The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $29 million in awards for 215 humanities projects across the country.
Grants were awarded in several categories, including Collaborative Research; Digital Humanities Advancement; Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; Landmarks of American History and Culture; Media Projects: Development and Production; National Digital Newspaper Program; Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions; Public Humanities Projects: Humanities Discussions, Exhibitions, and Historic Places; Public Scholar Program; Scholarly Editions and Translations; Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers; Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers; and Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections.
Local individuals/institutions receiving awards include the Chicago Architecture Foundation ($170,000), Chicago Film Archives ($10,000), the Chicago History Museum ($350,000), Erica Westly ($40,000), Media Process Educational Films ($75,000), Newberry Library ($124,989), North Park University ($9,000) and the University of Chicago (four grants of $212,388, $109,605, $203,009 and $99,497).
Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at http://NEH.gov.