NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: January 7, 2011
Kansas’ Leavenworth Times reports on the digitization of historic Kansas newspapers as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Posted: January 6, 2011
The Norman Rockwell Museum debuts its digitized online collection ProjectNORMAN, supported by NEH Preservation & Access grants. Articles in ArtDaily.org and iBerkshires.com.
Posted: January 3, 2011
"A sharp look at a legend:"The Boston Globe on the NEH-funded American Experience documentary Robert E. Lee, which aired on PBS on January 3.
Posted: January 3, 2011
The Boston Public Library digitizes its Norman B. Leventhal Map Collection, one of the country’s foremost cartographic resources, aided by an NEH Preservation & Access grant, from the Boston Globe.
Posted: December 28, 2010
The New York Times article titled, “The Masses Help Scholars Transform Manuscripts” describes the use of “crowd-sourcing” to produce hundreds of transcripts from the approximately 40,000 unpublished manuscripts held by University College London.
Posted: December 26, 2010
The Charleston Post and Courier reviews “Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” the companion book to the NEH-funded “Voyages” project, a searchable online database of records of almost 35,000 slave ship voyages across the Atlantic between 1650 and 1867. Also featured on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation.'
Posted: December 25, 2010
The Newark Museum recieves a $500,000 NEH Challenge Grant to renovate and expand its African art galleries and to support new humanities programs at the museum, from ArtDaily.org.
Posted: December 22, 2010
Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library receives an NEH Preservation & Access grant to preserve artifacts of local history, from the Sag Harbor Express.
Posted: December 20, 2010
Yakima Valley Museum in Washington receives an NEH Challenge Grant to create an endowment for humanities-related exhibitions and programs, from the Yakima Herald-Republic.
Posted: December 19, 2010
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford to hold summer workshops for schoolteachers on the writings of Mark Twain with an NEH Education grant, from Associated Press.