Project Grant PJ30772026
- 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 $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 Providence Public Library (PPL), in partnership with the Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS), has been awarded a $321,241.61 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The funding will support the continued digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Rhode Island newspapers, with a focus on themes related to the American Revolution and Industrial Revolution. 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 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 Connecticut State Library received a $249,194 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 Connecticut newspapers. The project will provide online access to these materials through the Library of Congress' Chronicling America database. The digitized newspapers span the Revolutionary War through the early Republic and showcase Connecticut's...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
- 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 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 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 Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. was awarded a $297,867 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant, with a start date of January 1, 2026 and end date of December 31, 2027, will support the Boston Public Library's efforts to digitize pre-1830 newspapers from Massachusetts and contribute them to the "Chronicling America" digital platform. This will provide researchers, educators, and the public with increased access to essential Revolutionary and early American historical newspapers not yet digitized. The grant aligns with the NEH program's goal of preserving and providing intellectual access to primary humanities resources held in cultural heritage institutions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $297.9k | 11/24/25 |