NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
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.
Posted: August 9, 2011
Kent State University receives NEH grant to create an exhibit on the May 4, 1970 campus anti-war demonstrations, from The Bellingham Herald.
Posted: August 8, 2011
Kansas Historical Society digitizes Kansas newspapers from 1836-1922 with NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grants, from the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Posted: August 8, 2011
The Museo de Arte de Ponce awarded an NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grant to purchase and install a high-density mobile storage unit to protect the museum’s collection of 1,259 art works, including 19th-century Western sculpture, pre-Columbian Caribbean cultural artifacts and modern Puerto Rican folk art, from ArtDaily.
Posted: August 3, 2011
“National Endowment Announces Humanities Grants,” from the New York Times.
Posted: August 2, 2011
“NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California,” from the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: August 2, 2011
BackStory radio program on the history behind contemporary topics expands from a monthly to a weekly broadcast with an NEH America’s Media Makers grant, from WVIR in Charlottesville.
Posted: August 2, 2011
Eighty school teachers attend an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop on New Bedford and the Underground Railroad, from the Standard-Times.
Posted: July 31, 2011
The University of Oregon puts historic state newspapers online with NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grant, from the Register-Guard.