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Vol. 26:1 ISSN 0160-8460 March 1998

NHPRC Recommends Grants for Regrant Projects, Records Access Projects, Documentary Editing Projects, and Documentary Publication Subventions Totaling $2,908,789

At its meeting on February 24, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission recommended grants totaling $2,908,789 for 65 projects that will enhance our understanding of America's past. The Commission advised Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin, the Chairperson of the NHPRC, to approve $327,494 for four regrant projects; $1,077,563 for 20 records access projects; $22,995 for one project to improve documentary editing; $1,260,389 for 23 documentary editing projects; $134,598 for 15 documentary publication subventions; and $85,750 for two archival and editing fellowships. The grant recommendations were made in response to more than $4,750,000 in requests.

In other business, it was reported that Marvin "Bud" Moss had been reappointed to the Commission by the President for a four-year term, and that Mary Maples Dunn, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of Radcliffe College's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, will serve as the representative of the American Historical Association for the next four years. Chairperson Carlin thanked Connie Schulz, the departing AHA representative, in the name of the Commission for her years of devoted service.

The Commission also heard a report on collaborative fundraising efforts among the NHPRC, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Association for Documentary Editing. Members passed a resolution proposing that the Commission renew its efforts to assist the editors of NHPRC-sponsored projects to secure additional support from appropriate private and public sources to complete the editorial work of the projects.

The next meeting of the Commission is scheduled for June 24, 1998. The next deadline for grant applications is June 1, 1998, for consideration at the Commission's November meeting.

Regrant Projects

Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL: A one-year grant of $25,000 for its Development and Training Regrant II Project, which seeks to provide education and training programs for archivists, records managers, and records custodians, and to support archives and records management programs leading to improved management of historical records.
Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board, Atlanta, GA: A two-year grant of $100,000 matching and an additional conditional grant of up to $100,000 matching for its Regrant for Historical Repositories Project, which seeks to promote archival planning and cooperation, education, preservation, access, and the use of technology in Georgia's repositories.
Maine State Historical Records Advisory Board, Augusta, ME: A three-year grant of $52,494 for its Preservation and Access Regrant Project, which seeks to improve preservation of and access to Maine's historical records.
Nevada State Historical Records Advisory Board, Carson City, NV: A two-year conditional grant of $50,000 for its Regrant Project, which seeks to address the needs of local repositories of Nevada's documentary heritage.

Records Access Projects

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK: A 16-month grant of $30,346 for a project to undertake preservation of and provide access to the Fred Machetanz film collection, an important visual record of Alaska's territorial period.
Mobile Municipal Archives, Mobile, AL: An eight-month grant of $7,600 for a project to revise the 1986 edition of the Guide to the Municipal Archives and to publish and distribute the revised edition.
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA: A one-year grant of $84,305 for the second year of the San Francisco News-Call-Bulletin Photographic Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Project at its Bancroft Library.
The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT: A one-year conditional grant of $75,600 ($20,000 matching) for a project to process, catalog, and produce finding aids for 30 significant manuscript collections documenting the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the early national period through the Civil War.
Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta, GA: A one-year grant of $33,331 for its project to arrange and describe three collections of historical photographs: images of African Americans, the Marion Johnson Collection, and cased images.
Evanston Historical Society, Evanston, IL: A two-year conditional grant of $45,000 ($15,000 matching) for a project to arrange, describe, and make available local government records, personal papers, and organization records documenting the city's history.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: A one-year grant of $21,050 for a project to microfilm the papers of architect and city planner Edward H. Bennett, Sr.
Northeastern University, Boston, MA: A two-year conditional grant of $155,372 for a project to identify, locate, and secure collections for four under-documented Boston communities - the African American, Chinese, lesbian and gay, and Puerto Rican - and to arrange and describe three major collections documenting organizations from three of these communities.
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI: A six-month conditional grant of up to $6,550 for a project to plan for a digitized image database of Great Lakes ships based on the Father Edward J. Dowling Marine Historical Collection.
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO: An 18-month grant of $58,620 for a project to arrange and describe 18 of the most important collections from its Ozark Labor Union Archives (OLUA).
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC: A conditional grant of up to $15,000 for up to one year for a project to develop an archives and records management program for the university's records and for those of the Lumbee Tribe.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A conditional two-year grant of $73,546 for a project to arrange and describe the records of Frances R. Grant and Robert Alexander, two individuals involved in U.S. non-government organizations in Latin America.
New York University, New York, NY: A two-year conditional grant of $135,220 ($30,000 matching), to go to its Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for the second phase of its "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives" Labor Records Project to locate, preserve, and make accessible records documenting the labor history of New York City.
The Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK: A six-month conditional grant of up to $5,000 for a project to develop a plan for a tribal archives program to supplement its current records management program.
Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Pawnee, OK: A one-year conditional grant of up to $65,000 for a project to develop a records management program and to process tribal records.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: A 15-month grant of $55,675 for a project to arrange, describe, and make available the personal and professional papers of Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, Margaret Naumburg, and Wanda Gág.
Documentary Arts, Inc., Dallas, TX: A one-year grant of $31,241 to establish a regional archivist program involving four Dallas-area institutions - DAI, the African American Museum, Jarvis Christian College, and Wiley College.
University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, TX: A conditional two-year grant of up to $76,373, to go to the Center for the Study of Women and Gender and the Special Collections and Archives Department for a project to arrange and describe manuscript materials that document the history of women and gender in South Texas, specifically women's voluntary organizations.
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Education and Research Foundation, Arlington, VA: A five-month grant of $15,650 for a project to develop an archives and records management program.
Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Spokane, WA: A one-year grant of $87,084, to go to its Cheney Cowles Museum for a project to preserve and catalog nitrate and acetate negatives from more than 80 collections.

Projects to Improve Documentary Editing

Wisconsin History Foundation, Inc.: A ten-month grant of $22,995 to this fund-raising affiliate of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin to support the 27th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents.

Documentary Editing Projects

Duke University, Durham, NC: A conditional grant of up to $56,137 for The Jane Addams Papers.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: A conditional grant of up to $47,103 for The Papers of John C. Calhoun.
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: A grant of $15,000 for The Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX: A conditional grant of up to $72,437 for The Papers of Jefferson Davis.
West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown, WV: A grant of $16,343 for The Papers of Frederick Douglass.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A conditional grant of up to $46,391 for The Papers of Thomas Edison.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: A conditional grant of up to $40,799 for The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: A conditional grant of up to $102,804 for Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA: A conditional grant of up to $100,000 for The Papers of Emma Goldman.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: A grant of $72,510 for The Samuel Gompers Papers.
Ulysses S. Grant Association, Carbondale, IL: A conditional grant of up to $72,071 for The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A conditional grant of up to $68,113 for The Papers of Andrew Jackson.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A conditional grant of up to $79,459 for The Papers of Andrew Johnson.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: A grant of $76,692 for The Papers of Henry Laurens.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL: A conditional grant of up to $68,040 and an additional conditional matching grant of $20,000 for The Lincoln Legal Papers: A Documentary History of the Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836-1861.
George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA: A grant of $52,000 for The Papers of George Catlett Marshall.
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA: A conditional grant of up to $20,639 for The Papers of John Marshall.
The American University, Washington, DC: A conditional grant of up to $41,278 for The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of $43,094 for Correspondence of James K. Polk.
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC: A grant of $23,692 for Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures and County Courts, 1776-1867.
University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ: A conditional grant of up to $45,390 for Documentary Relations of the Southwest: Civil/Military.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of $43,000 for The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM: A grant of $37,397 for The Journals of don Diego de Vargas.

Subventions

University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: A grant of $9,900 for The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series, Vol. 1.
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series, Vol. 2.
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, Vol. 7.
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series, Vol. 4.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ: A grant of $6,474 for The Empire of Sand: The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645-1803.
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM: A grant of $10,000 for The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, Vol. 5: So One Might Live [1697-1700].
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM: A grant of $10,000 for The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, Vol. 6: How Joyous Was the Kingdom [1700-1705].
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Nathanael Greene, Vol. 10.
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC: A grant of $3,966 for The Papers of John Marshall, Vol. 9.
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Vol. 1.
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Vol. 2.
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Vol. 3.
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Henry Laurens, Vol. 15.
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC: A grant of $8,168 for The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Vol. 25.
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT: A grant of $6,000 for The Papers of Frederick Douglass: Series Two, Vol. 1: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Archival and Editing Fellowships

Editing Fellow (to be named in June): A grant of $41,250.
Pomona College, Claremont, CA: A grant of $1,000, to go to the Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott Project, for costs of selecting the Editing Fellow for 1998-99.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: A grant of $43,500 to the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library for a fellowship in archival administration for 1998-99.

Acting Executive Director, Roger A. Bruns

Roger A. Bruns, NHPRC's Acting Executive Director, introduces David Chesnutt, Editor of the Papers of Henry Laurens and Project Director of the Model Editions Partnership (MEP), at the beginning of the education portion of the February 24 Commission meeting. The Commissioners have instituted a policy of holding such presentations at Commission meetings in order to keep themselves up-to-date on projects being supported and issues affecting Commission decisions. Photograph by Earl McDonald, National Archives and Records Administration.

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