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  Dance USA: Government Affairs: Issues: Other: NEH 2003
NEH summer seminars and institutes address these very issues, and are the catalyst for revitalized teachers for tens of thousands of students each year.
NEH is in the forefront in the preservation of our historical and cultural heritage, from a 20-year effort to film crumbling books ("brittle books") to programs to assist museums stabilize material culture collections.
NEH engages the public in the humanities through exhibits in museums, libraries, and historical organizations; the programs of the state humanities councils; and a variety of other activities.
www.danceusa.org /government/otherneh2003.html   (908 words)

  
 Summer Stipends Awards Program Guidelines
NEH is interested in receiving applications for projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology.
NEH is also interested in projects that study the impact of digital technology on the humanities--exploring the ways in which it changes how we read, write, think, and learn.
NEH defines junior nominees as academic applicants at the rank of assistant professor or instructor or who are at comparably early stages of their careers.
www.neh.gov /grants/guidelines/stipends.html   (3004 words)

  
 AAA Provides Written Testimony in Support of NEH
NEH supports programs to better understand the history of humanity, to better educate and interpret new findings to the public through museum exhibitions, television programs, and conferences, and to expand the knowledge and improve teaching skills of high school and college educators.
NEH funds many beneficial activities that we take for granted and the reach of NEH support is broad, enhancing scholarly research, the development of public programs, and the training of teachers just to name a few.
NEH support and the discovery of Jamestown attracted funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia, private foundations and individuals and generated public interest that far exceeded expectations.
www.aaanet.org /gvt/neh_fy04.htm   (1699 words)

  
 NHA Testimony: NEH FY-2004 Budget, 2 April 2003
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes offer college and K-12 teachers opportunities to study significant topics and fundamental texts in the humanities and to revitalize their understanding of history, literature and other humanities subjects.
NEH supports preservation of and access to books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival collections, maps, photographs, films, sound recordings, oral histories, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other repositories.
NEH also supports preservation education and training, and the acquisition of research tools and reference works; and makes grants for the creation of dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, and other major reference works that preserve and portray the history and culture of the United States and the world.
www.nhalliance.org /testimony/2003/03testimony-neh.html   (2420 words)

  
 National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports teachers -- including those in private schools -- who wish to strengthen and expand their understanding of history, literature, foreign languages and culture, and other areas of the humanities.
With NEH support, teachers may join a formal study session during the summer, use the summer to pursue independent study, plan a sabbatical for a year of independent study, or develop a project to support group study.
NEH program staff welcome the opportunity to discuss grant opportunities and project ideas with interested private school faculty members and staff.
www.ed.gov /about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/neh.html?exp=6   (509 words)

  
 NEH 2003 Budget Support Letter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But the NEH project began with studies that estimated 12 million volumes could be in jeopardy and set a goal of preserving 3 million of the most endangered volumes.
As a result, Congress allocated resources to NEH to coordinate and support efforts of the library community to preserve these resources through microfilming, the most effective means known at the time to preserve the intellectual content of and provide broad access to copies of fragile materials.
NEH recognizes the need to expand the preservation agenda to include the preservation of material in audiovisual and digital formats.
www.arl.org /info/letters/neh03.html   (1582 words)

  
 Guidelines for Challenge Grants
NEH is interested in receiving applications for projects that use or study the impact of digital technology.
NEH releases federal funds according to a formula that allows donations from as early as five months prior to the application deadline and can include donations from as late as one year beyond the last-released federal funds.
NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity's own authorized activities.
www.neh.gov /grants/guidelines/challenge.html   (5829 words)

  
 NEH Testimony FY 2005
NEH supports scholarly research by anthropologists, archaeologists that have led to new discoveries and re-shaped interpretations of human history.
NEH funding enabled archaeologist Richard Zettler (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) to conduct archaeological excavations at one of the ancient cities in Mesopotamia, Tell es-Sweyhat in northern Syria.
NEH funding enabled archaeologist William Kelso (Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) to locate the site of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.
www.aaanet.org /gvt/neh_fy05.htm   (1766 words)

  
 Testimony on NEH 2002 Appropriations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During FY2000, the NEH made several awards to preserve and provide access to endangered sound recordings about the history and folklife of Ashkenazic Jewry and audio recordings on American political, social, and cultural history in the Midwest.
In FY2002, the NEH plans to mount a national initiative to support a broad range of activities designed to produce national cataloging standards, best practices for reformatting endangered materials, the education and training of persons responsible for the care of recorded sound collections, and the digitization of nationally significant recorded sound collections.
The NEH Division of Preservation and Access has been a critical component in the successes achieved to date in the preservation by libraries of the intellectual and historical record.
www.arl.org /info/letters/neh02.html   (1592 words)

  
 NEH Announces Iraq Initiative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
NEH expects grants to range from $30,000 to $100,000 to support projects of up to two years in duration.
This NEH initiative continues the Endowment's longstanding history of support for humanities scholarship to advance knowledge and understanding of Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq.
NEH grants enrich classroom learning, create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs in libraries and other community places.
www.neh.gov /news/archive/20030714.html   (408 words)

  
 National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH awards $10.1 million for 65 new projects
NEH and IMLS establish partnership to spur digital innovation
NEH offers $750,000 for stabilization of Gulf Coast humanities collections; NEH commitment to region rises to $2 million
www.neh.gov   (129 words)

  
 Bible Kjv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(Neh 6:6) Wherein {was} written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith {it, that} thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
(Neh 6:16) And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard {thereof}, and all the heathen that {were} about us saw {these things}, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
(Neh 6:18) For {there were} many in Judah sworn unto him, because he {was} the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
www.kcm.co.kr /bible/kjv/Neh6.html   (576 words)

  
 Book of Nehemiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is, however, observable that Eliashib is said to have been high priest at the time of Nehemiah's first visit; and the same is suggested by xiii.
6 it is suggested that Eliashib's grandson (Neh.
This also means that Nehemiah’s governorship closely followed that of Zerubbabel’s governorship thus confirming Neh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Nehemiah   (4507 words)

  
 NEH Grants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are offered for the planning or initial stages of   digital humanities initiatives in all areas of NEH concern: research, publication, preservation, access, teacher training and dissemination in informal or formal educational settings.
NEH invites proposals for challenge grants designed to help institutions and organizations secure long-term focused on the exploration if significant themes and events in American history.
NEH Challenge Grants support the long-term strength of humanities institutions and organizations by encouraging fundraising for permanent endowments and appropriate capital improvements.
www.bsu.edu /research/article/0,1894,53504-5952-46687,00.html   (263 words)

  
 NEH at 40: NEH's Founding
NEH Film Festival: For more than forty years, NEH has supported films that combine innovative techniques with rigorous scholarship to produce documentary films that are both compelling and educational.
American Life and the Humanities: NEH and the Center for the National Archives Experience present a panel discussion on "American Life and the Humanities." Panelists include NEH Chairman Bruce Cole and former Chairmen Joseph Duffey and William Ferris.
NEH celebrated its 40th anniversary with a reception at the National Gallery of Art.
www.neh.gov /nehat40/events/index.html   (300 words)

  
 NEH and Abraham Lincoln Commission Launch Partnership (June 13, 2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The extension was made possible through a $311,000 grant by the NEH and the ALBC to the Huntington Library of California, the exhibition's host institution.
In 2002, NEH awarded $260,000 to the Huntington Library of California to develop the exhibit in cooperation with the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
NEH and the ALBC also agreed that the Endowment would encourage scholars and filmmakers to submit proposals on Abraham Lincoln, particularly documentary films and radio programs, in preparation for the 2009 national celebration of Lincoln's birthday.
www.neh.gov /news/archive/20050613.html   (401 words)

  
 NEH and IMLS Partnership
Through this new partnership, NEH and IMLS are joining together to help teachers, scholars, museums and libraries take advantage of developing technology.
NEH and IMLS staff will jointly develop and distribute the grant guidelines for the new Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership.
NEH's Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are intended to encourage scholars with new ideas that incorporate new ways of using technology in the humanities.
www.neh.gov /news/archive/20060928.html   (547 words)

  
 NEH--10 Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
NEH is the primary funding source for these complex research undertakings, which often require teams of scholars.
NEH and state humanities councils make grants that engage Americans where they live and work.
NEH is supported by a majority of Americans.
www.aau.edu /sheets/NEHFacts.html   (643 words)

  
 NEH Regional Humanities Center initiative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Through the Initiative for Regional Humanities Centers, NEH seeks to encourage the exploration of regional history and culture, including the symbolic and physical environment.
Requests for planning grants will be evaluated on the basis of the applicant's demonstrated understanding of the region's cultures and on the cogency of the institution's description of the steps it will take, during the grant year, to plan for the creation of a regional humanities center.
NEH anticipates awarding an implementation grant to one institution in each of the 10 regions.
www.neh.gov /news/archive/19990510.html   (599 words)

  
 The NEA and NEH Funding Crisis
This marked the transition for the NEH to the forefront of the controversy.
Figure 3 documents the number of articles on either the NEA or NEH appearing in major newspapers for the twenty-year period since the late 1970s, showing the rise and fall of their public visibility coinciding with the major assaults on the agencies by conservative activists.
I am grateful to former NEH Chairman Sheldon Hackney and Jamil Zainaldin, former president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, both of whom were interviewed for this paper and guided me with their comments on the first draft.
www.upenn.edu /pnc/ptkoch.html   (10653 words)

  
 NEH Testimonials
Also, one of my pet peeves about hockey has always been how rude some of the parents are to their own children, to other children on both their own children’s team and the opposing team, to the coaches and to the references.
We are proud that our son was in the start-up session for RI NEH and we have seen a vast difference in how his skills have been more carefully and pinpointedly groomed when compared to the state league he was previously in.
Your approach to running NEH is on target and I fully expect your league to continue to draw increasing numbers of youth players from other leagues.
www.nehhockey.com /testimonials.html   (7701 words)

  
 English, history professors win NEH research fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The NEH fellowships will permit the scholars to conduct research on a full-time basis during the 2002-03 academic year.
Within days of learning of the NEH grant, Hoffman was notified that she also has been selected as recipient of the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The letters to be included in the NEH fellowship project have not previously been published.
www.niu.edu /PubAffairs/RELEASES/2001/dec/neh.shtml   (853 words)

  
 NEH / EDSITEment - Constitution Day - September 17, 2005
NEH staff, particularly the staff of our EDSITEment project and the We the People program, have assembled documents, background essays, and bibliography to help you celebrate this day and deepen your understanding of the United States Constitution.
EDSITEment is a partnership forged in Spring 1997 among the National Endowment for the Humanities, the MarcoPolo Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.
Interactive Christy painting was provided to NEH through the courtesy of Professor Gordon Lloyd and the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, in conjunction with Teaching American History.org.
edsitement.neh.gov /ConstitutionDay/constitution_index2.html   (1512 words)

  
 We the People Challenge Grant Guidelines
The waiting period and 4:1 matching ratio required of recipients of prior NEH challenge grants are suspended for this special initiative.
NOTE: Applicants who have held prior NEH challenge grants must describe and assess the impact of their prior award(s), especially in cases where the new grant would support humanities activities similar to those supported by the prior grant(s).
Administration of NEH Challenge Grants, which may be obtained from the NEH Web site or the Office of Challenge Grants.
www.neh.gov /grants/guidelines/wtpchallenge.html   (5611 words)

  
 ADE - News
Last month's launch was a great success, judging from the many encouraging responses from you--our readers--and from the jump in subscriptions, which have grown from 12,000 to 15,000 in just one month.
NEH invites planning-grant proposals for the creation of ten regional humanities centers across the nation.
Funded by NEH, "MacArthur" is a four-hour portrait of a complex, imposing, and fascinating American general.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /ade/news/May99_NEH.html   (1019 words)

  
 Guidelines for Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards
Should an award be offered, recipients may present their request for part-time tenure to the NEH staff; arrangements will be made at that time.
NEH will ask evaluators whether your record indicates that you put the previous Fellowship to good use and whether the project warrants additional support.
The requirements for awards are contained in the General Information on NEH Fellowships or General Information on NEH Faculty Research Awards, and any specific terms and conditions contained in the award document.
www.neh.gov /grants/guidelines/fellowships.html   (3190 words)

  
 United States Newspaper Program
Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan.
The project, which includes newspapers dating back to the 1830s and is searchable online, has received $542,272 in NEH support.
In the 19th century, ethnic newspapers served the German and Irish communities and today's Hispanic communities are reached by papers with Hispanic titles.
www.neh.gov /projects/usnp.html   (2177 words)

  
 Guidelines for Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
NEH grants may support consultant fees, workshop registration fees, travel and per diem expenses, and the costs of purchasing and shipping preservation supplies and equipment.
NEH will give priority to smaller institutions, and to institutions that have not previously received an NEH grant.
Supplementary materials must also arrive at NEH by May 15, 2006, to be considered as part of the application.
www.neh.gov /grants/guidelines/pag.html   (4752 words)

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