NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: September 2, 2011
On the composer’s 170th birthday, four orchestras create programming around the theme of “Dvorak and America” as part of the NEH-supported Music Unwound project, from the Washington Post.
Posted: August 31, 2011
North Carolina State University researchers recreate the experience of hearing John Donne preach in 1622 with an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant, from The Atlantic.
Posted: August 19, 2011
“Rescuing Endangered Languages Means Saving Ideas,” on the NEH/NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program, from Miller-McCune
Posted: August 17, 2011
“As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey”: the New York Times on the NEH-funded Digging into Data project, “Data Mining with Criminal Intent.”
Posted: August 17, 2011
Hope College in Michigan to host the NEH-supported traveling exhibition, Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, from the Grand Rapids Press.
Posted: August 15, 2011
“Digitized newspapers give readers eye-witness accounts of Tennessee history,” on the NEH-supported National Digital Newspaper Program project in Tennessee, from the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Posted: August 12, 2011
“A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran,” profile of the editor of the NEH-supported Encyclopaedia Iranica, from the New York Times.
Posted: August 11, 2011
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan receives NEH grant to develop an exhibition on Muslim culture, from WNYC and the New York Times.
Posted: August 11, 2011
Queensborough Community College in New York receives an NEH Challenge Grant for Two-Year Colleges to raise an endowment to support interdisciplinary colloquia at the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, from Queens’ yournabe.com.
Posted: August 11, 2011
Hingham Public Library in Massachusetts among 30 libraries nationwide to host NEH-supported reading and discussion series on Louisa May Alcott.