Congratulations to the five MLA members who were awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants in July 2026! Their projects include a digital edition of the correspondence of Charles W. Chesnutt, the transcription of Walt Whitman’s Reconstruction-era writings, and more.
Stephanie Browner, New School
Project Title: The Correspondence of Charles W. Chesnutt: A Comprehensive Digital Edition
Project Description: Preparation for publication of a digital edition of the correspondence of the African American writer Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932).
Paul Erickson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Project Title: Imperial Defeat, Colonial Victory: Digitizing the Henry Clinton Papers
Project Description: Digitizing and making available online the papers of General Henry Clinton (1730–95), who commanded the British forces in North America from 1778 through the surrender at Yorktown.
Kenneth Price, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Project Title: The American Revolutionary Tradition and Walt Whitman’s Reconstruction-Era Manuscripts
Project Description: The transcription and annotation of Walt Whitman’s Reconstruction-era poetry and prose to be published in the Walt Whitman Archive.
John Walsh, Indiana University, Bloomington
Project Title: Planning Digital Scholarly Editions of Multimodal Publications
Project Description: The development of a scholarly, technical, and editorial framework for producing digital scholarly editions of multimodal publications such as historically significant American comic books.
Beth Young, University of Central Florida
Project Title: Noah Webster’s Dictionary Online: Preserving America’s Revolutionary Language Heritage
Project Description: The creation of an online version of the 1806 and 1828 editions of Noah Webster’s dictionaries of “American” language.