July 11, 2020
National humanities grant to fund Pequot research project
Author: Brian Hallenbeck
Mashantucket — A National Endowment for the Humanities grant will fund a collaborative effort to digitize historical records of Pequot life in the first half of the 19th century, a trove of which researchers here have been compiling for two decades.
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and the Native Northeast Research Collaborative jointly pursued the $179,403 grant, one of 317 NEH grants awarded last month as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES, Ac