OAH (Bloomington, IN 47408-4141) Edward L. Ayers (Project Director: April 2017 to August 2019)
GA-258555-17
Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
Public Programs
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Totals:
$30,000 (approved) $29,988 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2017 – 3/31/2018
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"Out of Many, One" Planning Grant
Beginning in the fall 2017 and throughout 2018, at historical
societies, museums, and historical sites across the nation, Americans will come
together to discuss how to best represent their communities’ role in the U. S.
On January 1, 2018, a website will be created to begin displaying the results
of those conversations. Several major national organizations will work together
to host the discussions: the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
State Humanities Councils, the American Association for State and Local
History, the National Park Service, and the Organization of American
Historians. Together, these organizations will sponsor conversations called, “Out
of Many, One,” the translation of the founding motto of the U. S. in 1782, E
Pluribus Unum. The OAH will coordinate the collaborations, issuing an
invitation to its more than 7,000 members to reach out to their local
historical societies, museums and historical sites to co-sponsor an event in
their communities. The AASLH and NPS will help promote the collaboration
before, during and after each institution’s participation, encouraging
museum/historical society/humanities center directors to connect with local
historians. Each collaboration team will submit a brief proposal to the OAH
coordinator. After approval, each partner will receive a small stipend to help
defray expenses. Each community, drawing from its local history and archives
will choose an image, along with a paragraph of explanation, to the OAH, where
it will join thousands of others. In the digital mosaic that results, visitors
will be able to view the remarkable diversity of our nation, as well as its
unifying details. The image collection will serve as a new learning tool and
archive for teachers, archivists, historians, museum educators, and community
residents. This grant request includes funding for a planning meeting of the
partners so the details of this project can be worked out and a grant proposal
for $300,000 can be prepared and submitted to the NEH.
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