{"id":62,"date":"2023-06-07T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:52:16","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project was generously funded by a &#8220;Grant to Sustain the Work of Historical Organizations&#8221; from the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. With this support, a team of collaborators from the Madison County Historical Society and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville built a hybrid exhibit that will be accessible within the new MCHS Museum and online. This website will continue to grow, so please check back once in a while and see what&#8217;s new!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Madison County Historical Society<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Robert Clouse, Executive Director of the MCHS Museum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephen Hansen, member of the MCHS Board of Directors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mary Rose, Archival Librarian and Research Manager<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jenn Van Bibber, Museum Curator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Margaret Smith, Research Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laura Milsk Fowler, Associate Professor of History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Manuel, Professor of History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Project Interns<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reahn Richards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phill Hermeyer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Morgan Lindner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Translations<\/em><br>The translations of the Sandoval letters were generously provided by Dr. Heidy Cuervo and her Advanced Spanish class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project was generously funded by a &#8220;Grant to Sustain the Work of Historical Organizations&#8221; from the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. With this support, a team of collaborators from the Madison County Historical Society and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville built a hybrid exhibit that will be accessible within the new MCHS Museum and online. This website will continue to grow, so please check back once in a while and see what&#8217;s new! Project Team Madison County Historical Society Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Project Interns TranslationsThe translations of the Sandoval letters were generously provided by Dr. Heidy Cuervo and her Advanced Spanish class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}