This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the originator. Selecting "Reply to All" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- The American Library
Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, the New-York Historical Society, and
the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are accepting grant
applications from public, academic and special libraries, as well as National
Park historic sites, wishing to host the traveling exhibition, Alexander
Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America. Public, academic and
special libraries and National Park historic sites interested in hosting the
exhibition can download the application and guidelines at www.ala.org/publicprograms.
Applications must be received by January 21, 2004. The exhibit examines
Hamilton's central role during the Revolutionary War and Founding period
(1774-1804) in creating the economic, constitutional, social, journalistic,
political and foreign policy templates for modern America. It will acquaint
visitors with a statesman and visionary whose life inspired discussion and
controversy and shaped the America we live in two hundred years after his
death. The traveling exhibition is based on a major exhibition of the same
title on display at the New-York Historical Society from September 10, 2004
until February 28, 2005. Two copies of the
exhibit will travel to 40 libraries and National Park historic sites around the
country between October 2005 and March 2009. Each exhibit will consist of six
colorful, freestanding 18-foot-long and 7-foot-high panels. Each section will
examine a different period in Hamilton's life, from his birth through his
experience in the American Revolution and his career in politics, to the
infamous duel with Aaron Burr that fatally wounded him, and the legacy he left
in many arenas of government. Libraries and National
Park historic sites selected for the tour will receive grants of $1,000 from
the National Endowment for the Humanities for planning seminar and/or
programming expenses. Selected institutions will host the exhibition for a
six-week period and are expected to present at least two free public programs
featuring a lecture or discussion by a qualified scholar on exhibition themes.
All showings of the exhibition will be free and open to the public. For more information
about Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, please visit www.ala.org/publicprograms/.
Support for the exhibit is provided by the National Endowment for the
Humanities. ALA Public Programs
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