March 26, 2010

Durbin Announces Nearly $2 Million in NEH Grants for Illinois Organizations

[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced today that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded 15 grants totaling $1,919,557 to 11 Illinois organizations. Several of these organizations have been recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of its We the People program.
 
The We the People program encourages and strengthens the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Today’s grants were awarded through a highly competitive review and selection process to ensure that the best humanities research, education, and preservation is cultivated.
 
The following Chicago Metro Area organizations will receive funding:
 
  • American Institute of Indian Studies: $270,000 in funding for research fellowships for Senior Scholars in the Humanities to conduct their projects in India.
  • American Library Association: $185,000 in funding for the Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women: Library Outreach Programs project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
  • American Library Association: $16,000 in funding for the We the People Bookshelf: A More Perfect Union Amendment project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
  • Chicago Architecture Foundation: $40,000 in funding for the One Nation, Under Construction project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
  • Chicago History Museum: $40,000 in funding for the Families and History: Past Times, Present Places, and Imagining the Future project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
  • Illinois Humanities Council: $350,000 in funding for the Meaning of Service: Building the Practice of Humanities-Based Reflection at the Core of Volunteer Service project.
  • Newberry Library: $349,825 in funding for the Online Archive and Guide for Transportation, Travel, and Wayfinding Cartography in American History and Culture project.
  • Newberry Library: $68,132 in funding for the Interpreting the American Landscape project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
  • Northwestern University: $6,000 in funding for the Madrid of Philip IV: Architecture for the Capital of the Hispanic World project.
  • Society of Architectural Historians (NFP): $65,119 in funding for the Buildings of the United States Online project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
  • University of Chicago: $171,400 in funding for the Chicago Historical Archive of Mesoamerican Linguistics project.
  • University of Chicago: $49,581 in funding for the Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Francaise (DVLF): Expanding the French Dictionary project.
  • University of Chicago: $300,000 in funding for the Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan project.
 
The following Central Illinois organizations will receive funding:
 
  • Decatur Public Library Foundation: $2,500 in funding for the Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War – A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries project. This project has been specifically recognized by the NEH for advancing the goals of the We the People program.
 
The following Northern Illinois organizations will receive funding:
 
  • Northern Illinois University: $6,000 in funding for the Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Orthography project.