The NEH Web site has a new feature regarding the prizes awarded last week to the winners of the 2013 National History Day (NHD) contest.
The winners of the “Chronicling America” awards are:
Congratulations to the winners~!
The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project welcomes Karyn Norwood as the Digital Support Specialist for the VTDNP, Phase 2. Karyn will begin working officially with the VTDNP at the University of Vermont on Monday, May 20, 2013.
Karyn joins the VTDNP with a rich and varied background. Following the completion of her B.A. in History (magna cum laude) from St. Michael’s College, Karyn served as a Civil War 150 Leadership member, AmeriCorps Ohio History Service Program, Oberlin Heritage Center, Ohio, where she initiated a Civil War digital collection with the Oberlin College Archives, and also gained experience digitizing three Oberlin newspapers from 1860 to 1865 from microfilm. She has also worked as an AmeriCorps member, with the Franklin Grand Isle Bookmobile in Swanton and as an intern at the St. Michael’s College Archives. She is currently working as a Program Planner for the Fairfax Community Library. We look forward to !
working with her and to benefiting from her skills and expertise to deliver more great historical newspaper content to Chronicling America!
– Birdie MacLennan and Erenst Anip
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this prize is awarded in both the Junior and Senior divisions to an outstanding entry in any category that utilizes the newspaper resources that are available on the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers web site (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/). Each content item from Chronicling America (article, image, etc.) used for the entry must be noted in the Primary Sources section of the Annotated Bibliography and follow proper NHD citation guidelines for Web content.
The Chronicling America web site provides free access to over 5 million pages of select digitized historic newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. It is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a long-term partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to digitize representative historic newspapers from all 50 states and U.S. territories. Chronicling America currently has digitized newspapers from 28 states and the District of Columbia, with new content added regularly, including newspapers published in foreign languages starting with Spanish and French. Primary sources are not limited to newspaper articles, but also include advertisements, images, literary prose, and other content that appears in historic newspapers. In addition to providing basic factual details about an event or topic, historic newspapers can shed light on local perspectives about a major historical event, insight into social or cultural practices, traditions, political opinions!
, economic circumstances, and a wealth of other historical information.
For more information on NEH visit their homepage at https://www.neh.gov/.
For more information on Chronicling America visit the mini site at https://edsitement.neh.gov/what-chronicling-america.
Source and for other prize categories: https://nhd.org/SpecialPrizeinfo.htm
The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project welcomes, Erenst Anip, who, in February, accepted the position of Project Librarian for the VTDNP, Phase 2.
Erenst began working officially with the VTDNP at the University of Vermont on Monday, April 1, 2013.
Erenst comes to UVM and to the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library where he served previously as Project Manager for the Hawaiʻi Digital Newspaper Project — the Hawaiʻi state component of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) — as well as Social Media Lead for the UH Mānoa Library. Erenst has an MLIS from the University of Hawaiʻi, and undergraduate degrees in International Business and Marketing and International Development. He has also served as Co-director for the Language Documentation Training Center and Instructor in the Indonesian Language Program at UH Mānoa. We are delighted that Erenst is on board as Project Librarian. We look forward working with him and to benefiting from his skills and expertise to deliver more great historical newspaper co!
ntent to Chronicling America!
– Birdie MacLennan