The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the 2024 grants for the National Digital Newspaper Program to 9 states. The complete details for all the NEH grants can be found in this pdf. These titles and their pages will be digitized and added to the Chronicling America collection.
Here are the states and their award:
Alabama
Project Director: Jessica Robertson; David Ferrara (co-project director); Donald Gilstrap (co-project director)
Project Title: Alabama Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Alabama newspapers published between 1894 and 1963, with a focus on the state’s racial, geographic, and ideological diversity.
Arizona
Project Director: Asa Espanto
Project Title: Arizona Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Arizona newspapers published prior to 1963, with a focus on titles that ensures geographic coverage across the state’s 15 counties, while drawing attention to historical themes of environmental change, migration, and economic expansion.
Maine
Project Director: Adam Fisher
Project Title: Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal: 2023-2026 NDNP Cycle
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Maine newspapers with a focus on environmental themes, labor, local industries, and French-language newspapers.
Minnesota
Project Director: Shawn Rounds
Project Title: Digitization of Minnesota Newspapers
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on mid twentieth-century titles covering environmental issues and the state’s Indigenous and Latino communities.
Nebraska
Project Director: Laura Weakly
Project Title: Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, Phase VI
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pre-1963 pages of Nebraska newspapers with a focus on papers associated with the U.S. Indian Industrial School in Genoa, the Swedish immigrant community, and agriculture, as well as three African American newspapers.
New Hampshire
Project Director: Laura Braunstein
Project Title: New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of historic New Hampshire newspapers with a focus on early American newspapers, as well as newspapers produced in the White Mountains region of the state.
South Carolina
Project Director: Laura Carter
Project Title: South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of historic South Carolina newspapers with a focus on environmental history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the African American experience in South Carolina.
Virginia
Project Director: Kelley Ewing
Project Title: Virginia Digital Newspaper Program, 2024–2026
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Virginia newspapers with a focus on African American and German-language newspapers, as well as a selection of nineteenth-century agricultural newspapers and weeklies published in Virginia’s Eastern Shore and southwest region.
Wisconsin
Project Director: Abbie Norderhaug
Project Title: Wisconsin Digital Newspaper Project: Wisconsin’s Tapestry of Voices
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Wisconsin newspapers published between 1850 and 1963, with an emphasis on titles produced by and for immigrant and African American communities.