The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering grants to libraries for the exhibition ‘Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War’, exploring how Abraham Lincoln navigated the constitutional challenges of the Civil War. This grant provides $2,500 for exhibition-related expenses and programming. The exhibition, part of NEH’s We the People program, encourages visitors to reconsider Lincoln’s legacy and engage with complex questions about his leadership. Through interactive displays and historical documents, visitors will gain insights into Lincoln’s decisions and their contemporary relevance. This grant opportunity aims to promote learning and critical thinking about American history and democratic principles. Applications close on January 30, 2009.
Opportunity ID: 43279
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20090130-LL |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Small Grants to Libraries – Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Humanities |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 45.164 — Promotion of the Humanities_Public Programs |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Nov 03, 2008 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jan 30, 2009 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jan 30, 2009 |
| Archive Date: | Mar 01, 2009 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $2,500 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Special district governments Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education City or township governments State governments |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Description: | The Small Grants to Libraries program brings humanities public programming to libraries across the country. Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War is a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Constitution Center (NCC) and the American Library Association (ALA). The exhibition is based upon an original NCC-developed interactive exhibition of the same name, which will be reformatted into a traveling exhibition for libraries. The traveling exhibition and tour are funded by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the National Constitution Center. This funding opportunity offers successful applicants a $2,500 grant from NEH for exhibition-related expenses and for exhibition programming. Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War has been designated as part of NEHs We the People program, exploring significant events and themes in our nations history and culture and advancing knowledge of the principles that define America. Using the Constitution as the cohesive thread, Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War offers a fresh and innovative perspective on Lincoln that focuses on his struggle to meet the political and constitutional challenges of the Civil War. Organized thematically, the exhibition explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the warthe secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties. Visitors will leave the exhibition with a more complete understanding of Abraham Lincoln as president and the Civil War as the nations gravest constitutional crisis. While Lincoln is widely acknowledged as one of Americas greatest presidents, his historical reputation is contested. This exhibition introduces visitors to a Lincoln they may not know: a controversial president denounced in his own time as a tyrant for his policies on emancipation and civil liberties, and a historical figure who still stirs debate. Was he a calculating politician willing to accommodate slavery, or a principled leader justly celebrated as the Great Emancipator? The exhibition poses no easy answers to these questions. Rather, it encourages visitors to formulate a nuanced view of Lincoln by engaging them with Lincolns struggle to reconcile his policy preferences with basic American ideals of liberty and equality. Exhibition content is presented in ways that encourage learning. Questions are posed and visitors are given the tools to answer them. In the Civil Liberties section, for example, visitors experience the dilemma Lincoln faced between guaranteeing national security and preserving individual liberty. After reading actual stories of individuals arrested during the Civil War, visitors are invited to decide whether the arrests were justifiedor whether the detainees should have been turned loose. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are also encouraged to draw connections between Lincolns time and our own. In the introductory section, for example, the exhibition foreshadows the big questions about nationhood, equality, and civil liberties raised in the rest of the exhibition, and it invites visitors to think about them in contemporary terms. Because Lincoln was one of our most eloquent presidents, the exhibition features his own words as much as possiblemost movingly, in the concluding section of the exhibition, where visitors will encounter the Gettysburg Address in an evocative graphic format that links past and present. Reproductions of significant documents signed by Lincoln, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Order to Blockade the Southern Portsthe official start of the Civil Waradd richness and depth to this presentation. Visual reproductions of personal artifactssuch as Lincolns signature top hat and the pen used to sign the Emancipation Proclamationwill recreate Lincolns material world. Finally, visitors will be asked to consider if Americans have lived up to the ideals Lincoln fought forequality, freedom, democracyand will have an opportunity to provide their own views. The exhibition will travel to libraries from mid-2009 through 2011. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_Lincoln.html |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Division of Public Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities Room 426 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20506 202-606-8269 Email:publicpgms@neh.gov |
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Division of Public Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 426 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20506 202-606-8269 Email: publicpgms@neh.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.164 | PKG00008727 | Nov 03, 2008 | Jan 30, 2009 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
43279 SF424_Short-1.0.pdf
43279 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms-1.0.pdf
43279 Attachments-1.0.pdf
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