NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: May 10, 2011
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Texas receives a Picturing America School Collaboration grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support professional development for Texas teachers, classroom resources, student field trips and an online curriculum, from artdaily.org.
Posted: May 3, 2011
The Washington Post and the New York Times cover the Film Forward festival of 10 independent films on global themes, a collaborative project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Sundance Institute.
Posted: May 2, 2011
Drew Gilpin Faust, Civil War historian and President of Harvard University, delivers the 2011 NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Coverage in the Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Wilson Quarterly, and Harvard Gazette.
Posted: May 2, 2011
Los Angeles Times reports on $2 million in NEH grants awarded to Southern California arts and cultural institutions, including an NEH Public Programs grant to the Pacific Symphony to support its “Music Unwound” exhibition and education programming.
Posted: May 1, 2011
Researchers at the University of Kentucky receive an NEH grant to prepare a 3-volume edition of the works of John Dickinson, the “penman of the Revolution,” from the Kentucky Kernel.
Posted: April 28, 2011
The Staten Island Historical Society preserves historic photographs of Staten Island life circa 1905-1940 with an NEH Preservation & Access grant, from the Staten Island Advance.
Posted: April 26, 2011
“The Library Hands Out Menus to Thousands of Volunteers,” the New York Times on an NEH digital humanities grant enabling the New York Public Library to crowdsource transcription of its collection of historic menus.
Posted: April 26, 2011
From the Baltimore Sun, an article on an NEH grant to local Baltimore filmmaker to develop a documentary on “The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe.”
Posted: April 18, 2011
The Wall Street Journal interviews the producer of the NEH-funded documentary, John Muir in the New World, which premiered April 18th on PBS.
Posted: April 18, 2011
The Telegraph reviews the television documentary John Muir in the New World, which was supported by an NEH Public Programs grant.
