Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project earns additional NEH funding
University of Nebraska-Lincoln News
The Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project received new funding of $304,870 for the National Digital Newspaper Program from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the latest round of grant awards.
The national program grants awarded in nine states will support the ongoing digitization of newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 for inclusion in the Library of Congress' online database of historic American newspapers.
In this grant cycle, the project plans to digitize newspapers from towns on or near Nebraska’s Indian Reservations, as well as from Genoa, Nebraska, which was home to the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School from 1884 to 1934. Another focus will be on agriculture newspapers, such as the South Omaha Stockman, and Swedish language newspapers, like the Omaha-posten. They also plan to finish digitizing any of Nebraska’s remaining short-run African American newspaper titles.
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