The National Endowment for the Humanities this week announced $14.8 million in grants to support 253 projects nationwide, including five in Connecticut. The local fundees are:
University of Connecticut: $60,000 to Africana Studies Prof. Martha Cutter, to complete her book, “The Lives and Afterlives of Henry Box Brown, the Slave Who Mailed Himself to Freedom.”
University of Connecticut: $25,832 for a virtual-reality project, “Courtroom 600: An Educational Encounter with the History and Legacies of the Nuremberg Trials.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford: $6,000 to purchase preservation housing and storage supplies for the center’s collection of photographs, which numbers 12,000 items from 1840 to the present.
Fairfield University: $7,000 for a conservation assessment of 700 19th century French lithographs, including works by Honoré Daumier, Édouard Manet, Odilon Redon and Eugène Delacroix.
Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford: $1,690 for a conservation assessment of 26 objects in the museum’s collection, including Twain’s billiards table, luggage, walking cane and pipe case. neh.org.
