Project Grant 2005065

The Trustees of Princeton University received a $129,375 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA #89.003). The grant will support the Papers of Thomas Jefferson project in publishing additional volumes of Jefferson's papers and records. Specifically, staff will submit Volume 45 for inclusion in the digital and online editions, publish print Volume 46, complete and submit Volume 47 for...

The National Archives and Records Administration awarded $160,000 to the Massachusetts Historical Society under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to support editorial work on the Adams Papers. During the project period from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, the Society will advance editorial work on Volume 16 of The Adams Family Correspondence, complete remaining editorial work and publish Volume 21 of The Papers of John Adams, commence work on Volume 22,...

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which operates Monticello, received a two-year, $375,482 National Endowment for the Humanities Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The purpose of this award is to support staffing and resources needed to migrate the "Getting Word" African American oral history archive onto a new digital platform. The "Getting Word" project documents the histories and...

The Library of Virginia Foundation was awarded a $598,435 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to conserve and digitize the Executive Papers of Thomas Nelson, Virginia's fourth governor. The project will delaminate, repair, and rehouse the 2,048 documents in the collection, which includes letters from prominent Revolutionary War figures. The collection will be fully digitized to provide public...

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 Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office awarded $1,684,475 under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program to Friends of Science East Inc.'s Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe for exterior stabilization work at Nikola Tesla's former laboratory in Shoreham, NY. The project grant funding will support preservation and conservation efforts at the laboratory, which is currently deteriorating due to significant water infiltration through the roof and is...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Jack London Society, Inc. received a $198,928 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), awarded January 1, 2026, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. This collaborative scholarly project will produce Volume 13 of "The Complete Works of Jack London," comprising two works: "The Cruise of the Snark," a nonfictional account of...

The University of Virginia will receive $159,967.20 under a Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration to support the publication of volumes 12 through 14 of The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. The University will also complete manuscript work for volume 4 and continue editorial work on volume 5 of The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series. This work furthers the goals of the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program...

The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. received a $297,867 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. Under this third cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), the awardee will digitize pre-1830 Massachusetts newspapers and contribute them to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America platform, a freely...

The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $152,802 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This second cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program grant will allow the Boston Public Library to contribute an additional 100,000 pages of digital newspapers published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 to the Library of Congress' Chronicling...