Project Grant PW30433025
- This $349,999 federal 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), will fund a project by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to digitize, transcribe, and preserve 17th-century court records related to escaped enslaved laborers and indentured servants in the Chesapeake region. The project will create a publicly accessible database and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,126 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Christiansburg Institute, Inc. The objective of this 2-year grant, with a performance period from June 2024 to May 2026, is to digitize four data-rich school and community collections related to the Christiansburg Institute, a historically Black educational institution in Virginia. The digitization effort will create...
- The federal Project Grant award of $136,528 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) supports the "Blank Spaces in the Library Archives" community-based learning and digitization project at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The project aims to document and publicize the underrepresented lived experiences of people of color from the 18th to...
- This $136,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program supports a 2-year project by Appalshop Inc. to identify, preserve, and amplify Black Appalachian experiences and voices in central Appalachia. The project involves cultural mapping of Black churches and faith experiences, collecting oral histories from an integrated community in Kentucky, and participating in...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $249,963 to the University of Texas at Austin to create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website titled "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present." The project will digitize and analyze oral histories to document how Afro-Latinx communities were affected by housing and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Presbyterian Historical Society $330,678 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize, describe, and provide online open access to approximately 22,500 photographs and associated documents from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection from 1945 to 1982. This two-and-a-half year project will expand on prior work conducted under a 2019 NEH planning grant to...
- This 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 fund a project to digitize archival materials at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. The $107,780 grant will support several stages of the project, including digitization, rehousing, metadata correction, and publishing of the digitized records online. The goal is to increase public access to material that focuses on...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) totaling $349,929.00 will support the "Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index" (SSHI) project at Emory University. The SSHI will document and index over 300,000 printed hymn tunes and texts from 1,311 significant books of vernacular sacred music published in the Southern United States between 1850-1925. This open-access reference...
- The American Congregational Association Inc. received a $289,300 three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the New England's Hidden Histories initiative to digitize and provide online access to approximately 18,000 historical church records and related documents from the 17th-18th centuries held in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,...
- The University of Southern California received a $499,999 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support a Humanities Discussions Project titled "LA2026". The project will bring together members of the public and humanities scholars for 18 discussions about museum and cultural exhibitions at 6 partner institutions in the Los Angeles region. These discussions will reframe conversations about...
This federal Project Grant award of $249,144.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will allow the University of Southern California (USC) to preserve and provide online public access to archival materials documenting the history of the Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles (SBCLA). The project will arrange, describe, and digitize 175 linear feet of SBCLA's records and 1,673 audio recordings, as well as digitize 5,400 pages of records and hundreds of historic photographs from the papers of Rev. Thomas Kilgore, Jr. The resulting digital collections will be made accessible through the SBCLA website, Online Archive of California, USC Libraries' archives, and other platforms. This grant-funded effort will ensure the long-term preservation and wide availability of these important primary source materials related to the history of one of Southern California's oldest African American Baptist churches.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $249.1k | 8/7/25 |