Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support improving access to the Society’s unprocessed manuscript collections

Special Collections

toward endowment to support a curatorship of rare books on the Society's library staff

Curator of Rare Books

matching grant to promote access to and use of its collections

Collection Access

matching endowment in support of core functions of its library

IRL Program II

to improve access to library special collections

Special Collections - Assessment 

toward costs of improving the care and management of library collections

Specialized Research Centers/Libraries

toward the maintenance of its cataloguing operations and to promote wider scholarly use of its collections

Independent Research Libraries Program

to support staff training and development initiatives

Professional Development and Training Program

to support a symposium and an exhibit entitled "Hidden Treasures Revealed: The Paul Mellon Collection of Americana"

The Paul Mellon Collection of Americana

to support specific initiatives to strengthen the care of, and improve access to, research collections

Strengthening Care and Access to Research Collections

toward costs of the Virginia Historical Inventory project

Virginia Historical Inventory Project

in support of studies of the potential for collaboration with The New-York Historical Society regarding  library collections

Collaboration - New York Historical Society

toward costs of an inventory and guide to historical societies in New Jersey

Historical Societies Guide

toward costs of improving access to The New-York Historical Society’s library collections

New York Historical Society Library Collections

to support completion of a five-year project to improve access to the New-York Historical Society’s library collections

New-York Historical Society Library Collections

to support a Gender and LGBTQ+ History Fellow at The Center for Women's History at the New-York Historical Society

Gender and LGBTQ+ History

to support relocation planning for the Society's physical archive, upgrades to its digital collection infrastructure, and planning for a rebranding project

Planning for the GLBT Historical Society's Future

to support a naturalization test preparation program that incorporates the Society's historical collections

The Citizenship Project

to support the historical conservation of objects and memories of recent catastrophic events in the United States

Objects and Memory

toward purchase of equipment and the repair and modemization of facilities at the Virginia Forage Research Station

Virginia Forage Research Station

toward costs of an assessment of the Society's collections and collection management practices

Collections and Management

to support a comprehensive analysis of the Society’s manuscript, graphics, and art and artifact collections and the development of a long-range plan for the systematic preservation and cataloging of these materials

Collections Analysis for Preservation and Cataloging

for a project to increase public awareness of historical scholarship

Historical Scholarship

for use by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in training historical editors

Historical Editing

for use by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in support of its educational and training programs for historical editors

for support of the Fourteenth Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences to be held in San Francisco in 1975

Historical Sciences Congress

toward costs of a new edition of the Guide to Historical Literature

Guide to Historical Literature

matching endowment to promote access to and use of its collections

Graphics Cataloguing

matching endowment for its conservation department

Conservation Activities

Special Collections Cataloging

to support research on how to strengthen and expand membership and member services in the digital age

Re-Envisioning the Scholarly Society for a Digital Age

to continue support for the Citizenship Project

Citizenship Project

Training and Professional Development

to support operations and capacity for The Civic Season

The Civic Season

to support the development of a citywide inventory of commemorative works and the commissioning of temporary public art projects in partnership with the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism

Providence Commemoration Lab

toward costs of cataloguing and conserving library collections

Independent Research Libraries - Program II [Cataloguing & Conservation]

to support a suite of exhibitions that illuminate the nuances, vibrancy, and importance of American democracy

2020 Civics Exhibitions for First-Time Voters

to support a survey and assessment of collections in small libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions in the state of Pennsylvania

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories - Phase III

to support a survey and assessment of small repositories of archives and manuscripts in the Philadelphia area

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories - Phase II

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories - Phase I

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

matching endowment to support the position of director of research collections

Restricted Endowment

toward support of processing. microfilming. and conservation activities

Processing/Conservation Activities

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support the pilot implementation of publishing cooperatives for digital scholarly editions

Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 