News & Updates
IMLS Grant to Diversify the Nation's Digital Memory
APRIL 15, 2016
Amistad Partnership Awarded IMLS Grant to Further Discussion of Community Archives and Diversifying Digital CollectionsNew Orleans, Louisiana (April 14, 2016) –- The Amistad Research Center is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a project that will seek to expand the diversity of the nation’s digital memory. In collaboration with the Shorefront Legacy Center, the South Asian American Digital Archive, Mukurtu, and the Inland Empire Memories Project of the University of California-Riverside, Amistad was awarded a National Leadership Grant for Libraries to host a series of meetings that will focus on integrating community archives in the National Digital Platform.
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SAADA Awarded NEH Common Heritage Grant
DECEMBER 14, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE"… everyday community history is important history."
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For The First Time In Our Lives
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
Hari Bhandari spent her entire childhood in a refugee camp in Jhapa, in the eastern part of Nepal.At the age of nineteen, Hari, her mother, her older sister, and nearly 150 others from her camp were given the opportunity to come to the US for resettlement. They made the long journey from Kathmandu to Paris, to New Jersey, and finally to St. Louis, where they would make a new home for themselves.
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Our Stories: 11 chapters, 70+ stories
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America is a first-of-its-kind project to bring South Asian American stories to life in a book inteRead more