NEH in the News
NEH gives $1 million to create US digital library, from Associated Press.
Grants for Ric Burns’ film about the Pilgrims and facsimile edition of Stravinsky score among newly announced NEH awards, from the New York Times.
National Civil Rights Museum receives NEH grant for permanent exhibition at the historic Lorraine Motel, site of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., from Memphis Business Journal.
Uncle Remus Museum in Georgia welcomes teachers participating in NEH summer institute, “Cotton Culture in the South from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement,” from the Eatonton Messenger.
New York Public Library using NEH grant to digitize its historical paper map and atlas collections, turning map images into geographical data, from Huffington Post.
A 1951 “Plan for Survival” recording on what to do in case of an atomic bomb blast, digitized through an NEH-funded WNYC Archives preservation project, featured on Radiolab blog.
New Jersey institutions Rutgers, Ramapo College, Drew University, and the Community College Humanities Association awarded NEH grants, from Independent Press.
Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages awarded NEH grant to mount two long-term exhibits on role of horse-drawn carriages in urban life, from Three Village Patch.
Sixteen schoolteachers attend NEH summer seminar “Golden Compasses as Moral Compasses: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fairy Tales and Fantasy” at Harvard University, from the Harvard Gazette.
