

Here are a few that caught my eye:
University of Arkansas, Little Rock Outright: $325,043
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Deborah Baldwin
Project Title: Mapping Urban Fracture: Charting the Context and Consequence of the Little Rock Central High Crisis
Project Description: The digitization and geolocation of maps, architectural drawings, reports, and related photographs to address humanities questions about concepts of desegregation, urban renewal, and racial distribution over time with regard to housing and schools. The Mapping Urban Fracture project would create a virtual collection comprising approximately 700 new reports and maps created after 1989 and develop an access interface to research spatial segregation with meta- and geospatial data.
Michael Rogers Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Arkansas Tech University
Project Title: Eighteenth-Century Anti-Federalist Criticisms of the Electoral College
Project Description: Research and writing of a journal article on the Anti-Federalist critique of the Electoral College during the 1780 Constitutional Convention and Ratification.
Anna Corwin Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Saint Mary’s College of California
Project Title: Encountering the Divine
Project Description: Writing an article on how Catholic nuns talk about religious experience.
Adrian Finucane Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Florida Atlantic University
Project Title: Prisoners of War and the Trade in Secrets, 1700–1760
Project Description: Research and writing of two chapters for a book on the use of prisoners of war in gathering military and commercial intelligence in eighteenth century British colonies of the American southeast.
University of Florida Outright: $318,944
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Charles Cobb
Project Title: The Colonial St. Augustine Project: Digitizing 400 Years of Interaction
Project Description: The development of a database and online portal to archaeological material at the Florida Museum of Natural History from three house lots at the colonial city of St Augustine. The house lots encompass material from the late 16th to 19th centuries. A total of approximately 52,000 artifacts and over 2,000 documents, maps and photos, would be added—including pottery, architecture, clothing, and metals that document the diverse cultural representation in St. Augustine at that time.
American Congregational Association Outright: $289,300
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: James Cooper
Project Title: New England’s Hidden Histories: Providing Access to Founding Documents
of American Democracy
Project Description: Digitization of approximately 18,000 pages of early American church records and associated documents from five institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, as well as the development of transcription technologies and workflows.
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. Outright: $300,000
[Short Documentaries]
Project Director: Llewellyn Smith
Project Title: American Muslim
Project Description: Production of a series of six short films about the history of Muslims in the United States.
University of Michigan, Dearborn Campus Outright: $350,000
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Cheney Schopieray
Project Title: Revolutionary America: Digitizing the Thomas Gage Papers
Project Description: Rehousing, further cataloging, and digitization of the collection of Thomas Gage, who along with being commander in chief of the American colonies from 1763 through 1775 and governor of Massachusetts Bay from 1774 to 1775, was responsible for managing all relations with Indigenous people in the British colonies from Canada to the Mississippi. The complete digitized collection would include 95,445 images with item-level metadata.
Michigan State University Outright: $349,744
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Dean Rehberger
Project Title: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Project Description: Expanding the data platform of Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org) through the addition of ten digital collections ranging from those held at small, local institutions to those at large, university-based special collections in the mid-Atlantic, the Carolinas, and the Lower Mississippi. These additional data sets would increase the Enslaved.org linked open data platform to approximately 1.3 million records.
Rachel Trocchio Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Project Title: Jonathan Edwards, Puritanism, and the Art of the Infinite
Project Description: Research and writing to complete one chapter of a book examining various modes of thinking employed in developing American Puritan theology.
David Greenberg Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Rutgers University
Project Title: A Biography of John Lewis (1940–2020)
Project Description: Research for a biography of civil rights leader and politician John Lewis (1940–2020).
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany Outright: $34,981
[Humanities Connections Planning Grants]
Project Director: Sheila Bernard
Project Title: Building the Study of History into Professional Programs
Project Description: A one-year planning project integrating the study of history into undergraduate professional programs in in homeland security, informatics, and public health.
Gene Zubovich Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo
Project Title: A Global History of the American Culture Wars
Project Description: Research for a book on how American religious organizations intervened in the cultural and political affairs of other countries after World War II
Huguenot Historical Society of New Paltz New York Inc. Outright: $349,999
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Josephine Bloodgood
Project Title: Preserving and Digitizing the Historic Documents of a Colonial Hudson Valley community: New Paltz, New York
Project Description: Cataloging, conservation, and digitization of four collections from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century: the Huguenot Historic Street Archives; the New Paltz Town Records; Records of the Reformed Church; and genealogical records of the mid-Hudson Valley. Online access to the collections would be available through NYHeritage.org and a stand-alone project website.
New-York Historical Society Outright: $650,000
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Marci Reaven
Project Title: Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West National Traveling Exhibition
Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the religious aspects of westward expansion in the nineteenth century.
St. John Fisher College Outright: $100,000
[Humanities Connections Implementation Grants]
Project Director: Oliver Griffin
Project Title: Rochester: Mapping Place, Space, and Identity
Project Description: Implementation of a five-course sequence that brings the lens of place to the history of Rochester, New York.
Heather Ostman Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Westchester Community College
Project Title: Rhetorical Lives: American Women Activists and Autobiography
Project Description: Research and writing of a book on the rhetorical strategies used in the autobiographies of American women activists.
Duke University Outright: $349,178
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: John Gartrell
Project Title: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South: Digital Access to the Behind the Veil Project Archive
Project Description: The digitization, cataloging, and transcription of Duke University’s Behind the Veil (BTV) oral history collection of 1,200 analog master recordings and over 3,800 supplemental materials, including photographs and project files, to current digital standards. The collection, which illustrates African-American life in twenty Southern communities under Jim Crow, would be published in the Duke Digital Repository.
Anne Blankenship Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
North Dakota State University
Project Title: Religion, Race, and Immigration: How American Jews, Catholics, and Protestants Faced Mass Immigration, 1882–1924
Project Description: Writing two chapters on religious responses to immigration in the United States, 1882–1924.
Kelly Sharp Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Project Title: Comparative Slave Life and Labor in Urban Antebellum America
Project Description: Research and writing toward an article and a book on how bondspeople influenced the economic and cultural development of four antebellum Southern cities.
Sean O’Rourke Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
University of the South
Project Title: The Greenville, South Carolina, Civil Rights Struggle, 1947–1972
Project Description: Research and writing for a rhetorical history of the Civil Rights Movement in Greenville, South Carolina.
Ben Davidson Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
St. Michael’s College
Project Title: Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation
Project Description: Writing and editing two chapters of a book on how the first generation of Americans who came of age during the Civil War and Reconstruction understood freedom.
West Virginia University Outright: $59,115
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Danielle Emerling
Project Title: The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project
Project Description: A multi-institutional planning project to develop an online portal that would aggregate the personal papers of former members of the United States Congress.
Peter Walker Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
University of Wyoming
Project Title: Loyalism, the Church of England, and the American Revolution
Project Description: Write three chapters of a history of Loyalist Anglicans during the American Revolution.
Congratulations to all the winners. Read the entire list here.