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Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a website, and public programs examining the history of World War I and its impact on America.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) seeks support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $1,000,000 for implementation of the exhibition WW1 America. In partnership with four other leading historical institutions—the Bullock Texas State History Museum, the National Constitution Center, the National World War One Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California—MNHS is producing a major, 5,000-sf exhibition on America during the World War I era, 1914-19. WW1 America will help museum visitors gain a nuanced understanding of the War as a transformational moment in American history. An opening is planned to coincide with the April 2017 centennial of American entry into the War; the exhibition will tour nationally 2017-20. The project includes a website and the development of educational and public programs. The total project budget, estimated at $4,089,000, will come from grants, institutional funds, and rental fees from the tour of seven additional sites.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$600,000 (approved)
$600,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2016 – 8/31/2018

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a website, and programs examining the history of World War I and its impact on America.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) seeks support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $75,000 to continue research and development for the "Over Here Project." In partnership with three other leading historical institutions--the National Constitution Center, the National World War One Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California--MNHS is conducting a nationwide search for stories, images, and objects that will help museum visitors gain a more nuanced understanding of the history of World War I and its contested American legacies. The principal product of the project is a major traveling exhibition, with an opening timed for the 2017 centennial of American entry into the War, and a tour from 2017 through 2019. A companion website, public programs, and educational materials will also be developed. The total project budget, estimated at $2,200,000, will be raised from a combination of public, foundation, and corporate sponsorship sources.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants

Division:
Public Programs

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

Grant period:
5/1/2015 – 4/30/2016

Implementation of a mobile application to be integrated into existing museum exhibitions and to expand children’s access to humanities content.

"Play the Past: Humanities for the Next Generation" will integrate new-media platforms into existing museum exhibits at the Minnesota History Center to significantly expand children's access to humanities content, deepen their engagement with history, and hone their critical thinking and collaboration skills.

Project fields:
History, General; U.S. History

Program:
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$200,000 (approved)
$193,367 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2015 – 6/30/2017

The digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Minnesota Historical Society proposes to digitize 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers from the period 1690-1963, as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Project. At the end of the project, the Society will transfer to the Library of Congress all digital files, essays, required metadata and duplicate microfilm, per the specifications of the grant. The Society holds the largest collection of Minnesota newspapers of any repository, represented by over 4000 titles. The collection is especially important because of Minnesota's role as a cultural and economic center in the Upper Midwest and its historical significance in the economic development of the entire Northwest. The Society will adhere faithfully to technical guidelines and standards of the NDNP and the Library of Congress; these will continue to be the framework for the work plan.

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Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
National Digital Newspaper Program

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$731,855 (approved)
$731,855 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2015 – 8/31/2021

Funding details:
Original grant (2015) $250,000
Supplement (2017) $239,726
Supplement (2019) $242,129

An interdisciplinary study of energy-efficient cold storage options for film, magnetic media, and microfilm collections related to the history of Minnesota.

The Minnesota Historical Society requests $40,000 to conduct an interdisciplinary study of energy-efficient cold storage options for select collections in the Society's headquarters building, the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, MN. The levels currently recommended by the International Standards Organization (ISO) for film materials -- photographs and slides, film, microfilm, video and audiotape -- range from 36F to 70F and 20-50% relative humidity. Presently, the History Center maintains levels at 62??F and 36% relative humidity, which while standard for general collections, are not ideal for all film media. Using a single protocol for all collections also produces excessive energy loads. The planning grant would be used to thoroughly investigate the feasibility of and plan for a cold-storage area envisioned as a separate vault within the larger storage area, both to attain optimum environmental conditions for audio-visual collections and to reduce energy consumption.

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Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$39,619 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2013 – 9/30/2014

A book-length study of Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-74) and American cultural history. Lindbergh's writings, and the way they collectively reveal the self that he meticulously constructed for nearly half of the twentieth century, are the starting points of my investigation. To an extent matched by few others in his time, Lindbergh sought to be the teller of his own tale. From 1927 to the last months of his life, he was constantly writing, eventually publishing six autobiographical works and leaving unpublished more than a thousand pages of memoir. My intent, however, is to go beyond the writings, indeed beyond the man himself, to understand how this fabled life was--and continues to be--narrated in the public arena. Because of his fame and the complexities of his character, Lindbergh becomes a prismatic figure through whom is refracted the interplay between self and celebrity, between a private life and a public reputation, between history and memory.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2011 – 8/31/2012

Implementation for a traveling exhibition, a website, and public programs about Americans in the 1960s with a projected opening date of October 2011.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) seeks support from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Chairman's Special Award program in the amount of $1,000,000 to implement The 1968 Project exhibition. In partnership with three other leading historical institutions-the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California-MHS has conducted a nationwide search for stories, images and objects that illuminate the great and small events of 1968. Products of this documentary project will include a travelling exhibition, a Website, and public and educational programs. The budget for the exhibition, estimated at $2,325,000 will be raised from a combination of public, foundation, and corporate sponsorship sources.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$850,000 (approved)
$850,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2010 – 9/30/2013

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a website, and associated programming on America in the 1960s.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) seeks support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $75,000 to continue research and development for The 1968 Project exhibition. In partnership with three other leading historical institutions--the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California--MHS is conducting a nationwide search for stories, images, and objects that illuminate the great and small events of 1968. Products of this documentary project will include a traveling exhibition, a Web site, public and educational programs, and a film competition. The budget for the exhibition, estimated at $2,850,000, will be raised from a combination of public, foundation, and corporate sponsorship sources.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$75,000 (approved)
$75,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2009 – 8/31/2010

Arrangement and description of the personal papers of Walter F. Mondale, along with selected digitization of photographs and the creation of a dedicated Web portal.

The Minnesota Historical Society seeks funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete the processing of the Walter Mondale papers and to create an online portal to information about Mondale and his political legacy. The Sociey is the primary repository for the personal papers of Walter Mondale. The collection encompasses Mondale's entire career, from his terms as Minnesota's attorney general through his senatorial career, his years as vice president, his 1984 presidential campaign, and subsequent public service. The MHS collection that documents his career so fully is an archival resource of national and international significance. Unfortunately, demand for access to the collection has so far outpaced the Society's ability to process and describe it. This project will allow MHS to complete the processing of the collection, to offer access to related Mondale materials at MHS, and to launch a federated search into Modale collections held elsewhere.

Project fields:
Archival Management and Conservation

Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$176,550 (approved)
$176,550 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2008 – 6/30/2011

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers dating from 1880 to 1910 as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Minnesota Historical Society requests $199,108 to digitize 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers from the period 1880-1910, as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities? National Digital Newspaper Project. The project will take two years, from July 2007-June 2009. At the end of the project, the Society will transfer to the Library of Congress all digital files, essays, required metadata and duplicate microfilm, per the specifications of the grant. The Society holds the largest collection of Minnesota newspapers of any repository, represented by over 4000 titles. The collection is especially important because of Minnesota?s role as a cultural and economic center in the Upper Midwest and its historical significance in the economic development of the entire Northwest. The Society will adhere faithfully to technical guidelines and standards of the NDNP and the Library of Congress; these will create the framework for developing the work plan.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
National Digital Newspaper Program

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$789,445 (approved)
$789,445 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2007 – 12/31/2013

Funding details:
Original grant (2007) $199,108
Supplement (2009) $265,337
Supplement (2011) $325,000

Implementation of a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, publications, a web site, and other public and educational programs exploring the collective experience of the generation that fought World War II and matured in the postwar decades.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) seeks support for the implementation of a major new thematic exhibit, Our Lives, Our Stories: Minnesota's Greatest Generation. The 6,000 square-foot exhibit, which opens August 2008 at the Minnesota History Center, explores the lives and legacies of Minnesotans who grew up during the Depression, came of age during World War II, and created the postwar boom. In our focus on a single birth cohort--men and women born around 1910-29--we are developing a way of understanding our history that is perhaps unique in American museums. The exhibit draws on an ongoing research and documentation effort, which encompasses oral histories, a website, a film competition, publications, outreach efforts, programs and a collecting initiative. MHS seeks funds to fabricate and install the exhibit, produce a range of gallery-based media components, and develop evaluation plans.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Museums Implementation

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$367,200 (approved)
$367,200 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2007 – 10/31/2010

Two one-week workshops for 100 school teachers to study the early years of historic Fort Snelling as a representative military post in the context of Indian relations, economic growth, and westward expansion.

The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS)is requesting funds to offer two five day workshops tentatively scheduled for July 2006. The teachers will study the early years of historic Fort Snelling as a representative military post in the broader national narrative of Indian relations, economic growth, and westward expansion. By analyzing key moments in Minnesota’s history, teachers will gain the techniques they need to illuminate analogous experiences in their states and to understand the national policies and events that framed them. The workshops will provide classroom tools to illustrate the consequences of territorial expansion in the nineteenth century United States.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Landmarks of American History

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$147,004 (approved)
$147,004 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2006 – 12/31/2006

Implementation of a permanent exhibition and accompanying educational and public programs exploring such themes as urban history and immigration through the stories of the successive families that occupied a single house in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1918 to the present.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$323,333 (approved)
$323,333 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2004 – 5/31/2006

Planning for a permanent exhibition and related programming interpreting a specific house successively occupied by Germans, Italians, African Americans, and now Southeast Asians.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$40,847 (approved)
$40,847 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2002 – 8/31/2003

A permanent exhibition, including media presentations, interactives, and learning centers within the exhibition, on the urban, industrial, commercial, and environmental history of the Upper Midwest, to be mounted in a new museum.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$250,000 (approved)
$250,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2001 – 12/31/2003

To support construction for public programming spaces in the new St. Anthony Falls Heritage Center to be located within the ruins of one of Minneapolis's largest mills.

Project fields:
Museum Studies or Historical Preservation

Program:
Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$625,000 (approved)
$625,000 (offered)
$625,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1997 – 7/31/2002

To support a long-term exhibition that examines the special institution of the Minnesota family in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$300,000 (approved)
$300,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1995 – 6/30/1996

To support a self-study for Fort Snelling, a historic site in the Minnesota Historical Society System.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$19,639 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1995 – 6/30/1996

To support a project to study research use of business collections and a symposium to develop appraisal criteria for 20th-century U.S. business records.

Project fields:
Social Sciences, General

Program:
Preservation and Access Projects Pre-1996

Division:
Preservation and Access

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

Grant period:
2/1/1995 – 12/31/1997

To support an exhibition, a publication, and public programs on Jewish women inthe Upper Midwest, 1850-1980.

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Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

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

Grant period:
7/1/1995 – 6/30/1997

To support planning for an exhibition, a catalog, and public programs on the history of railroad dining car workers and their role in African American communities from 1880 to 1980.

Project fields:
African American Studies

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$40,510 (approved)
$0 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1995 – 12/31/1996

To support planning for a collaborative, temporary exhibition, a catalog, and public programs on the history of Jewish women in the Upper Midwest, 1880- 1880 1980.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$50,618 (approved)
$50,618 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1994 – 6/30/1995

To support a long-term exhibition and programs at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum, Onamia, on the history of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.

Project fields:
Native American Studies

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$500,000 (approved)
$500,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1994 – 3/31/1997

To support planning for a permanent exhibition and public programs on the history of the family in Minnesota.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1993 – 12/31/1994

To support an exhibition and public programs on the history of wild ricing in Minnesota, an important form of agriculture for the Ojibwe, Menominee, Dakota, and Winnebago, and later European-American people.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$328,757 (approved)
$328,757 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1992 – 12/31/1994

To support greater access to the society's collection of historical artifacts by converting catalogue records into machine-readable records that can be loaded into a regional database and two national bibliographic utilities.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$125,000 (approved)
$114,025 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1992 – 9/30/1994

To support the purchase of storage equipment and the consolidation and rehousing of collections in a central facility. The society's collections include historical, ethnographic, and archaeological objects.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
National Heritage Preservation Projects

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$1,000,000 (approved)
$1,000,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1992 – 6/30/1996

To support the cost of constructing a new Minnesota History Center that will offer enlarged museum galleries, increased accessibility to the society's collections, and expanded educational programs.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$1,000,000 (approved)
$1,000,000 (offered)
$1,000,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1988 – 7/31/1992

To support Minnesota's participation in the U.S. Newspaper Program. Approximately 8,800 newspaper titles will be catalogued, and 3.2 million pages will be microfilmed.

Project fields:
Library Science; U.S. History

Program:
Preservation and Access Projects Pre-1996

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals (outright + matching):
$968,135 (approved)
$868,135 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1989 – 6/30/1992

To support a traveling exhibition, a catalogue, and educational programming ex-ploring the transition from traditional Hidatsa Plains Indian society to modernreservation life by focusing on three Hidatsa whose lives spanned the period from about 1840 to 1920.

Project fields:
Anthropology; Native American Studies; U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

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

Grant period:
4/1/1986 – 3/31/1989

To support the arrangement and description of the papers of Thomas Barlow Walker and his family covering the lumber industry, real estate, and philanthropy for the period 1881-1965.

Project fields:
Archival Management and Conservation

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$58,989 (approved)
$58,516 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1986 – 8/31/1988

To support planning for a traveling exhibition treating the origins and the history of the development of communities in Minnesota.

Project fields:
Geography; U.S. Regional Studies

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$48,300 (approved)
$48,300 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1985 – 6/30/1986

To support planning for the computerized documentation of the society's collection of 112,000 artifacts, displayed either in the museum or its historichouses and interpretive centers, to illuminate Minnesota's social, cultural, and political history.

Project fields:
U.S. History

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$4,000 (approved)
$4,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1985 – 6/30/1985

To support planning for a major traveling exhibition on Hidatsa history, with emphasis on the processes of Indian acculturation and modernization.

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$15,000 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1984 – 6/30/1985

To support the organization and description of the records of a major beet sugar processing company, 1899-1972, an important American agricultural business.

Project fields:
Economics; History, General

Program:
Reference Materials - Access

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$16,180 (approved)
$16,180 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1983 – 2/28/1985

To support planning of a long-range interpretive program based upon Ojibway andother Indian perspectives.

Project fields:
History, General; Native American Studies

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$15,000 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1982 – 8/31/1984

No project description available

Project fields:

Program:
Special Projects

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$17,250 (approved)
$17,250 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/15/1978 – 12/31/1979

No project description available

Project fields:

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$34,830 (approved)
$34,830 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1977 – 12/31/1979

No project description available

Project fields:

Program:
Museum Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

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

Grant period:
7/1/1977 – 6/30/1979

To continue work on the Minnesota Ethnic History Project. Work will concentrate on patterns of migration, inter-group and intra-group relationships, the religious life of the ethnic groups, the political behavior, and the economic mobility and structure of the groups.

Project fields:
Immigration History; U.S. History

Program:
State and Local and Regional Studies

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$29,253 (approved)
$29,253 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1975 – 12/31/1976

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 (outright + matching):
$298,740 (approved)
$298,740 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1975 – 6/30/1976

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:
$250,000 (approved)
$250,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1974 – 6/30/1975

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):
$231,392 (approved)
$231,392 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1973 – 11/30/1974

To enlist Minnesota's six state colleges and the State Historical Society in a state wide effort to collect local historical materials on a regional basis and to establish regional research centers.

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Institutes for College and University Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals (outright + matching):
$46,630 (approved)
$46,630 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1972 – 12/31/1973

No project description available

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Basic Research

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1967 – 4/30/1968