Project Grant PW25902918

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $348,758 to the American Congregational Association through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for the "Recovering Untold Stories from Revolutionary New England" project. The award, effective September 1, 2025, with completion by August 31, 2028, supports the digitization, description, and transcription of early church records from six partner institutions across New...

The American Congregational Association Inc. received a $289,300 three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the New England's Hidden Histories initiative to digitize and provide online access to approximately 18,000 historical church records and related documents from the 17th-18th centuries held in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,...

Historic New England will utilize a $100,745 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to hire a Curatorial Fellow to assist in developing an expanded collecting plan. The Fellow will identify community partners to participate in collaborative meetings on Indigenous, Black, and LGBTQ+ histories in New England. Additionally, the Fellow will research marginalized stories within Historic New England's existing collections, catalogue...

The National Archives and Records Administration, through its National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA #89.003), has provided $119,084 to the University of Virginia Press to develop Founders Online (www.founders.archives.gov). This Project Grant will support the creation of a website that makes freely available the historical documents of the Founding Fathers of the United States from October 2021 through September 2022. Scholars have collected, transcribed, and...

The New Hampshire Historical Society received a $182,396 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The award will support completion of the Society's "The Democracy Project: Completing an Education and Collections Initiative." Through January 2023, the Society will finish development of an online resource called "Moose on the Loose" designed for upper elementary students....

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture will use a $370,920 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Hidden Histories of the Founding Era professional development program. The program will introduce teachers to four sites in Virginia encompassing the complexity of the founding era through two five-day residential sessions at the College of William & Mary in summer 2023. The sites - William & Mary's Brafferton Building, the...

Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project Summary The Connecticut State Library received a $249,194 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 approximately 100,000 pages of historic Connecticut newspapers for public access through the Library of Congress's Chronicling America database. The award was obligated on January 1, 2026, with a completion date of December 31,...

Summary The Massachusetts Historical Society received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. This award supports continued editorial work on the Adams Papers Editorial Project, an authoritative scholarly edition of diaries, letters, official records, public writings, and literary materials produced by three generations of the...

This federal Project Grant award of $189,708.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a 6-day teacher workshop hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Concord Museum. The workshop will explore multiple narratives of the American Revolution and its legacies in Massachusetts, providing place-based experiences at historic sites guided by academic and public historians, literary...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. received a $297,867 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 and preserve pre-1830 Massachusetts newspapers for contribution to the Library of Congress's Chronicling America platform. The award, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027, represents the third cycle of the National Digital...