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Aug 31, 2021 · announcements

DbN Team Wins Grant from National Science Foundation

By Jessica Otis

The Death by Numbers team is excited to announce that we have won a grant from the NSF, officially titled Digitization and Analysis of the Bills of Mortality Data Set. This grant runs from 2021 to 2024 and the grant abstract is reproduced below: One of the most dreaded diseases in early modern …

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Bills of Mortality is generously funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

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