Project Grant RH10016217

The Trustees of Indiana University will edit volumes 3, 4, and 5 of The Frederick Douglass Papers Correspondence series and volume 2 of The Journalism and Other Writings series under a $122,245 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration. They will also complete phase three of migrating the ongoing digital edition to a new web platform, adding another 500 documents. This work supports the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program, which funds...

The National Archives and Records Administration awarded Rutgers, The State University $160,000 under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to support the Thomas A. Edison Papers project from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. Project staff will continue editorial work on the Edison General File for the years 1926-1929, complete processing and uploading over 119,000 images for the image edition, enhance usability of Edison's notebooks, and implement plans...

The Weeksville Society will use this $703,414 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (CFDA 45.309) program to complete a comprehensive collections inventory and increase public access to the Weeksville Heritage Center's collections documenting the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Key project activities include cataloging unprocessed collection items,...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the American Historical Association to develop teaching and learning resources focused on the use of historical artifacts in history education. With $199,808 in funding over a two-year period from October 2021 to December 2023, the Association will create a multi-platform publication program under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162)....

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University $100,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309) to establish a sustainable digital framework for documenting, preserving, and sharing African and African American cultural heritage collections held by the University Galleries. Project activities include cataloguing and digitizing collections, developing a digital...

This $510,213.00 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization, to digitize and catalog a collection of 3,500 manuscripts. The project will also involve transcribing selections from the collection and creating an online public portal to provide access to the digitized materials. This will allow Historic Hudson Valley staff to better understand, care...

The Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) received a two-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, NEDCC will provide free preservation training, resources and assessments to ensure the long-term care of humanities collections. Specific deliverables include eight hands-on disaster preparedness workshops, eight general preservation...

Historic Hudson Valley will use a $411,211 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to develop a library of classroom engagement resources for teaching about slavery. Working with the Hard History Project, Historic Hudson Valley will create peer-reviewed lesson plans, discussion prompts, and questions based on stories in its award-winning interactive documentary "People Not Property: Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North."...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $155,090 to Appalshop, Inc. to preserve and improve access to its archival collections relating to Appalachian history and culture. Through digitization efforts of photographic negatives from 1935 to 1955 and 16mm archival films, as well as purchasing scanning equipment, the award supports enhancing public access to these...