ponca, and the Omaha. It examines their history through scholarly lectures, literature, film, art, and music, as well as the stories of tribal leaders. It also addresses the tribes' efforts to preserve cultural identity, particularly with regard to U.S. tribal policy, past and present. The faculty team comprises scholars, regional professionals, and cultural representatives. Professors Donna Roper, Renee Laegrid, Beth Ritter, and David Wishart address, respectively, Pawnee archaeology, the history of Native American women, Native American anthropology, and the dispossession of the Nebraska Indians. Robert Palmquist, a tribal attorney, outlines the federal/tribal relationship, and Judi Gaiashkibos, Executive Director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, discusses the Genoa U.S. Indian School that educated children from ten states and twenty tribes, illustrating the challenges of Native American assimilation. Matthew "Sitting Bear" Jones, an Otoe-Missouria, and Pat Leading Fox, Chief of the Pawnee Nation's Nasharo Council, also offer their perspectives. Specific landmarks, such as the Pawnee Indian Museum and extensive archaeological site, the Genoa U.S. Indian School, the Joslyn Art Museum's Ponca art and artifacts, the Neihardt Center and Sacred Hoop Prayer Garden, and an Omaha Reservation and Tribal Office, augment the immersion in the Great Plains landscape. In addition to Gene Wiltfish's acclaimed The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, key readings consist of books by five of the faculty.

To support the replacement of equipment and the establishment of endowments for the production of local humanities programs as well as future equipment purchases for humanities programming.

To support the construction of a new classroom building and the endowment of faculty and curricular development in relation to the new general education requirements.

Endowment for academic and public humanities programming and for research in the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska.

Endowment for an initiative designed to help Nebraska towns and neighborhoods draw upon their history and cultural heritage in future planning.

A digital humanities endowment fund to support scholarly involvement and expand NET's capacity to conduct future digital projects.

On behalf of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), NET Foundation for Television, Inc. requests a $500,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funds will be matched 3:1 to create a permanent restricted digital humanities endowment fund of $2 million within the NET Inspire Nebraska endowment campaign. The digital humanities endowment fund will help to support scholarly involvement in projects, and would greatly expand NET's capacity to carry out current and future digital projects. Endowment funds will be used on a project-by-project basis, to preserve and repurpose existing material from NET Heritage Library of historically significant local productions, to combine these resources with new material and scholarly input, and to make the results available to audiences both on-air and online. NEH will be recognized as an endowment contributor and on endowment-funded projects.

Implementation of a regional humanities center in the Plains region.

To support the endowment of three existing curatorial positions in the Center for Western Studies and the renovation and expansion of the library and education areas.

To support the augmentation of the endowment of the Center for Great Plains Studies.

Endowment for staff and other costs of managing the digital Walt Whitman Archive.

The year 2005 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), a declaration of American literary independence and the founding book of American literary democracy. Whitman gave epic voice to our country, memorable articulation to American ideals, and expressed through his art the crisis of Civil War and the cultural possibilities of democracy. Founding principles of our country--freedom and equality--shaped his free verse style, his vernacular usage, and his subject matter. The 150th anniversary of Leaves of Grass is also the 10th anniversary of the Walt Whitman Archive < http://www.whitmanarchive.org > (1995-present). The Archive is providing a complete record of the "American bard," thus giving the general public and scholars at all levels the opportunity to read and study the work of this central spokesman for America. The Archive has begun the unprecedented process of providing free access, via the world-wide web, to the entire corpus of a writer who deepens and enriches our sense of who we are and of what we can become as Americans. We have accomplished a great deal in our initial ten years of long-term undertaking (a projected thirty years of major editorial work along with concurrent and indefinitely ongoing work to foster the scholarship, teaching, and learning the Whitman Archive makes possible). We have produced a large amount of high quality content, garnered grant support from three different federal agencies and a private foundation; established the infrastructure for our work; and built a talented and cohesive team of scholars, technical experts, and library staff. We need, however, to establish secure financial footing. With the support provided by an NEH Challenge Grant, we will create the first fully realized "born digital" edition of a major American writer.

To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Though the groups ended their formal discussions after eighty-four meetings, Sandra L. Garner shows how this cultural exchange reflects a rich Native intellectual tradition and articulates the multiple meanings of “understanding” that necessarily characterize intercultural encounters. Garner examines the exchanges of these two very different cultures, which share a history of inequitable power relationships, to explore questions of cultural ownership and activism. These meetings were another form of activism, a “quiet side” without the militancy of the American Indian Movement. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival analysis, this volume focuses on the medicine men participants—who served as translators, interpreters, and cultural mediators—to explore how modern political, social, and religious

To produce one pilot film in a series of 6 half-hour TV programs on the role of literature, art history, and philosophy in shaping everyday life and oridinary perceptions of the world.

UNO seeks consultant assistance in discovering ways of increasing the attractiveness of language courses both for majors and for students pursuing other programs, such as international business, where language training could serve as a vital adjunct skill. Ways must be found to integrate language learning into other major programs. The University also seeks to design language programs which have in mind community needs.

Wayne State College is using consultant advice to take a re-designed humanities program beyond its initial phase of enthusiasm into concrete planning. Consultant aid is being used to design an individualized humanities major as well as an American Studies major at the college. Furthermore, consultant help is being used to develop innovative programs outside the traditional classroom course structure and also in establishing community and regional humanities programs which bring the college closer to the area it serves.