Project Grant PJ5003708

The State Historical Society of Missouri received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration's National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant supports a range of activities related to the preservation, publication, and access to documentary sources on United States history. This includes digitization projects to expand access to artwork, imagery, and other archival materials representing aspects of Missouri history and...

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 Illinois received a $2.8 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 support the Illinois Digital Newspaper Project from July 1, 2009 through August 31, 2021. The project aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to historical newspaper content held in Illinois libraries, museums and archives by digitizing materials and ensuring...

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 Arkansas Digital Newspaper Project, Cycle IV, is a $324,095 project grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The project will select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website an additional 100,000 to 110,000 pages of Arkansas' historic newspapers, published from 1819 to 1963, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. The...

The Arkansas State Archives received a $324,595 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize 100,000 to 110,000 pages of historic Arkansas newspapers and Native American newspapers published between 1819 and 1963. The award, dated January 1, 2026, with completion anticipated by December 31, 2027, represents the fifth cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program...

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 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 Ohio History Connection, a non-profit organization, was awarded a $319,511 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the digitization of 100,000 pages of Ohio's microfilmed newspapers to continue the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio. This effort will build upon the over 520,000 pages already digitized and made available through the...

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...