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 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 Connecticut State Library received a $259,644 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Preservation and Access Program (CFDA 45.149), to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Connecticut newspapers. The project will focus on digitizing newspapers related to political, economic, and social change in early 19th century Connecticut, the Polish immigrant community in New Britain, and suburbanization in the greater Hartford region in the 1940s and 1950s. The project...
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 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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $324,997 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Project Grant to the Trustees of Dartmouth College for the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project. This 2-year project, commencing on September 1, 2024, will digitize and make available 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from New Hampshire through the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project will be led by the Dartmouth Libraries in partnership with the...
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 $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 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...
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...