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… shaping the racial divides seen today. The Newberry Library and 13 other Chicago institutions have organized Chicago … The race riots began when Eugene Williams, an African American teenager, drowned after being struck on the head …
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… A detailed account of African-American life in the Northeast during World War II, … months scrolling through reels of microfilm of black-owned and operated Connecticut newspapers, preparing them to be …
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… Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle and the History Film Forum along with partnerships with … War of 1812 , Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City , and Through Deaf Eyes. The latter film, a …
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… term by the U.S. Senate: "I am grateful to President Bush and the United States Senate as I begin a second-term as Chairman of the NEH. It is a great honor to serve the American people for another term. "Over the past four years, …
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… Field (Birmingham Black Barons), League Park (Cleveland Spiders), Hinchliffe Stadium (New York Black Yankees and … has spent decades weaving Black baseball into the larger American baseball tapestry. He is a cofounder of the Negro …
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… In opulent Czarist Russia, the African-American jockey Jimmy Winkfield found that his skin … at the height of his career amidst threats, blacklisting, and rising racism to resettle in Russia, and then France, …
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… career to his thoughts on the challenges facing humanity—and the humanities—in the twenty-first century. … HUMANITIES … as Jacob Lawrence, who’s considered the premier African-American artist of the twentieth century. She is now an art …
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… The Oral History Project of the Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive (VNCA) at Texas Tech … the guitar, Specialist Four Weston consents to sing a few American songs. Specialist Weston was on an American …
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… century. The Wilkins Horse Company owned close to ten thousand horses in Owyhee County, Idaho, the largest herd owned … Homan, Wilkins’s story is essential to the history of the American West: “To Americans, she was the very model of the …
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… that focus on the history, experience, or meaning of war and military service. Standing Together: The Humanities and … recognizes the importance of the humanities in helping Americans to understand the experiences of service members …
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… has awarded a Chairman’s Commendation to Berkeley writer and publisher Malcolm Margolin for making extraordinary … and advance humanistic endeavors. Margolin was the second American so honored. The first Chairman’s Commendation was …
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… the effects of late-stage syphilis in over 400 African American men living around the town of Tuskegee in Macon … acclaimed books: Tuskegee’s Truths (ed. 2000, UNC Press) and Examining Tuskegee (2009, UNC Press). And it was while …
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… The importance of bridging cultures, both within America and across borders, has never been greater than it is today. … democracy in America, and a parallel effort to enrich in Americans’ understanding of international perspectives, …
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… world. Take the early modern period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Historian Bernard Bailyn, who as a … his most famous book, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), is the kind of watershed work …
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… … Today the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) marked a major milestone in … Web site—a free, national, searchable database of historic American newspaper pages published between 1880 and …
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… Boritt With the approach of the 2009 Lincoln bicentennial, Americans’ interest in Abraham Lincoln has surged, with … it wasn’t always that way, recalls Gabor Boritt, director and founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College …
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… Jim Lehrer Americans old enough to remember the Nixon administration … with journalist Jim Lehrer during the Watergate scandal. His face, his voice are inextricably linked to the …
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… Freedoms” paintings came to be embraced by millions of Americans, providing crucial aid to the war effort and taking their place among the most enduring images in the …
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… Two Linden High School classes had the opportunity to listen and meet with the pediatrician and scientist who played a … Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City” to two Advanced American Literature classes …
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… assortment of photographs, television clips, art posters, and historic artifacts, a travelling exhibition at Arkansas … will trace how images and media disseminated to the American public transformed the modern civil rights movement …
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… month with a look at the role of black troops during the American Civil War, with "Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops." The United States …
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… America, the free, searchable database of historical American newspapers, is maintained online at the Library of Congress and now has partners digitizing newspapers from 48 states …
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… … summer workshop for teachers titled “Social Movements and Reform in Industrializing America: The Lowell … from around the United States. NEH Summer Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops use historic sites to …
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… $129,000 grant, the University of Kansas Libraries and the University Press of Kansas will convert out-of-print … to some of the excellent scholarship in history and American political thought published by the University Press …
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… During the pivotal years between the world wars, European and American avant-garde artists responded to the rise of Hitler …
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… this he has been involved in several projects to strengthen and broaden the humanities curricula in these two-year … leading role in the curriculum development projects of the American Association of Community Colleges to advance …
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… this he has been involved in several projects to strengthen and broaden the humanities curricula in these two-year … leading role in the curriculum development projects of the American Association of Community Colleges to advance …
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… NEH will support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal … NEH’s founding legislation tasks the agency with making the American people “masters of their technology and not its …
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… delivered the first Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, Andrew Delbanco will take the lectern under a tent on the … would be conducive to social equality and important for American culture in general. This gave Trilling a suitable …
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… Poor Man's Fortune The NEH Office of Digital Humanities and the Division of Research Programs are pleased to … The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth - Century U.S. American Actor (2018) . [Original research funded by award …