Project Grant PG28751822
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $312,176 Project Grant to Alabama State University under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the Enhancing Access to Alabama's Black Political and Educational History archival processing project at Alabama State University from June 2023 through May 2026. The project aims to process, conserve, and create finding aids for the historic records of the Alabama State Teachers...
- This three-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will provide $347,959 to Mississippi State University to develop a decolonial field school focused on community-engaged methods of collection and preservation at Brush Arbor Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi. Through pairing oral histories, public archaeology, participatory GIS story mapping and black digital archives with traditional archival,...
- This three-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will support the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. to digitize and provide open online access to 26 collections from its conservation archives. These archives document over 7,000 years of Egyptian culture and history at prehistoric, pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic, and Jewish sites across Egypt. By September 2025, the American Research...
- The Atlanta Historical Society, Inc. dba Atlanta History Center received a $249,650 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant will support expansion of the Made by Us civic education and engagement initiative's Civic Season program between Juneteenth and July 4th. The Atlanta History Center will collaborate with up to 300 leading U.S. history and civics organizations,...
- The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $347,919 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures program to East Tennessee State University (ETSU) to process, preserve, and digitize records from its Appalachian studies collection. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027, will enable ETSU to hire a project archivist and graduate assistant to organize and digitize approximately 1,000 oral history interviews, 1,500 photographs, and 100 linear feet...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded a $321,793 Project Grant to the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) for the "Archival Belonging: A Guide to Community- and Care-Centered Archiving" project. This 3-year initiative aims to develop a curriculum and toolkit for community archivists and memory workers that is grounded in community-centered archival ethics and practices. The project seeks to build capacity among...
- The University of South Alabama received a $453,394 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support efforts to preserve and share community histories of underrepresented groups in South Alabama through two projects. Staff will be retained and hired at the University's McCall Rare Book & Manuscript Library to process and digitize existing oral history collections,...
- 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...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,126 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Christiansburg Institute, Inc. The objective of this 2-year grant, with a performance period from June 2024 to May 2026, is to digitize four data-rich school and community collections related to the Christiansburg Institute, a historically Black educational institution in Virginia. The digitization effort will create...
- The University of Alabama was awarded a $110,798 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant, with a performance period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026, will support activities to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical records and documentary sources related to U.S. history. Specific products and services to be delivered through this grant...
ACTIVATING THE ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES [ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES WILL UNDERTAKE A GENERAL ASSESSMENT OF COLLECTIONS THAT SERVE AS HUMANITIES RESOURCES. THIS ASSESSMENT IS CRUCIAL TO IMPROVING OUR SERVICE ABILITY AND WOULD ASSIST IN THE FORMATION OF SHORT- AND LONG-TERM GOALS THAT WOULD FOCUS ON ENHANCING ACCESSIBILITY. AS A 200 YEAR OLD EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, THIS EFFORT FALLS WITHIN ?A MORE PERFECT UNION? INITIATIVE BY PRESERVING, SHARING, AND CONTEXTUALIZING FOUNDATIONAL AMERICAN EVENTS. THIS EFFORT WILL HELP FIND AND TELL THE NARRATIVES OF UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY. BY DIGITIZING THE RECORDS OF EVERY DAY EVENTS, THE ATHENS STATE ARCHIVES CAN MAKE THESE ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS SAFER, KEEP THE INFORMATION ALIVE, ACCESSIBLE, AND RELEVANT.]
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $10.0k | 8/30/22 | ||
| Not listed | $10.0k | 8/30/22 |