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Students Around the Country Visit Gettysburg Battlefield Through Field Trip Grant Program Throughout this past school year, nearly 3,000 students from New Hampshire to Texas experienced the power of places on the Gettysburg Battlefield through the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant Program. The Trust committed more than $50,000 to making these 40plus field trips happen, including 18 originating from Title I schools. Since 2014, more than 60,000 K-12 learners have been able to travel to sites in their communities and far afield with the support of these microgrants. Through these field trips, students were able to experience the Battle of Gettysburg in ways completely irreplicable in a classroom or textbook. From scaling Little Round Top, to recreating the march of Pickett’s Charge, the Gettysburg Battlefield’s landscape can only be truly understood by stepping foot on that hallowed ground. The Trust’s History Field Trip Grant Program allows K-12 educators to apply for funding to offset the cost of day-trip field trips to battlefields, museums, and other historic sites related to the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War. Grants range from $250 to $3,000, toward transportation costs, admission fees and reasonable fees for presenters and guides.
American Battlefield Trust Wins Six Telly Awards The American Battlefield Trust has earned six Telly Awards, including four for its “America’s Wars 17541945,” an ambitious and far-ranging animated battle map that details all major U.S. military conflicts from the French and Indian War to the conclusion of World War II. The animated map, created in collaboration with filmmaker Wide Awake Films, has been viewed over 1.9 million times on YouTube. It earned Gold Tellys for Motion Graphics & Design, History, and in the Not-forProfit category, as well as a Silver Telly in the Online Series category. The Trust and its filmmaking partner also were honored with a Silver Telly for Ulysses S. Grant’s Council of War virtual reality production and a Bronze Telly for The Saratoga Campaign 2D map animation. For more information about these awards, visit www. battlefields.org/news/american-battlefield-trusts-animatedbattle-map-us-wars-1754-1945-wins-four-telly-awards.
Finalists Announced for $50,000 Military History Book Prize to Be Awarded at New Festival in November The Trust has announced its short list of finalists for the 2025 American Battlefield Trust Prize for History, an annual award that seeks to showcase the vital nature of historic battlefields as primary sources in literary works and amplify the pressing need for preservation to readers interested in American history. All finalists, who were nominated by their respective publishing houses, have been invited to speak at a festival-style gathering of books and authors convened by the Trust in Gettysburg, Pa., November 13-15, the lead-up to Remembrance Day Weekend. The award, endowed by a generous donor to ensure no funds are diverted from the Trust’s primary mission, recognizes an outstanding published work focused on military history or a biography central to the nation’s formative conflicts: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. The prize will be presented during a new Trust event in November, celebrating the connection between place and historical scholarship. All finalists have been invited to speak at the multi-day event, to be held in conjunction with the Adams County Historical Society November 1315, the days leading up to the anniversary of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and dedication of the national cemetery. A full roster of speakers will be announced in August, when tickets go on sale. In addition to the $50,000 top prize, smaller awards will also be presented to up to two honorable mention titles.
A Field Trip Grant Program recipient at Gettysburg National Military Park. (Christie Gray.)
For more information on the prize, including past honorees, please visit www.battlefields.org/bookprize.