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TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM

                     

Grants Approved in Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2007

                     
         
                     
                     
                     
Organization Request ID   Grant   Type Grant
                     
Project Description Ref. No.   Amount   Status Date
                     
                     
Admiral Nimitz Foundation 963975   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 8/3/06
                     
Fredericksburg, TX 0803200601                
                     
  Support for annual symposium focused on the historical significance and factual record of WWII.              
               
                     
                     
Archives 964251   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/23/06
                     
  Funds to purchase books/maps for Summerlee library for fiscal year ending 6/30/07.              
               
                     
                     
Armstrong County Museum, Inc. 963980   $25,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Claude, TX 0919200605                
                     
  Support toward the restoration of the Charles Goodnight Home and the creation of the Goodnight Historical Center.              
               
               
                     
                     
Bell County Museum 964125   $960.00   Noncash 8/3/06
                     
Belton, TX 0803200602                
                     
  Gift in-kind - bound copies of the Belton Weekly Journal (64issues) from 1870-1882.              
               
                     
                     
Buffalo Bayou Partnership 963982   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Houston, TX 0919200608                
                     
  Support for design, engineering, and construction cost of the Sunset Coffee Building.              
               
                     
                     
CASETA-Center for the Advancement of Study of Early Texas Art 964221   $6,500.00   Cash Grants 1/23/07
                 
San Marcos, TX 0201232007                
                     
  Assistance with speaker fees and travel, printing services, and technical and clerical support for its fifth annual symposium on April 20-22, 2007.              
               
               
                     
                     
Center for Desert Archaeology 964014   $7,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Tucson, AZ 0919200609                
                     
  Support for continued research on members of the Coronado Expedition.              
               
                     
                     
Center for Nonprofit Management 964015   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Dallas, TX                  
                     
  General operating support.              
                     
                     
Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education 963983   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                 
Berkeley, CA 0919200611                
                     
  Additional support for the reclamation of the Love Cemetery outside of Marshall, Texas.              
               
                     
Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley 964017   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Bryan, TX 0919200613                
                     
  Support for the production of a coloring book focusing on Texas Presidents.              
               
                     
                     
Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, Inc. 964018   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Cuero, TX 0919200614                
                     
  Support for the development of an interpretive plan for the new museum.              
               
                     
                     
Conservation History Association of Texas 964126   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Austin, TX 0919200601                
                     
  Support toward ongoing major oral history project on conservation and conservationists in Texas.              
               
                     
                     
Documentary Arts, Inc. 964020   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Dallas, TX 0919200616                
                     
  Support for historical research related to the La Reunion Colony.              
               
                     
                     
El Paso Museum of History 964021   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
El Paso, TX 0919200618                
                     
  Support for a permanent gallery focusing on "Treaties and Agreements."              
               
                     
                     
Friends of Libraries and Archives of Texas Inc. 964105   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                 
Austin, TX 0910200620                
                     
  Support for researching and writing a centennial history of the Texas State Library and Archives.              
               
                     
                     
Friends of the Dallas Public Library, Inc. 964022   $25,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Dallas, TX 0919200619                
                     
  Support to process and re-house 58,800 negatives in the Marion Butts collection.              
               
                     
                     
Friends of the Governor's Mansion 964023   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Austin, TX 0919200621                
                     
  Support for an oral history project on surviving Governors and First Ladies of Texas.              
               
                     
                     
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission 964024   $27,950.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                 
Austin, TX 0919200622                
                     
  Support to purchase ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment for the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission.              
               
               
                     
                     
Garland Landmark Society 964025   $8,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Garland, TX 0919200623                
                     
  Support to publish an edition of the writings of Kate James, one the early pioneers of Dallas County, Texas.              
               
                     
Harrison County Historical Society 964027   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Marshall, TX 0919200626                
                     
  Support to retain a museum consultant to create storylines for new exhibits and train volunteers in the design and fabrication of exhibits.              
               
               
                     
                     
Historical Park Foundation of Denton County, Inc. 964029   $12,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                 
Denton, TX 0910200628                
                     
  Support to create museum quality exhibits within the Denton County African American Museum.              
               
                     
                     
Institute of Nautical Archaeology 964031   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
College Station, TX 0919200630                
                     
  Support for the preservation of artifacts, analysis and research, and publication of the complete archaeological report of the Civil War blockade runner, Denbigh.              
               
               
                     
                     
Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum 964034   $1,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Austin, TX 0919200632                
                     
  Support to survey slave cemeteries in Travis County, Texas.              
               
                     
                     
League City Historical Society Inc. 964035   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
League City, TX 0919200633                
                     
  Support for a development plan to broaden its base of support for the Hands-on-History program.              
               
                     
                     
Lee College 964036   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Baytown, TX 0919200634                
                     
  Support for the John Britt Endowed Honors Chair.              
                     
                     
Marengo County Historical Society 964076   $4,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Demopolis, AL 0919200637                
                     
  Support for research on images in Bonapartist Utopia.              
                     
                     
Media Projects, Inc. 964077   $27,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Dallas, TX 0919200638                
                     
  Support to complete post production of the documentary film, A Fair to Remember.              
               
                     
                     
Midwestern State University 964078   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Wichita Falls, TX 0916200639                
                     
  Support to digitize 3000 historical photographs, maps, documents, and works of art representing the history of Wichita Falls, Burkburnett, and the surrounding Red River region of north central Texas.              
               
               
               
                     
                     
Motion Media Arts Center 964080   $4,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Austin, TX 0919200641                
                     
  Funds to support documentary films on Texas history produced by Middle and High School students.              
               
                     
National Trust for Historic Preservation 964081   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Washington, DC 0919200642                
                     
  Support for the photographic documentation necessary to complete the forthcoming book, Historic Texas Courthouses.              
               
               
                     
                     
Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio 964084   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                 
San Antonio, TX 0919200645                
                     
  Support for the archival arrangement of the Maria Antonietta Berriozabal archives.              
               
                     
                     
Public Media Foundation, Inc. 964116   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Boston, MA 0919200649                
                     
  Support toward a short story by Katherine Anne Porter for inclusion in the Scribbling Women series on National Public Radio.              
               
               
                     
                     
Rockdale Historical Society 964087   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Rockdale, TX 0919200650                
                     
  Restoration of 1905 International and Great Northern Depot in Rockdale, Texas for use as a transportation museum.              
               
               
                     
                     
ROLL CALL - Friends of Camp Hearne 964088   $7,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Hearne, TX 0919200651                
                     
  Support for interpretive signage and an eight-minute low powered AM radio transmission to tell the history of Camp Hearne.              
               
               
                     
                     
Ropesville Museum Association 964089   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Ropesville, TX 0919200652                
                     
  Assistance in updating the heating, cooling, and kitchen facilities in historic community center structure.              
               
                     
                     
Rosenberg Library Association 964090   $25,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Galveston, TX 0919200653                
                     
  Support for expansion of storage space at the Galveston and Texas History Center within the Rosenberg Library.              
               
                     
                     
Sam Houston State University 964091   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Huntsville, TX 0919200654                
                     
  Support for a major 180 minute documentary on the life of Sam Houston.              
               
                     
                     
San Antonio River Authority 964093   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
San Antonio, TX 0919200655                
                     
  Support for surveying and assessing its archive collection.              
               
                     
San Jacinto Battleground Association 964094   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Houston, TX 0919200656                
                     
  Support for the 2007 San Jacinto Symposium.              
                     
                     
Smith County Historical Society, Inc. 964136   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Tyler, TX 0919200657                
                     
  Support for a collections care consultant and a museum intern for the summer of 2007.              
               
                     
                     
St. Joseph's Indian School 964143   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 8/3/06
                     
Chamberlain, SD                  
                     
  Support for the maintenance of the dormitory.              
                     
                     
Sul Ross State University 964153   $25,000.00   Cash Grants 11/15/06
                     
Alpine, TX 1115200601                
                     
  Applicant requests support for Big Bend Renewal Campaign.              
               
                     
                     
Texas A&M Research Foundation 964217   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 1/23/07
                     
College Station, TX 0101232007                
                     
  Support for publishing costs of "Dear General: Letters from Texas to Albert Sidney Johnston, 1838-1861," edited by Dr. Margaret Swett Henson and Dr. Donald Willett.              
               
               
               
                     
                     
Texas Association of Museums 964103   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Austin, TX 0919200565                
                     
  Support for a leadership symposium designed for museum directors and senior leaders.              
               
                     
                     
Texas Christian University 964154   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 11/15/06
                     
Fort Worth, TX 1115200602                
                     
  Support for the "Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps" exhibition, which will tour the state for 2 years.              
               
                     
                     
Texas Forestry Museum 964104   $7,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Lufkin, TX 0919200666                
                     
  Support for research, interviews, design and fabrication of an exhibit on the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps in East Texas.              
               
               
                     
                     
Texas State Historical Association 964155   $25,000.00   Cash Grants 11/15/06
                     
Austin, TX 1115200603                
                     
  Support the Association's educational programs, including Texas history Day, annual meeting and publication of the "Texas Historian."              
               
               
                     
                     
Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. 964107   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Lubbock, TX 0919200667                
                     
  Support to catalogue the Tommy and Charlene Hancock Music Archives and for partial support of a traveling display drawn from the Hancock papers.              
               
               
                     
Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society of Shelby County 964110   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                 
Timpson, TX 0919200670                
                     
  Support to digitize issues of the Timpson Daily Times and Timpson Weekly Times.              
               
                     
                     
University of Houston 964112   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Houston, TX 0919200671                
                     
  Support toward the publication of the Houston Review.              
                     
                     
University of North Texas 964113   $5,100.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Denton, TX 0919200677                
                     
  Support for the Teaching of History Conference.              
                     
                     
University of North Texas Foundation 964114   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Denton, TX 0919200676                
                     
  Support for the "Portal of Texas History" program, an on-line program.              
               
                     
                     
University of Texas Foundation 964120   $12,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Austin, TX 0919200679                
                     
  Assistance with "Texas Beyond History", an innovative on-line educational resource.              
               
                     
                     
University of the Incarnate Word 964119   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
San Antonio, TX 0919200673                
                     
  Support in the documentation of the influence of the Chicano rights movement on the Catholic Church in San Antonio and South Texas in the late 1960s and early 1970s.              
               
               
               
                     
                     
Victoria Regional Museum Association 964121   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Victoria, TX 0919200680                
                     
  Assistance in restoring the McNamara House Museum in Victoria, Texas.              
               
                     
                     
Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation 964122   $12,500.00   Cash Grants 9/19/06
                     
Dallas, TX 0919200681A                
                   
                     
  Operating support to preserve Vought Aircraft Company Heritage.              
               
                     
                     
Witte Museum 964156   $8,500.00   Cash Grants 11/15/06
                     
San Antonio, TX 1115200604                
                     
  Support to develop a book length manuscript on the El Celeste Irrigation Company              
               
                     
                     
Grand Total   $612,510.00            
(57 items)