NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: June 2, 2011
“Kent Students Make History Come Alive” through the NEH-supported “GeoHistory” project, which teaches K-12 students about digital humanities tools through local history.
Posted: June 2, 2011
The Holmes Public Library in Halifax, Massachusetts receives an NEH We the People bookshelf on the Civil War.
Posted: May 29, 2011
“The new, new MFA” in the Boston Globe on an NEH Challenge Grant to the Boston Museum of Fine Art to acquire works by artists of color.
Posted: May 26, 2011
The University of Pennsylvania receives an NEH grant to digitize a rare book collection of 17th and 18th century manuscripts.
Posted: May 26, 2011
Eastman School of Music awarded an NEH Preservation & Access grant to digitize collection a collection of music scores, from Broadway World.
Posted: May 20, 2011
Coverage of NEH-supported research projects highlighted at a National Humanities Alliance and Association of American Universities congressional panel on the humanities and international diplomacy in Inside Higher Ed.
Posted: May 20, 2011
The NEH On the Road traveling exhibit “Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors” opens at the Fort Caspar Museum in Wyoming, from the Casper Star-Tribune.
Posted: May 16, 2011
Coverage of the NEH-supported American Experience documentary, Freedom Riders, which premiered May 16 on PBS, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, the New York Daily News, The Root, and the Nashville Scene.
Posted: May 16, 2011
NPR interviews participants in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride in which 40 students retraced the route of the original 1961 Freedom Ride, part of a public outreach and education campaign to accompany the NEH-funded Freedom Riders documentary.
Posted: May 15, 2011
Coverage of a new NEH-supported television documentary on the Mexican Revolution, The Storm That Swept Mexico in El Paso Times, the San Antonio Express, the San Francisco Chronicle, Hispanically Speaking News, and KPBS San Diego.
