Project Grant PW30438125
- 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...
- This federal Project Grant award of $235,692.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), to the Library of Virginia Foundation. The funding will support the digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Virginia newspaper content dating from 1860-1963, with a focus on expanding access to African American and German language newspapers, as well as 19th century agricultural...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $200,000 to Preservation Virginia through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to support activities from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. Under the award, Preservation Virginia will continue preservation work at five historic sites in its stewardship. The organization will research original construction methods used by enslaved laborers and document discoveries through...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $348,758 project grant to the American Congregational Association to digitize, describe, transcribe, and make accessible 22,000 pages of early church records from the New England region. The project, titled "NEHH: Recovering Untold Stories from Revolutionary New England," aims to recover the experiences of African American and...
- This $499,997 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, will fund five new digital humanities initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University through December 2023. The university will employ seven positions including four full-time professionals and three graduate assistants to conduct oral histories on Black institutions during the Civil Rights movement, create an online database of political...
- The Clemson University project, "Reconstructing the Black Archive: South Carolina as Case Study, 1739-1895," received a $395,594 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The funding supports the project from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The project aims to uncover ways to understand and reconstruct early Black lives in South Carolina through collaborative...
- This $188,178 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund a multi-part educational initiative on the topic of school desegregation in Virginia. The project offers two one-week residential workshops and four virtual follow-up meetings for 60 K-12 school teachers, with a focus on grades 6-12 social studies/history educators. During the workshops, participants will visit...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $465,000 Project Grant to the Library of Virginia Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Library of Virginia in digitizing and providing online access to its extensive collection of approximately 250,000 World War II separation notices dating from 1942 to 1950. Housed at the Library since 1950, the collection has remained largely...
- This federal Project Grant award of $125,000.00 from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) supports the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) in preserving, digitizing, and providing public access to historical records and documentary sources related to United States history. The project will involve activities such as digitizing archival collections, creating online editions...
- 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 support the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, Phase VI. The $304,870 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund the digitization and delivery to the Library of Congress of an estimated 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers dating from 1854-1963 for inclusion in the Chronicling America digital...
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 website with the digitized records and related research materials, making this historical information more available to scholars, students, and descendant communities. Faculty and students at two Historically Black Colleges and Universities, NC Central University and Virginia State University, will collaborate with the Virginia Tech team on the data transcription, preservation, and website development aspects of the project.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $350.0k | 8/28/25 |