The American Philosophical Society received a $123,300 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship from January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024. The NEH grant will fund research and scholarship activities for a postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society. As described in the program description, the Promotion of the Humanities Research program aims to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $688,914 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The grant will support the processing and digitization of the Dow Historical Collection, which documents over 100 years of history for a significant American company and offers insight into how it shaped 20th-century American life. Specifically, the project...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,650 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Pharos: The International Photo Archives Association. The grant will enable Pharos, a collaboration among 14 North American and European art historical photo archives, to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform. This platform will provide consolidated access to photo archive images and associated...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $127,274 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to the University of Virginia (UVA) for the North American Climate History Project. This collaborative effort between UVA, Princeton University, and the American Philosophical Society aims to develop a federated weather and climate records platform to support the editorial preparation and publication of historical weather and...
The Library Company of Philadelphia was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a three-year period from January 2023 to December 2025, the grant will fund the Library Company Papers Project to comprehensively review, process, and digitize the Library Company's institutional records from 1731 to 1880. This will preserve early American history contained...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $291,336 Project Grant to The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) to support the third and final phase of a critical digital systems and infrastructure modernization project. This effort will migrate HSP's databases to the cloud and improve physical equipment to maximize the updated cloud environment, ensuring stable and secure access to HSP's numerous catalogs and databases. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $285,979 Project Grant to the Providence Public Library (PPL) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant will fund a collaborative digitization project between PPL and the Rhode Island Historical Society to digitize over 100,000 pages of historical Rhode Island newspapers from PPL's microfilm collection. This will make these important primary sources widely available...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $319,588 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspapers from Arizona. The grant will be used by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records (LAPR) and the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) to partner as co-principal investigators on the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project aims to digitize...
The American Philosophical Society (APS) received a $302,776 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities program to digitize manuscript, pamphlet, newspaper, and broadside collections related to Revolutionary Philadelphia from 1774-1783. The APS will employ three full-time digitization specialists and six permanent staff to digitize approximately 36,000 pages of original materials from APS and the Library Company of Philadelphia collections. Digitized materials and associated metadata will be made accessible through the "Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation's Founding" online repository. In addition, the APS will produce contextual essays and a monthly blog about the diverse experiences within Revolutionary Philadelphia. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative digital humanities projects that utilize or study digital technology's impact, consistent with the goals of this digitization and online access project. No subawards are associated with this award.