Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education
Purchase, Westchester County
Awarded $2,500 for Baseball, The New York Experience
A one-day symposium on New York baseball history, including the roles of Ellis Island immigrants and African Americans
Awarded September 20, 2004

Hill and Hollow Music
Saranac, Clinton County
Awarded $2,500 for Tenth Anniversary Season Program Guide
A special issue of program notes by Dr. David Ossenkop
 Awarded September 16, 2004

Arts Council for Wyoming County
Perry, Wyoming County
Awarded $840 for Walking Alone: The Songs of World War II
 Michael Lasser explores American culture during World War II through the popular music of the era
Awarded September 16, 2004

New York Academy of Medicine
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,376 for “Subject to the Same Diseases, Healed by the Same Means?” Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Twentieth-Century America
A lecture series on the historical role of cultural notions of race and ethnicity in the practice of medicine and public health
Awarded August 20, 2004

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for Labor, Literature, and Landmarks
A series of 15 lectures to promote civic awareness and increase appreciation for the unique cultural and built environments of New York City
Awarded August 13, 2004

Friends of Schuyler Mansion
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $2,500 for Of Public and of Private Sorrow: Death and Mourning at Schuyler Mansion
An exhibit, lecture series, and tours exploring the mourning practices of 18th-century New York through the experience of Major-General Philip Schuyler's household
Awarded August 13, 2004

Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $2,500 for Bridging the Narrows: Building of the Verrazano Bridge
An exhibition coinciding with the bridge's 40th anniversary
Awarded August 5, 2004

China Institute in America
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for "Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong: Palaces of the Afterlife in the Western Han Dynasty
An exhibition of treasures from a group of Western Han royal tombs in Shandong province, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and public programs
Awarded August 3, 2004

ArteEast
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $2,500 for Cinema East 2004-5
A nine-month-long film series featuring a diverse array of Middle Eastern cinemas
Awarded August 3, 2004

American Sephardi Federation
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for Pernambuco, Brazil - The Gateway to New York
An exhibition and accompanying lecture to mark the 350th anniversary of the arrival in New Amsterdam of 23 Jewish refugees from Brazil
Awarded July 14, 2004

Old Stone House of Brooklyn
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $1,745 for Public Lecture: “Slavery and Freedom in Revolutionary Brooklyn” by Professor Edwin G. Burrows
Awarded July 12, 2004

Cooperstown Graduate Program
Cooperstown, Otsego County
Awarded $1,300 for Can I Catch It? Tuberculosis and America
A lecture series on the history of tuberculosis
Awarded June 22, 2004

New York Academy of Medicine
New York, New York County
Awarded $1,763 for Doctress: Elizabeth Blackwell and Her Times
A lecture by Julia Boyd on Elizabeth Blackwell, who practiced medicine in New York City and was the first woman to earn a medical degree from a recognized medical college
Awarded June 17, 2004

New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $2,500 for Archives Week
A series of programs celebrating the wealth of New York State archives
Awarded June 16, 2004

Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $2,490 for Slavery - A Contemporary Institution?
A moderated program featuring Francis Bok, a former slave in Sudan, on his experience of slavery, transition to freedom, and current abolition work
Awarded June 14, 2004

History Center in Tompkins County
Ithaca, Tompkins County
Awarded $1,599 for Portraits of Humanity: Films About Race in America
A film series moderated by scholars, intended to foster a better understanding of media literacy while opening community dialogue on the subject of race in America
Awarded June 11, 2004

City College Libraries
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
A panel of four humanities scholars on "'Frankenstein' and the Modern Discourse of Origins," in conjunction with an exhibition
Awarded June 10, 2004

Research Foundation of SUNY, Purchase College
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $2,500 for The Fourth Annual Film Festival of the Purchase College Jewish Studies Program - Things Are Not As They Appear: Alienations and New Identities
A series of three screenings, with scholar-led discussions, of provocative films that explore Jewish culture and societal issues
Awarded June 9, 2004

Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $2,500 for Lecture Series: John Singer Sargent Painting Children
A series of four humanities lectures to accompany the exhibition "Great Expectations:  John Singer Sargent Painting Children"
Awarded June 9, 2004

Jewish Museum
New York, New York County
Awarded $15,000 for The Power of Conversation:  Jewish Women and Their Salons
An exhibition establishing the salon as an overlooked cornerstone of modern culture and suggesting why Jewish women predominate among the significant salonières
Awarded June 8, 2004

Handweaving Museum & Arts Center
Clayton, Jefferson County
Awarded $2,500 for A Loom of One's Own: Six Women and Their Handweaving
A traveling exhibition documenting the achievements and historical importance of six weavers whose works are held in the Museum's permanent collection
Awarded June 8, 2004

Walter Elwood Museum
Amsterdam, Montgomery County
Awarded $12,500 for Factory Work Exhibition
A permanent exhibit exploring the role of factories and factory work in Amsterdam, NY
Awarded June 8, 2004

Fort Ticonderoga Association
Ticonderoga, Essex County
Awarded $3,100 for Fort Ticonderoga Seminar on the American Revolution
First annual weekend seminar on the history of the American Revolution; keynote speaker, Cokie Roberts
Awarded June 8, 2004

Eldridge Street Project
New York, New York County
Awarded $3,719 for A Tribute to Anzia Yezierska
A presentation on Yesierska’s writings, accompanied by dramatic readings and musical performances connected to the author’s life and experience
Awarded June 8, 2004

Bayside Historical Society
Bayside, Queens County
Awarded $6,000 for Expansion of Native American Exhibit
Reinterpretation and expansion of permanent Native American exhibit
Awarded June 8, 2004

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, New York County
Awarded $10,000 for The Meehan-Moore Apartment: An Irish Family in America
A new permanent exhibition, the first at a historic site to interpret the story of an urban, working class, Irish immigrant family in America
Awarded June 8, 2004

Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons
New York, New York County
Awarded $12,640 for Reaching Out in Narrative Medicine: Bringing the Humanities to Patients and Health Professionals
Monthly Narrative Medicine 'rounds,' supported by a Website, an online discussion group, bringing methods and texts of the humanities to bear on health care
Awarded June 8, 2004

Jazz at Lincoln Center
New York, New York County
Awarded $3,500 for Brochure for the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame
Exhibition brochure on the history of jazz by Phil Schaap to accompany the opening of a new permanent exhibition
Awarded June 8, 2004

Museum of the City of New York
New York, New York County
Awarded $15,000 for Through the Lens of El Barrio, 1965-1990
An exhibition on the history of Puerto Rican-American identity in East Harlem
Awarded June 8, 2004

Poets House
New York, New York County
Awarded $13,125 for SubVERSEive Traditions: Politics and Poetry, Identity and Community
Nine public programs at Poets House exploring the reciprocal influences of poetic and politicized notions of the self
Awarded June 8, 2004

New York University, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York, New York County
Awarded $8,000 for Sylvester: The Life and Work of a Musical Icon
A one-and-a-half-day conference exploring the life and work of African-American disco singer and cultural icon Sylvester
Awarded June 8, 2004

Parsons School of Design, Office of Sponsored Projects
New York, New York County
Awarded $8,000 for Tupperware Party, Past, Present and Future
An exhibit and public program series exploring the social history of Tupperware
Awarded June 8, 2004

Rochester Institute of Technology, Political Science Department
Rochester, Monroe County
Awarded $5,000 for Biotechnology and Our Future as Human Beings and Citizens
A lecture series focusing on the challenges and promises of advances in biotechnology and biomedical science, including talks by Francis Fukuyama and Lee Silver
Awarded June 8, 2004

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, New York County
Awarded $1,000 for Harriman Institute screening of "Siberian Dream"
A lecture by Dr. Robert Thurman accompanying the screening of the documentary "Siberian Dream"
Awarded June 7, 2004

Southold Historical Society
Southold, Suffolk County
Awarded $1,000 for Southold Historical Society Lecture Series
A series of scholarly presentation on Long Island history
Awarded June 4, 2004

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island, Richmond County
Awarded $2,500 for SIIAS History Brochure Series #2
Eight new booklets illustrating the history of recreation, landmarks, architecture, early naturalists, culture, transportation, and local communities of Staten Island
Awarded June 4, 2004

Alice T. Miner Museum
Chazy, Clinton County
Awarded $660 for Pleasant Surprises, Surprising Pleasures: Rediscovering a Collection of Traditional Japanese Color Prints: A Lecture, Slide and Discussion Program
A slide lecture presented by Dr. Roger S. Keyes on an unusual collection of Japanese woodcuts at the Museum
Awarded June 4, 2004

Museum of the Hudson Highlands
Cornwall-on-Hudson, Orange County
Awarded $2,500 for The Hudson River Valley: A Lecture Series
Topics include the ecological revival of the Hudson River, the Hudson in poetry, Bear Mountain Park during the New Deal, and the River at the Highlands
Awarded June 4, 2004

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Staten Island, Richmond County
Awarded $2,500 for Sugar Skulls and Laughing Skeletons: A Family Celebration of Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)
A celebration of Dia de los Muertos showcasing Mexican history, folklore and literature
Awarded June 4, 2004

Crandall Public Library
Glens Falls, Warren County
Awarded $1,500 for Public Views
A six-part lecture series on the changing technology of photography and its impact on the viewing public, from magic lantern slides to postcards, to 35mm slides and digital panoramics
Awarded June 4, 2004

Poetry Society of America
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for The Irish on the Americans Poetry Lecture Series
A series of three lectures in which renowned Irish poets and scholars discuss great American masters:  Paul Muldoon on Robert Lowell, Eavan Boland on Edna St. James, and Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickenson
Awarded June 4, 2004

Albany Institute of History and Art
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $2,500 for Lecture: Albany's Crossroads: Indians and Empires at the Albany Congress of 1754, by Timothy Shannon, Ph.D.
Presented by Timothy Shannon; part of a city-wide commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Albany Congress of 1754, when delegates from the British colonies and Iroquois nations gathered in Albany for a treaty conference at the outbreak of the French and Indian War
Awarded May 12, 2004

Prospect Park Alliance
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $2,500 for Lefferts Historic House: Outdoor Kitchen Exhibit
Planning and scholarly consultation for an Outdoor Kitchen Exhibit at the Lefferts Historic House, located in Prospect Park
Awarded May 12, 2004

Greenwich Free Library
Greenwich, Washington County
Awarded $2,500 for Steal Away to Freedom Underground Railroad Weekend
A weekend festival including an exhibition, a scholarly lecture on the fates of escaped slaves, and three tours: a cemetary walk, a tour of underground-railroad related sites, and a bus tour of Washington County sites
Awarded May 12, 2004

Historical Society of Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County
Awarded $2,312 for Telling the Story of Saratoga Springs
Exhibition planning and scholarly consulting for six concurrent permanent exhibits on the history of Saratoga Springs
Awarded May 3, 2004

Delaware Heritage
Downsville, Delaware County
Awarded $2,500 for John Burroughs' The Ways of Nature
Harrey Stoneback and Charlotte Zoe Walker introduce a program on Catskills nature essayist John Burroughs, at two Catskill locations; part of the Catskill Park Centennial Program
Awarded May 3, 2004

Cattaraugus County
Little Valley, Cattaraugus County
Awarded $2,000 for Faces of Cattaraugus County
A new permanent exhibition on notable figures from Cattaraugus County's 200-year history
Awarded April 13, 2004

Cazenovia College
Cazenovia, Madison County
Awarded $2,400 for Great Minds of the 20th Century: Cazenovia College Faculty Library Lecture Series,six lectures featuring noted faculty from Cazenovia College, to take place at public libraries in the region
Awarded April 2, 2004

Chemung County Historical Society
Elmira, Chemung County
Awarded $2,500 for The 225th Anniversary of the Sullivan Campaign of the Revolutionary War
An exhibition and lecture series on General John Sullivan's 1779 orders to remove the Iroquois from the western front in New York and Pennsylvania
Awarded April 2, 2004

Jazz at Lincoln Center
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for Jazz Talk: Influence of Jazz on Photography and Film
Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley moderates a panel with filmmaker Spike Lee and photographer Roy DeCarava in a public symposium
Awarded March 4, 2004

World Awareness Children's Museum
Glens Falls, Warren County
Awarded $2,491 for Then and Now: Balinese Children's Art
An exhibit and lecture on Balinese children's art, comparing pieces collected by Margaret Meade with pieces in the Museum's permanent collection
Awarded March 3, 2004

City Lore
New York, New York County
Awarded $10,000 for Marking Time on the Bowery
An interpretive historical marking project, including place markers, audio stories accessed by cell phone, and a walking tour map
Awarded March 1, 2004

Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $10,000 for Calypso in New York and the Atlantic World – Conference
A one-day conference exploring the popularization of Calypso music
Awarded March 1, 2004

Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
Auburn, Cayuga County
Awarded $4,350 for Emerging Traditions
A series of three programs exploring the traditions of three recently resettled refugee communities in Central New York
Awarded March 1, 2004

Katonah Museum of Art
Katonah, Westchester County
Awarded $10,000 for Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art
An exhibition exploring the visual forms and devotional contexts of handprints and footprints in Buddhist art
Awarded March 1, 2004

Arts Engine
New York, New York County
Awarded $5,000 for Film and Roundtable: Romani Communities Today, film screening and roundtable discussion exploring representations of Romani (gypsy) culture in the U.S.
Awarded March 1, 2004

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
New York, New York County
Awarded $8,000 for Seminars in the City
A monthly discussion and reading group on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer themes, facilitated by CLAGS Board members
Awarded March 1, 2004

WBFO 88.7
Buffalo, Erie County
Awarded $8,000 for Meet the Author
Three on-air discussions with scholars on their new books, with questions fielded from a live studio audience and callers
Awarded March 1, 2004

New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $5,000 for Ulysses S. Grant Seen and Heard
A "living history" presentation based on the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Awarded March 1, 2004

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, New York County
Awarded $10,000 for Beauty for the Gods: Urhobo Art in a Modern World
An exhibition of the traditional art and spiritual beliefs of the Urhobo people of the Niger Delta
Awarded March 1, 2004

Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum
Montauk, Suffolk County
Awarded $7,500 for Where Land Meets Sea: Exploring Montauk History Through the Richard T. Gilmartin Galleries
A permanent interactive exhibit of Montauk history
Awarded March 1, 2004

Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County
Syracuse, Onondaga County
Awarded $10,000 for American Landscape Photography from the Nancy and Russell Carlson Collection
An exhibition with catalogue of American landscape photography
Awarded March 1, 2004

Troy Architectural Program
Troy, Rensselaer County
Awarded $2,500 for Architecture Worth Saving: Will It Stand?
A lecture by Bernd Foerster on the legacy of Urban Renewal projects in the Captial Region
Awarded February 5, 2004

Ulster County Arts Council
Kingston, Ulster County
Awarded $2,000 for A Celebration of Chinese Culture and Influence in Ulster County
Awarded February 5, 2004

Arts Center of the Capital Region
Troy, Rensselaer County
Awarded $2,250 for NoRuz: Celebrating the Persian New Year
An exhibition on traditions surrounding the Persian New Year, NoRuz, with a reading and presentation on the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez
Awarded February 4, 2004

Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County
Awarded $2,500 for Mercy College International Film Festival
A week-long series of film screenings followed by scholar-led discussions: "Late Marriage," "Washington Heights," "Last Kiss," "Tycoon," and "My Wife is an Actress"
Awarded February 4, 2004

Westchester Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Scarsdale, Westchester County
Awarded $2,050 for Ancient Civilizations Lecture Series, five presentations:  "Galatian Gorion:  A Celtic Town in Central Anatolia" by Mary M. Voigt; "The Mongols: Chinggis, Khubilai, and Culture" by Morris Rossabi; and "The Nomadic Empires of China and Mongolia" by Thomas Barfield
Awarded February 3, 2004

New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, Otsego County
Awarded $2,500 for Grandmother to the Nation: Grandma Moses and the American Century
Planning phase for an exhibition and catalogue examining Grandma Moses' work and popular success in historical context
Awarded January 8, 2004

Orange County Community College
Middletown, Orange County
Awarded $1,511 for What Women Do
A celebration of Women's History Month 2004.  Anne R. Roschelle will present "Contested Terrain:  Social Perspectives on Women's Bodies" and Joanne Shenandoah will present "Iroquois Cultural Traditions Through Song and Story"
Awarded January 5, 2004

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
Bronx, Bronx County
Awarded $2,500 for The Lehman Lecture: Michael Beschloss
A public lecture by Michael Beschloss, a historian of the American presidency
Awarded December 19, 2003

St. Paul's Church National Historic Site
Mount Vernon, Westchester County
Awarded $800 for Women in 18th-Century America
A celebration of Women's History Month with a talk by Carol Ruth Berkin titled "We Commenced Perfect Statesmen:  Colonial Women and the Protests Against Great Britain"
Awarded December 5, 2003

Immigrants' Theatre Project
Brooklyn, Kings County
Awarded $2,500 for New Indigenous Voices
A series of public programs, including five staged readings, on historical and contemporary Australian Aboriginal culture and dramatic literature
Awarded December 5, 2003

College of Saint Rose
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $2,350 for Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography, 1935-1943
An exhibition of photographs depicting aspects of religion in American society, including works by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lang, with an inaugural lecture delivered by curator Colleen McDannel
Awarded December 5, 2003

Albany Civic Theater
Albany, Albany County
Awarded $650 for Escape by Night: The Capital Region Underground Railroad
A series of presentations on the Underground Railroad as part of Albany Civic Theater's Annual Family Weekend
Awarded November 19, 2003

Bellevue Literary Review
New York, New York County
Awarded $2,500 for Humanities, Arts, and Healing: A Panel Discussion
The Bellevue Literary Review presents a panel examining human illness, health and healing through the lens of literature, including examinations of mortality, medical ethics, and cultural perceptions of death
Awarded November 18, 2003

Theatre for a New Audience
New York, New York County
Awarded $1,500 for 2003-2004 Season Symposia: “The Last Letter,” “Pericles,” and “Engaged,”
Three symposia featuring scholars, artists, journalists and thinkers who will engage audiences in questions framed by the Theatre's productions
Awarded November 18, 2003

The Cook Foundation
Cooperstown, Otsego County
Awarded $1,950 for A Solstice Celebration at Brookwood Garden
An afternoon of scholarly, literary, musical, and horticultural interpretations of the winter solstice, celebrated throughout the centuries
Awarded November 12, 2003