 The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, or NHPRC, is the grants program office of the National Archives. The NHPRC makes access happen all across the country. In addition to funding archival projects at colleges and universities, historical societies, and a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, NHPRC provides access to records held by state, local, and tribal governments. We make access happen with state governments in two ways. Through our access grants programs, we've funded dozens of electronic records management and digitization projects, and most recently, we've placed special emphasis on helping states preserve early legal records. Such as the first records of Delaware's legislature, early land records in New Jersey, registers of free blacks and pre-Civil War Virginia, trials of colonial-era pirates in North Carolina, and citizen petitions in Wisconsin. Our second avenue is through the State Historical Records Advisory Boards for statewide programs, workshops, traveling archivists, and re-grant programs. State boards reach out to small and underserved communities, often working directly with local historical societies and county governments. We fund a range of efforts, buying large format scanners in Utah, providing on-site training and dozens of repositories across Vermont, and digitizing local records for inclusion in statewide repositories from Kansas to California. These re-grants typically go to organizations that ordinarily would not be competitive in receiving NHPRC grants. Since 1976, roughly 33 million has gone to these boards or directly to state archives for activities at the state level. We make access happen for local government records directly, too. Over the years, NHPRC has helped dozens of cities and communities establish their own records management programs in Boston, Seattle, Portland, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, and elsewhere. NHPRC grants have funded dozens of Native American projects to help establish tribal government archives or to restore pieces of a painful past. From the inception of our grants program in 1964, NHPRC has helped to publish hundreds of documentary editions in print and online that make access happen to collections of important figures, communities, and significant eras of American history, enabling others to create new stories from the records of the past. NHPRC grants have provided public access to the papers of some 19 U.S. presidents, as well as transcripts of White House recordings from FDR to Richard Nixon. In 2013, we created Founders Online, which provides access to over 185,000 documents from the printed volumes of seven founders in a single, fully searchable database that is free and open to all through the National Archives website at founders.archives.gov. So you might say that making access happen is the very reason for the NHPRC, to publish the rich national heritage embedded in records for the discovery and use of all. To find out more about the NHPRC, visit us online at archives.gov.