Commission Recommends $2.8 Million in Grants
Press Release · Friday, January 18, 2008
Washington, DC…The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has awarded $2.8 million for 34 projects in 22 states and the District of Columbia for preserving and publishing historical records. At the November meeting, the Commission also welcomed its newest members, the Honorable John Larson, member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut, and Roy Tryon, state archivist of South Carolina, representing the National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators, who replaces Tim Slavin.
The Commission also honored Max Evans, departing as Executive Director at the end of January, and Alfred Goldberg, representing the Department of Defense. Dr. Goldberg retired after serving 34 years as a Commissioner, the longest stint in the agency’s history.
Grant recommendations include $1.3 million to seven documentary editing projects from the Founding Era of the nation. Six subventions were awarded to university presses to defray the cost of publishing new volumes of the papers of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Jane Addams and others. The University of Wisconsin will receive funding to continue its work at the Institute for Editing Historical Documents.
State partnership grants were awarded to Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Wisconsin to address state needs through subgrants and other efforts. Basic administrative support was awarded to 10 states to support the work of Historical Records Advisory Boards in Arizona, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming. The Commission approved a substantial revision to the State and National Archival Partnership grant program that will strengthen the nation’s network of archives at the state government level.
Electronic records grants were recommended for projects at Emory University in Atlanta for its MetaArchive program to provide sustainable digital preservation services for cultural and historical records; Tufts University in Atlanta; Johns Hopkins in Baltimore; and the Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, to support its Distributed Custodial Preservation Center for electronic records.
A complete list of all grants is below:
Grants—November 2007
| Publishing Historical Records (Founding Era) These long-term projects document major historical figures or groups from the Founding Era of the nation. |
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|---|---|
| The Papers of George Washington University of Virginia |
$173,090 |
| The Papers of James Madison University of Virginia |
$146,154 |
| The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Princeton University |
$181,284 |
| The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution University of Wisconsin |
$208,000 |
| The Adams Papers Massachusetts Historical Society |
$162,550 |
| The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress George Washington University |
$223,098 |
| The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Yale University |
$198,900 |
| Publication Subventions Grants to publishers to help defray the printing costs of individual volumes of documentary editions. |
|
| University of Virginia Press The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Vol. 17 |
$10,000 |
| University of Virginia Press The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Vol. 18 |
$10,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Press The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Vol. 1 |
$10,000 |
| University of Virginia Press The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, Vol. 6 |
$10,000 |
| Ulysses S. Grant Association The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Vol. 31 |
$6,300 |
| University of Illinois The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Vol. 2 |
$10,000 |
| Editing Fellowships Grants to support a fellowship at a historical documentary editing project. |
|
| Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Rutgers University |
$55,000 |
| Professional Development Grants to support projects for the professional development of archivists and/or documentary editors. |
|
Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents University of Wisconsin |
$35,579 |
| State Programs Grants support efforts to improve statewide, regional, or national collaborations and services. |
|
| Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries Oklahoma City, OK To support the Oklahoma Tribal Heritage Project. |
$229,287 |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin Madison, WI To support planning for the collection of post-WWII Wisconsin manuscripts |
$89,756 |
| Pennsylvania Heritage Society Harrisburg, PA To support the Itinerant Archivist Regrant Program. |
$120,356 |
| New Mexico Commission of Public Records Santa Fe, NM To support a statewide subgrant program. |
$86,257 |
| SHRAB Administrative Support Grants to support administrative expenses of State Historical Records Advisory Boards. |
|
| California Museum for History, Women, & the Arts | $7,720 |
| Wyoming Dept. of State Parks & Cultural Resources | $10,000 |
| Texas State Library and Archives Commission | $8,391 |
| Kentucky SHRAB | $10,000 |
| Montana Historical Society | $9,990 |
| Nevada State Library & Archives | $9,904 |
| State Historical Society of Iowa | $9,980 |
| Arizona SHRAB | $6,895 |
| Tennessee SHRAB | $10,000 |
| Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History | $10,000 |
| Electronic Records Grants to support projects that preserve, or make accessible, electronic records. |
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| Emory University Atlanta, GA To support MetaArchive: A Sustainable Digital Preservation Service for Cultural and Historical Records. |
$300,337 |
| Tufts University Boston, MA To support the Tufts Accessioning Program for Electronic Records. |
$149,974 |
| University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA To support the development of a Distributed Custodial Preservation Center for electronic records. |
$257,800 |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD To support an assessment of the viability of an Electronic Records Management Consortium for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. |
$50,000 |
For more information please visit the Commission's web site.
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