Project Grant PW28507022
- The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) will receive $399,000 through June 2030 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). AAS, an independent research library focused on pre-20th century American history and culture, will use the funding to support 26 months of long-term fellowships annually. The fellowships, first funded by NEH in 1976, enable scholars from various backgrounds and career stages...
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the American Historical Association to develop teaching and learning resources focused on the use of historical artifacts in history education. With $199,808 in funding over a two-year period from October 2021 to December 2023, the Association will create a multi-platform publication program under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162)....
- 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,...
- 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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $381,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) to support long-term research fellowships from January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. This grant will enable the AAS, a non-profit research library and learned society, to provide 25 fellowship months per year at a $5,000 monthly stipend level for scholars to conduct humanities research using the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to The Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to produce, test, assess, and host an educational interactive documentary website titled "The Barbara Johns Project." This project aims to illuminate the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation (Jim Crow) in the South between the Civil War and...
- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis was awarded $500,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop virtual humanities programs for underserved students. The museum will use the funding to continue and improve its real-time virtual school programs, introduce an on-demand library of teacher resources, and digitize parts of its collections for use in new video content....
- 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) effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. Under this third cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), the awardee will digitize pre-1830 Massachusetts newspapers and contribute them to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America platform, a freely...
- The American Philosophical Society (APS) received a $302,776 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities program to digitize manuscript, pamphlet, newspaper, and broadside collections related to Revolutionary Philadelphia from 1774-1783. The APS will employ three full-time digitization specialists and six permanent staff to digitize approximately 36,000 pages of original materials from APS and the Library Company of Philadelphia...
HISTORIC CHILDREN'S VOICES, 1799-1899 [THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, A LEARNED SOCIETY AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCH LIBRARY OF PRE-20TH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, SEEKS NEH SUPPORT FOR HISTORIC CHILDREN'S VOICES, 1799-1899, WHICH WILL ADDRESS THE DIFFICULTY OF DISCOVERING ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE FROM?NOT ABOUT?PEOPLE UNDER AGE 20, WHO REPRESENTED HALF THE U.S. POPULATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY. THIS PROJECT WILL MAKE CHILD-AUTHORED TEXTS, WHICH ARE ABUNDANT YET NOT EASILY DISCOVERABLE IN ARCHIVES, ACCESSIBLE VIA DETAILED CATALOGING AND DIGITIZATION, AS WELL AS DISSEMINATION VIA A RESEARCH GUIDE ON THE AAS WEBSITE FEATURING A WEBINAR ON HOW TO SEARCH FOR THESE MATERIALS AS WELL AS CURRICULAR GUIDES FOR K-12 AND FOR COLLEGE EDUCATORS. A PUBLIC PROGRAM WILL INTRODUCE PARENTS AND CHILDREN TO HISTORIC CHILDREN'S VOICES, AND A TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM (TO BE RECORDED AND SHARED VIA THE AAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL) WILL BRING TOGETHER RESEARCHERS TO DISCUSS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND USE OF CHILD-AUTHORED TEXTS AS HISTORICAL EVIDENCE.]
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| Not listed | ($2k) | 3/27/25 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 6/2/24 | ||
| Not listed | $338.9k | 6/23/22 | ||
| Not listed | $338.9k | 6/23/22 |