{"id":4825,"date":"2012-07-31T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2012-07-31T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:29:31","slug":"press-burns-film-other-projects-to-receive-federal-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2012\/07\/31\/press-burns-film-other-projects-to-receive-federal-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;Burns\u2019 Film, Other Projects, to Receive Federal Grants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A new film by\u00a0<a title=\"Ric Burns website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ricburns.com\/\">Ric Burns\u00a0<\/a>on the Pilgrims\u2019 migration to New England and the publication of the first facsimile edition of Stravinsky\u2019s original scores for his 1923 ballet &#8216;Les Noces&#8217; are among the projects that will benefit from $39 million in grants from the\u00a0<a title=\"National Endowment for the Humanities website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\">National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a>, the endowment announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 244 humanities projects selected for the grants include the publication of the collected papers of Albert Einstein, Jonathan Edwards, and Emma Goldman; the excavation of the ancient Olmec city of La Venta in Mexico; and a study of the influence of California\u2019s agricultural and fishing industries on John Steinbeck\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The funding will also support the\u00a0<a title=\"Digital Public Library website\" href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/\">Digital Public Library of America<\/a>, which seeks to digitize and make available online the country\u2019s libraries and archives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;The endowment hopes to increase the access of all citizens to humanity\u2019s great stories, triumphs, and ideas,&#8217; said Jim Leach, the endowment\u2019s chairman, &#8216;and foster a love of lifelong learning and discovery.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>From Robin Pogrebin&#8217;s article in the<\/em> New York Times,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/26\/burns-film-other-projects-to-receive-federal-grants\/\">Burns\u2019 Film, Other Projects, to Receive Federal Grants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;The endowment hopes to increase the access of all citizens to humanity\u2019s great stories, triumphs, and ideas,&#8217; said Jim Leach, the endowment\u2019s chairman, &#8216;and foster a love of lifelong learning and discovery.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}