NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: April 16, 2011
Two former Freedom Riders from New Orleans honored at a screening of the NEH-supported documentary Freedom Riders hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, from the Times Picayune.
Posted: April 13, 2011
Catherine Burks-Brooks, a former Freedom Rider from Birmingham, honored at a screening of the NEH-supported Freedom Riders documentary with the Congressional Black Caucus, from the Birmingham News.
Posted: April 13, 2011
Iowa high school teacher chosen to participate in a one-week NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop on the Underground Railroad.
Posted: April 12, 2011
“Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line: Film Captures History of the Freedom Riders,” article in the Huffington Post on a screening by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Congressional Black Caucus of the Freedom Riders documentary, produced with an NEH Public Programs grant. Also covered in the National Journal.
Posted: April 12, 2011
Editors from the Walt Whitman Archive, an NEH grantee project, unearth documents produced by Whitman during his time as a government clerk, from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Posted: April 4, 2011
Coverage of the college students chosen to participate in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, a retracing of the historic 1961 Freedom Rides, organized in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides and the premiere of the NEH-funded documentary Freedom Riders – in the UT Daily Beacon, the Stafford County Sun, and the University of Alabama’s Crimson White.
Posted: March 16, 2011
“Slave names launch journey with new database,” article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the NEH-funded ‘Voyages’: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database housed at Emory University.
Posted: March 12, 2011
University of North Texas feature on the NEH-funded Modern Art Iraq Archive, a comprehensive, publicly accessible database of information on artworks in Iraq, many of which disappeared in lootings and fires following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Posted: March 12, 2011
NEH-supported traveling exhibit John Adams Unbound opens at Bevill State Community College in Alabama, from the Daily Mountain Eagle.
Posted: March 11, 2011
San Diego Union-Tribune feature on the Women’s History Museum and Educational Center in California, the recipient of an NEH Preservation & Access grant.
