Revolutionary city: digitizing the hidden stories of philadelphia, 1774-1783 ['revolutionary city: digitizing the hidden stories of philadelphia, 1774-1783' will allow the american philosophical…

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.

Activities

  the american philosophical society will employ three full-time digitization specialists and six permanent staff. These specialists and staff members will aid in the digitization of manuscripts, pamphlets, newspapers, and broadsides related to revolutionary philadelphia, in total 36,000 items. The resulting repository will be available and useful to scholars, teachers, students, and the public. Further, this repository will help populate the website, revolutionary city: a portal to the nation's founding.     this project also allows the american philosophical society to create contextual essays about a diverse range of experiences within revolutionary philadelphia, and a monthly blog on the project. &nbsp

Expected outcomes

36,000 pieces of print materials and collections will be digitized and appropriately catalogued for public access and inclusion in the revolutionary city: a portal to the nation's founding repository. They will retain three full-time digitization specialists and six permanent staff members. Lastly, they will craft essays contextualizing the materials within the diverse community of revolutionary philadelphia and write a blog about the project and its progress. &nbsp

Intended beneficiaries

This will benefit scholars, teachers, and the public by making accessible myriad print resources on revolutionary philadelphia. By being available both through the museum and revolutionary city project, these materials will reach both an immediate and global audience interested in philadelphia and its inhabitants during the american revolution.  subrecipient beneficiaries:  this project does not intend to issue subawards. ]