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2012 National Humanities Medal Presentations

President Barack Obama presented the 2012 National Humanities Medals at the White House on July 10, 2013. The honorees: Edward Ayers, William Bowen, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Zemon Davis, Frank Deford, Joan Didion, Robert Putnam, Marilynne Robinson, Kay Ryan, Robert Silvers, Anna Deveare Smith and Camilo José Vergara.