The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $551,808 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. Under this federal Project Grant, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities will digitize an estimated 100,000 newspaper pages from 1854 to 1963 published in Nebraska. The digitized...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $148,428 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program. The project, titled "Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse Across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections," will analyze the circulation and impact of publicity text and promotional images in early-20th century newspapers and magazines. The...
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) will support the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, Phase VI. The $304,870 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund the digitization and delivery to the Library of Congress of an estimated 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers dating from 1854-1963 for inclusion in the Chronicling America digital...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $428,609.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant is awarded to the Nebraska Humanities Council, operating as Humanities Nebraska, a non-profit organization located in Lincoln, Nebraska. This general operating support grant enables Humanities Nebraska to bring the humanities to life through subawards and public programming...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,015 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to The Corporation Of Haverford College, doing business as Haverford College. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of three pedagogical and scholarly tools for the BRIDGE, an existing digital ecosystem that supports the encoding and reading of ancient Greek and Latin texts. The key products to be...
The Indiana University Iupui was awarded a $554,587.08 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement an online text-editing platform for scholarly editions from October 1, 2018 to April 30, 2022. The award was funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities Promotion of the Humanities program, which provides support under assistance listing 45.169 for innovative digital humanities projects utilizing emerging technologies....
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) has awarded a $316,626 project grant to The Ohio State University to create a digital collection of 115 digitized Victorian-era "part-issue" novels. The project, titled "The Part Issue Project: Making 19th-Century Serial Temporality Discoverable and Accessible in HathiTrust," will collaborate with partner libraries to inspect, conserve, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $338,357 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to Northeastern University. The 2-year grant, awarded on February 1, 2025, supports the "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books" project. This Level III project aims to build open data and code infrastructure for metadata, page images, and manual and automatic transcriptions of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,779 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to The Living New Deal Project. The grant, awarded on February 1, 2025, will support efforts to enhance The Living New Deal's digital humanities contributions by: 1) auditing and upgrading existing data, 2) incorporating U.S. Census spatial and population data to expand the project's scope, 3) piloting methods for locating...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Emory University a $149,518 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to support the continued development of the POST45 Data Collective. This peer-reviewed, open-access repository houses literary and cultural data from 1945 to the present. The grant will enable Emory University, in collaboration with the University of Washington, to develop a comprehensive data style guide and...