Featured Grants
August 2011
$2,500 Mini Grant Awarded to Elting Memorial Library’s “Public History in the 
Public Library- U.S. History in Global Perspective”
Elting Memorial Library’s project in New Paltz introduces members of the community to a World History perspective on American History.
Scholar-facilitator Thomas Mounkall will lead participants through a series of six ninety minute sessions, to consider seminal events in American History placed in a much broader context than the traditional narrative.
The public history program focuses on different historic events in US history as viewed through both a national and global perspective. The format of these events include lectures, group discussions and guest speakers. For a full list of the upcoming events, visit their website: www.eltinglibrary.org/
$10,645 Major Grant Awarded for a collaborative program series between Historic Cherry Hill and Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site. "Got Class? Status and Power in Early America."
Historic Cherry Hill’s upcoming project includes a series of interpretive programs that compare class in American society during the 18th Century and today.
Who’s Got Class? explores the theme that America is not a classless society and never has been. All men may have been created equal, but American society still divided itself into different classes in the late 18th century. This program series will explore what it meant to be a "gentleman" through the lives of three of Albany, New York's leading citizens: Philip Van Rensselaer of Cherry Hill, Major-General Philip Schuyler of Schuyler Mansion, and Stephen Van Rensselaer III, Patron of Rensselaerswyck.
Beginning September 17 through October 29, this series will feature lectures, theatrical performances, first-person interpretive tours, and a bus trip to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to uncover the subtleties of class in early America. A concluding panel discussion will raise questions about the role of class today in achieving the American Dream.
For further information visit their website: www.historiccherryhill.org/gotclass or call (518) 434-4791.
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