Project Grant PJ5000305

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 University of Tennessee received a $1.3 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 undertake the Tennessee Digital Newspaper Project Phase One from July 1, 2010 through August 31, 2016. The project aimed to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary newspaper resources held in Tennessee by digitizing select newspaper titles and making them freely...

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 Utah Community Preservation Program (UCPP) is a $347,604 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities on March 1, 2021 with a completion date of February 28, 2024. The grant is funded through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary humanities resources held in libraries, museums, archives, and historic sites. Under this award, the Utah Division of Arts...

The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $527,561 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to undertake the California Digital Newspaper Project. The grant period ran from September 1, 2018 to February 28, 2021. The project aimed to preserve and provide intellectual access to historical newspaper resources held in California libraries, museums and...

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 University of North Texas Libraries received a $203,140 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The award will fund a two-year project to digitize and make available 100,000 pages of Texas newspaper content through the National Digital Newspaper Program. The selected newspaper titles will reflect the political and economic history of the state, provide coverage for...

The University of Alabama will receive $622,680 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic Alabama newspapers published between 1901 and 1926. The grant funding will support the Alabama Digital Newspaper Project as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project aims to preserve and provide access to primary newspaper resources through the digitization of microfilmed...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $321,382 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) for the "CALIFORNIA NDNP 2023-25" project. The grant will fund the digitization of mid-20th century African-American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area, which will be contributed to the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). UC Riverside...

The University of Alabama was awarded a $324,887 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program to digitize and make accessible approximately 100,000 pages of historic Alabama newspapers from 1894 to 1963. This grant builds upon three previous projects that have added over 250,000 digitized Alabama newspaper pages to the Chronicling America online database. The University of Alabama will partner with a...