N.E.H. Announces First ‘Public Scholar’ Grants

A “biography” of One World Trade Center, a study of the cinematic legacy of “Casablanca,” and a cultural history of the Book of Revelation are among the 36 projects supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ new ‘Public Scholar’ program, the agency is to announce on Wednesday.

The grants, totaling $1.7 million over the next year, support university-based and independent scholars writing nonfiction books that “apply serious humanities scholarship to subjects of general interest and appeal” and are part of a broader agency-wide initiative aimed at demonstrating the importance of the humanities to public life.

Other projects supported in the first round include an examination of the moon landing through the lens of the Cold War and the civil rights movement; a history of the settlement of Polynesia; a study of Chicago soul music and the rise of black cultural power; and biographies of Fidel Castro, Diderot and Louis Kahn, among others.

The Public Scholar awards are part of the endowment’s broader round of new grants, which total $36.6 million and are directed to more than 200 museums, libraries, educational institutions and individuals. Projects receiving support include the expansion and enhancement of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database; the preservation of 19th- and 20th-century medical periodicals at the New York Academy of Medicine; the translation into English of letters written by the Dakota people living in Minnesota in the mid-1800s; the continuing publication of the personal papers of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; and new excavations of the Plymouth Colony settlement in Massachusetts.

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