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Impact in Minnesota

From FY 2019-FY 2023, NEH issued $14,768,410 to support 86 projects in Minnesota. See all NEH awards in Minnesota.

Explore local humanities programs, events, and funding opportunities offered by Minnesota Humanities Center, NEH’s humanities affiliate in Minnesota. 

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Minnesota Highlights

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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton
Project

Alexander Hamilton

Founding father and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton laid the groundwork for the nation’s modern economy. Read Hamilton’s Federalist Papers advocating the ratification of the Constitution, and learn about politics in the early American republic and Hamilton’s deadly duel with Aaron Burr.

The Wizard of Oz poster
Project

American Icons: The Wizard of Oz

Follow the yellow brick road through America’s favorite story and discover places in the land of Oz more wonderful, and weirder, than you ever imagined.
The Disney empire began at Disneyland in Orange County, California, in 1955
Project

American Icons: The Disney Parks

America's vision of Utopia. Listen to an NEH-funded Studio 360 podcast on the ways Walt Disney has shaped our imaginations.
Appalachian Spring
Project

American Icons: Appalachian Spring

In 1942, Aaron Copland was commissioned to write a score for the choreographer Martha Graham. Dance and music in America have never been the same.
An actor holds up a sign reading "served two tours, no home, anything helps" during a scene
Magazine Article
Warriors on Stage

Veterans' voices shape a new play in Minnesota.

January/February 2014

Minnesota Contacts

Minnesota Humanities Center
987 East Ivy Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55106
(651) 774-0105
mnhum.org

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Minnesota Humanities Center

Board chair: Joshua Ney
Executive: Kevin Lindsey