Closed · NPS-NOIP18AC00145 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary

Prepare Special History of Slave Stampedes, The Underground Railroad on the Missouri River Boarderlands- MWRO

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Park Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$130K-$292K
Award range
Closed
Status
June 22, 2019
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Prepare Special History of Slave Stampedes, The Underground Railroad on the Missouri River Boarderlands- MWRO is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered $129,800 -- $291,635 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 8,506 other opportunities from National Park Service.

$130K-$292K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.945
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Prepare Special History of Slave Stampedes is closed (last close June 22, 2019). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Park Service still indexes 8,506 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed June 22, 2019

Posted Jun 13 Closes Jun 22

Est. Total Funding

$291,635

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

This project will use documentation, inventory, research and study/evaluation to produce a special history of "Slave Stampede: The Underground Railroad on the Missouri Borderlands." The special history will examine the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois through the lens of “slave stampedes” from 1845-1861. The project will establish a systematic approach for looking at the phenomenon, using a geographical area and history that connects to two National Park units, JEFF and LIHO. The project will seek to understand this phenomenon more fully through examination of these escapes, in detail, researching primary sources (mainly newspapers and legal records), ascertaining where they occurred, when they occurred, who was involved, and results (escapes that resulted in freedom vs. those that resulted in capture) etc. While the project is regionally focused, it will provide a context for looking more broadly at such incidents, helping to better understand slavery and freedom. This cooperative agreement provides for the preparation of a special history study, on "slave stampedes," which will help develop a more complex understanding of the Underground Railroad, the nation's first Civil Rights Movement. This project will add to the public's understanding of slavery and freedom. In addition to a written monograph that will be made available, the project will also result in a digital platform that will be accessible to the public. The information gained through the project can be used at NPS sites that relate to this history to expand interpretation and thus ways for the public, especially diverse audiences, to engage with these sites. Also can be used as a model by other border states, including National Park units in these areas that relate to this history, to stimulate further research and examination of this important but understudied aspect of history.

Campus applicant desk · Humanities

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Prepare Special History of Slave Stampedes (Private institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Humanities · Science and Technology / R&D (HU;ST). Only 106 other National Park Service listings share this exact eligibility-code string (1% of 8,507).

Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

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Agency Contact

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