Our Work Explore Our Work These are highlights of our work from across NEH. To search all funded projects use our Public Query Tool. Search 2213 Result(s) Magazine Article How a Government Program to Spread Literary Culture Hit Upon a Great Formula In the 1970s, a PBS miniseries brought short stories to the screen with significant success. Peter Tonguette Magazine Article A Museum that Tells the History of Manufacturing from Civil War Rifles to Modern-Day Retail New England mills adapated to the needs of the twentieth century. Sarah Stewart Taylor Magazine Article What Would Thoreau Think of Our 24-Hour News Cycle? He believed that faster news meant diminished quality Danny Heitman Magazine Article Books published recently with NEH support Books published recently with NEH support Humanities Staff Magazine Article Film as Argument The early disputatious days of American movies. Bruce Bennett Magazine Article Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Hawaii What started as commercial work ended as art Tom Christopher Magazine Article During World War I, Edith Wharton Visited the Desert and Harems of Morocco, Leading to an Unforgettable Book Taking a break from the Great War, the intrepid writer finds inspiration in the Maghreb. Meredith Hindley Magazine Article Virginia Woolf Thought Royals Were Pretty Much Like the Rest of Us Yet, she appreciated the Victorian dream. Danny Heitman Magazine Article Rajneeshpuram Was More than a Utopia in the Desert. It Was a Mirror of the Time. The Rise and Fall of “Zorba the Buddha” in Oregon. Hugh Urban Magazine Article Environmental Prophet Rachel Carson Cultivated a Culture of Wonder Her writings show another side of the author of Silent Spring. Danny Heitman Magazine Article Editor's Note David Skinner Magazine Article The Babe’s First Major League Trip to the Plate Ended in a Whiff Mississippian made marks with two firsts Steve Moyer Magazine Article St. Louis’s First Black Detective Always Cracked the Case Ira Cooper never let his leads go cold Rosalind Early Magazine Article Death-Defying Merry-Go-Rounds and Knee-Scraping Climbing Bars Are Playground Memories of Many Americans When a rocket you could climb or Cinderella's carriage inspired outdoor play Andy Rieger Magazine Article Editor's Note David Skinner Magazine Article Impertinent Questions with Annegret Fauser How music was used and appreciated during World War II. Meredith Hindley Magazine Article "Hotter than the Bloomin' Hobs of Hell" Historically, iron foundries could fire the imagination or soothe the visual palate. Steve Moyer Magazine Article Room for Interpretation First Anti-Crown Sentiments in America Traced to Virginia Parlor Steve Moyer Magazine Article Radio Voices Iowa reporters bring news of the front to audiences at home during World War II. Victoria Cooney Magazine Article Quiltmaking Engineer An engineer innovates a traditional art. David Kubicek Magazine Article Picture the South A traveling exhibition showcases the diversity of Georgia. Mary J. Loftus Magazine Article Homegrown History A retired UPS man takes on a county's archives. Steven Hill Magazine Article The American Language A Historical Database of English in the U.S. Ammon Shea Magazine Article The Otherworldly Malamud The master of the short story infused his work with myth and magic, but not fairytale endings. Mark Athitakis Magazine Article Hannah, Andrew Jackson’s Slave A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why? Mark R. Cheathem Magazine Article A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there. Ted Lawrence Magazine Article The Trial of Hannah Arendt She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi horror. Kathleen B. Jones Magazine Article The First Americans What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. Steve Moyer Magazine Article The Devastation of 1918 Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic Anna Maria Gillis Magazine Article The Quiet Greatness of Eudora Welty Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art. Danny Heitman Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page Next Last page Last
Magazine Article How a Government Program to Spread Literary Culture Hit Upon a Great Formula In the 1970s, a PBS miniseries brought short stories to the screen with significant success. Peter Tonguette
Magazine Article A Museum that Tells the History of Manufacturing from Civil War Rifles to Modern-Day Retail New England mills adapated to the needs of the twentieth century. Sarah Stewart Taylor
Magazine Article What Would Thoreau Think of Our 24-Hour News Cycle? He believed that faster news meant diminished quality Danny Heitman
Magazine Article Books published recently with NEH support Books published recently with NEH support Humanities Staff
Magazine Article Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Hawaii What started as commercial work ended as art Tom Christopher
Magazine Article During World War I, Edith Wharton Visited the Desert and Harems of Morocco, Leading to an Unforgettable Book Taking a break from the Great War, the intrepid writer finds inspiration in the Maghreb. Meredith Hindley
Magazine Article Virginia Woolf Thought Royals Were Pretty Much Like the Rest of Us Yet, she appreciated the Victorian dream. Danny Heitman
Magazine Article Rajneeshpuram Was More than a Utopia in the Desert. It Was a Mirror of the Time. The Rise and Fall of “Zorba the Buddha” in Oregon. Hugh Urban
Magazine Article Environmental Prophet Rachel Carson Cultivated a Culture of Wonder Her writings show another side of the author of Silent Spring. Danny Heitman
Magazine Article The Babe’s First Major League Trip to the Plate Ended in a Whiff Mississippian made marks with two firsts Steve Moyer
Magazine Article St. Louis’s First Black Detective Always Cracked the Case Ira Cooper never let his leads go cold Rosalind Early
Magazine Article Death-Defying Merry-Go-Rounds and Knee-Scraping Climbing Bars Are Playground Memories of Many Americans When a rocket you could climb or Cinderella's carriage inspired outdoor play Andy Rieger
Magazine Article Impertinent Questions with Annegret Fauser How music was used and appreciated during World War II. Meredith Hindley
Magazine Article "Hotter than the Bloomin' Hobs of Hell" Historically, iron foundries could fire the imagination or soothe the visual palate. Steve Moyer
Magazine Article Room for Interpretation First Anti-Crown Sentiments in America Traced to Virginia Parlor Steve Moyer
Magazine Article Radio Voices Iowa reporters bring news of the front to audiences at home during World War II. Victoria Cooney
Magazine Article Picture the South A traveling exhibition showcases the diversity of Georgia. Mary J. Loftus
Magazine Article The Otherworldly Malamud The master of the short story infused his work with myth and magic, but not fairytale endings. Mark Athitakis
Magazine Article Hannah, Andrew Jackson’s Slave A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why? Mark R. Cheathem
Magazine Article A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there. Ted Lawrence
Magazine Article The Trial of Hannah Arendt She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi horror. Kathleen B. Jones
Magazine Article The First Americans What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. Steve Moyer
Magazine Article The Devastation of 1918 Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic Anna Maria Gillis
Magazine Article The Quiet Greatness of Eudora Welty Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art. Danny Heitman
