You should go to the Newark Octagon. Also member of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks World Heritage site. If you don't make it, as consolation here is a virtual world model I helped bring into the world: idialab.org/projects/new... and the GIS data it is based on: arcg.is/0SK0SC1
#NEHFunded
If you want to learn more about events discussed in that episode, esp. NW Territory & St. Clair's Defeat, see our #NEHFunded traveling exhibit at the Ohio History Connection, or the #AM250Ohio funded version at the U Akron Institute for Human Science and Culture or the Fort Recovery State Museum.
And that's a wrap on the grants awarded to the Department of History and Art History! We want to thank all our Program Officers at the NEH for their decades of hard work bringing #NEHfunded projects to the public. We couldn't have done any of this without you.
In 1977, Lawrence Levine had an #NEHfunded project on the Folk in American history. The NEH fellowship led to Levine's pathbreaking book, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
In 1978 and 1979, Carol Mattusch won a fellowship for an #NEHfunded research project on Greek bronze sculptures. Her fellowship led to the publication of Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary
The #NEHfunded part of the George Mason's Legacy lecture series focused on Constitutional guarantees of rights.
In 1981, the #NEHfunded Sheila Ffolliott's work on the art patronage of Catherine de'Medici. Ffolliott went on to publish widely on Renaissance art and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America.
Feeling guilty continuing on with life (mostly) as usual given all the horror being inflicted hourly by my government, I have decided that focusing on #medievalsky through sharing updates on my #NEHfunded project #digitalSepoltuario may help with the doom scrolling. #Humanities #History
The #NEHfunded the filming of the "Legacy of George Mason" lecture series in 1982.
In 1982, the #NEHfunded Roy Rosenzweig's study of various parks designed by Frederick Olmsted: www.jstor.org/stable/37872...
In 1985, the #NEHfunded Roy Rosenzweig to write a social history of Central Park. The fellowship led to the publication of his book, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
In 1985, the #NEHfunded Carol Mattusch to work on the development of Greek bronze statuary.
The #NEHfunded Zachary Schrag to analyze how Christopher Columbus was depicted in American children's schoolbooks.
In 1987, the #NEHfunded Rosemarie Zagarri to study the Fate of Anti-Federalism, 1789-1828
In 1987 and 1988, the #NEHfunded Carol Mattusch's work on the development, significance, and artistic context of Greek Bronze Statuary
In 1998, the #NEHfunded Sheila Ffolliott's work on Antoine Caron's ARTEMISIA, Catherine de' Medici, and the Invention of the Ideal Renaissance Queen.
In 1993 and 1994, the #NEHfunded Mack Hold to write about early modern Burgundy (France) and the wine industry:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The #NEHfunded Mack Holt to study the Social History of the Reformation: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3...
In 1997, the #NEHfunded Rosemarie Zagarri's work on women and politics in the early Republic, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic www.pennpress.org/978081222073...
In 1997, the #NEHfunded Roy Rosenzweig and others' work on images of the French Revolution: revolution.chnm.org
In 1998, the #NEHfunded Jane Censer's book on elite Southern white women during and after the Reconstruction era, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895: lsupress.org/978080712921...
In 1999, the #NEHfunded Carol Mattusch's book on bronze statues from Herculaneum,
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection shop.getty.edu/products/the...
In 2000, the #NEHfunded graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty fellowships in digital history at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media.
In 2001, the #NEHfunded Brian Platt's book on school, local society, and the creation of the modern Japanese state, Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The #NEHfunded Matthew Karusch's book on culture and social class in Argentina, Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 www.dukeupress.edu/culture-of-c...
In 2002, the #NEHfunded primary sources and teaching resources for world history chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistory... a site that's been revitalized as worldhistorycommons.org
In 2003, the #NEHfunded a website to help teachers incorporate more women into their world history classes: chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/
The #NEHfunded an online exhibit about humans struggling to survive in the Soviet forced labor camps known as the Gulag: gulaghistory.org
In 2005, the #NEHfunded Suzanne Smith's book To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
