Project Grant RH10304120

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1.25 million Project Grant to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the Foundation's implementation of a digital preservation and enhanced access strategy for its Interviews: An Oral History of Television collection from June 2022 through May 2025. The collection comprises over 3,000 hours...

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 $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...

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...

The University of Illinois received a $2.8 million Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to support the Illinois Digital Newspaper Project from July 1, 2009 through August 31, 2021. The project aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to historical newspaper content held in Illinois libraries, museums and archives by digitizing materials and ensuring...

Northeast Historic Film Inc. will receive $340,361 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog, digitize, and publish television collections from all Maine stations between 1953 to 2008 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Through this three-year project grant running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, Northeast Historic Film will process over 83 accessions of television news, sports, interviews, programs and...

The University of Tennessee received a $1.3 million Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to undertake the Tennessee Digital Newspaper Project Phase One from July 1, 2010 through August 31, 2016. The project aimed to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary newspaper resources held in Tennessee by digitizing select newspaper titles and making them freely...

This $130,586 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. in digitizing 775 audio reels representing 731 live radio broadcasts of Boston Pops concerts conducted by Arthur Fiedler between 1958-1979. The project will preserve the original tapes and make the digitized files available to scholars and the public, ensuring the long-term...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program awarded a $300,784 Project Grant to the Minnesota Historical Society to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on the period 1923-1963. This effort is part of the state's ongoing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The project will preserve and provide digital access to these...

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...