NEH in the News
Selected articles on NEH-supported projects.
Posted: December 5, 2012
Carnegie Museum of Art awarded NEH Challenge Grant to endow an archivist position to oversee archive of Pittsburgh African-American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Posted: December 5, 2012
NEH-funded documentary The Loving Story a “thoughtful, terrifically intimate account of the case that dismantled this country’s anti-miscegenation laws 100 years after the abolition of slavery,” says the Village Voice.
Posted: December 3, 2012
Ohio Historical Society to digitize 100,000 pages of Ohio newspapers published between 1845 and 1894 for NEH-funded Chronicling America project, from the Canton Repository.
Posted: December 1, 2012
Companion book for NEH-funded I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America exhibition featured on end-of year booklists at the San Francisco Chronicle, Wallpaper magazine, the Austin Chronicle, and the Telegraph.
Posted: November 28, 2012
Avon Free Public Library in Connecticut hosts NEH-funded traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, from the West Hartford Patch.
Posted: November 23, 2012
“Four Decades Later, Kent State Turns a Page,” on the NEH-funded exhibition on the 1970 student shootings at Kent State, from the Wall Street Journal.
Posted: November 20, 2012
Catalog for NEH-funded exhibition Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes reviewed, in the New York Times.
Posted: November 17, 2012
Ken Burns’ new NEH-funded documentary The Dust Bowl a “timely, exceptional endeavor,” says the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: November 14, 2012
Tennessee Library and Archives receives NEH grant to digitize Tennessee newspapers from the 1880s to the 1920s to add to the Chronicling America database of historic newspapers, from the Chattanoogan and Nooga.com.
Posted: November 9, 2012
California State University Monterey Bay awarded an NEH grant for a Landmarks workshop for teachers on the history of California’s missions, from the Monterey County Herald.