Boy looking at stream

Environmental Prophet Rachel Carson Cultivated a Culture of Wonder

Grants release

NEH Announces $18.6 Million for 199 Humanities Projects Nationwide

Open Book

Digitizing Essential Humanities Books

National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation Announce New Grants

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass's Only Novel

It dramatized for him an important truth.

Jon Parrish Peede

President Trump Nominates Jon Parrish Peede as NEH Chairman

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Recent reports indicate that individuals are posing as the NEH on social media.

Explore the Humanities

Websites, apps, and digital projects supported by NEH grants

Teotihuacan de Young Museum

Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire

One of the earliest, largest, and most important cities in the ancient Americas, Teotihuacan was shaped over centuries by many different peoples and cultures.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

First Lady, diplomat, and citizen activist, Eleanor Roosevelt also wrote more than 8,000 columns, 580 articles, 27 books, and 100,000 letters.

"The Problem We All Live With," Norman Rockwell, 1963

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking six-part series that takes viewers across five hundred years and two continents to shed new light on the experience of being an African American.

Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders

Hear the stories of the more than 400 black and white Americans who risked violent attacks and imprisonment for traveling together on buses through the segregated South as part of the 1961 Freedom Rid

W.E.B. Du Bois, c. 1911

Credo

W.E.B. Du Bois’ prose poem “Credo” proclaimed his philosophy of racial equality.

Into the Amazon

Into the Amazon

The remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.

Walden, a game

Walden, a game

Experiment with living deliberately with this interactive game based on Henry David Thoreau’s experiences at Walden Pond.

How Jack Benny and Harry Conn Stumbled onto the Formula for Situation Comedy
Jack Benny had a problem: He was running out of jokes.
Philosophers Who Like Stuff
Not all great thinkers believed in the simple life.
Mary Moody Emerson Was a Scholar, a Thinker, and an Inspiration
She saw connections among the minds she encountered in books and in person.
John Ruskin Taught Victorian Readers and Travelers the Art of Cultivation
His power of observation gave “eyes” to generations.
Modernism and Mexico
The Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the works of some of Mexico's greatest twentieth-century painters.
What to Make of T. S. Eliot?
He feared and loathed women, colored his face green, and wore lipstick.
Back When Everyone Knew How You Voted
The secret ballot seems fundamental to democracy, and yet we did not always vote in private.
Paper Trail
On letters, diaries, and other records of the American story at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Old Friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Made History Together
Two souls on fire fought for justice