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TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM

                   

Grants Approved in Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2006

                   
       
                   
                   
                   
Organization Request ID   Grant   Type Grant
                   
Project Description Ref. No.   Amount   Status Date
                   
                   
Archives 964106   $4,622.27   Strategic Initiative 10/20/05
                   
  Funds to purchase books/maps for Summerlee library for fiscal year ending 6/30/06.            
             
                   
                   
Armstrong County Museum, Inc. 963575   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Claude, TX 908200501              
                   
  Support for research and planning for the restoration of the home and grounds of the legendary Charles Goodnight.            
             
             
                   
                   
Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education 963579   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Berkeley, CA 0908200504              
                   
  Support for a project documenting the history of a small East Texas community through oral history audio tapes and a video documentary.            
             
             
                   
                   
Clayton Library Friends Inc. 963723   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Houston, TX 0908200538              
                   
  Support to microfilm fifteen archival groups of records at the Texas State Library and Archives.            
             
                   
                   
Collin County Historical Society Inc. 963527   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
McKinney, TX 0908200506              
                   
  Support to match a challenge grant for an infrastructure upgrade project to purchase history collection management software and library storage units.            
             
             
                   
                   
Columbia Historical Museum Association Inc. 963555   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
West Columbia, TX 0908200507              
                   
  Support for the restoration of the Rosenwald School, Columbia, Texas.            
             
                   
                   
County of Liberty 963749   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Hardin, TX 0908200558              
                   
  Support to retain an archivist and translator to research documents pertaining to Champ d'Asile as well as to reproduce maps and documents.            
             
             
                   
                   
Dallas County Heritage Society 963727   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Dallas, TX 0908200542              
                   
  Support for the Tejano Interpretation project, a recreated home and first-person interpretation of the lives and activities of Spanish-speaking residents of the Dallas area in 1901.            
             
             
             
                   
Dallas County Heritage Society 963905   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 5/18/06
                   
Dallas, TX 0518200601              
                   
  Applicant seeks support to repair historic buildings damaged by high water in March, 2006.            
             
                   
                   
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Inc. 963728   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
San Antonio, TX 0908200543              
                   
  Support to purchase a fire suppression system.            
                   
                   
Documentary Alliance Inc. 963731   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Bellaire, TX 0908200544              
                   
  Support for a documentary on Interstate Theatres and Karl Hoblitzelle.            
             
                   
                   
East Texas Historical Association 963571   $3,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Nacogdoches, TX 0908200508              
                   
  Funding for the East Texas Forum, public lectures by distinguished Texans.            
             
                   
                   
Excelsior Foundation 963736   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Jefferson, TX 0908200551              
                   
  Support for the preservation and restoration of one of the oldest synagogues in Texas, built in 1875.            
             
                   
                   
Fayette Heritage Museum & Archives 963737   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
La Grange, TX 0908200552              
                   
  Support to microfilm area newspapers for its research center.            
             
                   
                   
Fort Concho Foundation 963738   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
San Angelo, TX 0908200553              
                   
  Funding for shelving units for library and journal collection.            
             
                   
                   
Friends of Dallas County Historical Commission 963739   $2,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Dallas, TX 0905200554       Cash Grants      
                   
  Support for the solicitation of members for a new support group formed to provide research and continuing education for the Dallas County Historical Commission. [John Crain, ex officio director of the DCHC, abstained from the vote.]            
             
             
             
             
                   
                   
Friends of Libraries and Archives of Texas Inc. 963740   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Austin, TX 0908200555              
                   
  Support toward development of the Texas Stories educational website. The site will provide online classroom activities for Grades 4 and 7.            
             
             
                   
Friends of the Farm 963741   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/20/05
                   
Mesquite, TX 0908200556              
                   
  Applicant institution was formed in 2002 to reopen and manage Samuell Farm under an agreement with the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department.            
             
             
                   
                   
Friends of the Governor's Mansion 963578   $3,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Austin, TX 0908200510              
                   
  Support to acquire laptop and laptop projector for annual Texas history educational program at Governor's Mansion.            
             
             
                   
                   
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission 963580   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Austin, TX 0908200511              
                   
  Support for oral history initiative of the Texans in World War II Project.            
             
                   
                   
Grady McWhiney Research Foundation 963743   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Abilene, TX 0908200581              
                   
  Support for a series of Texas biographies aimed at students in fourth grade.            
             
                   
                   
Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, Inc. 963755   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Houston, TX 0908200560              
                   
  Support for a collaborative program with Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council to educate young women as to the value of historic preservation.            
             
             
                   
                   
Harrison County Historical Society 963745   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/20/05
                   
Marshall, TX 0908200561              
                   
  Support to retain a museum consultant to design and plan museum exhibits.            
             
                   
                   
James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts 963556   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Round Top, TX 0908200514              
                   
  Support to assist in the documentation, provide archival housing, and to exhibit library and archival material to the public.            
             
             
                   
                   
Masonic Grand Lodge Library and Museum of Texas 963796   $45,000.00   Noncash 9/8/05
               
Waco, TX 090082005105              
                 
                   
  Gift of nine Texas Heroes Paintings.            
                   
Museum of Fine Arts of Houston 963752   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Houston, TX 0908200566              
                   
  Support for the first David B. Warren Symposium focused on American material culture and the Texas experience.            
             
             
                   
                   
Museum of South Texas History 963753   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Edinburg, TX 0908200567              
                   
  Capital support toward the rehabilitation of the historic 1910 Hidalgo County Jail building and construction of an exhibit gallery.            
             
             
                   
                   
National Council for History Education, Inc. 963847   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 2/2/06
               
Westlake, OH 0202200601              
                   
  Support toward registration and lodging for 83 Texas teachers to participate in the national conference to be held in Austin, Texas.            
             
             
                   
                   
National Trust for Historic Preservation 963546   $25,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Fort Worth, TX 0908200515              
                   
  Funding for the Summerlee Intervention Fund.            
                   
                   
Old Red Courthouse, Inc. 963795   $84,375.00   Noncash 9/8/05
                   
Dallas, TX 09082005104              
                   
  Gift of Summerlee artifact for museum exhibition.            
                   
                   
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society 963532   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Canyon, TX 0908200517       Closed Grant    
                   
  Support toward exhibition and public program activities in late 2005 and 2006.            
             
                   
                   
Rice University 963591   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Houston, TX 0908200518              
                   
  Support toward Geoffrey Willingham's photographic study of the landscape, material culture, and history of the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico from
Sabine Pass to Rio Grijalva in the state of Tabasco.
           
             
             
             
                   
                   
San Augustine County Historical Foundation 963760   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
San Augustine, TX 0908200583              
                   
  Support for the restoration of the Stripling Drug Store, recently purchased by the organization.            
             
                   
                   
San Augustine County Historical Foundation 963848   $3,391.00   Cash Grants 2/2/06
               
San Augustine, TX 0202200604              
                   
  Support for the conservation of Seymour Thomas works in the collection of the Ezekiel Cullen Chapter, DRT.            
             
                   
San Jacinto Battleground Association 963742   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Houston, TX 0908200557              
                   
  Support for the San Jacinto Symposium.            
                   
                   
San Jacinto Museum of History Association 963761   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Houston (La Porte), TX 0908200572              
                   
  Funds to underwrite the cost of moving and storing the museum's collections during the impending remodeling of the Monument.            
             
             
                   
                   
San Jacinto Museum of History Association 963906   $17,500.00   Cash Grants 5/18/06
               
Houston (La Porte), TX 0518200602              
                   
  Support for a travelling exhibition on landmark maps of Texas.            
             
                   
                   
Self Reliance Foundation 963763   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 2/2/06
                   
El Paso, TX 0202200602              
                   
  Support for research and documentation of Hispanic immigration in Texas to be included in national touring museum exhibition.            
             
             
                   
                   
Smith County Historical Society, Inc. 963548   $2,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Tyler, TX 0905200520              
                   
  Support for a museum consultant.            
                   
                   
Southern Methodist University-Clements Center for Southwest Studies 963570   $125,450.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Dallas, TX 0908200522       Closed Grant    
                   
  Support for the Summerlee Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History at SMU for a period of three years.            
             
             
                   
                   
Southwest African American Heritage Organization, Inc. 963764   $2,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Austin, TX 0908200575              
                   
  Support for exhibition on Civil Rights Movement in the Southwest which will emphasize leaders in Texas.            
             
                   
                   
Southwest Alternate Media Projects, Inc. 963765   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 2/2/06
                   
Houston, TX 0202200603              
                   
  Support to produce documentary film entitled "Camp Logan: Houston Mutiny and Court Martial of 1917."            
             
                   
                   
St. Joseph's Indian School 963805   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Chamberlain, SD                
                   
  Support for the maintenance of the dormitory            
                   
Sul Ross State University 963576   $50,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Alpine, TX 0905200521              
                   
  Support toward Phase II of the Museum of the Big Bend capital program.            
             
                   
                   
Texas A&M University Press 963771   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
College Station, TX 0908200584              
                   
  Support for research, writing, and publication of work on the land grant college movement as exemplified by Texas A&M. Project will be undertaken by Edward A. Hiler, former Vice Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.            
             
             
             
             
                   
                   
Texas A&M Research Foundation 963769   $40,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
College Station, TX 0908200591              
                   
  Support for the "Raiford Leake Stripling Archive" at Texas A&M University.            
             
                   
                   
Texas A&M Research Foundation 963770   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
College Station, TX 0908200586              
                   
  Support for a series of six lectures on Texas history and culture - "Texas Music Culture."            
             
                   
                   
Texas Christian University 963775   $15,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Fort Worth, TX 0908200576              
                   
  Support for two projects: general operating support for the Center for Texas Studies and support toward Gregg Cantrell's anthology of essays.            
             
             
                   
                   
Texas Civil War Museum, Inc. 963776   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Fort Worth, TX 0908200577              
                   
  Support toward a script that will serve as an orientation video in the museum theater.            
             
                   
                   
Texas Parks & Wildlife 963783   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Austin, TX 0908200586              
                   
  Assistance with training for historic site superintendents, interpreters, and facility managers from the applicant's 35 sites.            
             
             
                   
                   
Texas State Historical Association 963784   $250,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Austin, TX 0908200579              
                   
  Support for the development of an illustrated Texas History magazine, expansion and rebirth of the Junior Historian program, publication of the history of TSHA, with any remaining monies for general support. [John Crain abstained from the vote.]            
             
             
             
             
                   
Texas State Library and Archives Commission 963778   $20,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
               
Austin, TX 0908200578              
                   
  Support to cover the cost of training workshops at 26 locations throughout Texas. These programs will deal with preserving and improving access to archival resources in Texas.            
             
             
             
                   
                   
Trinity University 963780   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
San Antonio, TX 0908200580              
                   
  Support for the publication of a work entitled "Jose Maria de Jesus Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary" by Joseph E. Chance.            
             
             
                   
                   
University of North Texas 963533   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Denton, TX 0908200526              
                   
  Support for the 2005 Teaching of History Conference.            
                   
                   
University of North Texas 963785   $7,500.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Denton, TX 0908200585              
                   
  Support toward digitizing the collections of small libraries and historical societies, many of which are in peril because of inadequate storage.            
             
             
                   
                   
University of Texas - Pan American 963787   $10,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
Edinburg, TX 0908200582              
                   
  Support to digitize historical maps in Mexico Ciity, San Luis de Potosi, Saltillo and Monterrey.            
             
                   
                   
University of Texas at San Antonio 963788   $5,000.00   Cash Grants 9/8/05
                   
San Antonio, TX 0908200599              
                   
  Support for research on eighteenth-century militia unit, Segunda Compania Volante de San Carlos de Parras del Alamo.            
             
             
                   
                   
Grand Total   $1,131,338.27          
(57 items)