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April 1996
NHPRC Recommends 63 Grants Totaling $3,144,129
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) met on February 27 and recommended $1,463,968 for 29 continuing documentary editions projects; $128,878 for 14 publication subvention grants; $581,086 for five state board regrant projects; and $948,581 for 14 records access projects. Also recommended was $21,616 for one project to improve documentary editing, the 25th annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents. The grant recommendations were made in response to more than $5,750,000 in requests.
During its February meeting, the Commission welcomed two new members. Dr. William Chafe, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, represents the Organization of American Historians on the Commission, while Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR) returns to the Commission as the Senate's representative. Senator Hatfield previously served on the Commission from 1983 to 1988. The Commission also thanked former Commissioners Robin D. G. Kelley and Senator Paul A. Sarbanes (D-MD) for their service. (A related article may be found on page 3.)
In other business, the Commission heard reports from its Program Committee and Planning and Budget Committee. The Commission also approved a policy designed to encourage the electronic publication of documentary editions. Under the policy, applicants for grants for new documentary publications will need to assure the Commission that they will develop their projects in a way that makes electronic publishing of the documentary material at least possible. (A related note may be found on page 4.) Additionally, the Commission agreed to consult with documentary editors and others to assess possibilities for electronic publication of documentary editions already supported by the NHPRC. The Commission plans to review that subject at its next meeting, currently scheduled for June 25, 1996.
Regrant Projects
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL: A grant of $50,000 to support education and training for archivists and records custodians and for program development leading to improved management of historical records. Half of the grant funds will be regranted to new and established records programs to assist them in assessing and addressing their program needs. The other half of the grant funds will be regranted to organizations and institutions to conduct or sponsor workshops relating to archival administration and historical records management.
Georgia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Atlanta, GA: An outright grant of $223,386 and a matching grant of up to $75,000 to leverage $422,251 in state and local government matching and cost sharing to reactivate and redirect the state's local government records management program. The regrant project has three main components: 1) regrant projects, funded in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs' Local Government Efficiency Grant Program, to create three model multi-government records service centers; 2) regrant projects to encourage and improve local government records programs; and 3) training and education for local government officials in basic archival and records management practices.
North Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board, Raleigh, NC: An outright grant of $83,200 and a matching grant of up to $50,000 to assist local governments, historically black colleges, and other non-governmental archives in the preservation and care of local archival records. The project would have three components: 1) regrants to support consultancies, preservation, and reformatting of records; 2) regrants to support training in information and records management policies and practices, and the hiring of temporary personnel needed to address essential, basic archival and records problems; and 3) the production and presentation of a series of four, two-and-one-half-hour, statewide, educational teleconferences.
Vermont State Historical Records Advisory Board, Montpelier, VT: A grant of $49,500 to improve the preservation of and access to Vermont's historical records by making regrants to provide advisory services for small repositories, to establish training programs in Vermont in archival planning and management, to support the arrangement and description of collections of historical records, and to support research and educational programs relating to historical records creation, collecting, and use in Vermont.
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA: A matching grant of $50,000 to preserve and make accessible records in private, local, and state repositories throughout Virginia by providing training throughout the commonwealth in disaster preparedness and records description and by supporting the development of disaster plans and holdings' inventories at individual repositories.
Records Access Projects
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA: A grant of $92,400 for the second year of a project to prepare collection-level cataloging records for the 3.25 million photographs which make up the Bancroft Library Pictorial Collections. Approximately 4,000 catalog records will be created using the USMARC (United States MAchine Readable Cataloging) format and will be entered into the online cataloging system at Berkeley, as well as OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network).
Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa, CA: A grant of $48,750 to further develop its archives and records program. The project staff will develop a policies and procedures manual, transfer records to an archival storage area located in the reservation's library, begin to arrange and describe the records, and prepare finding aids. The tribe's records date from the last quarter of the 19th century to the present and total over 500 cubic feet.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, IL: A grant of $83,310 to process the records of six Lutheran agencies and a Lutheran minister, which comprise the major collections of the Helen M. Knubel Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism.
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY: A grant of $53,468 to arrange and describe approximately 238 linear feet of manuscript materials representing approximately 629 collections (1700s-present).
Northeastern University, Boston, MA: A grant of up to $59,833 to process and make accessible the records of Freedom House, a community-based social agency in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and the personal papers of its founders, Muriel and Otto Snowden.
Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO: A grant of $57,860 to process the records of the architectural landscape and city planning firm of Hare and Hare, held by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of $87,013 to arrange and describe four collections that document the involvement of women in twentieth-century public life: the League of Women Voters of New Jersey (73 cubic feet, 1913-1990), the Consumers League of New Jersey (56 cubic feet, 1896-1979), the New Jersey Welfare Council (61 cubic feet, 1919-1987), and Mary Roebling (103 cubic feet, 1906-1993).
New York University, New York, NY: A grant of up to $100,000 to accession and make accessible records of New York City labor organizations.
New York Folklore Society, Ithaca, NY: A grant of up to $49,000 to develop, test, and distribute nationally guidelines for describing folklore materials.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH: A grant of $54,392 to develop an archives and records management program for the museum's institutional records.
Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, OK: A grant of $59,382 to arrange, describe, and rehouse records held by the Cherokee National Historical Society, dating from the 1700s to the present, which help to document the history of the Cherokee.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: A grant of $123,201 to preserve trial records relating to the development of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). The ENIAC is generally regarded as the first electronic digital computer.
South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC: A grant of $32,670 to improve access to 367 manuscript collections (435 linear feet, 18th to 20th century) pertaining to agriculture, commerce, and culture in South Carolina. Upon the successful completion of this project, researchers will have access to approximately 60 percent of the society's holdings of personal papers and business records.
Documentary Arts, Dallas, TX: A grant of $47,302 to make its Texas African American Photography Collection (TAAP) accessible to the public. TAAP (ca. 16,634 items, 1870s to present) focuses on the growth and development of vernacular and community photography among African Americans in Texas.
Projects to Improve Documentary Editing
Wisconsin History Foundation, Madison, WI: A grant of $21,616 for the 1996 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents.
Documentary Editing Projects and Subventions
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: A grant of up to $38,958 for continuing work on the Documentary Relations of the Southwest.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ: A grant of $10,000 for Documentary Relations of the Southwest, Vol. 2, Pt. 1.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ: A grant of $10,000 for Documentary Relations of the Southwest, Vol. 2, Pt. 2.
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA: A grant of up to $44,322 for continuing work on the Papers of Salmon P. Chase.
Pomona College, Claremont, CA: A grant of up to $38,171 for continuing work on the Papers of Thaddeus Stevens.
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA: A grant of up to $94,500 for continuing work on the Emma Goldman Papers.
Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles, CA: A grant of up to $51,142 for continuing work on the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers.
The American University, Washington, DC: A grant of up to $38,220 for continuing work on the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, GA: A grant of up to $53,508 for continuing work on the Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL: A grant of up to $63,000 for continuing work on the Lincoln Legal Papers.
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL: A grant of $10,000 for the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Vol. 21.
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL: A grant of $10,000 for the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Vol. 22.
Ulysses S. Grant Association, Carbondale, IL: A grant of up to $66,732 for continuing work on the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL: A grant of $10,000 for the Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 6.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: A grant of up to $37,777 for continuing work on the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD: A grant of $10,000 for the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vol. 16.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD: A grant of $10,000 for the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vol. 17.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD: A grant of $6,200 for the Papers of George Catlett Marshall, Vol. 4.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD: A grant of $10,000 for the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Vol. 11.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: A grant of up to $95,189 for continuing work on the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: A grant of up to $68,899 for continuing work on the Samuel Gompers Papers.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of up to $42,955 for continuing work on the Papers of Thomas A. Edison.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of $43,000 for continuing work on The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Vol. 1.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM: A grant of up to $45,148 for continuing work on the Journals of don Diego de Vargas.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York/ Queens College, New York, NY: A grant of up to $38,220 for continuing work on the Papers of Robert Morris.
Duke University, Durham, NC: A grant of up to $51,979 for continuing work on the Jane Addams Papers.
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC: A grant of up to $23,887 for continuing work on Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures and County Courts, 1776-1867.
Kent State University Press, Kent, OH: A grant of $9,027 for the Papers of Salmon P. Chase, Vol. 4
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA: A grant of $9,400 for the Papers of Robert Morris, Vol. 9.
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA: A grant of $10,000 for the Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Vol. 1.
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI: A grant of up to $70,229 for continuing work on the Nathanael Greene Papers.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: A grant of up to $43,634 for continuing work on the Papers of John C. Calhoun.
University of South Carolina, Columbia , SC: A grant of up to $73,500 for continuing work on the Papers of Henry Laurens.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of up to $63,068 for continuing work on the Papers of Andrew Jackson.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of up to $73,573 for continuing work on the Papers of Andrew Johnson.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of $41,615 for continuing work on the Correspondence of James K. Polk.
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN: A grant of $4,251 for the Correspondence of James K. Polk, Vol. 9.
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX: A grant of up to $67,153 for continuing work on the Papers of Jefferson Davis.
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: A grant of up to $14,332 for continuing work on the Papers of Charles Carroll.
George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA: A grant of $52,000 for continuing work on the Papers of George C. Marshall.
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA: A grant of up to $19,110 for continuing work on the Papers of John Marshall.
West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown, WV: A grant of $10,147 for continuing work on the Papers of Frederick Douglass.
