The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the 2023 grants for the National Digital Newspaper Program to 12 states. The complete details for all the NEH grants can be found in this pdf
Here are the states and their award:
Arkansas
Arkansas State Archives Outright: $324,095
Project Director: Katherine Adkins Project Title: Arkansas Digital Newspaper Project, Cycle IV
Project Description: 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.
California
University of California, Riverside Outright: $321,382
Project Director: Brian Geiger Project Title: California National Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: 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).
Connecticut
Connecticut State Library Outright: $259,644
Project Director: Anna Newman Project Title: Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Connecticut 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 early nineteenth century, a Polish newspaper, and papers covering Hartford during the 1940s and ’50s
Florida
University of Florida Outright: $275,743
Project Director: Patrick Reakes Project Title: Florida Ethnic and Under-Represented Communities Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: The digitization of 100,000 historical and multilingual newspapers from diverse ethnic and religious groups, as well as geographic locations in Florida for participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Georgia
University of Georgia Outright: $302,070
Project Director: Sheila McAlister Project Title: Georgia National Digital Newspaper Program Cycle 4
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Georgia 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 published during the Jim Crow and early civil rights eras.
Kentucky
University of Kentucky Research Foundation Outright: $322,526
Project Director: Kopana Terry Project Title: Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Kentucky newspapers with a focus on African American, emancipationist, Civil War–era, and German-language papers, which would resume the University of Kentucky Libraries’ participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park Outright: $322,532
Project Director: Pamela McClanahan Project Title: Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, Phase 6
Project Description: 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.
Massachusetts
Boston Public Library Foundation, Inc. Outright: $152,803
Project Director: Jacob Sadow Project Title: Massachusetts National Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: 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.
Ohio
Ohio Historical Society Outright: $319,511
Project Director: Jenni Salamon Project Title: National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio, Round VI
Project Description: 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.
Rhode Island
Providence Public Library Outright: $285,979
Project Director: Jordan Goffin Project Title: Rhode Island Historical Newspaper Digitization Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Rhode Island newspapers published before 1923, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Texas
University of North Texas Outright: $203,140
Project Director: Mark Phillips Project Title: Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP
Project Description: 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).
Wyoming
University of Wyoming Outright: $263,100
Project Director: Bryan Ricupero Project Title: Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Wyoming’s microfilmed newspapers as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Project.
