The following is a press release written by the Mellon Foundation: The Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, recently awarded $3.5 million to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to expand the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s pioneering Getting Word African American Oral History Project. Established in 1993, Getting Word is a decades-long initiative to collect and share …
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Monticello Awarded $3.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant for Getting Word African American Oral History Project Expansion, Digital Archive
The following is a press release written by the Mellon Foundation: The Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, recently awarded $3.5 million to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to expand the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s pioneering Getting Word African American Oral History Project. Established in 1993, Getting Word is a decades-long initiative to collect and share …
Newly-Digitized Historic Newspapers Added to Findmypast:
Newspaper publishing returns with a bang this week, with 1.6 million new pages, four new titles, and updates to a further 54. New titles: · Camberley News, 1987-1988 · Grimsby Target, 1986-1992 · Luton on Sunday, 1997 · Wrexham Mail, 1993 Updated titles: · Airdrie & Coatbridge World, 1994, 1996 · Ayrshire World, 1993 · …