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As I mentioned in a previous blog, the NHPRC is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the State Historical Records Advisory Boards (SHRABs) in 2015. The SHRABs in many of the states have received funding for regrant programs that permit them to make small grants of their own. These regrant funds are often awarded to smaller … Continue reading Helping Smaller Archival Repositories Preserve Their Collections and Make Them Accessible

In the states and territories, the NHPRC is assisted in its work by a network of State Historical Records Advisory Boards (SHRABs). Utilizing funding from the NHPRC and local sources, many of these boards undertake projects that create resources to address records needs in their states. Although these resources may be designed to address the … Continue reading Sharing Knowledge State by State

  Fifty years ago this month, the National Historical Publications Commission ("Records" was added in 1974) met to make its first grant recommendation. (There is no visual documentation of this meeting, but I'm sure it looked something like the above image.) The first meeting of the NHPC had been held on January 29, 1935, in … Continue reading The First of 5,000

All of the NHPRC’s program officers are at the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) this week.  We are fortunate that  this meeting is being held in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, DC, … Continue reading Your Call Is Important to Us

It’s July 2!! Happy Independence Day!! Many of us grew up with the impression that the Founding Fathers declared independence from Britain when they approved and signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It is now more widely known that the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, actually declared independence on July 2. John … Continue reading Declaring Our Independence