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National Humanities Medal Nominations

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Meet an NEH Public Scholar

NEH Public Scholar Gregg Hecimovich uncovers the identity of fugitive slave and first African-...
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"Common Heritage"

NEH awards $434,864 in grants to save treasures of family and community history
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"Humanities Open Book"

NEH & Mellon Foundation announce $700,000 in new grants to bring back essential out-of-print...
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“Humanities in the Public Square”

$3.6 million in new grants will support community discussions of the relevance of the humanities to...
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Posted: January 19, 2016

Ken Burns Named the 2016 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Posted: January 8, 2016

Three New Members to Join the National Council on the Humanities

Posted: December 17, 2015

The National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce New Grants to Bring Back Essential Out-of-Print Books

Posted: December 15, 2015

National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $434,864 for “Common Heritage” Community History Projects

Posted: December 14, 2015

NEH Announces $3.6 Million for “Humanities in the Public Square”

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Posted: January 19, 2016

The Africana Studies program at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania has won a half-million dollar NEH Challenge Grant that, when combined with $1.5 million in newly-raised donations, will be used to create an endowment for the program, enhance its curriculum, and strengthen the program's community partnerships, from Lehigh News.

Posted: January 19, 2016

Ken Burns, acclaimed documentary filmmaker, has been chosen to deliver the 2016 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the John F. Kennedy Center on May 9, from Associated Press.

Posted: January 16, 2016

The West Baton Rouge Museum in Louisiana screened the documentary The Abolitionists on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as part of their awarding of an NEH Created Equal grant, from the New Orleans Advocate.

Posted: January 14, 2016

Dave Tell, professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas, has been awarded a $50,400 NEH Fellowship to support a book project exploring how questions of geography and race have altered the memory of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, from KU News.

Posted: January 7, 2016

NEH Chairman William Adams will deliver “Wicked Problems: The Humanities in the Time of STEM” at the 15th annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture on January 28 at the University of California Santa Cruz, from the UC Santa Cruz Newsletter.

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