Major pubTV history series backed by NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities announced yesterday $5 million in TV grants to projects including WETA's four-hour The Jewish Americans; WGBH's We Shall Remain, a five-parter on Native American history; and KCET's three-hour In the Name of God and King: The Spanish Empire. The broadcast projects were among 171 receiving aid. Details were posted online, organized by grantees' states: Alabama to Illinois (10-page PDF), Indiana to New Mexico (9-page), and New York to Wyoming (11-page).