NEH in the News
Augustana College reaches fundraising goal to match an NEH Challenge Grant to support an endowment for the college’s Center for Western Studies, from the Argus Leader.
Newport News Library to host the NEH-funded “America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway” series, from the Daily Press.
NEH-funded exhibition American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition opens at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Converse Art Gallery in Connecticut hosts NEH-funded traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, from the Norwich Bulletin.
Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center and Archive collaborating with Michigan State University’s Vietnam Group Archive on NEH-funded project to digitize 100,000 pages of materials related to the U.S. government’s early efforts to build a stable, non-communist regime in South Vietnam, from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
Philip Kennicott reviews NEH-funded exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe at the Walters Art Museum, from the Washington Post.
History professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville editing Walt Whitman’s journalistic writings for the Walt Whitman Archive with an NEH grant, from the St. Louis Business Journal.
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project awarded NEH grant to continue work annotating political and personal correspondence from Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidential years, from the State Journal-Register.
