The Maine State Library received a two-year, $447,150 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Maine Digital Newspaper Program to digitize historical newspapers from Maine with a focus on titles related to Franco Americans and the labor movement. Over the grant period from September 2022 through August 2024, the Maine State Library as prime...
The Maine State Library has been awarded a $261,184 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from Maine over a two-year period from September 2024 to August 2026. This project, titled "Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal: 2023-2026 NDNP Cycle," aims to expand public access to stories and perspectives of Maine's diverse communities by digitizing news content, including...
This federal Project Grant award of $174,519.00 was provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) through the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant supports the University of Maine System's Research & Sponsored Program division in preserving, digitizing, and providing public access to historical records and documentary sources related to United States history. Key project activities include digitizing archival...
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...
Northeast Historic Film Inc. will receive $340,361 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog, digitize, and publish television collections from all Maine stations between 1953 to 2008 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Through this three-year project grant running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, Northeast Historic Film will process over 83 accessions of television news, sports, interviews, programs and...
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...
The University of Florida (UF) received a $275,743 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the selection, digitization, and provision of approximately 100,000 historic newspaper pages from Florida's diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic communities to the Library of Congress through the National Digital Newspaper Program...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program awarded a $300,784 Project Grant to the Minnesota Historical Society to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on the period 1923-1963. This effort is part of the state's ongoing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The project will preserve and provide digital access to these...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to Northeastern University under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program. The grant, awarded on February 1, 2025, will fund the refinement and scaling of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI) prototype. The project aims to transform the DAILP TI prototype into a shareable resource for indigenous document translation, drawing...
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...