NEH in the News
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.
Four Tennessee cities to host NEH-funded Civil War scholar-led reading and discussion series, Making Sense of the American Civil War, from the Leaf Chronicle.
K-12 teachers and community college faculty study the history of the War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories at NEH-funded summer workshops at the Ohio Historical Society, from the News-Messenger.
Branigan Cultural Center in New Mexico hosts NEH-funded traveling exhibition Bison: The American Icon, from Las Cruces Sun-News.
Concept plan for a proposed American Writers Museum emerges, supported by an NEH planning grant, from the Christian Science Monitor.
Schoolteachers from around the country attend NEH summer landmark workshop “Renaissance in the Black Metropolis: Chicago 1930-1950,” from WBEZ Chicago.
