The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $161,754 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to Gettysburg College for the project "CIVIL WAR ARCHIVES: A NEW SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR." The funding supports a two-week residential institute for 36 higher education faculty to explore how the "archival turn" can generate new perspectives on Civil War and Reconstruction history by investigating...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $348,655 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to the University of Delaware's Center for Historic Architecture and Design to stabilize and disseminate its archive of vanishing historic architecture from the Mid-Atlantic region. This two-year grant, running from June 2024 to November 2026, will support the processing and public release of 1,800 "born-digital" historic property documentation records collected...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,779 project grant under its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to The Living New Deal Project. The grant seeks to enhance the organization's contributions to the digital humanities by: 1) auditing and upgrading its existing data on New Deal public works projects; 2) incorporating U.S. Census spatial and population data to expand the scope of its database; 3) piloting methods to locate...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,928 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Gettysburg College. The grant will fund two week-long workshops for K-12 educators focused on "the relationship between history and memory and the conflict between what happened and how we remember it." Through the workshops, participants will explore how "perceptions of the past shape how we document and...
The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM) received a three-year, $349,860 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. CWRGM is developing an open-access digital documentary edition of over 20,000 documents from the papers of nine Mississippi governors spanning 1859 to 1882. To date, the project team has made nearly 7,000 documents available on their Omeka-S-based...
The federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, supports the Urban Archive's "Collections Management and Engagement Program, Phase 4." This $150,000 grant, awarded on February 1, 2025, aims to enhance Urban Archive's digital infrastructure and provide a location-based digital platform and collections-management system for cultural organizations across New...
The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States (NTHP) was awarded a $499,566 Project Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support research and reinterpretation at five National Trust historic sites. The grant will advance equity and reconciliation through new humanities perspectives developed with input from descendant communities at Shadows on the Teche in Louisiana, Woodlawn in...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the "Promotion of the Humanities Research" (CFDA 45.161) program to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois. This grant supports efforts to identify, image, transcribe, annotate, and publish online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865). The goal is to replace the existing Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln publication with a new...
This $147,371 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant aims to collaborate with residents of East St. Louis, Illinois to build an archive documenting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has two key components: conducting oral histories with community elders and first responders, and organizing community-based archiving events...
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...