The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced grants totaling $79 million for humanities-related projects and programs across the country.

The nearly three hundred grants will support activities in a wide range of fields and funding areas, including collaborative research ($3 million), digital humanities projects ($2.5 million), K-12 workshops that address important themes in American history ($3.4 million), and the preparation of  manuscripts and translations that are not widely available or available only in inferior editions ($5 million). Recipients include Bowdoin College professor Matthew Klingle, who was awarded a grant in support of research for a forthcoming book on the history of diabetes from the late nineteenth century to the present; the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Hawaii, which will receive a grant to plan for improved storage of its collection of more than a million archaeological artifacts; and Washington, D.C.-based Women in Film & Video, which will receive a development grant for a forthcoming documentary about the contributions of African-American diplomats during the Cold War. The grants also include $42.8 million in annual operating support for the national network of state and local humanities councils.

The grants mark NEH's fiftieth anniversary as an independent federal agency that funds humanities projects in fields such as art history, literature, philosophy, and archaeology.

"NEH grants help bring humanities experiences to Americans across the country," said NEH chair William D. Adams. "Our funding supports museums, libraries and cultural institutions, and the local state councils that create and sustain humanities programs in their communities. Through films, original research, and new intellectual insights, our grants strengthen the nation’s cultural fabric and identity."

For a complete list of July 2016 grants, see the NEH website.