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Martha Graham

At a time when film was often viewed as crude and vulgar entertainment, George Eastman was adamant that it could become a respectable art form. Between the projection of movie Read more…

Colonial Williamsburg

In the mid 1920s, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and her husband, John Rockefeller Jr., were contacted by Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, an instructor at the College of William & Mary Read more…

Julius Rosenwald Fund

Philanthropic giant Julius Rosenwald (president of Sears, Roebuck) started the Julius Rosenwald Fund in 1917 “for the well-being of mankind,” but devoted much of its philanthropic power to improving the Read more…

A Revolutionary Museum Challenge

For more than a century, a priceless collection of relics of the American Revolution has been slowly gathering, waiting for an appropriate home. Included are the tent George Washington slept Read more…

Driehaus Prize in Architecture

Self-made Chicago financier Richard Driehaus argues that “Americans deserve better buildings… . Architecture should be of human scale, representational form, and individual expression that reflects a community’s architectural heritage.” He Read more…

Mizzou New Music Initiative

Rex Sinquefield steered himself from a Missouri orphanage to leadership of a major investment firm 30 years later, in the process developing some of the first index funds. Today his Read more…

ArtPrize Launched in Grand Rapids

Rick DeVos grew up in Grand Rapids as the grandson of the founder of Amway. He wanted to bring the arts to Grand Rapids in an unprecedented way. He initially Read more…

An Illuminated Bible for the Computer Age

The Saint John’s Bible, commissioned by the Benedictine fathers of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and funded by 1,500 donors, is a completely handwritten and hand-illuminated Bible. It is Read more…

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The oldest art museum and art school in America was built up through many decades of private support, particularly from Philadelphia business leaders. With George Clymer—a revered Pennsylvania merchant and Read more…

Re-Founding the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress was established by an official act in 1800 as a modest reference library for America’s legislators, and composed primarily of law books. The collection was destroyed Read more…

Preservation of Monticello

Thomas Jefferson sometimes argued that the earth belonged to the living and that each generation owed little to those before or after it. At times he lived his own life Read more…

Wadsworth Atheneum

An atheneum, in nineteenth-century parlance, was a cultural institution broadly devoted to art, books, science, history, and other fields, often broadly combined in a mix of library, gallery, scientific rooms, Read more…

Smithsonian Institution

James Smithson was a British scientist with no obvious connection to the United States. He had no family in the New World, had never visited, and had built his successful Read more…

Preservation of Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon was the legacy of one great man. Preserving it was the work of many great women. The Mount Vernon estate had been in George Washington’s family since 1674. Read more…

Metropolitan Museum of Art

On July 4, 1866, a number of well-to-do Americans in Paris are celebrating Independence Day with a fancy dinner. The group includes Mr. Bigelow, the American ambassador; Mr. Fox, assistant Read more…