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 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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $465,000 Project Grant to the Library of Virginia Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Library of Virginia in digitizing and providing online access to its extensive collection of approximately 250,000 World War II separation notices dating from 1942 to 1950. Housed at the Library since 1950, the collection has remained largely...
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...
The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $322,526 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant provides funding from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025 to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Kentucky newspapers, including those from underrepresented populations and German-language volumes, for inclusion in the Chronicling America and Kentucky Digital...
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 University of North Texas Libraries received a $203,140 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The award will fund a two-year project to digitize and make available 100,000 pages of Texas newspaper content through the National Digital Newspaper Program. The selected newspaper titles will reflect the political and economic history of the state, provide coverage for...
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 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 Colorado Digital Newspaper Project received $820,254.78 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for the period of September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2022. The State Historical Society of Colorado, doing business as the Colorado History Museum, will apply the funding to ensure long-term access and availability of Colorado newspaper content by digitizing historical newspaper...