- People, Prairies, and Plains N.E.H. Environmental History Institute at Kansas State University The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a grant to Kansas State University to support a four-week summer institute in 1995, and a follow-up weekend session in the summer of 1996, for the study of environmental history. Teachers in the humanities and the sciences, K-12, were invited to apply ...www-personal.ksu.edu/~jsherow/envirohp.htm