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AADL in partnership with the University of Michigan, Department of American Culture, Latina/o Studies Program, has been selected as a grant recipient for Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square.

The program is designed for libraries, museums, community arts and cultural organizations, historical societies, public television station affiliates, state humanities councils and others that seek to facilitate informed discussion in their communities about Latino history and culture. This project will feature the PBS documentary series Latino Americans, a production of WETA Washington, DC; Bosch and Co., Inc.; and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), as a public programming cornerstone.

The series explores of the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape the United States over the last five centuries and who have become, with more than 50 million people, the country's largest minority group.

Films in the series will be screened from January – March on selected Mondays (English version) and Wednesdays (Spanish version), with discussions to follow led by University of Michigan faculty from the School of Literature, Science & Arts, Department of American Culture Latina/o Studies.

The goals of Latino Americans: 500 Years of History are:

to bring scholarship on Latino American histories and cultures to new audiences;
to engage people in examining and documenting the histories of Latino Americans in their communities; and
to foster understanding of local histories in regional, national and international contexts.