Project Grant GA27589520

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Park Service awarded The Montpelier Foundation $552,204 on August 22, 2025, under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) to support masonry and structural repairs at the historic Montpelier property in Orange, Virginia. This project grant, which extends through April 30, 2029, funds physical preservation work on a state-owned cultural resource listed on the National Register of Historic Places that is...

The University of Virginia received a $273,160 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to support the project "THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORLDS OF MONTICELLO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA" from October 1, 2018 through May 31, 2021. The project aims to promote better teaching and research in the humanities for higher education faculty and K-12 educators through...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Virginia a $10 million Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) on January 1, 2026, to support a collaborative initiative celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States through the creation and dissemination of Founding Era and Early Republic primary sources. The project, which extends through December 31, 2030, will deliver four primary...

Christopher Newport University's Center for American Studies received a $195,558 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), awarded March 1, 2026, with completion by February 28, 2028. The grant funds a series of events and educational initiatives commemorating America's semiquincentennial (July 4, 2026) and the Center's twentieth anniversary (June 1, 2027). Primary deliverables include annual...

Summary: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Editorial Project The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $300,000 to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for a project grant effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028. The award supports continuation of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Editorial Project, an authoritative scholarly edition initiative documenting correspondence and papers by and to Thomas...

The Montpelier Foundation received a $469,920 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to develop and implement civic engagement programs focused on the First Amendment. Over a three-year period ending August 2025, the Foundation will partner with the First Amendment Museum and local organizations to deliver four teacher professional development seminars, 18 community workshops, and student workshops expected to reach 2,750...

The Trustees of Princeton University will receive $565,000 through September 2025 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue work on The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Editorial Project. This Project Grant funding supports the ongoing editorial work of the authoritative scholarly edition of papers written by and to Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. President, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The Project furthers the program's goals of advancing...

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center was awarded a $220,369 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The Center will identify, map, and interpret the history of African American land ownership and residential life in Central Virginia from 1744 through 2020 by analyzing over 400,000 pages of property records using citizen science crowdsourcing tools. Records will be mapped and...

The Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc., doing business as The Mount, received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2022 to support full-time, on-site literary and history programming through December 31, 2022. The programming will focus on issues of racial justice, gender equality, and immigration using Edith Wharton's life and works as a framework. Three types of public programs are planned to 1) relate Wharton's works to present-day...