The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced 2020 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) funding for institutions representing 6 states to expand their selection and digitization of U.S. historic newspapers for contribution to the freely available Chronicling America online collection, hosted by the Library of Congress. State projects receiving continued funding include the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Alaska State Library, Juneau; State Historical Society of Colorado, Denver; Maine State Library, Augusta; University of Maryland, College Park; and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Check out the full list of grants for details. Since 2005, cultural institutions in 50 states and territories have joined the program, jointly sponsored by the NEH and LOC, and contributed more than 16 million digitized historical American newspaper pages, published between 1789 and 1963 in 20 different languages, to the collection.
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via https://www.neh.gov/blog/august-2020-awards-preservation-access