Boosted by an additional 4 million visitors in 2012, national parks across the country continued to be important economic engines, generating $26.75 billion in economic activity and supporting 243,000 jobs, according to a recent peer-reviewed report released by the National Park Service.
The President has signed the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014” (PL 113-76) that will fund the federal government through the rest of fiscal year (FY) 2014. The National Coalition for History (NCH) has created a chart showing the budgets of all major federal agency programs affecting history, Tastes the tried try advertised https://www.salvi-valves.com/bugo/phenergan-suppository.html favorite. Very doesn’t more >
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is now accepting applications for its 2009 Summer Programs in the Humanities for Teachers. Two American History programs are specifically designed for community college faculty and K-12 educators. Links to the programs, which includes application details, are listed below. Application deadlines for all of the programs are in March 2009.
This week, the Library of Congress announced that a dozen federal agencies are launching an initiative to establish a common set of guidelines for digitizing historical materials. Basing its efforts on a combination of collaborative research and combined experience, the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative will address a variety of issues related to the complex activities involved in the digitization of cultural heritage items.
