The University of New Mexico was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant supports a 3-year project to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical records and documentary sources related to U.S. history. Key activities include digitizing archival collections, creating online editions of historical papers, developing collaborative...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $349,999 Project Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to improve preservation and long-term stewardship of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology's archaeological and ethnographic collections. The 3-year project will enhance storage space and organization for over 1,500 ethnographic baskets and whole/partial archaeological ceramic vessels. It will also create a designated...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas A & M University $349,067 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The university will publish an open access corpus of Syriac literature in English translation along with tools to automate digitization, encoding, and markup of Syriac textual resources. It will contextualize the text corpus by integrating linked data from an online...
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 National Archives and Records Administration awarded the University of New Mexico (UNM) a $500,000 Project Grant under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant, effective from September 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, will fund activities related to the preservation, publication, and use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States. As the prime awardee, UNM will leverage its expertise in historical research and...
This $170,000 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) supports New Mexico State University's efforts to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical records and documentary sources related to U.S. history. The award, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to December 31, 2025, will fund activities such as digitizing archival collections, creating online...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $322,608 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) project grant to Arizona State University to develop a digital reference collection for the La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project. The project, a collaboration with Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, will facilitate access to a collection of artifacts and documents from seven major field seasons of excavation at a...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration's National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) provides $150,000.00 to Northern New Mexico College to undertake a wide range of activities related to the preservation, publication, and use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States. The award period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. As a state-run Hispanic and Native American serving...
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...
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...