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**************X******************************** Reproductions Supplied by EDRS Are the Best That Can Be Made from the Original Document qUMENT-RESUME ED 316 456 SO 020 410 TITLE National Endowment for the Humanities 23r' Annual Report--1988. INSTITUTION National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH)I Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 89 NOTE 178p.; Photographs will not reproduce well. AVAILABLE FROMNEH 1988 Annual Report, Room 406, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC (single copies free while supply lasts). PUB TYPE Reports - Descriptive (141) MRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Categorical Aid; Educational Finance; *Federal Aid; Fellowships; *Grants; *Humanities; Preservation; Research Projects; State Programs IDENTIFIERS Challenge Grants; *National Endowment for the Humanities ABSTRACT Congress established the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1965 to support scholarly research, education, and public programs in the humanities. Under the act that established the NEH, the term humanities includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following disclplines: history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature; archaeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social scie. 4es that employ historical or philosophical approaches. This r...tport lists federal funds obligated for grants made in fiscal year 1989 through the Endowment's five divisions (Education Programs, Fellowships and Seminars, General Programs, Research Programs, and State Programs) and two offices (tne Office of Challenge Grants and the Office of Preservation). The 2,113 grant listings are preceded by a brief introduction describing the nature and purposes of the programs administered by each division. The grants themselves are listed in alphabetical order according to each grant-making program. A list of the panelists who evaluated the thousands of applications in fiscal year 1988 is included as well as lists of the senior staff members of the NEH and of the members of the National Council on the Humanities. Two tables present a summary of grants and awards for fiscal year 1988 and a financial report for the same fiscal year. (JB) **************************************X******************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ********************************w************************************* - .,-:'11 ,7,- . ,:' ' , r 2; f 1 k- t'.- . "--- '.'.- . ' ,'". I ' a tf: , +, % '''' --------- 111, -: , - l. '-'77.4-1'...72--, Zr.- .1 "'"--11.,° 7-...'...:_.,:1-, .r ....,....,... j...",.-k-,11,_,..'°7M.,,,;,,,4:4:,,,,-- 1 -;--;-,,z,'"47,,,,ffe.. - --- ,..-;71. I ,...% ' -._ ,,,,,&W-424,ex _eli,4:.^,;9#,&-A;;;torli.4,,,,,,,6:K44,... ,,,.., -, .- 1- iC % . U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) "It%This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization- originating it -. D Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction Quality Points of view or opinionsatated in this doCu Mint do not necessarily represent official OERI position oi policy ' NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 23RD ANNUAL REPORT -1988 3 ..: Cover: In Humanities in America, NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney noted that in thepast few decades there has been "a remarkable blossoming of the humanities in the public sphere." Pictured isa nighttime chautauqua tent meeting at which the public has gathered to listen to scholars who portray historical figures, suchas Thomas Jefferson. With Endowment support, the Great Plains Chautauqua Society of Bismarck, North Dakota, makes history and literaturecome alive in communities throughout the Midwest. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 23RD ANNUAL REPORT -1988 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506 ISSN 8755-5492 ....71. "1111)1111, %RI :Uci`tficIsi, ;;; , `C. - -r ... -4 1 1111 Fr 5 `.. ,-- L . V. ..., ....,-i.,'.-r ...: 4, , ' - r.....- '`..715' ...r -,_ A . Ns fe. -.- gv- ;t. eJ dj,("4. rt 3pit, .."..14 b, A 11.1. l'T-.;::s , .'..4"4-a14: .,, 0.-,1-4-z--- 141 ,..4,,,e . -'' ., el k , 73 Iliik,. /246,'Cr `. 1. ;.4,11;int . gIVI° , sr fa -A '4' r t E. .74 0 . - 2 The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 April 15, 1989 Dear Mr. President: I have the honor of transmitting to yot, the and secondary schools, for example, the En- annual report of the National Endowment for dowment entered into a cooperative agreement the Humanities for fiscal year 1988. It illustrates with the University of California at Los Angeles our commitment to promote the teaching and to establish the National Center for the Study of learning of the humanities in our society, both History. The center will study current teaching.... inside and outside the classroom. approaches, teacher training, and history text- As noted in Humanities in America, the books in order to develop improved programs Endowment's 1988 congressionally-mandated for history instruction. report, there has been in the past few decades To assist teachers in becoming more a resurgence of interest in the humanities on knowledgeable about the subjects they teach, the part of the general public. Millions of the Endowment established the NEH/Reader's Americans are attending museum exhibitions, Digest Teacher-Scholar Program. It provides organizing historical societies, and participat- teachers with an opportunity to spend an aca- ing in reading groups, seminars, and lectures demic year of full-time study in the humanities. on historical and cultural topics. They are We continue to encourage colleges and reading books and watching film series that universities to provide rigorous and coherent illustrate our own tradition and those of other programs of education for undergraduates. And cultures. "The remarkable blossoming of the we are proud, as well, to report to you about humanities in the public sphere is one of the our ongoing support of the scholarly research least noted, though most important, cultural on which so many of these other activities developments of the last few decades," our re- depend. port observed, and we at the NEH are proud of A century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocque- our continuing efforts to help in this endeavor. ville described the people of the United States We are also committed to improving hu- as "ever striving toward that immense grandeur Orphans from the manities education in our schools; and during glimpsed indistinctly at the end of the long Children's Aid Society 1988, we particularly focused our efforts on track humanity must follow." We at the Nation- in New York Ci'y, concerns raised in the NEH report, American al Endowment for the Humanities hope that photographed by Memory. To help improve the content and our work in 1988 has helped give Americans a writer and social clearer glimpse of that grandeur. reformer Jacob Riis quality of history education in our elementary at the turn of the century. This photo- Sincerely, graph was used in The End of the Line: Orphan Train, a videotape supported by the' Lynne V. Cheney Missouri Humanitii5 Chairman Council that featured stories about New York children who were adopted by Missouri families. 7 3 / -- . 4 .::: ___r_ Pø* r- . * . -- . r - r d -L_ -. 1' TL , -* 1LL. UlUL - i= . r, .flr-1--- -L .T1J __________________________________________- --.p.. 1 - - .. -'- .,- I' - -V.- -fl I -_.._r :I___ V.-. -r- . --.- . ._ I .r-t a - V.--- ___- - ''- LIIJIr.AwII!. _________ a&_--_ - .. -,'---V------- -7. _ - - -V_ Z:: V. - :. 1l- :._JDIrf ., ____ I .- tlflr--- a -It - _I_ - . - ______.__I____ - I' _.J S__r _____I_.VI. .l - - ___ - 1. miL_ : ..: .. ;II; - - -- _- -.-.---.- _t.- . V-V.--- . -- _ -- - -. * ._ - - - - - - -. 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Financial Report for Fiscal Year 1988 170 In 1988 the Division of Fellowships and Index of Grits 171 Seminars supported a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at Park College in Missouri on "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Historical Perspective." 5 9 From the Deputy Chairman (Programs and Administration) If "Idjisinterested intellectual curiosity is biography, his interest may be piqued to read the life blood of real civilization,"as G. M.
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