Roiland helping to launch traveling First Amendment exhibit, Kennebec Journal reports
The Kennebec Journal reported the Gannett House Project First Amendment Museum in Augusta recently received a $7,430 grant from the Maine Humanities Council. The funds will support the development of a travel-ready exhibit that will introduce visitors to the origins, evolution and contemporary issues around the five freedoms of the First Amendment, according to the article. Project scholars including Joshua Roiland, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Maine, and Dmitry Bam, an associate professor at the University of Maine School of Law, are helping the museum capture the essence of the First Amendment’s freedoms using relevant national and regional stories. The exhibit will be displayed at venues including libraries and schools around Maine while improvements are made at the Gannett House, the article states.