Project Grant PJ30768026
- The University of Illinois received a $2.8 million Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to support the Illinois Digital Newspaper Project from July 1, 2009 through August 31, 2021. The project aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to historical newspaper content held in Illinois libraries, museums and archives by digitizing materials and ensuring...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $336,288 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. The grant funding will support the digitization and online publication of 2,400 rare and historical books from the library's Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection, which represents over 300 indigenous languages of North and Central America. This...
- 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 University of Oregon received a $324,907 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Oregon newspaper content for inclusion in the Chronicling America website. The project, titled "Expanding Coverage of Oregon Newspapers in Chronicling America," will focus on digitizing newspaper content related to labor movements, faith...
- This $348,811 federal Project Grant award to Northern Illinois University from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Midwest Latinx Oral History Digital Library" project. The award will fund the digitization and online dissemination of nearly 300 audio and video oral history interviews along with full-text transcripts, documenting the diversity of the growing Latinx...
- 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 $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) awarded a $149,178 Project Grant to Illinois College under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant funding will be used to expand the African American Studies curriculum and programming at Illinois College through a public humanities approach. Key objectives include: Engaging at least 15 faculty members in two summer curriculum development institutes to...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Northern Illinois University $348,900 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) from March 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The project grant funding will support the Digital POWRR Professional Development Institutes for Digital Preservation. Over the course of five 2.5-day events serving 30 practitioners each, a total of 150 librarians, archivists, and museum professionals will receive new...
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is receiving a $324,189 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) to digitize and contribute 100,000 pages of historical newspaper content documenting Native American history from the 19th to mid-20th centuries. The project will source materials from multiple cultural heritage repositories in Illinois, including key partnership with the Newberry Library, and will focus on newspapers published by or for Native American communities, newspapers relevant to the history of federal Indian boarding schools, and newspapers published along removal routes in Southern and Central Illinois. This new digital content will increase access to these important historical resources for underserved communities in Illinois and serve as a valuable research collection on indigenous-settler relations in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. The award period is from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $324.2k | 11/24/25 |