NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: July 18, 2011
40 K-12 teachers explore the history of the Hudson River at the NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop “The Hudson River in the 19th Century and the Modernization of America” at Ramapo College, from the New Jersey Record.
Posted: July 16, 2011
Two dozen college teachers participate in the NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers “African-American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1865-1965” at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard, from Associated Press.
Posted: July 16, 2011
“Teachers see history in a new light through program at Old Fort Niagara” on the NEH Landmarks of American History Workshop for 80 school teachers, from the Buffalo News.
Posted: July 16, 2011
The University of Massachusetts puts the writings and personal correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois online with a grant from NEH, from Massachusetts’ The Republican.
Posted: July 12, 2011
LSU Libraries digitizing 100,000 pages from 60 Louisiana newspapers dating from 1860 to 1922 through NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grants, from the Baton Rouge Advocate.
Posted: July 11, 2011
Smithsonian Magazine features the NEH-supported exhibition For All The World To See, currently on view at the National Museum of American History.
Posted: July 8, 2011
Rochester, NY history on display at the NEH-supported summer workshop for teachers: “Abolitionism, Women’s Rights and Religion on the Rochester Reform Trail,” from the Rochester Business Journal.
Posted: July 6, 2011
NEH-supported traveling exhibition Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times at the Lecompton Territorial Capital Museum, from the Lawrence Journal World.
Posted: July 5, 2011
The Birmingham News features Project Turn the Page, an NEH-funded initiative by the Alabama Humanities Foundation to provide free books to libraries whose collections were damaged by tornadoes.
Posted: July 5, 2011
The Avon Free Public Library in Connecticut awarded an NEH “Let’s Talk About It” grant to host a reading and discussion series on the Civil War, from the Hartford Courant.