Project Grant PJ31105426
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,580 Project Grant to the West Virginia University Research Corporation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The 2-year grant, running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, will fund the American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project. This project seeks to digitize and aggregate congressional archives material in a single, searchable online portal to expand access to individual...
- 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 Wyoming, through its Sponsored Programs division, has been awarded a $262,828 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a two-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, the funding will support the Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Wyoming's microfilmed newspapers. This will contribute to the National Digital...
- 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 (NEH) awarded the West Virginia Humanities Council Inc. (WVHC) $675,470 under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. The funding will support WVHC's delivery of local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming for West Virginia residents. As the state humanities council for West Virginia, WVHC will utilize the NEH funding to promote public engagement with...
- 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 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 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...
- The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $322,526 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant provides funding from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025 to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Kentucky newspapers, including those from underrepresented populations and German-language volumes, for inclusion in the Chronicling America and Kentucky Digital...
- 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 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 August 31, 2028, with work conducted in West Virginia. West Virginia University Research Corporation, a nonprofit research subsidiary of West Virginia University, serves as the prime recipient. The National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress, maintains the freely accessible, searchable online database that will permanently house the digitized materials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $225.9k | 8/20/26 |