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Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: April 28, 2011 The Staten Island Historical Society preserves historic photographs of Staten Island life circa 1905-1940 with an NEH Preservation & Access grant, from the Staten Island Advance.
Posted: April 26, 2011 “The Library Hands Out Menus to Thousands of Volunteers,” the New York Times on an NEH digital humanities grant enabling the New York Public Library to crowdsource transcription of its collection of historic menus.
Posted: April 26, 2011 From the Baltimore Sun, an article on an NEH grant to local Baltimore filmmaker to develop a documentary on “The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe.”
Posted: April 18, 2011 The Wall Street Journal interviews the producer of the NEH-funded documentary, John Muir in the New World, which premiered April 18th on PBS.
Posted: April 18, 2011 The Telegraph reviews the television documentary John Muir in the New World, which was supported by an NEH Public Programs grant.
Posted: April 16, 2011 Two former Freedom Riders from New Orleans honored at a screening of the NEH-supported documentary Freedom Riders hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, from the Times Picayune.
Posted: April 13, 2011 Catherine Burks-Brooks, a former Freedom Rider from Birmingham, honored at a screening of the NEH-supported Freedom Riders documentary with the Congressional Black Caucus, from the Birmingham News.
Posted: April 13, 2011 Iowa high school teacher chosen to participate in a one-week NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop on the Underground Railroad.
Posted: April 12, 2011 “Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line: Film Captures History of the Freedom Riders,” article in the Huffington Post on a screening by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Congressional Black Caucus of the Freedom Riders documentary, produced with an NEH Public Programs grant. Also covered in the National Journal.
Posted: April 12, 2011 Editors from the Walt Whitman Archive, an NEH grantee project, unearth documents produced by Whitman during his time as a government clerk, from the Chronicle of Higher Education.