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The training and mentoring of student veterans at two universities to lead campus- and state-wide dialogues on female combatants in the Civil War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Working with an advisory committee consisting of veterans (emphasis on student and women veterans), faculty from CMVE member colleges and universities, veteran administration counselors, corporate veteran’s association representatives, and community members, Michigan Humanities will develop a program designed to train student reflective conversation facilitators, and hold at least three reflective community conversations both on campus and in the community.

Project fields:
History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts

Program:
Dialogues on the Experience of War

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$100,000 (approved)
$100,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2021 – 11/30/2022

No project description available

Project fields:

Program:
ARP (State councils)

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$1,245,644 (approved)
$1,245,644 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/15/2021 – 4/30/2023

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

State Humanities Council General Operation Support Grant

Project fields:
History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$4,509,738 (approved)
$4,509,738 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2019 – 10/31/2024

Funding details:
Original grant (2020) $160,601
Supplement (2020) $1,748,766
Supplement (2021) $1,281,000
Supplement (2022) $1,319,371

Implementation of a series of public programs across Michigan that would address the historical, cultural, and environmental impact of water.

Third Coast Conversations: Dialogues about Water in Michigan, will be a series of statewide public conversations taking place in 31 communities over two years that focus on the cultural, social, historical, and environmental factors that connect Michigan’s people to their water. The project will be led by the Michigan Humanities Council in collaboration with their strong network of partner organizations on the ground. The conversation-based project will allow MHC to augment Water/Ways, a Smithsonian Institution Museum on Main Street travelling exhibit that MHC is already bringing to six rural communities in Michigan with populations of 2,000 people or less as part of our regularly scheduled programming. The exhibit topic, as well as ongoing issues concerning drinking water quality in Flint and other communities, presents a unique opportunity to focus attention on the importance of water as Michigan’s most valuable natural resource.

Project fields:
History, Other; Interdisciplinary Studies, General; Public History

Program:
Community Conversations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$300,000 (approved)
$291,800 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2017 – 1/31/2020

To support local humanities initiatives and state humanities council operations.

State Humanities Program: Council conducted programs: Great Michigan Read, Prime Time Family Reading Time, Poetry Out Loud, Museum on Main Street, Talking Service, Pulitzer Project Grant Programs: Humanities Grants, Heritage Grants, Quick & Planning Grants, Arts & Humanities Touring Grants

Project fields:
History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$3,346,225 (approved)
$3,345,525 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2016 – 10/31/2021

Funding details:
Original grant (2017) $146,000
Supplement (2017) $936,730
Supplement (2018) $1,116,310
Supplement (2019) $1,146,485

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$4,048,160 (approved)
$3,050,530 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2013 – 10/31/2018

Funding details:
Original grant (2014) $190,000
Supplement (2014) $824,230
Supplement (2015) $1,005,330
Supplement (2016) $1,029,270
Supplement (2017) $1,700

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,988,700 (approved)
$2,926,285 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2010 – 10/31/2015

Funding details:
Original grant (2011) $150,000
Supplement (2011) $896,560
Supplement (2012) $967,320
Supplement (2013) $912,940
Supplement (2015) $-535

Funding will support the Great Michigan Read in 2011-2012, a statewide initiative that uses a single book to explore humanities topics relevant to Michigan and America.

The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read is a statewide reading initiative that utilizes a single book to explore humanities topics relevant to Michigan and America. By emphasizing literature unique to the Great Lakes State, the program aims to make reading more accessible and appealing while encouraging Michiganians to discuss the challenges currently facing the state and the nation.

Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$166,950 (approved)
$166,950 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2010 – 9/30/2012

To support a variety of activities for the 2009-2010 Great Michigan Read, including reader's guides, a teacher's guide, grants for speakers, newspaper inserts, radio and television features and other promotional material. The selected book is "Stealing Buddha's Dinner" by Bich Minh Nguyen.

The 2009-10 Great Michigan Read is a humanities initiative encouraging the entire state to read the same book. Targeting young adults to seniors, The Great Michigan Read aspires to make reading more accessible and appealing, engaging Michiganians with literature unique to the Great Lakes State while encouraging them to learn more about their state, their history, and their society. The selected title, "Stealing Buddha's Dinner," by Bich Minh Nguyen, chronicles the author's migration from Vietnam in 1975 and her coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the 1980s. Along the way, she struggles to construct her own cultural identity from a menagerie of uniquely American influences. The Council's programming will encourage people to read Stealing Buddha's Dinner and use the text to explore three themes: immigration stories, cultural understanding, and contemporary history.

Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$166,950 (approved)
$166,950 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2009 – 7/31/2010

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,585,910 (approved)
$2,577,110 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2007 – 10/31/2012

Funding details:
Original grant (2008) $110,000
Supplement (2008) $655,500
Supplement (2009) $842,050
Supplement (2010) $969,560

To support a series of initiatives related to Picturing America, including a seminar for teachers, a speakers bureau, partnerships with museums in Michigan, and a documentary video program for high schools.

The Michigan Humanities Council proposes a series of initiatives to support and expand the Picturing America program. All Michigan Picturing America schools will be eligible to participate in the following: 1) teachers seminar; 2) speakers bureau; 3) museum partnership; 4) Picturing Your Community in America documentary video program (high school only).

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$166,950 (approved)
$149,450 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2008 – 7/31/2010

"The Great Michigan Read," a statewide literature and literacy initiative focused on Ernest Hemingway's short-stories collection THE NICK ADAMS STORIES. Activities include reading and discussion groups, exhibits, a Hemingway film festival, and a Michigan author homecoming.

Statewide literature/literacy initiative for young adults-seniors featuring E.Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories; encourages citizens to read the same book, attend supporting programs. Grants available to nonprofits to encourage programming for reading/discussion groups, speakers, exhibits, Hemingway film festivals; Model T caravan recreating the Hemingway family’s 1917 journey from Chicago to Petoskey, and a Michigan author homecoming are just some of the programs to be offered.

Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$146,560 (approved)
$146,560 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2007 – 4/30/2009

To support a grant program conducted by the Michigan Humanities Council that invites proposals for projects focused on important issues and events in both Michigan's and the United State's history and culture.

The Michigan Humanities Council will preserve and expand its previous We the People grant program: 1) by having a theme-based call for grant proposals that examines events and themes in Michigan/American history and culture that will encompass all aspects of work; 2) by combining the Council's major grant program with its We the People funding so that additional WTP programs will be presented to communities throughout the state.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$146,560 (approved)
$146,560 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2006 – 10/31/2008

To support a grant program for institutions across the state of Michigan for activitites that reflect themes in American history and culture that connect events in Michigan to national events.

The Michigan Humanities Council will preserve and expand its current We the People grant program: 1) by focusing the Request for Proposal (RFP) on exploring and examining events and themes in American history and culture that were grounded in Michigan, so that communities will gain a deeper understanding of the principles that define them as people, a state and a nation; 2) by combining the Council's major grant program with its We the People funding, so that more WTP programs will be presented in communities throughout the state.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$103,430 (approved)
$103,430 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2005 – 11/30/2007

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,307,456 (approved)
$2,298,290 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2004 – 10/31/2009

Funding details:
Original grant (2005) $120,000
Supplement (2005) $646,456
Supplement (2006) $766,334
Supplement (2007) $765,500

A special grant program that focuses on national themes and events through the lens of Michigan history.

The Michigan Humanities Council will issue an RFP for proposals that recognize Michigan’s identity as an “inclusive identity,” i.e., one that has faced questions of difference throughout its ethnic, political, economic, creative, labor, and regional relationships. Proposals will address Michigan’s struggle with questions of identity by engaging the tensions that make Michigan a microcosm of forces that shape America. The following terms should anchor proposals: urban vs. rural; local vs. state; state vs. federal; ethnicity; regionalism; identity; conflict; federalism, and nationalism.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$93,520 (approved)
$93,520 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2004 – 12/31/2006

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,300,101 (approved)
$2,300,101 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2001 – 10/31/2006

Funding details:
Original grant (2002) $100,000
Supplement (2002) $666,046
Supplement (2003) $766,018
Supplement (2004) $768,037

Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state.

Project fields:
U.S. Regional Studies

Program:
Preservation/Access Projects

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$50,000 (approved)
$50,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2001 – 10/31/2002

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,117,177 (approved)
$2,117,177 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1998 – 10/31/2003

Funding details:
Original grant (1999) $632,300
Supplement (1999) $41,370
Supplement (2000) $707,622
Supplement (2001) $735,885

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,018,570 (approved)
$2,018,570 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1995 – 10/31/2000

Funding details:
Original grant (1997) $63,000
Supplement (1996) $606,800
Supplement (1997) $673,642
Supplement (1998) $675,128

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$2,134,500 (approved)
$2,134,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1992 – 10/31/1997

Funding details:
Original grant (1993) $535,700
Supplement (1993) $172,200
Supplement (1994) $718,300
Supplement (1995) $708,300

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$1,393,066 (approved)
$1,393,066 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1990 – 10/31/1994

Funding details:
Original grant (1991) $50,000
Supplement (1991) $619,731
Supplement (1992) $723,335

To support for Detroit-area K-12 teachers two series of six symposia each, a summer institute, a minigrant program, and a curriculum unit for statewide distribution on the theme, "The Americas: Hispanic History and Culture."

Project fields:
Hispanic American Studies

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$146,593 (approved)
$146,593 (awarded)

Grant period:
3/1/1991 – 9/30/1994

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$625,555 (approved)
$625,555 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1989 – 10/31/1992

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$585,081 (approved)
$585,081 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1988 – 10/31/1991

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$509,081 (approved)
$509,081 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1987 – 10/31/1990

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$506,978 (approved)
$506,978 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1986 – 10/31/1989

To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$978,010 (approved)
$977,510 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1984 – 10/31/1988

Funding details:
Original grant (1985) $441,250
Supplement (1985) $64,500
Supplement (1986) $471,760

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$1,220,200 (approved)
$1,001,212 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1982 – 10/31/1986

To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$1,750,421 (approved)
$37,480 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/1/1980 – 10/31/1984

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$558,405 (approved)
$558,405 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/1/1978 – 3/31/1980

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$1,121,046 (approved)
$1,085,381 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/1/1978 – 3/31/1981

To create a summer institute gathering together established scholars in Ancient History with teachers in the smaller colleges, to bring the results of recent research to their attention. There will be an eight-week session with four seminars on subjects representing difference periods of classical antiquity, which will provide a variety of approaches and aspects and include a number of ancillary disciplines and techniques. Participants will be expected to frame new courses or refurbish old ones as a result of the institute.

Project fields:
Ancient History

Program:
Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$74,490 (approved)
$74,490 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1977 – 12/31/1977

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

To support public programs, through regrants to institutions and organizations, which relate the humanities and humanists to issues of broad public interest in Michigan. For its second operational year the Committee has chosen as its theme: "The Michigan Economy: A Humanistic Understanding of Production, Consumption, and Leisure".

Project fields:

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$678,930 (approved)
$678,930 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1976 – 12/1/1979

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$300,000 (approved)
$300,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1975 – 3/31/1977

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

The Michigan Council is operating during its first year under the theme, "The Michigan Economy: A Humanistic Understanding of Production, Consumption, and Leisure." The theme represents a crucial issue of concern in the state of Michigan, and also one which can function as a public program in the humanities. The Council will hold conferences, develop a brochure, and seek radio time in order to p^licize the program.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$148,163 (approved)
$148,163 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1974 – 3/31/1976

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$13,752 (approved)
$13,752 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1973 – 6/30/1974