NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: October 28, 2010
KUT News in Austin, Texas on the opening of Humanities Texas’ new headquarters, a restored 1907 mansion, the Byrne-Reed House, supported by an NEH Challenge Grant.
Posted: October 21, 2010
Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum of Art opened October 25, supported by an NEH Challenge Grant. Articles in the Fairfield Citizen, The New York Times, and The News-Times.
Posted: October 20, 2010
WCVB-TV in Boston interviews Elliot Bostwick Davis and Zakiya Thomas of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston about the museum’s new Art of the America’s wing and an NEH Challenge Grant to expand the MFA’s collection of works by African-American artists.
Posted: October 20, 2010
The New York Times article on the NEH-supported 2011 Student Freedom Ride which will retrace the 1961 civil rights bus rides that are the subject of Stanley Nelson’s PBS documentary Freedom Riders.
Posted: October 18, 2010
Articles on the ‘making of’ the NEH-funded Autobiography of Mark Twain in
The Christian Science Monitor,The Daily Californian,, and PBS Newshour.
Posted: October 1, 2010
Jessie Little Doe Baird, the recipient of an NEH Preservation & Access fellowship to study and help preserve the Wampanoag language, wins a MacArthur Genius Award. Article in the Mashpee Enterprise.
Posted: August 16, 2010
Article in The Daily Lobo on an NEH grant to the University of New Mexico Libraries to digitize thousands of New Mexico newspapers, some of which are more than 150 years old, part of the National Newspaper Digitization Project (NDNP) to create a searchable database of newspapers published in America from 1690 to the present.
Posted: August 3, 2010
Blog post in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Anthologize, a Web tool that lets users turn blog entries into a book, developed through an NEH digital humanities grant. Also covered at TheAtlantic.com and The Daily Nebraskan.
Posted: July 20, 2010
Coverage of an NEH Digital Humanities grant to the Getty Research Institute to digitize art auction catalogues from WWII Germany, which will aid provenance researchers in identifying art seized by Nazis, in The Los Angeles Times culture blog, The Jewish Journal, and ARTnews.
Posted: July 15, 2010
Reuters article on the discovery of the tomb of a Maya king dating from 350 to 400 A.D., part of an archaeological investigation project supported by an NEH Collaborative Research grant. Also covered by Associated Press and National Geographic.