Commission Recommends $2.15 Million in Grants for Document Editing and Archival Projects

A press release from the National Archives November 20, 2008, published the results of a November meeting of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

The recommendations made at the November meeting, were to approve grants in the amount of $2.15 million that would encompass 23 projects across 13 states as well as the District of Columbia

The largest slice of the pie at $1.266 million was allotted for the preservation and publishing of the papers of:

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison.

Inclusive in the recommendation for this grant, was funding to be allotted to the documented histories of the First Federal Congress and the Ratification of the US Constitution.

The full breakdown of the November grant recommendations are:

Pilot Project-Founding Era

Virginia Foundation for
the Humanities $250,000
Charlottesville, VA
This pilot project will transcribe and encode for online and print
publication documents on behalf of documentary editing projects from the
Founding Era of the nation.

Publishing Historical Records (Founding Era)
These long-term projects document major historical figures or groups
from the Founding Era of the nation.

The Documentary History of $210,508
the First Federal Congress
George Washington University

The Adams Papers $162,550
Massachusetts Historical Society

The Papers of James Madison $146,154
University of Virginia

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson $166,987
Princeton University

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin $198,900
Yale University

The Documentary History of $208,000
the Ratification of the Constitution
University of Wisconsin

The Papers of George Washington $173,090
University of Virginia

Publication Subventions
Grants to publishers to help defray the printing costs of individual
volumes of documentary editions.

University of Virginia Press $10,000
Charlottesville, VA
The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Vol. 19

University of Virginia Press $10,000
Charlottesville, VA
The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, Vol. 15

University of Virginia Press $10,000
Charlottesville, VA
The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, Vol. 1

University of Virginia Press $10,000
Charlottesville, VA
Selected Papers of John Jay, Vol. 1

Rutgers, State University of
New Jersey $10,000
Rutgers, NJ
The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony, Vol. 5

Editing Fellowships
Grants to support a fellowship at a historical documentary editing
project.

Papers of Andrew Jackson $55,000

University of Tennessee

Professional Development
Grants to support projects for the professional development of
archivists and/or documentary editors.

Institute for the Editing of $41,791
Historical Documents
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Strategies and Tools
Grants to for new strategies or tools for archives and historical
publishing.

Massachusetts Historical Society $150,000
Boston, MA
The Adams Papers Control File Digitization Project
Regents of the University
of Michigan $149,969
Ann Arbor, MI
Archival Metrics and User Evaluation for Government Archives.

Digitizing Historical Records
Grants to organizations digitizing entire collections of historical
importance.

Duke University $60,000
Durham, NC
ROAD 2.0: Digitizing Outdoor Advertising

University of Florida $72,650
Gainesville, FL
America’s Swam: The Historical Everglades Project

Railroad Commission of Texas $146,861
Austin, TX
Digitizing Historical Oil & Gas Hearing Files

University of Iowa $32,700
Iowa City, IA
Henry A. Wallace Digital Collection Project

University of Minnesota $66,605
Minneapolis, MN
Digitizing the Historical Records of the American Social Health
Association

American Institute of Physics $39,063
College Park, MD
Digitizing the Samuel A. Goudsmit Papers

For the full story visit:

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2009/nr09-20.html

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