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2016 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting-- Open to the Public

Join us for the 2016 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors' Meeting on September 16th, featuring lightning round presentations from our grantees and a keynote address from the digital initiatives team of the DC Public Library!

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Announcing 8 Digital Humanities Implementation Grant Awards (August 2016)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 8 awards from our Digital Humanities Implementation Grant program.

Announcing 4 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (August 2016)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce three awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.

Announcing New NEH-IMLS Partnership: Libraries & Museums Advance the Digital Humanities

As part of the Office of Digital Humanities' new grant program, Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, we are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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Giving New Life to Old Books: NEH & Mellon at AAUP 2016

Representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are pleased to co-host a session at this year's annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses in Philadelphia. 

“Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown

"Hypertext" the Movie: An Evening with Andy van Dam

On April 25, 2016, Professor Andries “Andy” van Dam was our very special guest at a debut screening of the film "Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University,” documenting a 1974 grant awarded to van Dam for an experimental class using "hypertext" for the study of poetry.

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Invitation to a Film Screening & Talk at the University of Maryland to Celebrate the Work of Andy van Dam

Join us on April 25, 2016 to celebrate the work of Brown University professor and NEH grantee Andy van Dam at a film screening of the 1974 documentary, Hypertext: An Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University, and panel talk at the University of Maryland featuring Professor van Dam.

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Invitation to the Keynote Address for Images and Texts in Medical History Workshop at the National Institutes of Health

As part of the Images and Text in Medical History Workshop, we invite you to a keynote address, The Analog Patient: Imagining Medicine at a Distance in the Television Era, by Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD,  Associate Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. The keynote will be held in Bethesda, MD, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday, April 12 from 11AM – 12PM. 

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Posted: August 21, 2016

2016 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting-- Open to the Public

Join us for the 2016 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors' Meeting on September 16th, featuring lightning round presentations from our grantees and a keynote address from the digital initiatives team of the DC Public Library!

Posted: July 26, 2016

Announcing 8 Digital Humanities Implementation Grant Awards (August 2016)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 8 awards from our Digital Humanities Implementation Grant program.

Posted: July 26, 2016

Announcing 4 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (August 2016)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce three awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.

Posted: July 20, 2016

Announcing New NEH-IMLS Partnership: Libraries & Museums Advance the Digital Humanities

As part of the Office of Digital Humanities' new grant program, Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, we are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Posted: April 6, 2016

The SUG Program is No More; Please Welcome Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

The Office of Digital Humanities is pleased to announce a major change in our grant offerings. The TLDR version: We are eliminating both the DH Start-Up Grant Program and the DH Implementation Grant program and replacing them with a single program that will be offered twice per year that will combine features from both programs. The new program is called Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG).

Posted: March 22, 2016

Announcing 18 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2016)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 18 awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September 2015 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 248 grants just announced by the NEH.

Posted: February 25, 2016

Announcing the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

To help accelerate the creation of new forms of scholarly communication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are pleased to announce the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication.

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Posted: January 4, 2017

NEH at the 2017 American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Jennifer Serventi from the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities will be attending the 2017 American Historical Association annual meeting in Denver, from January 5th to January 8th.

Posted: June 16, 2016

Giving New Life to Old Books: NEH & Mellon at AAUP 2016

Representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are pleased to co-host a session at this year's annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses in Philadelphia. 

Posted: December 16, 2015

NEH at the 2016 American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Several NEH staff members from across the Endowment’s offices and divisions will be attending the 2016 American Historical Association annual meeting in Atlanta, from January 7th to January 10th.

Posted: April 12, 2015

NEH Program Officer Jennifer Serventi to Attend 2015 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

Jennifer Serventi, Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities will be attending the upcoming Organization of American Historians annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.
Posted: January 6, 2015

NEH Program Officer Jennifer Serventi to Attend 2015 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies

Jennifer Serventi, Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, will be at the upcoming Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies (New Orleans, Jan. 8-11, 2015). 

Posted: December 18, 2014

NEH at the 2015 American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Several NEH staff members from across the Endowment’s offices and divisions will be attending the 2015 American Historical Association annual meeting in New York City, from January 2nd to January 5th.

There will be several sessions at the meeting where you can learn about the results of particular NEH grant programs and projects, speak with NEH program officers, and consider the history of the Endowment as we mark our 50th anniversa

Posted: July 21, 2014

NEH Staff at the Digital Preservation 2014 Meeting

Staff from the Office of Digital Humanities along with their colleagues from NEH Division of Preservation and Access will be attending the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting sponsored by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance from July 22-23, 2014 in Washington, DC.

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Posted: November 20, 2013

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

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This video presents lectures from several scholars of historical digital research delivered at the National Digital Newspaper Program Awardee Conference in September 2013.

Posted: August 28, 2013

The Fort Vancouver Mobile Project

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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is the first National Park Service site to develop a mobile interpretative app for park visitors.  The app was developed with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.