Project Grant PJ31100126
- 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 National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska $324,932 on September 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize Nebraska newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Program. The University of Nebraska, through its Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, will select, digitize, and transfer 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers dating from 1854–1963 to the Library...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University of Alabama $324,984 on September 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic Alabama newspapers for ingest into Chronicling America, the Library of Congress's open-access newspaper database. The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections will execute the digitization work in partnership with a digital conversion...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Library of Virginia Foundation $296,029 on September 1, 2026, to digitize 100,000 pages of historical Virginia imprint newspapers dating from 1774–1963 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The digitization project will expand coverage of early American newspapers, extend coverage for titles previously digitized for Chronicling America, and add content from a currently unrepresented...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University of South Carolina $1.543210 million on September 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to establish a three-year Civics and Humanities Program. The program delivers small "Great Books" seminars and public humanities activities including lectures, debates, and summer programs designed to counter declines in book reading, knowledge of foundational Western and American texts, and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded West Virginia University Research Corporation $225,929 on September 1, 2026, to digitize 100,000 pages of historic West Virginia newspapers for ingest into the Chronicling America database under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The digitization project makes these newspapers widely accessible to students and researchers and advances their long-term preservation. Performance runs through...
- 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 the Minnesota Historical Society $321,083 on September 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963 for inclusion in Chronicling America, the National Digital Newspaper Program's freely accessible online database maintained by the Library of Congress. The recipient will produce...
- 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 University of South Carolina received a $171,855.05 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant funded the development of a computational tool to identify patterns of language change in social media over time. The Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative digital humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University of South Carolina $324,979 on September 1, 2026, to digitize and deliver 100,000 pages of historical South Carolina newspapers published prior to 1963 to the Library of Congress through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a program under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149). Over the two-year period ending August 31, 2028, the University of South Carolina Libraries Digital Collections Department and the South Caroliniana Library will select newspapers in collaboration with advisory board members, work with external vendors to digitize and duplicate newspapers primarily from microfilm, and deliver title selection lists, data batches, duplicate negative microfilm reels, newspaper title essays, updated catalog records, and a survey of non-NDNP news archives to the Library of Congress in compliance with NDNP technical guidelines. The team will also conduct community outreach events to promote Chronicling America and the NDNP. Work is performed in South Carolina.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $325.0k | 8/21/26 |