A first round of funding to include Massachusetts in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Boston Public Library (BPL) proposes to digitize 100,000 pages of newspapers based on its own master negative microfilm, some of which has already been digitized and is ready for re-use in Chronicling America.

Boston Public Library will digitize a minimum of 100,000 pages of newspaper microfilm published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 for inclusion in the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Entry of New Hampshire into the National Digital Newspaper Program with the digitization of 100,000 pages from master negatives. The focus of this first round of contribution would be on “papers of record” with broad geographic coverage and titles that reflect the political, economic, and cultural history of New Hampshire.

The Dartmouth Library requests $298,001 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project, to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress 100,000 pages of historical newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program. Receiving this grant would mean that New Hampshire would be the last of the fifty states to be included in this important program. The New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project will be led by the Dartmouth Library in partnership with the New Hampshire State Library, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the University of New Hampshire Library. The project will be a public-private partnership between Dartmouth College and New Hampshire’s flagship educational and cultural heritage institutions.

The digitization of 100,000 pages of microfilmed historic Alabama newspapers, including the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Montgomery Advertiser, published between 1901 and 1926.

Digitization of 100,000 pages of microfilmed historic Alabama newspapers, including the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Montgomery Advertiser, published between 1901 and 1926 as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program

The digitization of approximately 100,000 pages of newspapers published by major religious denominations in South Carolina between 1690 and 1963, which would resume the  University of South Carolina’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The University of South Carolina (UofSC) Libraries Digital Collections Department in collaboration with the South Caroliniana Library (SCL) and other institutional partners will scan and deliver to the Library of Congress (LC) through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) approximately 100,000 pages of historic South Carolina newspapers published between 1690 and 1963. The project will build on the library’s previous successful rounds of participation in the NDNP (2009-2015) and its subsequent efforts to make newspapers accessible. Over the next two years (2022-2024), the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP) will: rely on the content knowledge of its advisory board and team members to select newspapers; work with an external vendor to digitize newspapers from microfilm; and submit deliverables to the Library of Congress on schedule for inclusion in Chronicling America.

The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers with a focus on suburban areas and southern regions of the state.

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks funding to digitize 100,000 pages of newspaper content representing geographically and demographically diverse Illinois communities. The titles will be selected through a proposal process open to all Illinois libraries and cultural heritage repositories. This approach will yield a list of Illinois newspapers for digitization from geographic areas and demographic groups of Illinois (including suburbs, regional cities, rural communities, and small towns) that are not yet represented in Chronicling America. It will also serve as an opportunity to promote the importance and value of the National Digital Newspaper Program, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities to interested citizens throughout the state. The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project has contributed over 500,000 pages of newspaper content to the National Digital Newspaper Program since 2009.

The digitization of approximately 100,000 pages of historical West Virginia newspapers as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program.

The West Virginia University Libraries seek funds to continue participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. The WVUL will digitize 100,000 pages of important historic and representative newspapers published within the present borders of West Virginia within the project date frame which now extends up to 1963. This project will fully comply with all requirements and technical specifications set forth by the NEH and the Library of Congress for digital newspaper projects.

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Alaska newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Alaska State Library requests funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize Alaska’s microfilmed newspapers for the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. Through this cycle, the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project will identify new titles and extend runs of previously identified titles, with a focus on digitizing mid-century newspapers. During this period of history newspapers reported on capital industrialism and militarism that greatly expanded the scope of natural resource development and socio-economic issues. Significant historical events during this period were the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, nuclear testing, Alaska Statehood, the Tuberculosis epidemic, and civil rights achievements of Alaska Natives and labor groups. This cycle will focus on locating issues of several smaller but significant titles such as the Alaska Spotlight, possibly the only African American newspaper produced in the state. Other papers of interest are newspapers in rural villages

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Ohio newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s sixth round of participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on three themes: community building, democracy, and transportation.

Ohio History Connection requests $319,511 from NEH to digitize 100,000 pages of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers to continue the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio. By the end of 2020, OHC had digitized over 520,000 pages for Chronicling America, from various viewpoints, time periods, and areas of the state. In this round, we will build on this existing collection by focusing on papers that document Ohio’s transportation infrastructure, history of community building, and democracy in the state’s most transformative periods (pre-1835 and 1920-1963). Stories captured by these titles will amplify those already told in Chronicling America while exposing untold and lesser-known histories. From the impact of westward expansion and European settlement on the land we now call Ohio to the ways Ohioans caused and coped with change resulting from significant national and world events and movements, Ohio’s history both represents and is instrumental to understanding that of the entire U.S. [Edited by staff.]

Digitization of a collection of mid-twentieth century African American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) requests $321,382 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize mid-twentieth-century African-American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area and contribute them to the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The CBSR participated in NDNP from 2005 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2020, receiving five two-year awards. We delivered over 500,000 pages for all five awards. If funded, this sixth award will be California’s “Civil Rights Era” contribution to NDNP, focusing on the state’s rapidly growing black populations in the postwar years.

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Massachusetts newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would continue to focus on papers of record in the state, as well as eighteenth-century newspapers.

This second cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program grant project will allow Boston Public Library to contribute an additional 100,000 pages of digital newspaper published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America database.

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Texas newspapers dating from 1908 to 1945, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The University of North Texas Libraries plan to digitize and make available to the National Digital Newspaper Program 100,000 newspaper pages. The selected titles will reflect the political and economic history of the state; provide coverage for major regions of the state, including most major population areas; and have a broad chronological span.  Additionally, titles selected during this project will focus on non-English papers important to the history of Texas that, for several reasons, have been overlooked and are underrepresented in national digital newspaper holdings. Pulling on the strengths and knowledge gained in previous rounds, the UNT Libraries recognize the challenges involved in an undertaking of this scope and possess the knowledge and management skills to achieve success. [Edited by staff.] 

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Maryland newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on papers from the colonial period and early nineteenth century, the Jewish Times, and titles covering Prince George’s County in the 1940s and ’50s.

The UM Libraries requests a supplemental grant to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of newspaper content for the National Digital Newspaper Program from September 2023 through August 2025. During the previous five rounds of funding, the project digitized 500,000 pages including English, German, Polish, Czech, and Italian titles from across the State of Maryland dating from 1727 to 1963. The next project phase will seek to provide researchers with newspapers that share the perspective of underrepresented groups including the Jewish community in Baltimore and African Americans in Prince Georges County and Baltimore, as well as some of the earliest extant titles of the state, spanning 1745 to 1963, and providing content covering local concerns and national or international issues.

Digitization of 100,000 to 110,000 pages of Arkansas newspapers published from 1819 to the mid-1930s, with a focus on the Arkansas Gazette and on the evolving relationship between the economy and the environment.

The Arkansas State Archives proposes to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website an additional 100,000 to 110,000 pages of its state’s historic newspapers, published from 1819 to 1963, as part of a fourth cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).