NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
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.
Posted: December 15, 2010
The Wall Street Journal interviews Perry Miller Adato, director of the NEH-supported documentary Paris The Luminous Years, which aired December 15 on PBS. Reviews of the two-hour documentary in the Philadelphia Inquirerand the Denver Post.
Posted: December 13, 2010
UGA’s expanded Georgia Museum of Art will reopen in January with a new Study Centers in the Humanities, supported by an NEH Challenge Grant.
Posted: December 13, 2010
Faculty member at Haskill Nations University awarded an NEH Research grant to create an online resource of ledger notebooks from 1879 written by seven Cheyenne men in the Dodge City jail, from the Lawrence Journal-World.
Posted: December 12, 2010
The New Bedford Whaling Museum awarded a $500,000 NEH Challenge Grant to support an endowment for humanities exhibitions and programming.
Posted: December 8, 2010
The Marquette Regional History Center receives an NEH Challenge Grant to build a new museum facility, from the Mining Journal.
