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Vol. 24:3 ISSN 0160-8460 December 1996
NHPRC Application Deadlines
February 1, 1997 (for June 1997 meeting)
Proposals addressing the following objectives:
* To continue the current cooperative agreement whereby the Council of State Historical Records Coordinators informs the Commission on needs and progress nationally.
* To collaborate with the states to promote archival and records management by and among state and local governments.
* To assist new documentary projects, in various forms of publication, that help teachers improve history education and that help researchers pursue significant lines of inquiry in historical scholarship.
* To increase document use by teachers, students, scholars, and the public.
* To help carry out agendas for archival progress put forward by the Society of American Archivists and the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, particularly to meet needs for preservation, planning, training, and institutional self-evaluation.
June 1, 1997 (for November 1997 meeting)
Proposals addressing the following objectives:
* To strengthen the efforts of state historical records coordinators and boards by offering grants for creating and updating state strategic plans for meeting records needs, based on the previous state assessments, and encompassing both documentary preservation and publication.
* To bring to completion within the next 20 years nine present projects that document the formation of basic American political institutions—editions of the papers of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington, and papers on the ratification of the Constitution, the First Federal Congress, the early Supreme Court, and the beginnings of U.S. foreign relations.
* Through matching grant offers and other means, to develop consortia and centers to edit documents, deal with documentation problems, raise funds for projects, share equipment and staff, and provide training as well as editing.
* To carry out the recommendations in the report of the Working Meeting on Research Issues in Electronic Records.
October 1, 1997 (for February 1998 meeting)
Proposals addressing the following objectives:
* To help local organizations preserve records and make them accessible by providing grants to state historical records coordinators and boards for state regrants.
* To bring to completion within the next 20 years 36 present, Commission-funded projects that help document a range of historical subjects including the history of American women, the history of minority groups, and historical developments during and after the founding era.
* In collaboration with the Association for Documentary Editing, to help editors resolve issues and improve techniques, tools, media, training, and standards for documentary editing.
* To increase access to and use of records, based on recommendations in the reports of the Historical Documents Study and the Society of American Archivists' Task Force on Goals and Priorities.
Application guidelines and forms may be requested from NHPRC, National Archives Building (Archives I), Room 607, Washington, DC 20408, (202) 501-5610 (voice), (202) 501-5601 (fax), nhprc@nara.gov (e-mail).
