Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to be matched one-to-one within three years, to support publication, conference, and fellowship costs

General Support for Omohundro Institute

to support a reading and research seminar on African history for scholars from sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe

African History Seminar

toward costs of a conference on Transatlantic slaving and the African diaspora, co-sponsored with Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Transatlantic Slaving and African Diaspora Conference

to support the participation of African scholars and graduate students at a conference in Ghana on the domestic and international consequences of the first governmental efforts to abolish the Atlantic slave trade

Atlantic Slave Trade Conference

toward costs of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Humanities

for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

Institute of Early American History and Culture

endowment for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

to support organizational capacity at the Mexican American History of Civil Rights Institute, an archivist, and the development of an exhibition master plan

National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights

to support Native American and Latino PhDs and others who are committed to advancing scholarship on the history and culture of Native American and Latino peoples.

Mellon Fellowships Program - Native American and Latino History and Culture

to continue support for a PhD-completion fellowship for Latino and Native American scholars, as well as others committed to advancing scholarship on the history and culture of New Mexico or on issues regarding Latino and Native American communities elsewhere

to support an initiative to strengthen curatorial and conservation capacities of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Museum of African American History and Culture - Core Institutional Support

to support the American History Initiative

American History Initiative

to support programs in Portuguese language and Latin American history and culture

Culture and History of the Americas

to support an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase II

to continue support for an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American Studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase III

to support graduate fellowships and scholarly activities related to the study of early American literature and material texts in collaboration with The Library Company of Philadelphia

Early American Literature and Material Texts 

for a study of "American Academic Culture in Transfonnation: The Past Fifty Years"

American Academic Culture

to support the Early Modern Studies Institute

Early Modern Studies Institute 

to support the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

to support capacity building and the acquisition of vulnerable collections

Capacity Building 

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support an undergraduate American history seminar for students of the early republic

Summer Seminar Pilot Program

to support an initiative that studies the ways Americans understand history, and to generate successful communication strategies about the importance of history for public audiences

Framing History with the American Public

to support the installation of historical markers and a large-scale mural by a local Asian artist to reflect Colorado’s Asian American history and the legacy of the Chinatown community in Denver’s downtown

Reclaiming Denverʻs Forgotten History: Chinatown

to continue support of an undergraduate American history seminar for students of the early republic

Capacity Building II 

to support the establishment of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic in Philadelphia

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic

to continue support for ongoing community exchange and collaborative conservation with Indigenous partners, and to develop and disseminate guidelines for respectfully working with Native communities to other museums and cultural centers

Collaborative Action with Native American and Indigenous Materials, Cultures, and Communities

toward the costs of publishing the microform series, Early American Imprints, and for the development of an educational program to increase scholarly use of the Society's Library

Early American Imprints/Library Program

toward the costs of establishing a Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies

Philadelphia Center For Early American Studies

to support research and graduate training in early modern studies

matching support for the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies

Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies

to support object-based art history graduate education, and to incorporate the study of Native American art into the Department of the History of Art

Native American and Object-centered Curriculum Development in the History of Art

to support the renewal of dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships for Native Hawaiian scholars and others committed to the advancement of Hawaiian history and culture

Mellon Fellowships Program - Hawaiian History and Culture

to support the establishment of dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships for Native Hawaiian scholars and others committed to the advancement of Hawaiian history and culture

to support new curriculum and pedagogy in the teaching of Native American and Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Liberal Studies Program

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History"

Sawyer Seminar: Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History

to support a planning process for the collaboration with the Early American centers in Philadelphia

Early American Centers

to continue support for dissertation completion and postdoctoral fellowships for Native Hawaiian scholars and others interested in advancing knowledge of Hawaiian history, culture, politics, language, and the natural environment

to support the strengthening of research and instruction in American history

American History

to continue support for research, dissemination, and archiving of work on Hemispheric Blackness and Hemispheric Migration through the Hemispheric Institute

World-Making and Social Emergency: Art, Culture, and Social Justice at the Hemispheric Institute

to support the PBS NewsHour's American Creators series coverage of arts and culture in rural and small-town United States

American Creators:  The Arts and Culture of Rural America

toward development of its Division of History, Culture, and Society

History, Culture, & Society

for American participation in the 1986 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - Young Scientists

for American participation in the 1983 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

for American participation in the 1984 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

to support the further development and implementation of an online library of scholarly resources for the study of British history by the Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research/British History Online II

to support dissertation completion fellowships for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, and portable early career fellowships for recent PhD recipients in these fields

Early Career Fellowships

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 