Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment For The Humanities
This program supports enhanced free, public access to historical U.S. newspapers. Recipients will digitize newspapers published in U.S. states or jurisdictions for ingest into Chronicling America, produce title essays to accompany digitized newspapers, and create educational materials and/or other digital initiatives to increase the use of Chronicling America.
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Helps libraries and cultural institutions digitize and preserve important newspapers. Provides support for creating a national online database of historical newspapers.
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- 📝Steps to Apply
- Register for a SAM number and an account on Grants.gov
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- Complete your application package
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- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 📅Key Dates
- January 13, 2027Next application deadline
- 🔄Intake Type
- fixed-deadline
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- Digitization of newspaper microfilm
- Imaging and OCR/METS-ALTO processing
- Vendor services for digitization
- 🚫Ineligible Expenses
- Costs related to non-compliance with technical standards
- Expenses for materials not in the public domain
- 📏Expense Caps
- Indirect costs limited to de minimis 10% MTDC
- 💳Payment Model
- mixed
- ⏪Retroactive Expenses Eligible
- No
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