Press Release
June 8, 2009
Spring 2009 Recommended Grants
Professional Development
These projects improve the training and education of professionals in the archival and historical publishing communities.
Archives Leadership Institute
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI $254,043
To support a three-year project to continue offering the Archives Leadership Institute begun in 2008 through 2012. The Institute provides 25 mid-career archivists training in leadership assessment, project management, fundraising, and advocacy.
Publishing Historical Records
These projects document major historical figures, and important eras and social movements in the history of the nation.
Selected Papers of Jane Addams
Duke University
Durham, NC $75,327
To support a selective book edition of the late 19th and early 20th century social reformer and co-founder of the Hull-House social settlement.
Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA $15,000
To support editorial work on the papers of the Member of the Continental Congress and U.S. Senator from Maryland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice University
Houston, TX $88,084
To support editorial work on a selective book edition of this U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and President of the Confederacy.
Frederick Douglass Papers
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN $77,125
To support editorial work on the papers of the 19th century abolitionist and civil rights advocate.
Thomas A. Edison Papers
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ $129,000
To support work on a comprehensive facsimile edition and selective book edition of the papers of America's greatest inventor.
Freedmen and Southern Society
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD $171,880
To support the Freedom History project, a series of volumes on the social history of emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers
Regents of the University of California
Los Angeles, CA $77,290
To support a selective book edition of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and its founder Marcus Garvey.
Emma Goldman Papers
Regents of the University of California
Berkeley, CA $129,961
To support a selective book edition of the early 20th century radical reformer and advocate for individual and political freedom.
Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland
College Park, MD $97,258
To support a selective book edition of the 19th century labor union leader.
Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant Association
Starkville, MS $59,040
To support a comprehensive book edition of the eighteenth President of the United States.
Papers of Andrew Jackson
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN $172,160
To support the editing of a volume of papers on the seventh President of the United States.
Selected Papers of John Jay
Columbia University
New York, NY $150,000
To support a selective book edition of the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, co-author of the Federalist Papers, and statesman.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
Stanford University
Stanford, CA $112,271
To support a complete edition of the papers of the preeminent leader of the American civil rights movement.
Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
Springfield, IL $118,070
To support an electronic edition of the papers of the sixteenth President of the United States.
Papers of George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall Foundation
Lexington, VA $44,000
To support editorial work on the sixth volume of papers of the 20th century U.S. general, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and architect of the Marshall Plan.
Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Papers
SUNY College at Old Westbury
Old Westbury, NY $73,935
To support a project to edit the papers of the 20th century civil rights advocate.
Correspondence of James K. Polk
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN $75,000
To support the editing of the correspondence of the eleventh President of the United States.
Presidential Recordings Program
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA $130,000
To support publishing the recordings made by American presidents during the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
George Washington University
Washington, DC $243,673
To support collecting, editing, and publishing the papers of the first lady, newspaper columnist, and U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
New York University
New York, NY $122,017
To support an edition of the papers of the 20th century advocate for women's health and family planning.
Documentary Relations of the Southwest: the O'odham-Pee Posh Communities
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ $77,898
To support a volume of the military activities and policies on the northern frontier of Spain's North American colonies, particularly the O'odham and Pee Posh Native American tribal communities.
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ $120,000
To support editorial work on the papers of the co-founders of the National Woman Suffrage Association and leaders of the women's suffrage movement.
Howard Thurman Papers
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA $104,109
To support editorial work on papers of the renowned 20th century theologian and civil rights advocate.
St. George Tucker Law Papers
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Williamsburg, VA $40,000
To support a project to edit the law papers of St. George Tucker, a prominent lawyer in Colonial America, professor of law at the College of William & Mary, and district court justice in Virginia.
Papers of the War Department
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA $99,894
To continue work on a comprehensive edition of the papers of the U.S. War Department, 1784-1800.
Publication Subventions
These projects help publishers defray the printing costs of individual volumes of documentary editions.
Ohio University
Athens, OH $10,000
Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Vol. 4
University of Virginia Press
Charlottesville, VA $10,000
Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Vol. 20
Archives-Basic Processing
These projects reveal hidden collections in archives and create archives programs.
American Choral Directors Association
Oklahoma City, OK $27,125
To support the establishment of an archives documenting choral music history. Founded in 1959, the Association has a collection of 800 linear feet of records documenting the history of choral associations across the United States.
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT $30,754
To support a project establishing guidelines for managing its archival collections and to process some of the most important collections of this regional museum for the art and history of Southern Vermont, including holdings on Grandma Moses, documents of a Revolutionary War battle, and papers of civil war soldiers.
Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria
Trinidad, CA $12,313
To support a 12-month project to hire a consultant to assess the community's records and provide recommendations for the development of a tribal archives. Site visits to the Wiyot and Hoopa tribes nearby and the Yakama Nation in southern Washington will help inform the plan.
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL $138,175
To support an 18-month project at the Chicago History Museum to promote the use of its collections, process 945 linear feet of its backlog, and resolve the status of 21 collections with insufficient accession information. Among the collections to be made available are the records of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois and the papers of author Studs Terkel.
City of Bristol
Bristol, CT $26,013
To support its city-wide records management and archives initiative and create online access to information about its archival holdings. Through this grant, historic 19th and 20th century records will be surveyed and relocated to standard storage, finding aids to collections will be created, and public access to these materials will be provided.
City of Warwick
Warwick, RI $4,856
To support a review and evaluation of the City Clerk's Office conditions for maintaining its historical collections of over 500 cubic feet of records, over 500 volumes, and 7,000 land evidence books and related maps for this community settled in the 1640s.
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Washington, DC $155,500
To support a two-year project to improve access to its archival collections, including uncovering 700 cubic feet of "hidden" collections, such as documents on the "Reading is Fundamental" program, the papers of Mary Day, founder of the Washington Ballet, and the Records of the Anacostia Coordinating Council.
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield, CT $31,200
To support a three-year project to improve access to its backlog of 200 linear feet of uncatalogued collections, including the papers of a Civil War chaplain, the records of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and the redesign of the town green by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead.
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Keshena, WI $11,380
To support an archival consultant to assist in creating a strategic plan to guide the development of a centralized tribal archives program. Located 45 miles northwest of Green Bay, the Menominee is developing a museum, archives, and collections management program for an estimated 4,000 cubic feet of historical records.
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI $116,500
To support a two-year project to improve public access to 931 manuscript collections that document the history of Michigan's copper mining district. The collections total more than 7,000 cubic feet and contain maps, photographs, engineering drawings, as well as records of mining companies and environmental protest groups.
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN $136,000
To support a three-year project to preserve and make accessible the historical records of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, founded in 1915. Approximately 1,200 feet will be processed, including collections of the American Print Renaissance and Plains Indian ledger drawings.
National Federation of the Blind
Baltimore, MD $125,000
To support a two-year project to process the records of its founder, Jacobus tenBroek, and the organization's records beginning in 1940. The National Federation of the Blind is the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the United States, and tenBroek was a leader in the blind civil rights movement.
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Raleigh, NC $40,327
To support the Outer Banks History Center's efforts to reduce its backlog, create finding aids, and develop standard accessioning and processing guidelines for holdings on the histories of the towns, shipwrecks, and environmental and cultural heritage preservation of the coastal area.
Ohio University
Athens, OH $116,514
To support a two-year project to complete basic processing of over 7,000 cubic feet of holdings, divided between historical records of the University and materials in its manuscript collection, and providing links to finding aids as part of the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository.
Seattle Municipal Archives
Seattle, WA $106,480
To support a two year project to process 1,858 linear feet of records that make up its current backlog, including records of the Office of Civil Rights, the Office of Mayor and City Council, and the Department of Neighborhoods.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA $110,560
To support a two-year project to arrange and describe 53 unprocessed collections totaling 900 cubic feet that document the cultural history of Los Angeles from literature, including the papers of Ray Bradbury and Irving Wallace; cinema, including the work of major filmmakers; Latin American studies; the performing arts; and regional history including the history of the 1984 Olympics.
University of Texas
Austin, TX $69,310
To support a two-year project to improve access to backlogged collections of the Center for American History's Research and Collections division, including the Walter Cronkite papers, the Vietnam Veterans Archive, the records of the Nuclear Control Institute, and the World War I and World War II Soldiers' Collections.
Archives-Detailed Processing
These projects undertake detailed processing and preservation of collections of national significance.
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
Chicago, IL $90,582
To support a two-year project to continue indexing Declarations of Intentions for Naturalization from between 1906-1929, a total of 258,000 declarations. This project provides an invaluable resource to genealogists and historians seeking primary source documents on immigrants during the early part of the 20th century.
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY $47,256
To support a project to process the records of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the country's oldest and largest privately-owned bank, from 1825 to the late 1960s. The collection documents not only the operations of the bank, but such historical topics as slavery, the increasing involvement of the United States in Central America in the mid-19th century, and the effect of the Civil War on the people of New York City.
New York University
New York, NY $196,440
To support a two-year project, on behalf of the Tamiment Library, to arrange, describe, and preserve the photograph morgue of a half-million images from the Daily Worker and Daily World newspapers. These photos document social conditions and protest movements of the 20th century
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY $140,400
To support a two-year project to describe five of the Guggenheim Museum's most used archival collections and to digitize selected papers and audio materials for online access. The papers of the first three directors of the Museum-Hilla Rebay, James Johnson Sweeney, and Thomas Messer-will be arranged and describing, providing insight into the history of modern art in America.
University of Kansas Center for Research
Lawrence, KS $62,438
To support a two-year project to process the Senatorial, campaign, and retirement papers of Robert J. Dole from 1968 to 2009. Senator Dole ran as the Republican nominee for President in 1996 and was the longest-serving Republican to act as U.S. Senate Majority Leader.
University of New Mexico Regents
Albuquerque, NM $50,175
To support, on behalf of the Center for Southwest Research, an 18-month project to arrange and describe 350 linear feet of records and papers from LaDonna Harris and the organization she founded in 1970, Americans for Indian Opportunity. Harris served on the National Women's Advisory Council of the War on Poverty and the National Council on Indian Opportunity.
State and National Archival Partnership Grants
These projects strengthen archives and historical records programs in the states and build a national archival network.
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development $61,980
To support basic activities, and a scholarship program that will enable up to 30 participants from across the state to receive preservation training.
Arizona State Historical Records Advisory Board $39,208
To support a statewide Archival Summit, four Archives 101 workshops, and 8-10 regrants to organizations across the state.
Friends of the California Archives $20,000
To support the state historical records advisory board, including its training in grant writing and information about fundraising for historical records projects.
Connecticut State Library $62,638
To support basic activities and expand on work underway as part of the Connecting to Collections initiative for a pilot project to conduct 60 onsite archival collection assessments.
Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services $19,600
To support the state historical records advisory board, including its publication of an updated Directory of Florida Archival and Manuscripts Repositories.
Georgia Office of Secretary of State $19,329
To support the updating of an online Directory of Historical and Cultural Organizations in Georgia, and an archives awards program by the state historical records advisory board.
State Historical Society of Iowa $13,500
To support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board, including participation in a cultural resources advisory council to develop a statewide emergency response plan for archives.
Idaho State Historical Society $50,000
To support a regrants program for 6-12 local records repositories to develop records programs, identify and inventory vital records, and undertake preservation and conservation efforts as well as other activities.
Illinois Secretary of State-Illinois State Archives $70,000
To support a scholarship program for archivists at small institutions, and a regrants program to award up to eight grants for records preservation and access, disaster planning, and other needs.
Indiana Commission on Public Records $27,850
To support a regrants program, including six additional regrants, and workshops on records preservation and using archival collections.
Kentucky Historical Records Advisory Board $17,000
To support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board, including a continuing education workshop, and dissemination of the documentary Finding Our Way Home: Historical Records in Kentucky.
Maine Historical Records Advisory Board $67,280
To support a Civil War Sesquicentennial Coordinator, and a regrants program that will provide at least 25 small grants to archives across the state.
Minnesota Historical Society $29,320
To support a regrants program for 6-8 projects to create collaborations, preserve and provide access to American Indian archives, provide increased documentation on recent immigrant communities, and expand documents online through collaborations with the Minnesota Digital Library.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History $63,551
To support basic activities, emergency preparedness, and technical assistance to county records managers in the state's 14 oldest counties to improve the preservation of, and access to, some of the state's most valuable records from pre-1920.
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State $64,930
To support a "State of the State's Records" presentation at the Missouri Conference on History, and a regrants program for as many as 30 projects across the state.
Montana Historical Society $18,695
To support the state historical records advisory board, including its Traveling Student Archivist Program to provide onsite assistance to small, underserved institutions across the state.
Nebraska State Historical Society $4,244
To support a review of progress on its state historical records advisory board's strategic plan, "Preserving Our Past, Insuring Our History for the Future."
New Mexico Commission of Public Records $70,000
To support a regrants program of at least 21 grants to local government, educational institutions, historical societies, community libraries, and museums throughout the state.
Nevada State Library and Archives $19,711
To support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board, including activities in support of Archives Month and National History Day, and sponsorship of a two-day archives workshop for government employees.
New York State Education Department $62,632
To support the development of online tools on collections security, a security curriculum, and nine workshops on archival security by the state historical records advisory board.
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources $33,223
To support a pilot Traveling Archivist Program for a minimum of 40 site visits to undertake collections assessments, conduct training in archival processes, and provide an Archivist Starter Kit to smaller repositories.
State Historical Society of North Dakota $19,937
To support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board, including further development of an online database for digital images, Digital Horizons.
Ohio Historical Society $20,000
To support the state historical records advisory board, in sponsoring a Connecting to Collections Summit to initiate a needs assessment of the state's cultural heritage institutions.
Oklahoma Department of Libraries $70,000
To support a Summit Meeting, two digitization workshops for archivists, and a regrants program for at least 10 archival projects in the state.
Oregon Secretary of State, Archives Division $19,988
To support the state historical records advisory board, including a series of 20 archives and records management workshops in five regions of the state.
South Dakota Department of Tourism & State Development $13,278
To support a small regrants program for local archives by the state historical records advisory board.
Tennessee State Library & Archives $59,900
To support the ninth annual Tennessee Archives Institute, and a regrants program for up to 15 nongovernmental archives for assessments, preservation, education and training, and records processing.
Utah State Archives & Records Services $20,000
To support the state historical records advisory board's circuit rider archivist in working to preserve local government historic records and historic court records.
Library of Virginia $19,994
To support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board, including outreach programs on preserving Virginia's documentary heritage.
Washington Office of the Secretary of State $45,000
To support a regrants program and a statewide effort to improve preservation and access to local government records held by non-governmental archives such as historical societies, libraries, and museums.
Wyoming Department of State Parks & Cultural Resources $31,000
To support a regrants program for up to 15 records repositories for educational scholarships and in-house assistance with the management of historical collections across the state.
