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...
This Project Grant award of $343,197.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) seeks to introduce undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to careers in librarianship, with a focus on preservation, archives, and conservation work. The project will deliver a hybrid program including virtual seminars and on-site, hands-on internship experiences at the Hbcu...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...
This federal Project Grant award of $524,388 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will support the Minnesota Humanities Center in delivering humanities-focused public programming across the state of Minnesota from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029. The programming aims to spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of communities, histories, and cultural...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $944,736 Project Grant to the Minnesota Humanities Center, doing business as the Humanities Education Center, to support programming under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This program provides annual grants to state humanities councils to promote local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming. Funding will support the Minnesota Humanities Center's work organizing public events,...
This $149,779 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 deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist to work with at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations over a two-year period. The Archivist will provide culturally relevant technical expertise and targeted practical assistance to advance high-needs digital preservation and curation activities within tribal...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc. (MACC) for its Regional Preservation Field Services Program. The program will run from March 2025 to February 2027 and aims to strengthen preservation practices and collections care at cultural repositories in the Upper Midwest region. Key services provided under this grant include: Delivering collections care and preservation workshops Providing disaster planning,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Atlantic City Free Public Library a $123,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to create "The Atlantic City Experience Research Library Digital Repository" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The library will use the funding to digitize and provide online access to its cultural heritage collections documenting the contributions of the African...
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...
This $148,988 Project Grant was awarded on October 1, 2023 by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant funding will support the "Mott Haven History Keepers" project, which aims to identify, honor, and invest in members of the Mott Haven community in the South Bronx who are serving as "history keepers" and repositories of the neighborhood's history, despite not being...