The Maine State Library has been awarded a $261,184 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from Maine over a two-year period from September 2024 to August 2026. This project, titled "Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal: 2023-2026 NDNP Cycle," aims to expand public access to stories and perspectives of Maine's diverse communities by digitizing news content, including...
The Maine State Library received a two-year, $447,150 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Maine Digital Newspaper Program to digitize historical newspapers from Maine with a focus on titles related to Franco Americans and the labor movement. Over the grant period from September 2022 through August 2024, the Maine State Library as prime...
The Connecticut Humanities Council, Inc. was awarded a $476,632 five-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant, awarded on November 1, 2024, supports the Council's mission to champion the value of public humanities and deliver a range of humanities-focused programming and initiatives across the state of Connecticut. This includes developing and implementing public humanities...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $285,979 Project Grant to the Providence Public Library (PPL) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant will fund a collaborative digitization project between PPL and the Rhode Island Historical Society to digitize over 100,000 pages of historical Rhode Island newspapers from PPL's microfilm collection. This will make these important primary sources widely available...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded an $800,192 Project Grant to the Connecticut Humanities Council, Incorporated to support programming under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This funding will allow the Council to deliver local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming from June 2021 through April 2023. As the designated state humanities council for Connecticut, the organization works in partnership with the NEH to...
The National Archives and Records Administration awarded a $1,000,000.00 Project Grant to the Connecticut Historical Society, a non-profit organization located in Connecticut, under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant supports a range of activities related to preserving, digitizing, and providing access to historical records and cultural heritage collections held by the Connecticut Historical Society. Specific activities include arranging,...
The Ohio History Connection, a non-profit organization, was awarded a $319,511 Project Grant 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 digitization of 100,000 pages of Ohio's microfilmed newspapers to continue the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio. This effort will build upon the over 520,000 pages already digitized and made available through the...
The Dartmouth Library will receive $356,865 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project. The two-year project grant will support the selection, digitization and provision of access to 100,000 pages of historical New Hampshire newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program. Led by Dartmouth Library in partnership with the New Hampshire State...
The Connecticut Humanities Council, Incorporated (CHCI) received a $3.14 million project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support local, statewide, and regional humanities programming in Connecticut from November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2023. The funding is provided through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129), which provides annual grants to humanities councils in each U.S. state and territory to promote...
The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $152,802 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This second cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program grant will allow the Boston Public Library to contribute an additional 100,000 pages of digital newspapers published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 to the Library of Congress' Chronicling...