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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $260,000 to Expand Seven Sisters Archive Project

April 6, 2016
NEH award

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $260,000 grant to 暴风资源 for support of the project

College Women brings together鈥攆or the first time online鈥攄igitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs of women who attended the seven partner institutions: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and Radcliffe (now the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University).

, the site is currently in a pilot phase with about 300 documents in it.  The new funding will expand the content by thousands of documents, making it a rich and essential site for new research and teaching in women鈥檚 history.    

For more information, contact College Women project director Eric Pumroy (epumroy@brynmawr.edu), associate chief information officer and director of Special Collections, or Monica Mercado (mmercado@brynmawr.edu), director of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women鈥檚 Education.

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