NEH in the News
The Hemingway Letters Project receives NEH grant to produce a volume of Ernest Hemingway’s personal papers from 1923 to 1925, from the Centre Daily Times.
“Lincoln’s lesser-known Emancipation document gets spotlight,” on NEH’s Emancipation Nation events commemorating the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, from Associated Press.
“Accessibility and the Digital Humanities,” NEH grantees on their Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant project to develop a software plug-in to translate web content into Braille text, in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker blog.
“A Worthy Death: How Civil War Families Made Sense of Suffering” essay on the NEH-funded documentary Death and the Civil War, from the Atlantic.
“A Wave of Staggering Loss, in a Country Unprepared:” review of NEH-funded documentary Death and The Civil War, from the New York Times.
Death and the Civil War, NEH-funded documentary by Ric Burns airs on PBS; a review from Washington Times.
Holland Cotter reviews NEH-funded exhibition Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, from the New York Times.
NEH-funded exhibition Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible travels to Lourdes University in Ohio, from the Toledo Blade.
Lower Macungie Library in Pennsylvania one of 50 sites to host NEH-funded program “America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway,” from the Morning Call.
Winterthur Museum awarded an NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grant to update its environmental monitoring and control systems, from Art Daily.
