The Ohio History Connection, a non-profit organization, was awarded a $319,511 Project Grant 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 digitization of 100,000 pages of Ohio's microfilmed newspapers to continue the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio. This effort will build upon the over 520,000 pages already digitized and made available through the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (UNL) for the project "Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship Attribution and Display." This project aims to develop two interconnected innovations to assist researchers and scholars of print culture who work with periodicals: 1) an...
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...
This federal Project Grant award for $338,357 was made by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2027. The award supports the "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books" project, which aims to build open data and code infrastructure for metadata, page images, and manual and automatic transcriptions of over 242,000 early modern...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University to investigate the relationship between digitized early print materials and their physical sources. The 24-month project, running from February 2025 to January 2027, will develop state-of-the-art handwriting detection models to assist bibliographic research tasks using digital humanities collections. The project aims to move beyond simple...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $324,997 Project Grant to the Trustees of Dartmouth College under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This 2-year grant, starting on September 1, 2024, will fund the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project, which aims to digitize and make available 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from New Hampshire through the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project will be led...
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was awarded a $304,870 project grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), to digitize and provide access to an estimated 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers dating from 1854-1963. This represents Phase VI of the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, which the university has led since 1982 as part of the United States Newspaper Program and National Digital...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1,364,254 project grant to the Ohio Humanities Council under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant period runs from June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023 and will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming in Ohio. Through this funding, the Ohio Humanities Council will deliver humanities programs to promote civic and cultural engagement across the state. As part...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded George Mason University a $138,256 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) for the "Connecting Threads: Digitally Connecting Collections, Expanding Public Engagement" project. This open access digital humanities project will increase access to and engagement with global fashion histories by digitally connecting relevant collections from small museums and archives...