Scholarly Editions and Translations
Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of authoritative and annotated texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available only in inadequate editions. Projects usually involve significant literary, philosophical and historical material and often include electronic publication. Awards are made for one to three years.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html

RQ-50334, George Mason University:
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800.
In 2008 George Mason University received a Scholarly Editions grant to support Christopher Hamner’s project. Working with a team of scholars, Hamner is reconstructing the original government records in the War Department, which were destroyed by fire in 1800. For the past two centuries, scholars have believed these papers irretrievable, but the project is reassembling them by tracing copies or originals found in other archival institutions. Copies of original documents have been located in over three thousand European and American collections, and some forty-five thousand of these will be made freely available online to scholars, students, and the general public. The online archive will provide researchers interested in the early republic with ready access to material that has never been studied by modern scholars.
Project URL: wardepartmentpapers.org/

RQ-50297, George Washington University:
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project.
George Washington University received a 2007 Scholarly Editions grant to support Allida Black’s project. Black is working with other scholars to make the post-White House writings, radio addresses, and television appearances of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt available to scholarly and general audiences.
Project URL: www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/