NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
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.
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.