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Virginia humanities projects receive grants

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Seven humanities projects in Virginia have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The largest grant, $300,000, went to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., in Charlottesville. The grant will be used to catalog and digitize 365,000 artifacts from President Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee, The Hermitage....

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