13 humanities grants in 4 Deep South states

NEW ORLEANS — The Delta Blues Museum is getting $460,000 to help add sound to exhibits about the history and influence of American blues and the music’s Mississippi Delta connections.

It’s among 199 grants totalling $18.6 million nationwide, announced Monday by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Thirteen, totalling $825,000, are in four Deep South states.

Eight in Georgia include $185,000 for the University of Georgia Research Foundation, to complete a database with online maps showing settlement and movement of Native, European and African populations in North America from 1500 to 1790.