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Starr Center Secures Funding for African American History Initiative - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College has been awarded a $339,000 Major Collaborative Archival Initiatives grant by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The funding will advance the Chesapeake Heartland project, a groundbreaking digital humanities initiative that documents and shares the history of African American life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.The Chesapeake Heartland project …