Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

11/1/1993 - 12/31/1998

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$200,000.00 (approved)
$200,000.00 (awarded)


A Collaborative History of the Book in American Culture

FAIN: RO-22623-93

American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA 01609-1634)
John B. Hench (Project Director: August 1994 to April 1999)

Funding details:
Original grant (1993) $165,000.00
Supplement (1994) $20,000.00
Supplement (1995) $15,000.00

To support the preparation of a four-volume history of printing, publishing, literacy, and the place of printed materials in American culture from the earliest European settlement to the present.