Freedmen and Southern Society Project Awarded $300,000 NEH Grant

NEH Grant for UMD History Research Project

In August, 2022 the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a three-year grant of $300,000 to the Freedmen and Southern Society Project for work on two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. The grant, which will run from July 2023 to June 2026, will support completion and publication of Family and Kinship, the edition's eighth volume, and editorial work on Church, School, and Community, the ninth and final volume. Leslie Rowland is the project director. The project's other editors are Steven Miller and James Illingworth.