The Washington College Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience has received a $339,000 Major Collaborative Archival Initiatives grant to further the work of its Chesapeake Heartland project, a digital humanities initiative that uses innovative technologies to explore the history of African American life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Chesapeake Heartland collects, preserves and shares primary sources, such as oral histories, photographs and archival documents, to tell the stories of African American individuals, families and communities in the Chesapeake region.