NHPRC News

This bi-monthly newsletter brings you information about the work of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, its grantees, and the archives and historical records fields.

2024

• December: NHPRC awards $2.4 million in grants, new Commissioners, four new funding opportunities, Archives Leadership Institute accepting applications, plus stories on the Edgar Hewett collection, Digital Readiness for Audiovisual collections, Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," the invention of electric Christmas lights, and Founders Online adds 1,570 documents
• October: Commission to meet Nov. 21, Remembering Alfred Goldberg, Grant Deadlines, and stories on John Adams, "Dear Ghosts," the San Diego Air & Space Museum, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, and Keywords for Black Louisiana.
• August: Three New Staff Join NHPRC, Great Plains Black History Museum, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Dance Regrant in Utah, Jefferson’s States.
• June: National Archives Awards $4 Million in Grants, New Programs for HBCUs and Congressional Records, Dr. Meredith R. Evans Named to Commission, Two New Staff, Founders Online Turns 13, Uncovering Black Voices in Reconstruction Mississippi, Digitizing Moloka’i, Early Photoshop in Ohio, Women of West Virginia, the Dolls Test, New Archives Leadership Institute Cohort
• April: Commission to Meet May 24, Teaeching Care in Chicago, Maya Lin and the Museum of Chinese in America, 20th Century Women’s Legacy Archive in Utah, Black Joy & Resilience, The Eastland Disaster, Alternate ROOTS
• February: Katherine Sibley named OAH Rep to Commission, The Future of America’s Past, Transcribing Schomburg, Georgia Folklore Archives, Archives Collaboratives: Mapping New York, People, Religion, Information Networks and Travel, Picturing Iowa

2023

• December: NHPRC awards $2 million in grants, new round of NHPRC-Mellon planning grants, free Digital Readiness Toolkit; Apply to the Archives Leadership Institute; Digital Pittsburgh; Jewish Labor and Political Archives; The Keetowah Way; Archival Awards in Texas; The Snows of Yesteryear. New Grant Opportunities for collaborative projects
• October: Dr. Colleen Shogan Sworn In; Darin Waters Named to Commission; Julie Fisher Named Director for Publishing Programs; Jeff de la Concepcion Named Grants Management Specialist; Archives Leadership Institute Kickoff; Working from Home, Version 1.0; Utah Board Wins Award of Merit; Pinckneys Complete; Yup'ik Ghost Story
• August: Two Professional Development Opportunities; Stories on Native American Boarding School Healing; Reimagining Nebraska; The Cactus League; Free Access to a Quarter Million Naturalization Records; Horizons-Upward Bound; Chicago Covenants; and Philly History
• June: Meet our new Chairman--Dr. Colleen Shogan; National Archives Awards $6.5 Million in Grants; Documenting the Journey Wall at the Museum of Chinese in America; The Women of Acequia Madre; A Ghost in the Archives; Gertie Speaks!; and Tennis, Anyone?
• April: NHPRC Makes Access Happen Video; The Extraordinary Gift of Oseola McCarty; Millard Fillmore Leaves the House; American Masters: Lena Horne; Banneker and Founders Online.
• February: Flood Recovery at Appalshop; Darrell Meadows named Deputy Director; Julian Bond Papers to Launch Website; Freedom on the Move wins Louisiana Digital Humanities Award; Early Archives in Delaware; J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia Publisher; Digging in the Southwest​; Rosebud Hockey
   

2022

• December: $1.9 million in new grants; Congresswoman Jahana Hayes Joins Commission, Old Dan Stokes Finally Retires, new Grant Opportunities; stories on Agnes Moorehead; Dick Bong, American Hero; The Arborglyph Collaborative; SHRAB initiatives in New Mexico and Massachusetts
• October: New Round of Mellon Grants, stories on Mountain Wolf Woman, Those Hamilton Sisters, Mississippi's Lantern Project, "Joseph Prattle: Don't You Tattle," and Edgar Allen Poe.

• August:  Colleen Shogan nominated as AOTUS, the Archives Leadership Institute, the Institutes for Historical Editing, New Grants Opportunities for projects centering People of Color, new La Florida site, Albert Einstein, Science History, Joe Ben Wheat, Edgar Hewett, and Benedict Arnold.

• June: $4.8 million in new awards, Lincoln Memorial Centenary, Jeffrson's Nigh Out, Women of the American Jewish Congress, Cats in History.

• April: New Grant Opportunities, Dr. Helen Wink, the Mary Eliza Project, Early Childhood Development, Nashville's Music Row, California County Cooperative Extension Reports, and the launch of Slavery, Law & Power.

• February: David S. Ferriero to Retire, Kim Gallon appointed to Commission, Monroe on Rotunda, Virginia Untold, New York's Old Town Records, the Keetowah Way.

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2021

• December: New grants from November 2021, Mellon-NHPRC Planning grants, Sesame Street, Sid Sackson, Archaeology Papers, and the National Community Christmas Tree.
• October: Darrell Meadows appointed Acting Deputy Director, Recollections Wisconsin, Ben Franklin Astrologist, Silent Film Scores, GLBT Music and Theater Collections, 1st Rhode Island Regiment, and the Haunting of Hull House .
• August: North to Alaska, the Martin Van Buren Papers, Maryland State, the Ithaca Kitty, and the Birth of the Acid Western.
• June: Our New Strategic Plan, Grants from the May meeting, Early Legal Records in Connecticut, Foreign Relations at 100, New Mexico Regrants, and the Marguerite Cartwright Collection, and Cicadas.
• April: Charles Chesnutt, the Records of a Horse Thief, Global Public Health Records, Mississippi Civil War and Reconstruction Records, Charlotte's African American neighborhoods.
• February: Mellon-NHPRC Planning Grants, three new Commissioners, Northern Michigan's UPLINK, James Baldwin and the River Styx, Dick Whittington Collection, Valley Forge, and the Peabody Awards Archives.

2020

• December: New grants from November 2020, the Osborne Computer, Western Swing at the Country Music Hall of Fame, HistoryForge, and downtown Christmas windows.
• October: Geoff Shepard appointed to NHPRC, Special Election Issue, John Jay added to Founders Online, Edgar Allen Poe.
• August: Founders Online is Seven Years Old, Transcribing Jane Addams, Dartmouth Vietnam Project, the Washington Monument, Condi Rice in the newspaper, celebrating the 19th Amendment, the Iowa State Fair.
• June: Grants from the May meeting, Early Legal Records, Massachusetts Roving Archivist, Rhode Island School of Design, John Dickinson, and LBJ White House Tapes.
• April: Dealing with COVID, North Country At Work, Wichita Pioneers, La Florida, Frederick Douglass on Lincoln Inauguration.
• February: Mellon Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives, Black Champions, Jefferson's Weather, Valentine's Day.