Just months after two professors from California State University, San Bernardino celebrated the awarding of a prestigious federal grant intended for arts and cultural groups, the university's hopes for a transformative local history education project were abruptly dashed when the funding was rescinded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Initially backed by a $149,935 grant, Inland Echoes was slated to bring underrepresented histories of the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley into K-16 classrooms across Southern California.

The project, directed by Michelle Lorimer, assistant professor of history at CSUSB, builds on five years of collaborative work with regional scholars, including those from the UCLA History-Geography Project, UC Riverside and the University of Redlands.

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