NHS Receives Grant to Support Archive of the American Revolution
Newport This Week
The Newport Historical Society has received a $245,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund a project to rehouse, catalog, and digitize 2,000 documents from the 18th and 19th centuries contained in its collection.
Awarded through the NEH’s “Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition” initiative, the grant will support the Historic Society’s efforts to create the “Newport Archives of the American Revolution.” The NHS is one of just two Rhode Island recipients of Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition funding.
“This exciting award allows us to advance research and dramatically increase public access to one-of-a-kind documents and resources,” said Executive Director Rebecca Bertrand. “Every document we digitize presents an opportunity for us to preserve Newport’s history locally and simultaneously open it up to the world.”
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