NEH Announces 2021 Awards for state projects in the National Digital Newspaper Program

The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced new and renewed funding for state projects in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), an initiative jointly sponsored with the Library of Congress and supporting the Chronicling America (ISSN 2475-2703) online collection of digitized historic newspapers. Boston Public Library, representing Massachusetts, newly joins the program, with additional awards supporting ongoing projects. These projects received two year grants to digitize up to 100,000 selected historic newspapers from their collections for contribution to the collection.

More information on program guidelines, participation, and technical information can be found at https://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html or https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/.