The University of Alabama will receive $622,680 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic Alabama newspapers published between 1901 and 1926. The grant funding will support the Alabama Digital Newspaper Project as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project aims to preserve and provide access to primary newspaper resources through the digitization of microfilmed...
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...
The University of Georgia was awarded a $302,070 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 selection, digitization, and online publication of 100,000 pages of public domain Georgia newspapers from the Jim Crow era and early civil rights period between 1877 and 1963, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). In addition, the university...
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...
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...
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 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 Program...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $319,588 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspapers from Arizona. The grant will be used by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records (LAPR) and the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) to partner as co-principal investigators on the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project aims to digitize...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program awarded a $300,784 Project Grant to the Minnesota Historical Society to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on the period 1923-1963. This effort is part of the state's ongoing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The project will preserve and provide digital access to these...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $320,863 Project Grant to the University of South Carolina under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The two-year grant (Sep 2024 - Aug 2026) will fund the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP), a collaboration between the USC Libraries Digital Collections Department and the South Caroliniana Library. The SCDNP will scan and deliver 100,000 pages of historical South...