"Why don't you just apply for a grant?"
NEH Collections Stewardship. $50K-$500K. Funds conservation and digitization of humanities collections. From their 2026 guidelines, page 8: "Individuals...are ineligible." I digitize humanities collections. That's the program. I'm the individual. #preservation #NEH #archives #digipres
"Why don't you just apply for a grant?"
NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections. Up to $420,000. Must be a cultural institution. For environmental controls in buildings. The guidelines say: "Individuals are not eligible to apply." I sustain cultural heritage every day. Just not in the right kind of building. #preservation #NEH #grants #archives #digipres
To what extent is this a solution to the attacks on #science in the #US, particularly when it comes to #socialscience?
#NSF #NEH #research #openscience #sociology #anthropology #sociolinguistics #USpol
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"Why don't you just apply for a grant?"
NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. Up to $15K. The word "institutions" is literally in the program name. It's for libraries, archives, museums, historical societies. Not the person running the largest filmstrip preservation operation in the country. #preservation #NEH #grants #archives #digipres
On March 6, 2026, the American Historical Association and our co-plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment. Depositions and records obtained through the discovery process detail the role of DOGE staff in cancelling humanities grants, and how both the Federal Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment and the Federal…
good breakdown of those DOGE deposition videos I was posting about the other week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q9BkdQSrOM
Judge Rejects Government’s Weak Attempt To Memory-Hole DOGE Deposition Videos
New on my "Briefly Noted" Substack: DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; Testing and education; AI reliability vs. trust; and more. Go ahead and subscribe!
https://foundhistory.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-for-march-23-2026
Two DOGE twenty-something’s with no experience or expertise walked into the National Endowment for the Humanities in March 2025.
Neither had ever administered a grant. Neither had read a humanities proposal. Neither knew what the Administrative Procedures Act was. They were just two guys from Elon Musk’s world armed with ChatGPT and six weeks to gut a federal agency. By April 1st, $100 million in grants was gone. Sixty-five percent of the staff was fired.
after about 1h19:30 he's asked about this Forward article because Michael McDonald (the MAGA guy who was promoted to puppet head of the NEH) texted it to him. Wolfson plays dumb about whether there was anything going on about Jewish-themed grants being cut or that anyone discussed it.
(Funny, the two DOGE guys he worked with to accomplish the cuts didn't seem to have any shame about saying Jewish topics were DEI and wasteful spending)
https://forward.com/culture/711925/neh-grant-termination-jewish-yiddish/
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