Project Grant PJ31103826
- This federal Project Grant award of $235,692.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), to the Library of Virginia Foundation. The funding will support the digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Virginia newspaper content dating from 1860-1963, with a focus on expanding access to African American and German language newspapers, as well as 19th century agricultural...
- 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 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 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 (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 (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 Arkansas State Archives received a $324,595 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149), awarded January 1, 2026, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. Under this award, the Archives will digitize approximately 100,000 to 110,000 pages of Arkansas historic newspapers and Native American newspapers published between 1819 and 1963 as part of Cycle V of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The digitized...
- 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 a $600,612.12 Project Grant to the Washington Secretary of State under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) for the period of September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2021. The grant funds the Washington Digital Newspaper Project to ensure long-term access and availability of historical newspaper content held in Washington state libraries, archives and museums. As the state library...
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 geographic area of Virginia. The work will be performed in Virginia with completion by August 31, 2028. Digitized materials will be ingested into Chronicling America, a freely accessible national digital resource of historically significant newspapers maintained by the Library of Congress as part of the partnership between NEH and LOC.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $296.0k | 8/28/26 |