FA-25554-85 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Sally (Sarah) M. Fitzgerald | Life and Work of Flannery O'Connor | 6/1/1985 - 5/31/1986 | $27,500.00 | Sally (Sarah) | M. | Fitzgerald | | | | Unaffiliated Independent Scholar | Cambridge | MA | 02138 | USA | 1985 | American Literature | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 27500 | 0 | 25496 | 0 | No project description available |
FB-52943-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Brad D. Gooch | A Biography of Flannery O'Connor | 1/1/2007 - 6/30/2007 | $24,000.00 | Brad | D. | Gooch | | | | William Paterson University | Wayne | NJ | 07470-2103 | USA | 2006 | American Literature | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 24000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
"Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor" will be the first major literary biography of a fascinating and increasingly influential American twentieth-century author. Balancing her background as a Roman Catholic writer, living in middle Georgia, confined to her mother's dairy farm by the lupus from which she died at 39 years old, she wrote two novels as well as two collections of short stories considered masterpieces of the form. O'Connor was chosen as the first postwar figure included in the canonic Library of American series, and is widely taught today in colleges and universities. |
FT-60963-13 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | The Days of H. L. Mencken: Trilogy and Accompanying Notes | 7/1/2013 - 8/31/2013 | $6,000.00 | Marion | Elizabeth | Rodgers | | | | Unaffiliated Independent Scholar | Washington | DC | 20007-3080 | USA | 2013 | American Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), the prolific author, editor, newspaperman, and philologist, influenced two generations of writers, spanning the period from World War I through the 1920s. In light of Mencken's importance to the nation's cultural and literary heritage, I have been chosen to edit his autobiographical trilogy, "Happy Days, Newspaper Days and Heathen Days." This scholarly Library of America edition will also include the first publication of Mencken's "Additions, Corrections and Explanatory Notes," the last major primary historical documents released under time-lock. New knowledge includes how he honed his craft as well as intimate details of childhood and family, filling in personal and historical gaps in Mencken's biography. In Mencken's attempt to draw serious and meaningful conclusions about his life, flaws and imperfections, the man who emerges is not the vague legendary figure but the actual Baltimorean, who influenced such writers as Sinclair Lewis and Richard Wright. |
GG-287616-22 | Public Programs: Humanities Discussions | Library of America | 400 Years of Latino Poetry | 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2025 | $849,449.00 | Max | | Rudin | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 2022 | Latin American Literature | Humanities Discussions | Public Programs | 849449 | 0 | 849449 | 0 | A
national series of public programs tied to the release of an anthology of Latino
poetry.
Library of America, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, plans 400 YEARS OF LATINO POETRY, a national public humanities initiative comprising a groundbreaking published anthology; public programs and conversations with literary scholars, poets, and historians; and a website featuring a permanent digital archive of teaching and learning resources. |
GI-235149-16 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Library of America | World War I: A Centennial Exploration Through the Words of Americans Who Lived It | 4/1/2016 - 6/30/2019 | $550,000.00 | Max | | Rudin | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 2016 | U.S. History | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Public Programs | 550000 | 0 | 550000 | 0 | Implementation of nationwide library programs, a traveling exhibition, a website, and a publication of an anthology exploring how World War I reshaped American lives.
The Library of America requests a grant in the amount of $702,345 in partial support of World War I: A Centennial Exploration Through the Words of Americans Who Lived It, a major national program marking the centenary of the country’s entry into the war in 1917. The project has two related objectives. The first is to bring members of the veteran community together with the general public to explore the transformative impact of the First World War by learning about, reading, discussing, and sharing insights into the writings of Americans from diverse backgrounds who experienced it first-hand. The second objective is to develop, curate, and make permanently and widely available an annotated narrative collection of firsthand American World War I writings in print and ebook form that will encourage exploration and discussion of the war’s meanings and resonances long after the centennial is over. |
GI-50059-09 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Library of America | Lincoln in American Memory | 7/1/2008 - 6/30/2009 | $299,750.00 | Max | | Rudin | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 2008 | U.S. History | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Public Programs | 299750 | 0 | 299750 | 0 | Implementation of a book, a public programming resource, and a website, all designed to encourage exploration of the ongoing meaning and uses of Abraham Lincoln's legacy in American history, society, and culture.
The Library of America requests a grant in the amount of $299,750 in partial support of Lincoln in American Memory (to borrow a title from Merrill Peterson's authoritative study): a book, a public programming resource, and a website, all designed to encourage exploration of the ongoing meaning and uses of Abraham Lincoln's legacy in American history, society, and culture. Organized to mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth in February 2009, Lincoln in American Memory will complement other projects organized to commemorate the bicentennial, including traveling exhibitions and public programming initiatives supported by NEH, for which our project would provide a unique and indispensable resource. The project is designed to make the Lincoln Bicentennial an even more significant and substantive occasion for public conversation. |
GI-50416-12 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Library of America | Civil War 150: Exploring the War and its Meaning Through the Words of Those Who Lived It | 4/1/2012 - 3/31/2015 | $625,000.00 | Max | | Rudin | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 2012 | U.S. History | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Public Programs | 625000 | 0 | 625000 | 0 | Implementation of a multiformat project that would encourage public exploration of the transformative impact and contested meanings of the Civil War through the words of a wide variety of first-hand participants.
The Library of America requests a grant in the amount of $686,367 in partial support of "Civil War 150," a major national program designed to encourage public exploration of the transformative impact and contested meanings of the Civil War through the words of a wide variety of first-hand participants. |
GL-20599-85 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Tucson Public Library | Solitary Music: American Literary Classics | 4/1/1985 - 3/31/1986 | $15,000.00 | Rolly | | Kent | | | | Tucson Public Library | Tucson | AZ | 85726 | USA | 1985 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Public Programs | 15000 | 0 | 15000 | 0 | To support a series of programs using themes in American literature as the sub-ject for lectures and book discussions. Works in the Library of America serieswill be used as the central texts for the programs. |
GL-20669-86 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Tucson Public Library | America: A Reading | 4/1/1986 - 6/30/1988 | $206,605.00 | Rolly | | Kent | | | | Tucson Public Library | Tucson | AZ | 85726 | USA | 1986 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Public Programs | 206605 | 0 | 205364.14 | 0 | To support a series of reading and discussion programs using works in the Library of America series and other selected American literature as the centraltexts. Participants will consider the themes found in the works of these major American writers. |
GL-20717-86 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Library of America | The Complete Plays of Eugene O'Neill: A Proposal to Publish a Three-Volume Complete Edition in the Library of America | 10/1/1986 - 12/31/1988 | $160,000.00 | Daniel | | Aaron | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 1986 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Public Programs | 160000 | 0 | 160000 | 0 | To support the scholarly and editorial expenses for the first complete and authoritative edition of the plays of Eugene O'Neill. The three-volume set willconform to the textual, editorial, and manufacturing standards established for all Library of America publications. |
GL-20934-89 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Library of America | THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LIVES A proposal for a new series of autobiographical & biographical writings | 11/1/1989 - 11/30/1990 | $72,200.00 | Cheryl | | Hurley | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 1989 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Public Programs | 72200 | 0 | 72200 | 0 | To support development of an editorial process, including selection criteria, textual authority, and production standards, for a series of American autobiographical and biographical writings. |
GL-20992-91 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Library of America | American Poetry and Verse to 1900: A Proposal to Publish a Two-Volume Anthology in the Library of America | 4/1/1990 - 12/31/1993 | $90,000.00 | Cheryl | | Hurley | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 1991 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives | Public Programs | 0 | 90000 | 0 | 90000 | To support the publication of a comprehensive anthology of American poetry and verse to 1900. |
GP-21038-83 | Public Programs: Special Projects | Library of America | The Library of America: Henry James Criticism & Henry Adams History of the U.S. | 10/1/1983 - 7/31/1986 | $210,000.00 | Cheryl | | Hurley | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 1983 | American Literature | Special Projects | Public Programs | 210000 | 0 | 210000 | 0 | To support the development costs for five volumes in the Library of America, tobe published over the next two years. Included are a two-volume set of Henry James's Criticism and a three-volume set of Henry Adams's History. |
GW-259323-18 | Public Programs: Community Conversations | Library of America | Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters Today | 9/1/2018 - 6/30/2021 | $369,000.00 | Max | | Rudin | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 2018 | American Literature | Community Conversations | Public Programs | 369000 | 0 | 369000 | 0 | Production
of an anthology of African American poetry and an accompanying series of
reading and discussion programs.
Library of America requests a grant in the amount of $458,418 in partial support of Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters Today, a major national initiative to explore and reassess the multifaceted African American poetic tradition, its complex engagement with American history over 250 years, and its ongoing relevance to our national life. The project has two related objectives. One is to bring together Americans of varied backgrounds around the country to engage with the richness of this essential American tradition in ways that illuminate the continuities and discontinuities between past and present and offer context and insight into questions that remain of vital national importance. The second is to make permanently available a groundbreaking anthology reflecting several generations of scholarly and archival research and rediscovery that will encourage exploration and discussion of the tradition’s meanings and resonances long after the project is over. |
HC-50008-11 | Digital Humanities: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Digital Humanities) | Open Knowledge Commons | Digital Public Library of America Technical Workshop | 5/1/2011 - 8/31/2011 | $29,858.00 | Maura | | Marx | | | | Open Knowledge Commons | Cambridge | MA | 02138-2735 | USA | 2011 | Library Science | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Digital Humanities) | Digital Humanities | 29858 | 0 | 29858 | 0 | The first official meeting of the Digital Public Library of America's technical workstream group.
The first official meeting of DPLA's technical workstream would explore the requirements for indexing large-scale U.S. digital libraries and begin to make recommendations for the overall technical architecture of a DPLA. It would also incorporate a meeting of the Steering Committee to plan for a Fall 2011 plenary meeting. |
HC-50017-12 | Digital Humanities: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Digital Humanities) | DPLA | Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs Pilot | 10/1/2012 - 9/30/2016 | $1,250,000.00 | Daniel | J. | Cohen | | | | DPLA | Boston | MA | 02116-2813 | USA | 2012 | Library Science | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Digital Humanities) | Digital Humanities | 1250000 | 0 | 1250000 | 0 | The incorporation and launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a groundbreaking project that seeks to digitize and bring together the contents of our nation's libraries and archives, and make them freely available to all online. Project activities to be completed during the grant period will include the creation of four state or regional "service hubs," each responsible for developing a standard set of services to local organizations, and meetings with both service hubs and existing large-scale "content hubs" to formulate content provider agreements.
The DPLA Digital Hubs Pilot will take the first steps to bring together existing United States digital library infrastructure into a sustainable national digital library system. Foundational to the DPLA collection will be the rich historic materials held by archives, public libraries, museums, and historic societies across the country.These materials are important to historians, genealogists, sociologists and scholars of a wide range of humanities disciplines studying every aspect of American life. The goal of the project is twofold: to develop, test and implement the agreements and methods by which existing content hubs -- large scale digital content repositories -- become part of an interconnected national network, and to strengthen local services to institutions and communities and to develop guidelines for sustainable regional digital cooperatives, while enabling hub participation and data ingestion in the DPLA. |
HK-230916-15 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | University of Minnesota | Immigrant Stories | 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2017 | $324,121.00 | Erika | | Lee | Elizabeth | | Venditto | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2015 | Immigration History | Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | Digital Humanities | 324121 | 0 | 321432.4 | 0 | Expansion of a project that engages recent immigrant and refugee communities as they create and share digital video narratives about their lives and experiences. During the implementation phase, the applicant would collaborate with national stakeholders to develop an easy-to-use, web-based framework to produce these digital stories, which would be publicly available via the Minnesota Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America.
The Immigration History Research Center's Immigrant Stories project fosters humanities research and public dialogue around immigration by empowering recent immigrants with the tools to document, preserve, and share their experiences with the wider American public. It helps first- and second-generation immigrants and refugees create digital stories about their experiences--short personal videos with images, text, music, and audio--that are preserved and made publicly available through the IHRC Archives, the Minnesota Digital Library, and the Digital Public Library of America. Immigrant Stories uses immigrant-centered digital tools and training to expand participation in the digital humanities regardless of education, English proficiency, and access to technology. Its archive makes valuable content on contemporary immigration accessible to both humanities scholars and the broader public. |
HZ-265200-19 | Digital Humanities: Humanities Open Book Program | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | Georgia Open History Library: From Colony to Statehood | 5/1/2019 - 4/30/2023 | $207,554.00 | Lisa | | Bayer | | | | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | Athens | GA | 30602-1589 | USA | 2019 | U.S. History | Humanities Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 207554 | 0 | 206568.73 | 0 | In anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the United States, the digitization and creation of freely-accessible ebooks for 50 titles on the history of Georgia.
The Georgia Open History Library (GOHL) will publish open digital editions of 50 out-of-print volumes of broad historical and intellectual significance to the colonial and early statehood periods in advance of the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026. Our title selection includes rare primary documents along with scholarly studies of the period, all enhanced with new material representing diverse voices in contemporary scholarship. When shared broadly in a permanent, accessible, discoverable format via multiple online platforms, the collection will be an invaluable resource to both general readers and scholars. A key component of our promotional strategy is public-facing programming with a diverse group of statewide organizations, colleges, universities, historical societies, academic organizations, and public and research libraries. |
LD-234222-16 | Public Programs: Humanities in the Public Square | University of Minnesota | Global Minnesota: Immigrants Past and Present | 1/1/2016 - 3/31/2017 | $148,015.00 | Erika | | Lee | | | | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2015 | Immigration History | Humanities in the Public Square | Public Programs | 148015 | 0 | 148015 | 0 | Implementation of a year-long project of public forums and smaller-scale public programs on the history of immigration in Minnesota that would also include a digital oral history project on recent immigrants’ experiences.
Global Minnesota: Immigrants Past and Present, a year-long series of dynamic public programming organized by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota, will engage diverse public audiences across the state in ongoing public reflection on immigration's role in shaping American life. The IHRC will collaborate with humanities scholars and community organizations to produce public forums, programs, and educational resources that discuss a wide range of multigenerational immigrant histories in Minnesota, a state with a long and rich history of both “old” and “new” immigration. The IHRC is requesting funding from the Humanities in the Public Square program to support both large-scale public forums with award-winning writers and scholars and smaller-scale community-based programs and discussions during 2016, which will cost a total of $205,800. We are requesting $148,015 from the NEH and will cost share the remainder. |
LI-50001-06 | Public Programs: Libraries Implementation | Library of America | Early American Writing in The Library of America | 3/1/2006 - 2/29/2008 | $300,000.00 | Cheryl | | Hurley | | | | Library of America | New York | NY | 10022-1006 | USA | 2006 | American Literature | Libraries Implementation | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | The publication of "American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (two volumes) and an expanded volume of selected works by Captain John Smith and other early exploration narratives. |
LP-50014-07 | Public Programs: Libraries Planning | National Book Foundation | Rumors of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: The Life and Work of Mark Twain | 5/1/2007 - 8/31/2008 | $39,972.00 | Harold | | Augenbraum | | | | National Book Foundation | New York | NY | 10016-7801 | USA | 2007 | American Literature | Libraries Planning | Public Programs | 39972 | 0 | 39972 | 0 | Planning of reading and discussion and other programs to be held at 100 library or other community sites around the nation along with a traveling exhibition and an extensive website about Twain and his lasting cultural influence.
The National Book Foundation, in conjunction with the Mark Twain House & Museum, seeks a planning grant of $39,972 of a total budget of $62,401 to plan "Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated...: The Work and Life of Mark Twain", a series of public programs that will explore themes in the work and life of Mark Twain (1835-1910) on the centennial of his death and the anniversary of his birth. The planning process will include: 1) a national planning meeting , 2) development of an honorary committee, 3) draft of a Twain timeline, 4) draft of a useable bibliography, 5) draft of a filmography, 6) a survey of institutional holdings, 7) an outline for a travelling exhibition, 8) a speakers list of scholars, 9) a plan for recruitment of venues, 10) research on a new Library of America volume, 11) draft of a participants' handbook, and 12) a corporate and foundation funding packet. |
PA-50164-03 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | University of Maryland, College Park | Preserving and Improving Access to the Collections of the Library of American Broadcasting | 9/1/2003 - 4/30/2005 | $98,585.00 | Charles | | Howell | | | | University of Maryland, College Park | College Park | MD | 20742-5141 | USA | 2003 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 98585 | 0 | 97462 | 0 | The arrangement and description of 140.5 linear feet of correspondence and manuscripts, 1,500 photographs, and 48 scrapbooks in 18 collections held in the Library of American Broadcasting that focus on women in the broadcasting industry from 1920 into the1980s. A finding aid to the collections would be mounted on the Internet. |
PW-228182-15 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Minnesota | Guthrie Theater Archives (1963-Present): The 21st Century Collection | 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2017 | $100,000.00 | Kris | | Kiesling | | | | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2015 | History, General | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 100000 | 0 | 99366.15 | 0 | The arrangement and description of 800 cubic feet of archival material documenting the history of the Guthrie Theater from 1963 to the present.
The University of Minnesota Libraries seeks $137,020 in NEH funding to support an 18-month project to arrange, preserve, and describe the records of the nationally-recognized Guthrie Theater (guthrietheater.org) to current archival standards. Additionally, we will actively work with the Guthrie Theater leadership and staff to review and revise the current records management plan in order to address institutional changes and to create a sustainable plan for future accruals that includes born digital records. The work of gaining adequate intellectual and physical control of the collection is the necessary first step in making these materials publicly available through digitization, which is being planned for 2016. In the course of arranging and describing the materials, we will identify and flag materials that can be digitized at this later stage for thematic inclusion in national digital aggregation initiatives, such as the Digital Public Library of America. |
PW-234844-16 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Southern California | The Fire Last Time: Digitizing the Independent and Webster Commission Records on the 1992 L.A. Civil Unrest | 7/1/2016 - 6/30/2019 | $200,000.00 | Deborah | Ann | Holmes-Wong | R. Wayne | | Shoaf | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | CA | 90089-0012 | USA | 2016 | U.S. History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 200000 | 0 | 196960.79 | 0 | Digitization of 182,264 pages of archival records and 291 hours of audiovisual recordings of the Independent and Webster Commissions, convened to investigate the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles.
Our project will digitize for free online public access the records of the Independent and Webster Commissions, which investigated the causes of the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1992 civil unrest. Upon its conclusion, we will publish 182,264 pages of historical records and 291 hours of audiovisual recordings in the USC Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America. |
PW-253676-17 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Digitizing Annotated Books, 1472-1814 | 5/1/2017 - 10/31/2018 | $261,000.00 | Philip | S. | Palmer | | | | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles | CA | 90024-4201 | USA | 2017 | European History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 261000 | 0 | 261000 | 0 | The digitization of 76,600 pages of annotated printed
books dating from 1472-1814. The
selected pages have extensive contemporary (or near-contemporary) manuscript
additions, which include reading notes, proofreaders’ and/or printers’ marks,
scholarly commentary, drawings, and pen trials.
In addition, 279 original catalog records would be created for the
annotations, and the digital content would be made accessible through Calisphere, the California Digital
Library’s website, as well as through the Digital Public Library of America.
UCLA's Center for 17th- &
18th-Century Studies, which administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, seeks to produce and make freely available on the Internet digital
facsimiles of 76,600 pages—containing more than 2.5 million (2,500,000)
handwritten words—of the Clark's copiously or extensively annotated printed books
from the hand-press era. The facsimiles will be hosted by the California
Digital Library (CDL) on its website, Calisphere.
Metadata about and links to the facsimiles will be harvested by the Digital
Public Library of America and be freely available to other sites and scholarly
endeavors. Complete sets of the 600- or 400-dpi TIFF files created by the
project will be archivally stored by both the UCLA Digital Library and CDL.
Metadata already gathered about the nature and extent of the annotations will be
made available through original cataloging records created in OCLC during the
course of the project. |
PW-259094-18 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Duke University | Voices of Change II: Bringing Radio Haiti Home | 7/1/2018 - 6/30/2020 | $85,753.00 | Naomi | L | Nelson | | | | Duke University | Durham | NC | 27705-4677 | USA | 2018 | Cultural History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 85753 | 0 | 85753 | 0 | Enhanced description of nearly 4,000 audio recordings in the Radio Haiti Archive and a pilot project to test more effective access channels for Haiti and other underserved areas.
Voices of Change II: Bringing Radio Haiti Home, a twelve-month, $85,753 project at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, will result in the enhanced description of the Radio Haiti Archive and a roadmap for repatriating the Archive’s 5,300 audio recordings to Haiti. The Radio Haiti team will create detailed, trilingual description for all the recordings, vastly improving the ability to search the individual programs and making the collection more accessible to those who do not speak Haitian Creole. They will also complete a pilot to explore whether YouTube, Internet Archive or a low-bandwidth version of the Duke Digital Repository would provide the most effective access for people in Haiti and other underserved areas. Voices of Change II provides far-reaching access to a singular archive of information and voices and provides a model for the repatriation of other such displaced archives. |
PW-259113-18 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | New York Historical Society | Digitization of the New-York Historical Society's Subway Construction Photograph Collection | 5/1/2018 - 4/30/2020 | $87,310.00 | Henry | F. | Raine | | | | New York Historical Society | New York | NY | 10024-5152 | USA | 2018 | Urban History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 87310 | 0 | 87310 | 0 | The digitization of 66,000 photographs produced
by the New York City Board of Transportation before and during construction of
the New York subway system from 1900 to 1950, documenting people, buildings,
streetscapes, and the construction process throughout the subway network across
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
The New-York Historical Society
will digitize its Subway Construction Photograph Collection, dating from
1900-1950 and numbering 66,000 images, and make them publicly available through
the use of its new Islandora digital portal, N-YHS Digital Collections, the
Digital Public Library of America, and WorldCat. The photograph collection
documents the construction of New York City's subway system in four boroughs
including Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens. The collection also
documents the face of the city, including its built environment, streetscapes,
and people during the first half of the 20th century. Many of the photographs
are works of art completely unknown to researchers and the public alike. The
digitized collection will facilitate their use for educational and scholarly
purposes. The images will include enhanced metadata as well as geo-coding with
latitude and longitude information. |
PW-259144-18 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Southern California | L.A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project | 7/1/2018 - 6/30/2021 | $270,000.00 | Susan | | Luftschein | Deborah | Ann | Holmes-Wong | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | CA | 90089-0012 | USA | 2018 | American Studies | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 270000 | 0 | 262901.36 | 0 | Digitization of around 17,000 items including paper materials, historic photographs, video recordings, and cultural objects from collections held by six community archives in the L.A. as Subject research alliance.
The L.A. as Subject Community
Histories Digitization Project will make publicly accessible via the USC
Digital Library and Digital Public Library of America collections held by 6
community archives from the L.A. as Subject research alliance: the Filipino
American Library, the First AME Church of Los Angeles, the Go for Broke
National Education Center, the Pasadena Museum of History, the Southern
California Library, and the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum. The 6
collections document the experiences of post-WWII Filipino immigrants; videos
of 400 sermons by Rev. Dr. Cecil "Chip" Murray at a socially engaged
African-American church in South Los Angeles; firsthand perspectives of
Japanese-American WWII veterans in 1,100 video oral history interviews; the
daily lives of late 19th and early 20th century African-American,
Asian-American, and Latino communities; and Jewish women's groups. The project
will publish 2,950 hours of video and 15,000 photos and pages of paper
materials. |
PW-264041-19 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Minnesota | Rhizomes of Mexican American Art since 1848: An Online Portal | 5/1/2019 - 4/30/2021 | $60,000.00 | Karen | Mary | Davalos | | | | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2019 | History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | A planning project to develop a digital portal
to information and archival sources on Mexican American art. The activities would lay the groundwork for
establishing future partnerships with small institutions and for building a
database for Mexican American art nationwide.
The University of Minnesota,
The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, and the National Museum of Mexican
Art (NMMA) seek an NEH HCRR Foundations grant to undertake planning efforts for
an online portal, Rhizomes of Mexican Art since 1848, that will aggregate
Mexican American art and related documentation from existing digital collections
across the nation. Art attributed to Mexican heritage artists living in the
United States is a rich aesthetic tradition that enhances how humanities
scholars think about American art, history, and culture. Co-PDs Davalos and
Cortez with a team of scholars and technical specialists will convene online
and in-person to produce three Foundations-level outcomes: 1) a protocol by
which relevant content from small-budget institutions feed into Rhizomes; 2) a
curated search strategy, new metadata, and controlled vocabularies; and 3)
submission of proposals for adoption of new metadata schema by the Getty
Research Institute and the NMMA. |
PW-285125-22 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | A Digital Library of Willa Cather's Literary Manuscripts | 2/1/2023 - 1/31/2026 | $304,207.00 | Andrew | Wade | Jewell | Melissa | J. | Homestead | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2022 | American Literature | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 304207 | 0 | 304207 | 0 |
The Willa Cather Archive proposes to create a digital library of American novelist Willa Cather's literary manuscripts (broadly construed to encompass all pre-publication forms of her work). These materials are currently distributed across a range of repositories and are largely ignored by scholars and students of her writing. Our plan is to create a digital library of these materials that includes: 1) high-resolution images of each document, sufficient to facilitate close inspection of its details; 2) rich metadata about each item capturing its relationship to Cather's published work and other documents, its physical properties, the editorial hands visible on it, and other details about its creation; and 3) an expert-authored document analysis that describes, in straightforward prose, details about the manuscript that will help users make sense of its meaning and its place in the evolution of a particular work, including its relationship to other documents in the digital library. |
PW-296878-24 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Christiansburg Institute, Inc. | Unveiling 20th Century Black Life in Middle Appalachia: Digitizing School and Community Records for Christiansburg Institute Digital Archives | 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2026 | $349,126.08 | Jennifer | Lynn | Nehrt | | | | Christiansburg Institute, Inc. | Christiansburg | VA | 24073-3161 | USA | 2024 | African American History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 349126.08 | 0 | 349126 | 0 | Cataloging and digitizing four collections on the Christiansburg Institute, an educational organization in Appalachia established by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1866.
The first students to attend what became Christiansburg Institute in 1866 were formerly enslaved. A century later in 1966, the school graduated its final class and its remaining students integrated into formerly all-white schools. Over the span of one hundred years, thousands of students traversed its halls, leaving behind records and artifacts that bear witness to their experiences and those of their families. The objective of this project is to amplify the voices of Black Appalachians by digitizing four data-rich school and community collections, creating 2,161 comprehensive catalog records for Christiansburg Institute Digital Archives. Digitized materials will also be available through Virginia Tech Libraries’ Southwest Virginia Digital Archives and Digital Public Library of America’s Digital Virginias. These records, in conjunction with CIDA’s existing digital collections, can foster new scholarship and promote a deeper understanding of both African American and Appalachian history. |
PY-234009-16 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Pennsylvania Highlands Community College | Families Forever: A Cambria Memory Project | 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 | $4,222.00 | Barbara | | Zaborowski | | | | Pennsylvania Highlands Community College | Johnstown | PA | 15904-2948 | USA | 2015 | Immigration History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 4222 | 0 | 4222 | 0 | A series of community digitization events focusing on the immigrant history of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, through the collection of family photos, mementos, and artifacts. The Cambria County Historical Society, St. Francis University, the Johnstown Area Historical Association, and the Pennsylvania Highlands Community College would each serve as a scanning location and host cultural programs for the public, to include presentations entitled Healing African Dance, Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges, and Sevdalinka: A Musical Tour of Bosnia. In addition to the cultural heritage programming, Pennsylvania Highlands Community College in Johnstown would offer two workshops on how to handle and preserve family items using simple preservation materials readily available to the public.
Cambria County, Pennsylvania has a rich history of ethnic immigration. Families in the county have amassed historical relics brought from their native countries by grandparents and great-grandparents. In addition, there is a strong sense of family and genealogy. Many ethnic social organizations exist to keep alive the traditions of these various old world countries. This project will focus on capturing family photos, mementos, and artifacts in digital format. The digital images will be uploaded into a statewide repository, PowerLibrary, which will be a part of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In order to generate interest in this project, a combination of social media, traditional print, and outdoor advertising will be used. A comprehensive series of public programs will also be offered to reinforce care and treatment of family heirlooms and the history of immigration. This project will highlight best practices and serve as a model for other organizations. |
PY-234322-16 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Mead Public Library | Preserving the History of Sheboygan Through Digital Images | 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 | $10,802.00 | Debbra | | Voss | | | | Mead Public Library | Sheboygan | WI | 53081-4563 | USA | 2015 | Cultural History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 10802 | 0 | 10715.55 | 0 | A series of community digitization events at several cultural heritage organizations in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to preserve personal photographs, letters, memoirs, posters, artwork, and other privately-held sources documenting the history and culture of the region. The materials would be made accessible via “Recollection Wisconsin,” a statewide digital repository that contributes content to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The applicant would also collaborate with the Sheboygan County Historical Society and Museum to develop an exhibit that would featuring selections from digitized sources and also host a six-part series of public lectures on local history by the director of the Sheboygan Historical Research Center. Finally, the curator of a local historic property, the Wade House, would offer a related set of public events entitled “Restoring the Past,” inviting visitors to participate in hands-on historic restoration activities.
This project offers individuals the opportunity to have digitized their historical photographs, documents, and works of art that have a City of Sheboygan connection. Items previously digitized by any publicly accessible digital archive will be excluded. A series of scanning days will be held throughout the grant period, on-site and off-site, to ensure the greatest opportunity to capture these images. Individuals will be encouraged to sign a Deed of Gift so these images can be included in the Ozaukee & Sheboygan Memories digital database. This database will be harvested by Recollection Wisconsin, which will soon become a hub of the Digital Public Library of America. Collaboration with the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, Sheboygan Museum, and the Wade House will connect the community with its past through presentations and exhibits on how this unique history shaped and influenced not only the lives of current day residents but extended to national and international borders. |
PY-234326-16 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc. | Salted, Pickled, or Smoked: Preserving and Presenting the Cultural Heritage of New Bedford’s Fishing Community | 3/1/2016 - 2/28/2017 | $12,000.00 | Laura | Corinne | Orleans | | | | New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc. | New Bedford | MA | 02741-2052 | USA | 2015 | Cultural Anthropology | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 12000 | 0 | 12000 | 0 | A day-long digitization event and subsequent follow-up to preserve cultural heritage materials held by members of the New Bedford area fishing community, and attendant public programming. The applicant would partner with the University of Massachusetts, Boston, which has run the “Mass Memories Road Show.” University staff would provide support during the digitization day and would also train volunteers. Images would be stored in the University’s digital collections, as well as at New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, the Digital Commonwealth, and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Items anticipated for scanning include photographs, documents, and artifacts. Public programming would have three themes: sustaining community, life on shore, and life at sea. Programs would include presentations by members of the fishing community before the digitization day event at the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center; a workshop by New Bedford Public Library staff on proper archival storage on the day of the event; and an exhibit of digitized materials after the event.
The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center proposes to digitize the cultural heritage of the local fishing community. Commercial fishing is often a family activity with skills and knowledge passed from one generation to the next. Consequently, much of this history resides in the photo albums, documents, and artifacts of fishing families. This project will digitize these materials through a day-long public event in combination with “house calls” to digitally document materials from individuals who are unable to attend the event. The project will be bookended by a variety of public programs which will serve to inspire community participation, evoke memories, and provide an interpretive framework for materials that are brought forward. Digitizing these materials, making them publicly available, and using them to tell the story of the fishing community will create a lasting legacy for families who have spent generations working the water in what is one of the nation’s oldest occupations. |
PY-234453-16 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Black Archives of Mid-America, Inc. | Kansas City Digital Encyclopedia Project: Jazz Age and the Great Depression, 1918 - 1941 | 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016 | $12,000.00 | Glenn | | North | | | | Black Archives of Mid-America, Inc. | Kansas City | MO | 64108-1644 | USA | 2015 | U.S. History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 12000 | 0 | 11623.51 | 0 | The digitization of community photographs, letters, employment records, artworks, and artifacts pertaining to the African American experience in Kansas City, Missouri, during the early 20th century. The applicant would collaborate with the Kansas City Public Library, which would make the sources accessible via its Kansas City Digital Encyclopedia Project. The Library would also ensure that digital items could be found through the WorldCat bibliographic network as well as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In cooperation with the American Jazz Museum of Kansas City, the applicant would also offer public lectures by area scholars and musicians about the history of Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression and would sponsor screenings of films held by the Jazz Museum, including the documentary “Women in Jazz.”
The Black Archives of Mid-America is an institution that showcases Kansas City’s rich socio-cultural history through the preservation of valuable documents, photographs and objects. Through a strategic alliance with the award-winning Kansas City Public Library, it has increased its ability to present insightful scholarly and artistic programming to the Midwest region of the United States and beyond. This exciting partnership calls for the Black Archives of Mid-America to support the Kansas City Public Library in the “Kansas City Digital Encyclopedia Project.” The next planned series will highlight the period of 1918-1941, with a specialized focus on the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, and will be supported through community digitization events and associated programming. This project exposes community members to important historical information and allows participants to protect the integrity of artifacts through digitization, while further developing a sense of belonging. |
PY-253019-17 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Citadel, The | Aqui Estamos - Documenting the Latino Heritage of the South Carolina Low Country | 1/1/2017 - 6/30/2018 | $11,990.00 | Kerry | | Taylor | Marina | | Lopez | Citadel, The | Charleston | SC | 29409-0001 | USA | 2016 | Latino History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 11990 | 0 | 11990 | 0 | Two days of digitizing community contributions, including personal and official correspondence, photographs, diaries, recipe books, beloved objects, scrapbooks, and other materials to illuminate the life and history of the Latino communities of the South Carolina Low Country. The Citadel would partner with several local organizations for this project: the Special Collections department at the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library (a local affiliate of the South Carolina Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America), the Charleston County Public Library, El Círculo Hispanoamericano de Charleston, the Hispanic Business Association, and radio El Sol AM 980. The project would recruit bilingual volunteers from the Citadel, the College of Charleston, and Charleston Southern University to help staff the events and translate for the creation of metadata to describe the items brought in for digitization. This project would build on an existing oral history program at the Citadel focused on the Latino community. Of particular interest to the project organizers is the history of the development of Latino-led institutions, such as businesses, civic groups, and churches in the area. During Hispanic American Heritage month of 2017 (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15), the project directors would return to Charleston public libraries to hold community forums to present some of the items brought in during the digitization days.
The Citadel Oral History
Program is offering a series of public programs and digitization events for the
Latino community. Harvest days will take place in the spring of 2017 at
Charleston County libraries (Johns Island and North Charleston). The materials
collected will be processed and evaluated during the summer and deposited with
the College of Charleston's Special Collections. During Hispanic Heritage month
of 2017, we will return to the libraries to hold community forums to present
the results of the project. Citadel professors Aguirre and Taylor will draw
from the materials that we gathered to facilitate discussions on immigration, identity,
exclusion and belonging, community building and civil rights. The forums will
attract students, workers, scholars, and activists. The materials will be
shared with the public through the Low Country Digital Library. We will
continue to promote "Aqui Estamos" and encourage teachers to use the
collection in the classroom. |
PY-253034-17 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Connecticut State Library | Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories | 1/1/2017 - 4/30/2018 | $11,329.00 | Christine | | Pittsley | | | | Connecticut State Library | Hartford | CT | 06106-1569 | USA | 2016 | Public History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 11329 | 0 | 11329 | 0 | Fifteen digitization day events across the
entire state of Connecticut to collect materials related to the state and its
population’s involvement in the First World War. The state played a role in the war effort
from the beginning as a major manufacturing hub for firearms and as the home of
the U.S. Navy’s first submarine base.
The applicant also notes that this history represents diverse
communities, as many African Americans from the South and European immigrants
came to work in the factories. Digitized
items would be housed in the Connecticut Digital Library, which is also a hub
for the Digital Public Library of America. Along with the digitization days,
public events would include lectures related to Connecticut and World War I, with a focus on the particular communities in which
the events are held.
This project is based on the commemoration of the
First World War. Working with partners across the state, the State Library will
conduct Digitization Day events to surface privately held photos, letters and
keepsakes that tell the stories of individual men and women who served during
the war. These objects and stories are often held by children of WWI veterans
and are in danger of disappearing, as younger generations no longer have ties to
the people and events associated with these objects. Through digitization we
will preserve them for generations to come. |
PY-253047-17 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Athens Regional Library System | African American History in Athens, Georgia | 2/1/2017 - 12/31/2017 | $11,962.00 | Rikki | M. | Chesley | | | | Athens Regional Library System | Athens | GA | 30606-6331 | USA | 2016 | African American History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 11962 | 0 | 11962 | 0 | Three day-long digitization events to document and preserve historical sources relating to the African American experience in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. The digitization events would each be held at different venues, including the East Athens Resource Center, the historic First A.M.E. Church, and the Athens-Clarke County Library, and the materials would be accessible online. With this project, the applicant aims to address the paucity of historical materials chronicling the lives of black Athenians in the region’s cultural institutions. The events would not only build out the collections that tell the stories of local residents, but also facilitate the community stewardship of the materials that document these stories, including photographs, scrapbooks, funeral pamphlets, church bulletins, and other objects, mementos, and artifacts. In order to provide deeper understanding of yhe experiences of African Americans in the region, public programs would also take place. Author Michael Thurmond would discuss his book A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History, and tours would be offered of the African American section of the Oconee Hill Cemetery, the First A.M.E. Church, and the Morton Theater in downtown Athens. Also planned are a course on researching ancestry taught by the President of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and presentations on how to preserve, access, and use digitized items.
Spared Sherman's wrath but not the havoc of Great Cities,
Athens' Black residents and their historic neighborhoods have fought for their
existence. With the rise of the Black
Lives Matter movement, the applicant wishes to aid in the digitization of
privately held historical sources relating to the African American experience
in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, at a series of three day-long digitization
day events. These scan days will take place at the East Athens Resource Center;
the historic First A.M.E. Church; and the Athens-Clarke County Library, where
patrons will be able to convert special A/V formats using our conversion
equipment. Digitized material would be
made available to the public with donor permission via our partnership with the
Digital Library of Georgia and the Digital Public Library of America. The
project would also include a public lecture series and tours of Black historic
sites led by partner groups.
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PY-253100-17 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Ferguson Library | Tell Your Story | 1/1/2017 - 12/30/2017 | $12,000.00 | Elizabeth | | Joseph | | | | Ferguson Library | Stamford | CT | 06901-2312 | USA | 2016 | Cultural History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 12000 | 0 | 12000 | 0 | Six events to digitize materials related to
targeted groups within Stamford, Connecticut, including African Americans,
Latinos, European immigrants, women, and veterans. At these events, library staff and
consultants would record oral histories and then digitize items such as
photographs, letters, memorabilia, and audiovisual materials that supplement
those stories. The oral histories and
digitized content would be made available through the library’s digital archive
as well as an onsite exhibit. Lectures
by local historians would be scheduled to coincide with each digitization event,
and topics would be selected to feature targeted communities, such as early
settlers, Jewish immigrants, and local artists.
Docent-led tours of the final exhibit would also be offered.
If America is a nation of
immigrants, then Stamford is America in microcosm. From its original 29 Puritan
settlers to today's population of 125,000 (36% of whom were born outside the
United States), Stamford has been home and haven to generations of immigrants
to America. "Tell Your Story" is a series of day-long digitizing
events at the library's Digital Lab that will capture resident's lives through
interviews, diaries, photos, letters, souvenirs and other cultural/historical
artifacts in order to preserve and understand the cultural history of this
vibrant city. The project will also be part of the city's anniversary
celebration, 375 Years Strong, as well as Stamford Through the Years, a visual
exhibit of images and text winding throughout the floors of the Library during
2017. Contributors will receive a
digitized copy of their content to keep, and the entire digital contents will
be shared with the CT Digital Archive, CT State libraries, and the Digital
Library of America. |
PY-258672-18 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | University of Massachusetts, Boston | Local Rappers, DJs,B-Boys and Graff: Documenting the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Community from the 1970's to the Present | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2019 | $11,919.00 | Carolyn | | Goldstein | | | | University of Massachusetts, Boston | Boston | MA | 02125-3300 | USA | 2017 | African American History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 11919 | 0 | 11776.67 | 0 | A digitization event held at the Boston Public Library’s central branch in Copley Square at which staff from University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston would invite members of the community to share materials related to the city’s hip-hop culture: demo tapes, performance videos, flyers, posters, photographs, clothing, and accessories. Items would be digitized for the participants’ personal use and, with their permission, possibly included in the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, which is housed on UMass Boston’s Open Archives. The resulting digital collections would be harvested by the Digital Commonwealth and the Digital Public Library of America, making these materials and the participants’ stories discoverable to a wide-reaching audience. Boston Public Library would also present a series of four public programs celebrating and exploring elements of hip-hop culture: rapping (MCing), DJing (turntabling), breakdancing (b-boying), and graffiti art (graff). The events would include demonstrations by local artists, invite public participation, and be guided by two scholars of hip-hop music and culture, Dasan Ahanu from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Michael Jeffries from Wellesley College.
The University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston requests a Common Heritage Grant in the amount of $11,919. This grant will allow UASC to collaborate with the Boston Public Library (BPL), the Boston hip-hop community, and noted scholars Dasan Ahanu and Michael Jeffries to accomplish two goals: host a digitizing day to collect artifacts and stories that will be uploaded to the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive; and present four public outreach programs showcasing the four original elements of hip-hop culture: rap, DJing, dance, and graffiti art, contextualizing the materials collected at the digitization event. Community members who participated in the development of hip-hop culture in Massachusetts will contribute artifacts to the event and serve as audience and participants in the public programs, thereby documenting, preserving, and celebrating cultural memory from a marginalized part of the state’s history. |
PY-263669-19 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | San Diego History Center | Border Dwellers/Los de la Frontera | 1/1/2019 - 6/30/2021 | $12,000.00 | Mari | Tina | Zarpour | | | | San Diego History Center | San Diego | CA | 92101-1664 | USA | 2018 | Latino History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 12000 | 0 | 12000 | 0 | Digitization events to collect local history
materials in two communities in the South Bay region of the San Diego
metropolitan area, Old Town National City and San Ysidro. A majority of residents are of
Spanish-speaking descent, many with family roots in the area dating before the
1848 border demarcation. Photo
archivists at the San Diego Historical Society would lead the events in
collaboration with two social services agencies, Casa de Salud/Old Town National
City Committee in National City and Casa Familiar/The Front Art Gallery in San
Ysidro. The events would feature
workshops on preserving family memorabilia and be followed by presentations based
on the digitized images by a local historian and author, Barbara Zagora. With donor permission, the materials would be
made available on the website of the San Diego Historical Society, the Online
Archive of California/Calisphere, and the Digital Public Library of America.
Border Dwellers/Los de la Frontera will examine the border community of the South Bay, San Diego County’s. The San Diego-Tijuana international border is unique historically, culturally, and sociologically than other border locales, and yet the history of this region has yet to be explored. This project, the first of its kind in the South Bay, represents a critical first step in the recognition of the cultural heritage of its border residents. The San Diego History Center plans to focus on the cultural heritage of two South Bay communities: San Ysidro and Old Town National City. The digitization event and surrounding programs will collect family photographs, portraits, and documents like letters, military papers, and ephemera. A follow-up event will consist of a slideshow and history lecture presented by a historian based on the items digitized from the participants, and a discussion session for attendees to share memories. SDHC staff will be present to record these memories. |
PY-263670-19 | Preservation and Access: Common Heritage | Bowling Green State University | Preserving and Contextualizing the Islamic Culture and Heritage of Northwest Ohio. | 1/1/2019 - 6/30/2021 | $12,000.00 | Michelle | | Sweetser | | | | Bowling Green State University | Bowling Green | OH | 43403-4401 | USA | 2018 | Public History | Common Heritage | Preservation and Access | 12000 | 0 | 9853.65 | 0 | One digitization event and two public exhibits
and programs focused on the history of Northwest Ohio’s Muslim community. The proposed project represents a partnership
between the Center for Archival Collections (CAC), which is a unit of the
Bowling Green State University (BSGU) Libraries, and the Islamic Center for
Greater Toledo (ICGT), which was founded in 1954 and represents the first
community to build a mosque in Ohio and the third in the nation. BGSU archivists and students would assist
with digitization, and ICGT volunteers would assist with translating
information about the historical items brought in by community members, which
are likely to include personal documents and family artifacts in Arabic, Farsi,
Kurdish, Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali. With
donor permission, materials would be featured in an Omeka-based digital exhibit
and made available for research in the Digital Public Library of America through
CAC’s participation in the Ohio Digital Network.
The Center for Archival Collections (CAC) and the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo (ICGT) will host a community scanning day and two public exhibits and programs focusing on the history of Northwest Ohio’s Muslim community, as well as the role of the ICGT within that history. Members of the ICGT and general public will be invited to bring any historical materials related to the project theme for reformatting and preservation by the CAC. The scanning day will present a significant opportunity for initiating the preservation of the region’s Islamic heritage, which has been anchored by the ICGT and the religious, educational and cultural programs offered to both its members as well as the greater Toledo community. Subsequent public programs and exhibits will allow the community at large - Muslim and non-Muslim - to learn about and engage with Islamic traditions and culture, and to better appreciate the significant role that Muslims and the ICGT have played in the history of the region. |
RE-*1393-79 | Research Programs: Editions | University of California, Berkeley | The Mark Twain Papers | 9/1/1979 - 12/31/1980 | $109,902.00 | Robert | H. | Hirst | | | | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | 94704-5940 | USA | 1979 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Editions | Research Programs | 92402 | 17500 | 92327.27 | 17500 | To edit the previously unpublished literary manuscripts, journals, and collected correspondence of Mark Twain. |
RQ-260734-18 | Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations | Penn State | The Letters of Ernest Hemingway | 10/1/2018 - 12/31/2022 | $275,000.00 | Sandra | W. | Spanier | | | | Penn State | University Park | PA | 16802-1503 | USA | 2018 | American Literature | Scholarly Editions and Translations | Research Programs | 275000 | 0 | 275000 | 0 | Preparation for
publication of Volumes 5, 6, and 7 of a scholarly edition of 6,000 surviving letters of American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). (36 months)
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, being published by Cambridge University Press, is a comprehensive scholarly edition of the some 6,000 surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)--about 85% previously unpublished--in a projected 17 volumes. A 1954 Nobel Laureate, Hemingway made a profound impact on modern prose and still commands enormous popular as well as scholarly interest worldwide. The letters not only provide important new biographical information and insights into the artistic achievement of this most influential American writer, they constitute a running eyewitness history of much of the 20th century. Volumes 1-4 (spanning 1907-1931) were published between 2011 and 2017. We are requesting three-year funding (October 2018-September 2021) to complete and see into print volume 5, to submit and see through pre-production volume 6 (for publication November 2021), and to begin textual and annotation work on volume 7, encompassing Hemingway's letters from 1932 through May 1941. |