NMAR Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant!

We received a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Award to cover certain costs for our Religion and America's 250th Coalition conference about religion and the founding of the United States.

We are planning to hold the conference sometime in 2026 at Brigham Young University in partnership with its history department.

​A high-level draft program is below.

I. Religious landscape at the brink of revolution

• religions of Indigenous peoples
• religions of European colonists
• religions of the enslaved and enslaver
  
  

II. Religions’ participation in the founding of the United States of America

• revolutionary religions  
• loyalist religions
• religious artifacts from revolutionary era
  
  

III. Religions’ theological views of the founding of the United States of America

• colonial-era religions’ views of the founding
• non-colonial-era religions’ views of founding
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IV. Professional development for religious librarians and archivists