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Renovation of the headquarters building for the Minnesota Humanities Center, focusing on replacement of the HVAC system.

The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) serves as a critical hub for public humanities scholarship, engagement, and resources throughout the state. MHC produces impactful programs and grantmaking in diverse and geographically dispersed communities, touching 36,100 people in 34 municipalities statewide in 2017-18 alone. Since moving to its current home in a historic building on St. Paul’s East Side, MHC has provided a unique venue for critical thought, deep connection, and continuous learning for program participants and external clients. This building (and the land it is on) is the foundation to MHC’s success, both programmatically and fiscally. However, it is in urgent need of repairs and updates to stop ongoing damage from water intrusion and to replace an outdated, inefficient HVAC system. An estimated $3.53 million is needed for renovations. Nearly $2.2 million has been secured, and a $350,000 NEH challenge grant will support replacement of the building’s outdated HVAC system.

Project fields:
History, General; Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$350,000 (approved)
$350,000 (offered)
$116,666 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

A grant request to provide general operating support to the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC), Minnesota's state humanities council, as defined by the National Endowment for the Humanities' founding legislation. This grant will support MHC's programs and operations as it fulfills its mission to build a thoughtful, literate, and engaged society.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$3,231,067 (approved)
$3,217,267 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2018 – 10/31/2023

Funding details:
Original grant (2019) $151,550
Supplement (2019) $710,650
Supplement (2020) $1,438,667
Supplement (2021) $916,400

Veteran-led public discussion programs in three Minnesota communities, with a focus on war, place, and memory through World War I, and the Vietnam, and Iraq wars.

Echoes of War, a project of the Minnesota Humanities Center, will explore the multiplicity of Veterans’ experiences by examining the roots of war in a place and its past and the echoes of war in a people and their memories. The wars in Vietnam and Iraq will be studied in the context of colonial conflicts and World War I using literature, memoir, and personal histories. The project includes presentations by and discussions with visiting scholars including renowned poet Brian Turner, Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, and noted historian Ron Milam. 10 NEH Discussion Leaders will participate in an intensive residential preparatory program that is grounded in the literature of war and training in discussion facilitation. A series of public discussions will be conducted in St. Paul, Northfield, and Winona, Minnesota.

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Project fields:
History, Other; Literature, Other

Program:
Dialogues on the Experience of War

Division:
Education Programs

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

Grant period:
5/1/2017 – 6/30/2018

A public discussion program offered by the Minnesota Humanities Center for veterans to explore the lived and recorded experiences of war through literature and war memorials.

Echoes of War, a project of the Minnesota Humanities Center, will explore how war is remembered and memorialized in contrast to and relationship with the lived experiences of Veterans. This project will use Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian, an anthology by Great Books Foundation, as its core resource and it will involve the study of war memorials at the Minnesota State Capitol. Echoes of War will be co-lead by Dr. Susannah Ottaway, a professor of history at Carleton College, and Trista Matascastillo, Humanities Center program officer and 16-year Veteran. Ten NEH Discussion Leaders will participate in an immersive 5-day residential preparatory program that will prepare them to lead subsequent public discussions. The preparatory program will involves intensive grounding in the literature of war, training in discussion facilitation, and an examination of war memorials. A three-part public discussion series will be held at the Minnesota Humanities Center, St. Paul, and at Carleton

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Project fields:
History, Other; Literature, Other

Program:
Dialogues on the Experience of War

Division:
Education Programs

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

Grant period:
5/1/2016 – 4/30/2017

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

State Humanities Program

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Project fields:

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$3,040,960 (approved)
$2,439,680 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2015 – 10/31/2020

Funding details:
Original grant (2016) $145,000
Supplement (2016) $621,640
Supplement (2017) $831,350
Supplement (2018) $840,190
Supplement (2019) $1,500

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):
$2,397,650 (approved)
$2,208,050 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2012 – 10/31/2017

Funding details:
Original grant (2013) $190,000
Supplement (2013) $496,890
Supplement (2014) $765,580
Supplement (2015) $755,580

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):
$2,261,230 (approved)
$2,257,230 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2009 – 10/31/2014

Funding details:
Original grant (2010) $110,000
Supplement (2010) $627,460
Supplement (2011) $792,900
Supplement (2012) $726,870

To support partnerships with the Minnesota Council on Black Minnesotans, the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, the American Indian Affairs Council of Minnesota, the Chicago Latino Affairs Council to tell representative stories from these communities. This program will be supported by four interactive multimedia websites and a communications initiatives to publicize them in the community. Outreach programming will include professional development workshops, public discussion groups, and public media communications.

Minnesota is often viewed as the land of German, Swedes, and Norwegians, as a land settled by Lutherans, Catholics, and a few Baptists. This identity is reinforced by homogeneous stereotypes present in media such as A Prairie Home Companion and in films such as Leatherheads and the Cohen Brother's epic, Fargo. These treatments fail to depict the real Minnesota. The Minnesota Humanities Center proposes partnering with the Minnesota Council on Black Minnesotans, the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, the American Indian Affairs Council of Minnesota, and the Council on Chicano/Latino affairs starting in 2010 to tell representative stories -- Stories of Innovation -- from these oft marginalized Minnesota communities. Programs to share these stories include web sites for each of our four council partners, public programming to highlight and convey these stories, and a public outreach campaign to address the complex question of Minnesota identity.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$119,740 (approved)
$119,740 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2010 – 10/31/2011

Two one-week workshops for eighty school teachers to explore the role of Minnesota's Iron Range in American history.

Minnesota's Iron Range supplied late 19th and 20th century America with the iron needed to fuel industrialization, economic expansion, and military might. During the summer of 2010, the Minnesota Humanities Center will offer two week-long, residence-based workshops that use this unique region of Minnesota to address themes and issues central to American history. A National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers program, these workshops will help K-12 educators increase their knowledge and appreciation of Minnesota's Iron Range, a region significant to American history and culture, but often overlooked. The workshops will provide teachers with training and experience in the use and interpretation of this historic landmark region, and make available the material resources and archival evidence unique to this significant place in American history and culture.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Landmarks of American History

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$160,000 (approved)
$160,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2009 – 12/31/2010

The development of programs that explore Minnesota's ethnic heritages and what it means to be an American, including community conversations, a web site, podcasts, a public conference and a grant program.

In times of crisis, we must consider what is most fundamental about our culture and work to preserve that which we hold dear. One risk of the economic crisis of 2009 is that Minnesotans and Americans will lose sight of the ideas and experiences that bind them. Such a time is upon us -- a time to examine and expand the meaning of what it is to be an American and a Minnesotan. The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) requests funding to support community conversations and additional programming that will highlight its rich ethnic heritage, namely the accomplishments and contributions of the states original residents, the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk; the state's African American peoples, and the state's newest residents of Hmong, Somali, and Latino peoples. Programs to accomplish this include a web site, public events and podcasts, a public conference, and a re-grant program.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$119,740 (approved)
$119,740 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2009 – 10/31/2010

To support programming related to Minnesota's sesquicentennial in 2008 with particular emphasis on the original residents, the Dakota and Ojibwe, and the newest residents, Hmong, Somali and Latino peoples. Programs include a website, public events and podcasts, workshops and grants. Programming related to Picturing America will also be supported.

The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) proposes programming to highlight the cultural contributions of traditionally under represented peoples in traditionally treatements of state history. Through a series of programs: a website, public events & podcasts, workshops, and a re-grant program, MHC will highlight the cultural contributions of the state’s first peoples, the Dakota and Ojibwe, and the newest Minnesotans, Hmong, Somali, and Latino immigrants and refugees.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$119,740 (approved)
$119,740 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2008 – 10/31/2009

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):
$1,815,860 (approved)
$1,808,860 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2006 – 10/31/2011

Funding details:
Original grant (2007) $110,000
Supplement (2007) $473,600
Supplement (2008) $583,600
Supplement (2009) $641,660

Two one-week workshops for 100 school teachers to explore the role of Minnesota's Iron Range in American history.

During the summer of 2008, the Minnesota Humanities Commission will offer two one-week residence-based workshops for K-12 educators that use a unique region of Minnesota to address central themes and issues in American history. As many as 100 teachers who attend these National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers will increase knowledge and appreciation of a region significant to American history and culture - Minnesota's Iron Range. These in-depth workshops will provide teachers with training and experience in the use and interpretation of this historic region in Minnesota and the material resources and archival evidence unique to this siginificant place in American history and culture.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Landmarks of American History

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$149,336 (approved)
$140,760 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2007 – 9/30/2008

Conferences will consider the impact of statehood on the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples and the contributions of native people to Minnesota and American history, targeted grants will help develop reference and curriculum guides for native language courses, and a content-rich website will collect Dakota and Ojibwe materials and resources.

In 2008, the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) will examine the significance of Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial by considering how Minnesota and American history was and is influenced by interactions between peoples. MHC's project will highlight the historic and cultural contributions of the Dakota and Ojibwe to Minnesota and American history. It includes a wide variety of programming formats to reach a broad audience: public programming; resource development; and a theme-based re-grant program.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$103,840 (approved)
$103,840 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2007 – 10/31/2008

focused grant programs and a teacher professional development seminar that will support and give thematic unity to four MHC program areas: grants, Learning in Retirement Network, Museum on Main Street, and Teacher Institute

For its 2006 We the People project, MHC will launch two initiatives— focused regrant programs and an intensive teacher professional development seminar—that will support and give thematic unity to four MHC program areas: MHC grant program, Learning in Retirement Network, Museum on Main Street Program, and Teacher Institute.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$103,840 (approved)
$103,840 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2006 – 12/31/2007

To support a regrant initiative "We the People: Tradition and Change" that will address Minnesota topics in the light of national history, and two teacher seminars that will explore the Dakota Conflict of 1862 and the signing of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Treaty.

For its 2005 WE THE PEOPLE PROJECT, MHC will develop two initiatives: 1) a RFP regrant initiative that explores significant themes in American history and culture; and 2) two teacher seminars for educators analyzing the history of American Indian-European encounters in Minnesota in light of new regional and national scholarship. Regrants of $1000-2000 will be made, with special outreach to minority organizations and community colleges. Up to eighty educators will attend the seminars, with significant on-line content materials available.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$74,500 (approved)
$74,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2005 – 10/31/2006

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):
$1,759,626 (approved)
$1,752,626 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2003 – 10/31/2008

Funding details:
Original grant (2004) $100,000
Supplement (2004) $485,466
Supplement (2005) $583,560
Supplement (2006) $584,596
Supplement (2007) $-996

A special grant program to support projects in communities in Minnesota that explore significant themes and events in American history and culture.

In the initiative "We the People: American Mosaic," MHC will issue a RFP that will invite Minnesota organizations to develop projects that explore significant events and themes in American history and culture. The size of grants will be $1000 and $2000, ensuring that the MHC initiative involves a large number of participating organziations and reaches a large number of people. MHC anticpates making thirty-one grants of $1000 and fifteen grants of $2000, for a total of forty-six grants.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Grants for State Humanities Councils

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals (outright + matching):
$66,010 (approved)
$66,010 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2004 – 10/31/2005

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):
$1,826,284 (approved)
$1,737,042 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/2000 – 10/31/2005

Funding details:
Original grant (2001) $548,400
Supplement (2001) $24,442
Supplement (2002) $580,600
Supplement (2003) $583,600

Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state.

Project fields:
U.S. Regional Studies

Program:
Preservation/Access Projects

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$49,990 (approved)
$49,990 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2001 – 6/30/2002

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):
$1,599,848 (approved)
$1,599,848 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1997 – 10/31/2002

Funding details:
Original grant (1999) $50,000
Supplement (1998) $474,522
Supplement (1999) $524,254
Supplement (2000) $551,072

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):
$1,659,685 (approved)
$1,615,185 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1994 – 10/31/1999

Funding details:
Original grant (1997) $444,800
Supplement (1995) $106,300
Supplement (1996) $522,000
Supplement (1997) $542,085

To support the renovation of an historic building to create a facility for K-12teacher development programs in the humanities and for humanities seminars for corporations and other organizations.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$250,000 (approved)
$250,000 (offered)
$250,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1994 – 7/31/1999

To support three week-long, residential seminars for 75 teachers from all grade levels and subject areas on broad, interdisciplinary topics in the humanities.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$62,000 (approved)
$62,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
3/1/1993 – 4/30/1994

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):
$1,671,471 (approved)
$1,671,471 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1991 – 10/31/1996

Funding details:
Original grant (1992) $442,800
Supplement (1992) $117,071
Supplement (1993) $550,500
Supplement (1994) $551,100
Supplement (1995) $10,000

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):
$540,100 (approved)
$540,100 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1990 – 10/31/1993

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):
$548,944 (approved)
$548,944 (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):
$515,100 (approved)
$515,100 (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):
$454,194 (approved)
$454,194 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1987 – 10/30/1990

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):
$930,150 (approved)
$930,150 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1985 – 9/30/1989

Funding details:
Original grant (1986) $128,900
Supplement (1986) $351,830
Supplement (1987) $449,420

To support, in cooperation with several state agencies, traveling exhibitions and related programs on the evolution of American domestic architecture since the mid-19th century. The purpose of the project is to entice audiences to consider how our material culture can reflect societal change.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$66,972 (approved)
$66,972 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1986 – 6/30/1989

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):
$980,600 (approved)
$980,600 (awarded)

Grant period:
11/1/1983 – 10/31/1987

Funding details:
Original grant (1984) $89,000
Supplement (1984) $461,600
Supplement (1985) $430,000

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):
$1,487,579 (approved)
$490,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1981 – 10/31/1985

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):
$852,656 (approved)
$830,149 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1979 – 6/30/1982

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:
$15,315 (approved)
$15,315 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1978 – 6/30/1980

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:
$379,000 (approved)
$379,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1979 – 6/30/1981

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:
$30,500 (approved)
$30,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1977 – 9/30/1979

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):
$547,213 (approved)
$547,213 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1978 – 6/30/1980

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Project fields:

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$30,500 (approved)
$30,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1977 – 1/31/1981

No project description available

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$16,237 (approved)
$16,237 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1977 – 9/30/1978

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):
$550,077 (approved)
$550,077 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1976 – 6/30/1978

To provide supplemental funds to cover increased staffing and administrative costs and the employment of consultants on computer use and index design to the Women’s History Sources Survey Project.

Project fields:
Women's History

Program:
Reference Materials - Tools

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$277,761 (approved)
$277,761 (awarded)

Grant period:
2/1/1975 – 8/31/1977

To research and write a comprehensive history of the protracted conservation battle over the vast Minnesota-Ontario border region, better known as the Quetico-Superior country.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
State and Local and Regional Studies

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$28,650 (approved)
$28,650 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1974 – 10/31/1975

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

the Minnesota Humanities Commission has focused its second-year program on the theme: "Regionalsim, Regional Government, and the Individual" to bring the humanities to bear on the implications of regional government for the citizenry as the State Government attempts to implement the regional government concep. Most of the Commission's funds will be regranted, with a small allotment for a statewide opening conference.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

Totals:
$150,000 (approved)
$150,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1972 – 12/31/1973

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

To strengthen the humanities in Minnesota by encouraging public education activities on the theme of the "the Changing Life Styles" characterstic of the state; to involve a broad public audience through various media and to secure local program sponsorship and financial support.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Division:
Federal/State Partnership

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

Grant period:
8/1/1971 – 8/31/1972