The University of North Florida (UNF) has been awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the CFDA 45.161 Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The grant will support UNF researchers in developing the first comprehensive indigenous history of Northeast Florida, covering a period of over 13,000 years from pre-colonial times to the present day. The project aims to challenge prevailing colonial narratives that erase indigenous peoples and...
The University of Florida (UF) received a $275,743 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the selection, digitization, and provision of approximately 100,000 historic newspaper pages from Florida's diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic communities to the Library of Congress through the National Digital Newspaper...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded New York University $348,580 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025.
As part of their Master's degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, NYU students will gain practical experience through course projects and three internships over the course of their studies. The internships will improve the condition and accessibility of unique...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,357 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Arizona. This 3-year grant, effective March 1, 2025, will deliver tailored education and training for diverse groups of undergraduate and postgraduate students working within museum fields. The project will provide two educational streams: an introduction to curatorial methods for undergraduate...
The University of Montana received a $41,341.86 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on October 1, 2018 to complete a planning project by October 31, 2019. The award was made under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which aims to ensure long-term availability and access to humanities resources held in libraries, museums, archives and other collections.
Specifically, the University of Montana used the NEH...
The University of North Florida received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to document the Viola Muse Digital Edition. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), the project will produce a digital edition of 73 manuscripts and typescripts totaling 262 pages from the Viola Muse Collection at the Jacksonville Historical Society. Viola Muse was a local hairdresser and interviewer/writer with the Negro Writers Division...
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) was awarded a $189,792 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The award will fund a residential workshop for 72 K-12 educators in 2025 titled "From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England." The workshop will be centered around the Great Bay Estuary in New Hampshire, exploring the experiences of Native American, African...
This federal Project Grant award of $350,000.00 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 the Pacific's efforts to preserve and improve access to its archival collections. The award will fund the replacement of existing broken storage systems that threaten to damage the collections, as well as the addition of new shelving to rehouse collections currently stored in...
The National Archives and Records Administration awarded the University of New Mexico (UNM) a $500,000 Project Grant under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant, effective from September 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, will fund activities related to the preservation, publication, and use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States. As the prime awardee, UNM will leverage its expertise in historical research and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,619 Project Grant (CFDA 45.169 Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities) to the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) for the "MAINSTREET 360?: AN APPLICATION FOR GEOREFERENCING AND LAYERING HISTORICAL PHOTOS IN A DIGITAL ARCHIVE" project. The project aims to develop an augmented reality mapping application that will display superimposed, geolocated historical photographs onto a modern-day 360-degree...