Virginia
Records Projects
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$300,000 to support a three-year project to host the 2024-2026 Archives Leadership Institute, a program for mid-career archivists and memory workers to develop leadership skills at an in-person summer program followed by virtual gatherings and training sessions throughout the year. (DL-103622-23)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
$150,000 to support the Chicago Covenants Project, which draws on volunteers to locate, digitize, and make available every racially restrictive covenant in the analog land records of Cook County, Illinois, in order to explore how covenants were key tools of racial segregation and how they continue to affect society. (DP-103606-23)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
$149,842 to process 17 collections from the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (506 cubic feet) that document the period 1885 to 2008, improve the online description available for seven additional collections, and create two physical exhibits and an accompanying digital exhibit. (RH-103436-22)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
$74,538 to process the M. Rupert Cutler Papers at Virginia Tech, a total 172 cubic feet, that document Cutler’s environmental, political, and business activities prior to and following his service in the Carter Administration as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Conservation, Research, and Education. The collection also documents Cutler’s personal experiences, service on the Roanoke City Council, and contributions to environmental organizations nationally and in Virginia. (RH-103048-20)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$175,392 to support a project to enhance the website Virginia Untold: the African-American Experience by adding digitized Registers of Free Blacks (1793-1865) from 19 localities in the Commonwealth, along with five additional Registers held by Arlington County. In addition, the project will arrange, describe, and digitize records relating to free blacks from the City of Richmond. The project will also work with county clerk’s offices that hold additional Registers to encourage digitization, and build on efforts to engage the public in transcribing the records. (RM102989-20)
Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$10,000 to support the Virginia Historical Records Advisory Board’s programming, including a survey of the needs of the state’s archival repositories and the development of a strategic plan with the assistance of a consultant. (RC102980-20)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
$68,722 to support a project to process 150 cubic feet of records from the Fries Textile Plant, dating from the company’s founding in 1903 through the 1980s, to produce and publish EAD Finding Aids, and digitize selected materials on Virginia Tech’s Special Collections website. The Fries Textile Plant records provide a complete history of a major textile plant that flourished in the 20th century, and promise to shed new light on the history of Appalachia, labor relations, the environment, textile manufacturing, company towns, community life, and deindustrialization. (RH100301-18)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
$74,224 to support "Mapping the Fourth of July in the American Civil War Era: A Crowdsourced Digital Archive," a project to use a variety of primary sources to build a website through which college and high school students, Civil War enthusiasts, and the general public can analyze and discuss how different regions celebrated the Fourth of July during the Civil War. (DH50013-15)
Library of Virginia Foundation, Richmond, VA
$21,408 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board, including its fourth statewide workshop for local historical and genealogical societies, an Advocating for Archives workshop, and a small regrant program. (RC10223-14)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$144,000 to support a digital-only documentary edition of the George Washington Financial Papers, focusing on his voluminous financial records, applying the tools and methods as well to the financial ledgers of Gouvernor Morris. (DI50007-13)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$81,340 to support a collaborative two-year project with the Montgomery County Circuit Court Clerk's office to arrange and describe the county's chancery records 1777-1912. (RH50055-13)
Library of Virginia Foundation, Richmond, VA
$15,848 to support basic funding for board meetings, a copyright workshop, an Archives Month poster and bookmark, a statewide regrant program, and participation in a national archival organization. (RC10175-13)
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
$96,602 to support a two-year project to process 1,191 linear feet of records from 14 Virginia-based businesses that have operated during the 19th and 20th centuries in coal mining, law, pharmaceuticals, hosiery and shoe sales, real estate, metals production, energy and natural gas production, paper, and the lumber trade. These records document aspects of the national economy and the American marketplace, and present researchers with resources for the study of the establishment, development, growth, and decline of specific industries in the mid-Atlantic region. (RH50016-12)
Library of Virginia Foundation, Richmond, VA
$12,688 to support the Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board and its "Where History Begins" conference for the promotion of collaboration among historical societies.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
$148,782 to support, on behalf of Documents Compass, a three-year project to create a customizable database structure and interface that will aid historical documentary editors in preparing, editing, and managing their documents and files for complex publishing projects. (DS50019-11)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$150,000 to support a two year project to digitize the Augusta County Chancery Court records (1745-1912), consisting of 460 cubic feet totally approximately 900,000 images representing 10,437 cases. (RD10060-11)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$17,149 to support the work of the Virginia Historical Records Advisory Board, including travel stipends and tuition costs for statewide archives workshops. (RC10091-11)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$69,281 to support implementation and user testing of an open-source, online tool that researchers can use to contribute transcriptions and annotations to web-accessible images of historical documents. This crowdsourcing tool will be tested on the Papers of the War Department and collections at the Independence Seaport Museum and the Minnesota Historical Society. (DS50017-10)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$24,750 to arrange, describe, and preserve the photographs of Oliver F. Atkins and Arthur E. Scott. The collections contain 60,000 images of important 20th century political figures, historical events taking place in Washington, DC, and scenes of American life. (RP50047-10)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$19,994 to support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board, including outreach programs on preserving Virginia's documentary heritage. (RC10069-09)
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
$250,000 to support a pilot project to transcribe and encode for online and print publication documents on behalf of documentary editing projects from the Founding Era of the nation. (PT50001)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
$160,700 for the Archives of the New Dominion, to work with the African American, women's activist, gay and lesbian, and Hispanic communities to determine the historic value of their work and to encourage them to make their documentary history available to repositories. (2004-101)
City of Petersburg, VA
$8,094 to duplicate 251 nitrate negatives made by commercial photographer William E. Lum, Jr., that document the history of Petersburg and the surrounding community from 1925 to 1952. (2003-093)
The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$38,909 to support the restoration of selected sound recordings generated by WRVA Radio and the creation of compact disks of this material for reference purposes. (2003-074)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$9,421 in partial support of the board's administrative expenses for 21 months. (2001-033)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$43,500 to fund an NHPRC archival administration fellowship in the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library for academic year 2000-2001. (2000-051)
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Education and Research Foundation, Arlington, VA
$15,650 for a project to develop an archives and records management program. (98-032)
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Arlington, VA
$4,500 to engage the services of a consultant for assistance with the development of an archives and records management program. (97-044)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$50,000 to preserve and make accessible records in private, local, and state repositories throughout Virginia by providing training throughout the commonwealth in disaster preparedness and records description and by supporting the development of disaster plans and holdings' inventories at individual repositories. (96-071)
Virginia Home for Boys in Richmond, Richmond, VA
$10,000 to conserve, arrange, describe, and microfilm the historical records of the home, consisting of Registers of Boys beginning in 1846, minutes, financial reports, and other records. (95-093)
David R. Kobrin, Alexandria, VA
$35,272 to complete a book designed to help secondary-level history and social studies teachers, pre-service teachers and teacher educators understand the importance and advantages of using primary historical documents as teaching tools. (94-120)
Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society, Clifton Forge, VA
$65,811 for a one-year project to appraise, arrange, clean, create descriptions in the MARC AMC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) format, and microfilm approximately 350 corporate minute and record books; and to survey, appraise, re-house and create a computerized description and processing plan for about 1,100 cubic feet of administrative records documenting the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. (94-091)
The Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA
$6,884 to preserve 260 daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (ca. 1845-60) in the museum's cased-image collection. (93-092)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
$30,720 to inventory, arrange, and describe the Adele Goodman Clark Papers. (93-083)
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
$40,572 to arrange, describe, microfilm, and develop a guide to the T.T. Perry Collection, comprising 54 linear feet of historical manuscripts and records documenting western Virginia and eastern West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. (93-004)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$7,608 to support the travel and meeting expenses of the board, including the development of a statewide strategic plan addressing archives and manuscripts programming in Virginia. (92-116)
County of Shenandoah, Woodstock, VA
$18,755 to arrange and prepare for microfilming the county's circuit court case files and loose court papers. (90-118)
People-to-People Health Foundation, Millwood, VA
$34,592 to establish an archives and records management program. (89-090)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$50,000 for a regrant program directed at the state's public and private manuscript repositories. The project will develop a statewide preservation plan for archives and manuscripts and support conservation/preservation surveys in up to 40 manuscript repositories. (89-035)
National Recreation and Park Association, Alexandria, VA
$53,121 to establish a records management program for the association's records and to complete the processing of its pre-1965 records located at the Social History Welfare Archives of the University of Minnesota. (88-060)
Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, VA
$15,738 to arrange and describe local history materials in the Arlington Community History Archives. The collection documents the history of Arlington's African-American community, school desegregation, the work of neighborhood civic associations, and the early history of National Airport. (88-058)
City of Richmond, Richmond, VA
$2,918 for consulting services relating to development of a city archives and records management program. (87-096)
MacArthur Memorial, City of Norfolk, Norfolk, VA
$42,768 to begin preservation microfilming of the papers of General Douglas MacArthur in the holdings of the memorial. (86-126)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$5,000 for travel and meeting expenses to allow the state board to carry out its grant review and statewide archival planning missions. (86-111)
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA
$61,049 for a two-year project to create an archival program in its central office and for its state and regional affiliates. (85-041, 86-062)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$15,425 to produce preservation and reference microforms of nitrate negatives in the Federal Theatre Project collection. (84-137)
National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, VA
$50,000 to gather information on court record retention schedules, prepare comparative matrices, and publish the results. (83-059)
Fairfax County Government, Fairfax, VA
$10,000 for its project to develop a comprehensive archives and records management program for Fairfax County through records surveying and scheduling, development of a manual, and treatment of archival records. (81-151)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$14,000 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken. (81-132)
Newport News Public Library System, Newport News, VA
$8,237 to assist in processing the records of the Old Dominion Land Company. (81-089)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
$14,384 to duplicate endangered photographs documenting 18th-century American architecture and the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. (80-081)
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA
$9,150 to microfilm for preservation early records of the Academy, 1839-65. (78-128)
Hollins College, Hollins, VA
$2,441 to arrange, describe and microfilm the papers of Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor, who was involved in various radical movements in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. (78-061)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$3,621 for the Research Center for the Federal Theatre Project to survey, appraise, and accession selected materials in private hands relating to the Federal Theatre Project of the New Deal period. (78-040)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$2,110 for preservation microfilming of the university's original Thomas Jefferson papers. (77-051)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $2,995,600
Publications Projects
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$300,048 to support The Chinese American WWII Veterans Online Resource, an online resource and archive that will bring together information drawn from U.S. military service records, including enlistment, separation, and discharge records, as well as information from private records on the more than 22,000 Chinese and Chinese Americans who served in World War II. (2022-23)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$5,114,602 for the Papers of James Madison. (1976-2024)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$5,145,673 for the Papers of George Washington. (1968-2024)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$735,344 for the Dolley Madison Digital Edition (2010-2018).
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$518,109 for the Papers of Julian Bond. (2021-24)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$103,575 to support the John Dickinson Writings Project. (2021)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$2,673,937 for the Presidential Recordings Project. (2000-2024)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg, VA
$60,000 for the St. George Tucker Law Papers. (2008-2009)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$677,709 for the Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 (2006-12).
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
$44,625 for the Papers of James Monroe. (2018)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
$296,745 for the Charles Carroll of Carrollton Family Papers. (1993-2011)
George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, VA
$1,817,084 for the Papers of George Catlett Marshall. (1977-2014)
Linda A. Fisher, Annadale, VA
$63,125 for The Whiskey Merchant’s Diary: An Urban Life in the Emerging Midwest by Joseph J. Mersman. (2004-082)
https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/projects/catalog/whiskey-merchants-diary
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA
$846,594 for the Papers of John Marshall. (1966-2005)
Ash Lawn-Highland, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
$16,148 for the Papers of James Monroe. (1991)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$13,740 for the Papers of James Monroe. (1968)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$25,027 for the Virginia Collections: Carter Family Papers, 1659–1797, in the Sabine Hall Collection, the Navy Papers of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, the Papers of R.M.T. Hunter, the Lee Family Papers, John Henry Ingram’s Collection on Edgar Allan Poe, and the Virginia Gazette Daybooks, (1965-66)
Subventions
The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$935,782 for subvention support for the Lincoln Legal Papers, the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, the Dolley Madison Letters, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers of John Jay, and the Papers of James Madison.
Fellowships
Martha King, Williamsburg, VA
$25,000 for a fellowship in historical editing at the Papers of Henry Laurens. (1991)
Professional Development
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$465,000 to support a three-year project to develop, enhance, and administer its new, freely-accessible professional development platform for historical and scholarly editing practitioners, eLaboratories (eLabs). (DE-103621-23)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$268,000 to support a two‑year project to continue the Institute for Editing Historical Documents, which began in 1972. (DE102831-19)
Association for Documentary Editing, Charlottesville, VA
$251,796 to support a three-year project to substantially update and offer the Institute for Historical Editing and to develop and offer new advanced seminars for documentary editors in the digital age. (DG10018-11)
Association for Documentary Editing, Charlottesville, VA
$58,832 to plan and conduct two seminars in electronic publishing. (97-068)
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $22,464,598
Total $25,460,198
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