The Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland, College Park
Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino, Project Directors

Final preparation for publication of volume 11 and completion of editorial work on volume 12 of a twelve-volume edition of the Papers of Samuel Gompers.
On the web at http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm
Outright Funds of $85,000 over a period of two years.

Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791
George Washington University, District of Columbia
Charlene N. Bickford, Project Director

Preparation for publication of Volumes 18-22 of the Correspondence Series of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress and work on digital conversion for online publication.
On the web at http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $148,000 over a period of two years.

Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
George Washington University, District of Columbia
Allida Black, Project Director

Completion and publication of Volume 2, completion of Volume 3, and editorial work on Volume 4.
On the web at http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $210,000 over a period of three years.

Editing part of Volume 6 (1947-50) of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall
George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, VA
Larry I. Bland, Project Director

Completion of volume 6 and preliminary work on volume 7 of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall.
On the web at http://www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall_papers_project.html
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Diana Kormos Buchwald, Project Director

Preparation for publication of Volumes 11, 12, and 13 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and expansion of The Einstein Archives Online website.
On the web at http://www.alberteinstein.info/
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The Ah Quin Diaries
California State University, San Marcos
Susie Lan Cassel, Project Director

Preparation for publication of the diary of Ah Quin, a nineteenth-century Chinese immigrant to the West Coast of the United States.
Outright funds of $70,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of George Washington
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Theodore J. Crackel, Project Director

Editorial work on volumes 18-22 of the Revolutionary War series and volumes 14-20 of the Presidential series of the multi-volume print edition of the Papers of George Washington.
On the web at http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/index.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $450,000 over a period of three years.

Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
University of Maryland, College Park
Neil R. Fraistat, Project Director

Preparation of a critical edition of the poetry of British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
On the web at http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/CPPBS.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $180,000 over a period of three years.

Critical Edition of the Works of Giuseppe Verdi
University of Chicago, IL
Philip Gossett, Project Director

The preparation of a critical edition of the works of Giuseppe Verdi.
On the web at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ciao/Introductory/Verdihist.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $102,500 over a period of two years.

Digital Edition of Cambridge, Pembroke MS 25
University of Notre Dame, IN
Thomas Hall, Project Director

An electronic edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 25, an eleventh-century collection of Latin sermons from which many Old English translations were produced.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of one year.

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Paul B. Israel, Project Director

Completion of Volume 7 and editorial work on Volumes 8 and 9 of the Papers of Thomas A. Edison.
On the web at http://edison.rutgers.edu/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $300,000 over a period of three years.

Writing in the Wake of Exploration: Documents from the Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Expedition to the Pantanal, 1540-1555
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Catherine J. Julien, Project Director

Preparation of an edition of the documents, commentaries, and narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's exploration of the Paraguay River.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 17 months.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Kaminski, Project Director

Final preparation for publication of two volumes of state debates about the ratification of the Constitution, research on a third, and work to place all previously published volumes and supplementary documents online.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $250,000 over a period of three years.

The Brownings' Correspondence: Volumes 17-19
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Waco, TX
Philip Kelley, Project Director

Preparation of annotation for 408 letters (1851-1853) comprising volumes 17-19 of the correspondence of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 19th-century British poets.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $210,000 over a period of three years.

The Spenser Project
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Joseph F. Loewenstein, Project Director

Preparation, annotation, and digitization of Volumes 1 and 2 of the collected works of early modern British author Edmund Spenser.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Princeton University, NJ
Barbara Bowen Oberg, Project Director

Scholarly work on volumes 34-39 of the multi-volume edition of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
On the web at http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/index.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $400,000 over a period of three years.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project
University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie S. Rowland, Project Director

The continuing preparation of a documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the American South, 1861-1867.
On the web at http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/
Outright Funds of $170,000 over a period of three years.

The Papers of James Madison
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
John C. A. Stagg, Project Director

Editorial work on The Papers of James Madison, to include final preparation for publication of Volume 6 in the Presidential series, preliminary work on Volume 7 of the Presidential series, continuing work on Volume 9 in the Secretary of State series, and continuing work on Volumes 1 and 2 of the Retirement series.
On the web at http://www.virginia.edu/pjm/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $180,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield
Daniel W. Stowell, Project Director

The digitization of Lincoln-related documents found in many different repositories, preparatory to making the documents available on a freely accessible website.
On the web at http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/
Offer of matching funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

The Completion of a Critical Edition of Henry of Ghent's Quodlibet IV
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Gordon Wilson, Project Director

Completion of preparation for publication of Quodlibet IV, the medieval philosopher Henry of Ghent's longest work, written in 1279.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of one year.