NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
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.
Posted: July 1, 2011
“Building Empathy for WWII Incarceration, One Game Level at a Time” article on the NEH-supported 3D video game ‘Drama in the Delta’ that teaches about Japanese American internment camps, from Pacific Citizen.
Posted: June 29, 2011
Baldwin Public Library in Michigan is one of 65 libraries to receive an NEH/ALA “Let’s Talk About It” grant to host a reading and discussion series around the Civil War, from the Birmingham Patch.
Posted: June 27, 2011
Charles Darwin’s personal library, with hand-written annotations, made available online through a Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Coverage in the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Daily Mail, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Scientist.
Posted: June 24, 2011
Profile of Iranian studies scholar Ehsan Yarshater, editor of the NEH-supported Encyclopaedia Iranica, from Columbia University's The Record.
Posted: June 23, 2011
Nature profiles several NEH Digging Into Data Challenge projects in “A Discipline Goes Digital: The humanities mine cultural databases."
Posted: June 21, 2011
Social studies teacher from Ridgefield High School in Connecticut to attend NEH-supported summer institute on “Teaching American History Through Song.”
Posted: June 20, 2011
NEH-supported traveling exhibition on Lewis & Clark opens in Ocean County Library in New Jersey, from the Asbury Park Press.