NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
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.
Posted: March 8, 2011
“A new gilded age for Twain scholars,” article in the Los Angeles Times on the sudden fame of editors working on the NEH-funded Mark Twain Papers & Project and the newly released Autobiography of Mark Twain.
Posted: March 2, 2011
Coverage of the 10 recipients of the 2010 National Humanities Medals, awarded by President Obama on March 2, 2011, appearing in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Buffalo News,the Providence Journal, Associated Press, the Daily Iowan, the Trinidad Guardian, UPI, the Kentucky Kernel, El Nuevo Herald, and UPI Spanish.
Posted: February 16, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a public talk at NEH headquarters by Robert Hirst, Editor of the NEH-supported Autobiography of Mark Twain.
Posted: February 2, 2011
Images of Valor, an NEH-supported traveling exhibit on the contributions made by Latinos during WWII opens at the Blanco Library in Texas.
Posted: January 29, 2011
Article in the St. Paul Star Tribune on the NEH-supported “1968” exhibition at the Minnesota History Center.