Project Grant PW29054523
- The University of South Alabama received a $453,394 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support efforts to preserve and share community histories of underrepresented groups in South Alabama through two projects. Staff will be retained and hired at the University's McCall Rare Book & Manuscript Library to process and digitize existing oral history collections,...
- The University of Alabama will receive $622,680 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic Alabama newspapers published between 1901 and 1926. The grant funding will support the Alabama Digital Newspaper Project as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project aims to preserve and provide access to primary newspaper resources through the digitization of microfilmed...
- The University of Alabama was awarded a $324,887 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program to digitize and make accessible approximately 100,000 pages of historic Alabama newspapers from 1894 to 1963. This grant builds upon three previous projects that have added over 250,000 digitized Alabama newspaper pages to the Chronicling America online database. The University of Alabama will partner with a...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $343,197 project grant to Hbcu Library Alliance Inc. The grant seeks to introduce undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to librarianship careers, focusing on preservation, archives, and conservation work. The program includes a hybrid format of virtual seminars and on-site, hands-on internship...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Auburn University a $196,388 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a week-long workshop titled "Bloody Sunday, Selma, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" to be held in Alabama from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The workshop will bring together educators from across the country for an immersive exploration of the civil rights...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Albany State University a $165,474 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The two-year grant funded the "STRENGTH FROM ADVERSITY: A READING, DISCUSSION, AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM" from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2018. This program enhanced the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new teaching and learning resources, and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to Prairie View A&M University, a federally designated Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Texas. The grant funding will support faculty enrichment and curriculum development to bolster the university's newly launched African American Studies program. The project aims to deepen...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Alabama State University received a $982,683 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Higher Education Institutional Aid program (CFDA 84.031) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. This award specifically supports the Title III Part F Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) program component. As an eligible HBCU institution, Alabama State University will utilize...
- Auburn University will implement a redesigned year-long Alabama history-themed writing program for incoming first-year college students at two Alabama correctional facilities, under a $149,989 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will support the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (APAEP) at Auburn University to offer its quality educational experiences to incarcerated individuals in Alabama. Specifically, APAEP will redesign and implement...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $283,189 to Winston-Salem State University to conduct an ethnographic study of the experiences of Black faculty, especially women, teaching at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The project, titled "Amplifying Our Voices: The HBCU Experience Among Black Faculty," seeks to examine the culture and nuanced...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $312,176 Project Grant to Alabama State University under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the Enhancing Access to Alabama's Black Political and Educational History archival processing project at Alabama State University from June 2023 through May 2026. The project aims to process, conserve, and create finding aids for the historic records of the Alabama State Teachers Association and the Alabama Democratic Conference to increase accessibility for researchers. The records will document the political and educational history of Alabama's Black community. By preserving these collections and making them more accessible, the project supports the Preservation and Access program's goals of ensuring long-term availability of primary humanities resources in libraries, museums, archives and other repositories.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $278.4k | 5/8/23 | ||
| Not listed | $33.8k | 5/8/23 |