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Featured Projects: Public Programs

American Experience: Robert E. Lee

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Robert E. Lee in a New Light

NEH funded a film for the PBS American Experience series that examines the life of Robert E. Lee.

Posted: September 5, 2011
photo of boy with rifle and bandolier

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The Storm that Swept Mexico

One of many major film projects supported by NEH, The Storm That Swept Mexico tells the story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the first major political and social revolution of the 20th century.

Posted: September 4, 2011
Russian children fed by U.S. agricultural aid

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When the United States Fed Soviet Russia

An NEH-supported film tells the little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921.

Posted: September 4, 2011
A Young Prince, Abdul Ibrahima Sori, Falls from Power

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Prince Among Slaves: The Cultural Legacy of Enslaved Africans

A nationwide series of presentations brings the award-winning NEH-supported documentary film, Prince Among Slaves, to a large audience.

Posted: September 4, 2011
photo of sanitation workers in Memphis, 1968

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Exhibition Reveals the Power of Images in Civil Rights Movement

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, a multimedia traveling exhibition, explores the historic role of iconic images and visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality in the United States.

Posted: September 4, 2011
image of a burning bus from the Freedom RIders film

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The Freedom Riders

NEH funding has supported a multiplatform media project on the Freedom Riders, the hundreds of Civil Rights activists who challenged segregation in interstate transport in the American South during the spring and summer of 1961.

Posted: June 29, 2011