State History

This article originally appeared in a National Edowment for the Humanities newsletter.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $41.3 million in grants for 280 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson on the life, work, and legacy of jazz legend Sun Ra; the creation of a set of linked online dictionaries of early Mayan languages; and analysis of pigment traces on the statuary at Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral to create a 3D model depicting the original colors of its medieval façade.

This round of funding, NEH’s third and last for fiscal year 2023, will support vital humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. These peer-reviewed grants were awarded in addition to $65 million in annual operating support provided to the national network of state and jurisdictional humanities councils.

Congratulations to the New York State grantees!

Albany
Research Foundation for SUNY
Shaker Heritage Society

Annandale-on-Hudson
James Romm, Bard College

Astoria
American Museum of the Moving Image

Auburn
Seward House Museum

Bethel
Museum at Bethel Woods

Binghamton
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton

Brooklyn
PHAROS: The International Photo Archives Association
Radio Diaries, Inc.
Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College

Buffalo
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society

Hamilton
Colgate University

Ithaca
Cornell University

Kingston
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.

Long Island City
American Folk Art Museum
CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College

New York
Academy of American Poets
American Musicological Society, Inc.
Apollo Theater Foundation
Center for Jewish History
City Lore, Inc.
CUNY Research Foundation, Bernard Baruch College
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center
Fashion Institute of Technology
Firelight Media, Inc.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Interfaith Center of New York
National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc.
New York University
New-York Historical Society
Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
WNET

Oneida
Oneida Indian Nation

Rochester
University of Rochester

Staten Island
Wagner College

Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County
Syracuse University

Yonkers
Klezmer Institute, Inc.