Project Grant 19204235224

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program will support the ongoing work of The Papers of Andrew Jackson: A Documentary Edition scholarly editing project through September 2024. The University of Tennessee is producing a seventeen volume bound series and two electronic formats collecting, editing, and publishing the existing records of Andrew Jackson's presidency. To date, eleven volumes have been...

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The grant will support the OI's continued production of digital and audio humanities programming focused on early American history. Specifically, funding will retain three staff positions that were slated for layoff due to pandemic-related budget cuts. Retained staff will produce...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University Press of Mississippi a $144,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The funding will support the creation of four new positions focused on improving the publisher's digital workflow and long-term sustainability through cloud-based publishing software and database implementation, file organization systems, and permanent digital asset...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $227,420 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to the Linguistic Society of America to support the creation and distribution of 20 original podcast episodes and 3 mini-series episodes on the history of African American English through the Subtitle podcast. The podcast episodes will range between 20 to 25 minutes and will be distributed through Subtitle's online and social media platforms, with...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $149,994 under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program to Georgia College & State University for the project "FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND MILLEDGEVILLE: COLLECTING THE PAST." Through interviews and archival collection, the awardee and its Andalusia Institute will develop podcasts, videos, and records providing insights on author Flannery O'Connor and inspiration from her work. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $332,520 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the publication of Volume 7 and the submission of Volume 8 of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway" scholarly edition. The overarching project aims to publish a comprehensive 17-volume collection of Hemingway's more than 6,000 letters, with 85% of the content previously unpublished. Prior NEH support has enabled the...

The federal Project Grant award of $204,000.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the American Musicological Society, Inc. (AMS), a non-profit organization based in New York. The primary objective of this grant is to support the "Music of the United States of America" (MUSA) series, a comprehensive 40-volume collection of scholarly editions featuring historically significant and...

This Project Grant award, totaling $601,322, is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the administrative operations of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board (OOIFB) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography. The funding will enable the OOIFB Administrative Support Office (ASO) to assist the OOIFB in engaging researchers and educators to broadly share the educational and research...

Oxford University Bank received a $1.8 million project grant award from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP) on June 15, 2021. The grant funding will support Oxford University Bank's ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic through March 27, 2023. As part of the CDFI RRP program (CFDA #21.024), the grant funds will enable Oxford University Bank to provide financial and technical assistance to...

The Portland Art Museum will receive $638,046 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to mount a retrospective exhibition of works by mid-century modernist Oscar Howe and a concurrent site-specific installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson. The Museum will collaborate with Many Nations Academy teachers and students to develop student-led tours of the exhibition and will partner with the Native American Youth and Family...