The National Endowment for the Humanities Awards the New-York Historical Society $400,000 to Spread Revolution!

NEW YORK, NY – The New-York Historical Society is pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded it a grant of $400,000 to support a traveling program and educational initiatives surrounding its new exhibition Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn.

Revolution! is the first museum exhibition to explore the revolutions in America, France and Haiti as a single grand narrative from 1763 to 1815, tracing their cumulative transformation of politics, society and culture across the Atlantic world. Itwill also be the first major history exhibition to be presented by the New-York Historical Society when it fully re-opens its galleries on November 11, 2011, after a three-year, $65 million renovation.

"The New-York Historical Society is deeply grateful to the National Endowment for the  Humanities for this very generous endorsement of our mission, which is to engage the broadest possible public in the enjoyment of learning about history," said Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. "Through this grant, we will be able to extend the reach of Revolution! and make it accessible to a much wider audience."

The NEH has awarded the grant through its “America's Historical & Cultural Organizations Implementation Grant” program, which supports museum exhibitions, library-based projects, interpretation of historic places or areas, websites and other project formats that excite and inform thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity and history....