Project Grant MD29625224

The Black Archives History Research Foundation of South Florida was awarded a $719,535 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to expand public access to its collections through digitization and virtual research services. Specifically, the Foundation will purchase archival supplies and a large format scanner to digitize its periodical collection, notably the Miami Times collection of South...

This $194,938 National Historical Publications and Records Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration supports a collaborative project between Johnson C. Smith University and partners from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Duke University. The partners will create an online exhibit tracing the impact of urban renewal strategies on African American neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina. They will digitize and provide contextual information on documents and...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $249,963 to the University of Texas at Austin to create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website titled "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present." The project will digitize and analyze oral histories to document how Afro-Latinx communities were affected by housing and...

This three-year, $399,376 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the development of the Metapolis digital research infrastructure platform at Harvard University. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, Metapolis aims to spatially reconstruct historical places through archival sources. As an interactive map-based publication platform, it will enable users to cross-reference archival, bibliographic and multimedia sources with...

The Meek-Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum (MEBA) at Florida A&M University will use a $726,884 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to build its digital capacity and expand public services for its collections. Key activities include hiring a full-time archivist to assist with inventorying, cataloging, and rehousing collections; creating and updating finding...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $249,496.00 to support the "Deep Maps and Community Histories: Advancing Transdisciplinary and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Spatial Humanities" institute at Michigan Technological University. The 16-month hybrid virtual and in-person institute will provide advanced training to researchers on using digital geospatial and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $100,000 project grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (operating as State University College) for the "Virtual Aquapolis" project. The grant, funded through the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164), will support the development of an immersive virtual reality (VR) and interactive web experience that examines over 400 years of environmental history and human...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Atlantic City Free Public Library a $123,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to create "The Atlantic City Experience Research Library Digital Repository" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The library will use the funding to digitize and provide online access to its cultural heritage collections documenting the contributions of the African...

The Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York was awarded a $100,000 Digital Projects for the Public grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164) to support the prototyping phase of its "From Jazz to Hip-Hop in Queens" project. This project aims to increase awareness about the influential role that the jazz community in Queens had on the rise of hip-hop music. Building upon an earlier discovery phase, the prototyping phase will focus on developing primary,...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...