By: E&P Staff The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Kansas Historical Society a grant for the digitization of 100,000 pages of Kansas newspapers dating back to 1860.
"[T]his grant represents a giant step toward our long-term efforts to create a sustainable digital collection of historic Kansas newspapers available online," Michael Church, digital initiatives coordinator for the Kansas Historical Society, told the Wichita Eagle.
With the awarding of the $260,000 grant, Kansas joins 21 other states currently participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program, which was begun in 2005 by the NEH and the Library of Congress with the goal of "providing enhanced access to historically significant United States newspapers," according to the NEH's Web site.
The Kansas Historical Society, located in Topeka, was founded in 1875 by the state's newspaper editors and has a "virtually complete collection of all Kansas newspapers published from 1875 to the present on microfilm or in original form," according to the Society's Web site.
In all, the Society estimates that 13 million newspaper pages are in the Society's Collection. The 100,000 pages that will be digitized date from 1860 to 1922.
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