Project Grant 19502075225

The Library of America, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, will produce 400 Years of Latino Poetry, a $1,698,898 project grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The initiative includes publishing a groundbreaking anthology of Latino poetry spanning 400 years; public programs and conversations with literary scholars, poets, and historians across...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) will support the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in developing a prototype website that increases understanding of African American life in early rural New England. Specifically, the website will focus on Lucy Terry Prince, the first documented African American poet, illuminating her life from captivity in Africa circa 1726 to enslavement in...

The Rare Book School (RBS), doing business as The Book Arts Press, Inc., received a $100,258 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant funds the "Living American History in Primary Documents" initiative to develop new educational content and curricula focused on American history primary sources in anticipation of the 250th...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164 Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs) will fund the development of an engaging website that increases understanding of New England slavery and the experiences of African Americans in early rural New England. The project will focus on the life of Lucy Terry Prince, the first documented African American poet, from her birth and captivity in Africa around 1726 to her enslavement in Deerfield,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (UNL) for the project "Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship Attribution and Display." This project aims to develop two interconnected innovations to assist researchers and scholars of print culture who work with periodicals: 1) an extension...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) totaling $349,929.00 will support the "Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index" (SSHI) project at Emory University. The SSHI will document and index over 300,000 printed hymn tunes and texts from 1,311 significant books of vernacular sacred music published in the Southern United States between 1850-1925. This open-access reference...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $140,000 Project Grant to the Academy of American Poets Inc. under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) for the period of July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The grant funds will support activities designed to showcase American poets and foster interest in poetry, consistent with the program's goal of supporting opportunities for public participation in the arts. Key services will include...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $599,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Verse Video Education, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization, to support the production of Season Five of the public television series "Poetry in America." The grant will fund the creation of eight documentary-style episodes that explore American poetry and its connections to national narratives, cultural traditions, and social...

The University of Virginia received a $303,104 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop Literature in Context, an open digital anthology of English language literature from 1400 to 1925. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), which supports innovative humanities projects utilizing digital technologies. Literature in Context will be a TEI-encoded, openly accessible digital resource for...

This $349,798 Project Grant, awarded on September 1, 2025 by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), will digitize and create item-level metadata for 1,442 pre-1600 manuscripts across 23 primarily non-R1 Midwestern institutions. The three-year initiative will be led by Indiana University Libraries and the University of Iowa, who will digitize the partner holdings. Researchers at Indiana University...