The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $555,959.75 Project Grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021. Under this award, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will produce a scholarly edition of the complete letters of American author Willa Cather. As the parent organization of the awardee, the University of Nebraska system will oversee this project....
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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (UNL) for the project "Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship Attribution and Display." This project aims to develop two interconnected innovations to assist researchers and scholars of print culture who work with periodicals: 1) an extension...
The University of Virginia received a $303,104 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop Literature in Context, an open digital anthology of English language literature from 1400 to 1925. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), which supports innovative humanities projects utilizing digital technologies. Literature in Context will be a TEI-encoded, openly accessible digital resource for...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $299,533 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to edit and publish the late-life writings of Walt Whitman. The project will feature Whitman's two experimental late-life works, "November Boughs" (1888) and "Good-Bye My Fancy" (1891), along with approximately 315 related manuscripts. This effort will make Whitman's...
This federal Project Grant award of $428,609.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) supports Humanities Nebraska, a non-profit organization, in bringing humanities programming to life across the state. The grant enables Humanities Nebraska to deliver public humanities programming, including subawards and initiatives, tailored to the needs, resources, and interests of local Nebraska communities. Key...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Dominguez Hills Foundation California State University. This 2-year grant, commencing on January 1, 2024, will fund the publication of an open-access digital edition of the complete, unexpurgated letters written by American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) to over 250 correspondents between 1827 and 1836. This project...
The University of Wyoming received a $150,000 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop digital methods for analyzing book illustrations in cultural institutions. Titled "Finding a Place: Advancing Digital Methods to Unlock the Use of Digitized Book Illustrations in Cultural Institutions," the project will utilize digital technologies to expand comparative analysis of illustrations contained in archival collections. By identifying...
New Mexico State University will receive $1,037,289 over three years from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to undertake the Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project. The project will digitize and provide intellectual access to the personal correspondence of the Amador family held in the university's archives. As the awardee, New Mexico State University's Office of...