NEH grant-funded project will digitize pre-Revolutionary War papers

Syracuse University Today

Two Syracuse University faculty members have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to digitize portions of the Jeffrey Amherst Papers—a rare, 54-volume trove of 18th-century documents charting British, American colonial and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy relations in the years surrounding the American Revolution.

Sebastian Modrow, principal investigator and assistant professor in the School of Information Studies, and Philip P. Arnold, co-principal investigator and professor of religion in the College of Arts and Sciences, received nearly $350,000 for their two-year project, “E Pluribus Unum: The American Revolution at the Intersection of Ideas and Interests.” Their project is one of 81 humanities projects the NEH funded nationwide to mark the country’s 250th anniversary, including 33 grants awarded under NEH’s new Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition funding opportunity.

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