The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a two-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the History of Cartography Project to ensure long-term availability and access to primary cartographic resources. As the largest and longest-running editorial project in the history of cartography, it will preserve and provide intellectual access to map...
The Wisconsin Historical Society was awarded a $334,186 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the modernization of the Society's collection digitization services over two years from January 2022 to December 2023. Key products and services include hiring six staff positions and creating three new positions to support expanded digitization...
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) provides $149,779 to Wisconsin Library Services Inc. (WiLS), a non-profit organization, to deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist. The Archivist will work with at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations over a two-year period, providing culturally relevant technical expertise and targeted practical assistance for...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,428 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for "Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse Across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections." The project aims to examine how publicity text and promotional images circulated and shaped what Americans read in newspapers and magazines,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Inc. a $957,649 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will support the Wisconsin Humanities Council in providing local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming from June 2021 through April 2023. As the state's nonprofit affiliate of the NEH, the Wisconsin Humanities Council will use the federal funding to promote...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $305,540 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Wisconsin Historical Society to execute the "Wisconsin Digital Newspaper Project: Wisconsin's Tapestry of Voices" over a two-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The project will digitize newspapers from a selection of Wisconsin's immigrant groups that were published in their native...
The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) on May 1, 2024. The grant will fund a range of activities related to the preservation, publication, and public use of historical records and documents relating to U.S. history. This may include digitizing archival collections, creating online editions of historical papers,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $119,970 Project Grant under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Illinois for the "No Longer at the Margins: A Digital Project to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women in Science" initiative. This collaborative project between the University of Illinois Archives, Science Stories, and the University of Minnesota Archives aims to digitize and provide...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $160,000 project grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant period runs from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. The funding will support activities undertaken by the University of Wisconsin-Madison to preserve, publish, and increase use of documentary sources related to United States history. As the prime recipient,...
This three-year, $978,978 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the University of Wisconsin-Madison in improving access to important historical collections held by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and UW-Madison School of Pharmacy. The key products include creating a comprehensive finding aid for the 1,000 cubic foot Kremers Reference Files...