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Award/Honor

Ann Patchett

National Humanities Medal

2021

Award/Honor

Tara Westover

National Humanities Medal

2021

Award/Honor

Native America Calling

National Humanities Medal

2021

Award/Honor

Walter Isaacson

National Humanities Medal

2021

Award/Honor

Earl Lewis

National Humanities Medal

2021

Award/Honor

Johnnetta B. Cole

National Humanities Medal

2021

Award/Honor

Richard Blanco

National Humanities Medal

2021

Magazine Article

Editor's Note

David Skinner

Magazine Article

The 1921 Tulsa Massacre

What Happened to Black Wall Street

Kweku Larry Crowe

Thabiti Lewis

Magazine Article

Rereading Darkwater

W.E.B. DuBois 100 years ago

Chad Williams

Magazine Article

Recent NEH Grants

NEH Staff

Magazine Article

Why Maya Angelou Partnered with Hallmark

For one thing, she liked a challenge

Ayesha K. Hardison

Magazine Article

Aspiring Artists

Amy Lifson

Magazine Article

William Lanson Shaped New Haven

Connecticut

Stacey Close

Magazine Article

“The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer”

How a would-be voter became a civil rights legend

Rosalind Early

Magazine Article

Black Poetry Anthologized

An Interview with Kevin Young

Humanities Staff

Magazine Article

Miss Blackwell Goes to Medical School

An excerpt from The Doctors Blackwell

Janice P. Nimura

Magazine Article

2020 National Humanities Medal

Humanities Staff

Magazine Article

Showcasing American Culture on the World Stage

NEH contributes to Expo 2020 Dubai

Humanities Staff

Magazine Article

A Pilgrim’s

Progress

More than fifty years after his death, author C. S. Lewis still has a diverse array of devoted readers

Danny Heitman

Blog

Chronicling America’s Newspaper Biographies as Data

Division of Preservation and Access

February 16, 2023

Blog

Announcing New ODH Awards (January 2023)

Office of Digital Humanities

January 11, 2023

Magazine Article

Executive Function Special: An Interview with Phoebe Stein

Meet the president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils

Laura Wolff Scanlan

Blog

ODH Year in Review 2022

Office of Digital Humanities

January 10, 2023

Magazine Article

Discovering Childhood

John Locke on Education

Peter Gibbon

Blog

NEH at the 2023 American Historical Association Annual Meeting

January 4, 2023

Magazine Article

Summer School Open

How a few NEH programs for educators carried on despite the pandemic.

David Skinner

Magazine Article

The Wild All Around

The environmental humanities help us see our own nature.

Vyta Baselice

Magazine Article

Kevin Lindsey of Minnesota Humanities Center

Jon Spayde

Magazine Article

M.F.K. Fisher Taught Americans How to Nourish Bodies and Souls

Looking back at a great writer

Danny Heitman