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...
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 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 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 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...
The University of Florida (UF) received a $275,743 Project Grant award 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 selection, digitization, and provision of approximately 100,000 historic newspaper pages from Florida's diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic communities to the Library of Congress through the National Digital Newspaper Program...
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 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 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 Illinois Humanities Council has been awarded a $737,354 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The five-year grant, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2029, will enable the Illinois Humanities Council to activate the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and...