The Wisconsin Historical Society was awarded a $334,186 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the modernization of the Society's collection digitization services over two years from January 2022 to December 2023. Key products and services include hiring six staff positions and creating three new positions to support expanded digitization...
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...
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...
This $149,779 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist over a two-year period to work with at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations. The Archivist will provide culturally relevant technical expertise and targeted practical assistance to advance high-needs digital preservation and curation activities within tribal...
This federal Project Grant award of $235,692.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), to the Library of Virginia Foundation. The funding will support the digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Virginia newspaper content dating from 1860-1963, with a focus on expanding access to African American and German language newspapers, as well as 19th century agricultural...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,428 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for "Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse Across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections." This 2-year project (2/1/2025 to 1/31/2027) will utilize the Media History Digital Library collection and the university's high-performance...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Inc. a $957,649 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will support the Wisconsin Humanities Council in providing local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming from June 2021 through April 2023. As the state's nonprofit affiliate of the NEH, the Wisconsin Humanities Council will use the federal funding to promote...
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 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...
This $199,994 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the publication of a book titled "The Color of Farming in the Heartland: A History of Land, Race and Memory in Wisconsin since 1820." The book manuscript will investigate how the dynamics of race shaped the development of agriculture and rural land settlement in Wisconsin, and how intersections of race and farming helped shape the state's...