Awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) totaling more than $500,000 will benefit two ongoing Yale projects affiliated with the University Library.

The NEH has awarded $300,000 to the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a collection of manuscripts and books related to the statesman, scientist and inventor that are stored at Yale. It also gave $219,550 to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Both collections are housed in the Sterling Memorial Library.

The award to the Papers of Benjamin Franklin will be used toward the joint Yale and American Philosophical Society project to publish a comprehensive edition of Franklin's papers. Since the project began in 1959, 36 volumes have been published, and the 37th volume is in progress. The NEH award will support work on three volumes in the edition, which will eventually total 46 volumes. Historian Ellen Cohn is the editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin and works with an editorial team on the volumes, which are published by Yale University Press.

The NEH grant to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies will be used to preserve videocassettes of first-person Holocaust testimonies collected in 19 languages from 1979 to 1997. According to archivist Joanne Rudof, the award will support the cleaning and copying of some of the 4,200 testimonies collected and housed at Yale. The project to preserve the firsthand accounts continues both on campus and in conjunction with affiliate projects in Boston and in Europe. The Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies will celebrate its 20th anniversary this fall with an international conference.

The grants to Yale are among 345 awards made nationwide by the NEH totaling $30.9 million. The grants are in all four of the NEH's program areas: preservation and access, research, education and public programs.

"The humanities are the ideas that shape our nation and help us define our roles as citizens in a democracy," said NEH chair Bruce Cole in announcing the awards. He added that the recipients' projects "will deepen our understanding of the world in which we live."

NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Throughout the year, humanities experts outside of the NEH read all applications and advise the government agency on the quality and significance of each proposed project.

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