Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

9/1/1994 - 8/31/1996

Funding Totals

$171,720.00 (approved)
$171,720.00 (awarded)


Historical Dictionary of American Slang [HDAS]

FAIN: RT-21551-94

University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Knoxville, TN 37916-3801)
Jonathan E. Lighter (Project Director: September 1993 to December 1996)

This project also received funding with the previous award listed below.

Previous award RT-21414-92

To support the completion of the three-volume HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICANSLANG, a definitive work on American colloquial usage from the 18th century to the present.