The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $555,959.75 Project Grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021. Under this award, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will produce a scholarly edition of the complete letters of American author Willa Cather. As the parent organization of the awardee, the University of Nebraska system will oversee this project....
The University of Virginia will receive $400,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research federal grant program (CFDA 45.161) to complete editorial work on The Papers of James Madison documentary project. With this two-year Project Grant award beginning October 2021, the University will finish publishing volumes for the years 1806-1809 and 1826-1836, bringing the total published volumes to 49 and completing the edition between 2028 and 2030....
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) will enable the publication of critical editions of Mark Twain's major travel books "The Innocents Abroad" and "Following the Equator", as well as digital editions of his notebooks, journals, and letters, on the Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO) platform. The $600,000 grant awarded to the University of California, Berkeley will fund this...
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 Project Grant award "THE RUBEN DARIO: CRITICAL EDITIONS PROJECT" is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The $246,377 award supports a collaborative effort by U.S. and international scholars to produce four volumes of critical and annotated scholarly editions in Spanish of journalistic works by the influential Hispanic writer Ruben Dario. This project aims to provide a more comprehensive...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $375,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the University of Tennessee to aid in preparing Volumes XIII, XIV, and XV of "The Papers of Andrew Jackson" covering the years 1835, 1836, and 1837-1839, respectively. This multi-volume annotated edition project aims to publish a comprehensive collection of Andrew Jackson's public and private papers. The University of Tennessee is...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Dominguez Hills Foundation California State University. This 2-year grant, commencing on January 1, 2024, will fund the publication of an open-access digital edition of the complete, unexpurgated letters written by American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) to over 250 correspondents between 1827 and 1836. This project...
This $200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the editorial work of the Papers of U.S. President George Washington 1732-1799 project. This scholarly documentary editing initiative plays a crucial role in preserving and disseminating the historical record of one of America's most important figures, providing valuable insights into the early history and development of the United...
The Trustees of Princeton University will receive $565,000 through September 2025 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue work on The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Editorial Project. This Project Grant funding supports the ongoing editorial work of the authoritative scholarly edition of papers written by and to Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. President, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The Project furthers the program's goals of advancing...
The Project Grant award of $346,453.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.169 - Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania supports the development of the VCEDITOR 2.0 PROJECT. This project builds upon the success of the existing VCEDITOR 1.0 software, which is actively used by manuscript scholars, book historians, conservators, curators, catalogers, and students. The VCEDITOR 2.0 PROJECT aims to expand the...