In a
press release dated Tuesday, August 17, 2021, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the awarding of $28.4 Million to 239 humanities projects. Among the awardees is
AAAS Professor Robin Bernstein who is the recipient of a Public Scholar Fellowship which supports "well-researched books in the humanities aimed at a broad public audience." The year-long fellowship will support Professor Bernstein in the writing of a new book,
The Trials of William Freeman: A Story of Murder, Race, and America's First Industrial Prison.
