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Vol. 24:2 ISSN 0160-8460 August 1996
NHPRC Recommends 63 Grants Totaling up to $170,000
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission met on June 25, 1996, and recommended up to $78,750 for two documentary editing projects. In addition, the Commission recommended an award of $50,000 to extend the current cooperative agreement between the Council of State Historical Records Coordinators and the Commission. The Commission also recommended $41,250 for one fellowship in historical documentary editing. The grant recommendations were made in response to $517,346 in requests.
The Commission welcomed two new members: Anne R. Kenney, Associate Director, Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University, represents the Society of American Archivists (SAA); and Nicholas C. Burckel, Director of Libraries, Marquette University, represents the President. Ms. Kenney succeeds John Fleckner, Archivist, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Burckel succeeds Charles G. Palm, Deputy Director, the Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA.
During the course of its meeting, the Commission heard a report on current and proposed publicity and other communication efforts. As part of that report, staff demonstrated the Commission's new World Wide Web site. (See related article, p. 3).
The next meeting of the Commission is scheduled for November 7-8, 1996. The next deadline for grant application submissions is October 1, 1996.
Application materials for projects, or more information on the Commission's awards, may be requested by phone, mail, or e-mail.
For this application review cycle, the Commission received many more competitive applications than it had grant funds to support. Therefore, a number of the awards were made contingent on the availability of additional FY 1996 funds. These monies come from the returns of unexpended grant funds from completed projects or from unmet matching offers. In the list following, an "up to" or "contingent" amount indicates an award that was recommended should funds become available by the end of the current fiscal year.
Projects to Improve Documentary Editing (Editing Fellowship)
* Emily Rader (Ph.D. expected, University of Southern California): A fellowship grant of $41,250 at the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers project, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. The fellowship will provide 11 months' training in historical editing.
State Coordinators Cooperative Agreement
* Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN: A grant of $50,000, to support the third year of a three-year cooperative agreement between the Council of State Historical Records Coordinators (with the Minnesota Historical Society as its grant administrator) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The award supports national meetings of the State Historical Records Coordinators, regional meetings of representatives of State Historical Records Advisory Boards, completion of a report on non-governmental archives, and a review of state-board planning projects.
New Documentary Editing Projects; Subventions
* East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA: A contingent grant of up to $26,250 for the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800. The project is reconstructing a collection that was destroyed by a fire in 1800 in the office of the War Department. Recipient copies of documents sent from the War Department and retained copies of documents sent to the department exist in hundreds of collections across the country. During the years considered - 1784-1800 - the War Department was responsible not only for military affairs, but also for Indian, veteran, and naval affairs.
* Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/ Crozer Theological Seminary, Rochester, NY: A grant of up to $52,500 for the Howard Thurman Papers. As a religious and intellectual leader, Thurman (1900-1981) dedicated his life to bringing together people of different faiths, races, and classes. Throughout his career, Thurman tried to reform Christian doctrine with elements of Mohandas Gandhi's critique of traditional Christianity and his principles of unity and non-violent social change. Thurman's message powerfully influenced civil rights leaders beginning in the 1930s.
