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President Obama Awards 2015 National Humanities Medal

Twelve distinguished humanities recipients receive honor on Sept 22 in East Room ceremony

September 20, 2016

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President Obama to Award 2015 National Humanities Medals

Twelve distinguished humanities recipients to receive honor on Sept 22 in East Room ceremony

September 14, 2016

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National Digital Newspaper Program to Now Include Newspapers from the Earliest Days of America’s Founding

Gazette of the United States, National Gazette and National Intelligencer are examples of early papers now included in Chronicling America, a free online database from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress

August 31, 2016

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NEH Announces $1.7 Million for "Next Generation PhD"

28 institutions to receive a total of $1.65 million to plan and implement transformation of graduate education

August 9, 2016

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NEH Announces $79 Million for Nearly 300 Humanities Projects and Programs Nationwide

Grants include new support for remaking PhD programs in the humanities

August 8, 2016

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Integration of Education in the Arts and Humanities with the Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts sponsor new study by National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

July 25, 2016

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NEH Announces the Winners of the Chronicling America Data Challenge

Six prizes to be awarded, prize winners to represent six different states and six different humanities topics and approaches, one K-12 student prize among the winners

July 25, 2016

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Presidents and the Press: A Pulitzer Centennial Event

BackStory with the American History Guys

July 25, 2016

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UVA to Celebrate NEH's 50th Anniversary with Forum on Humanities for the Modern World

July 22, 2016

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National Youth Spoken Word Ambassador Program Announced at Brave New Voices Festival

July 19, 2016

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Twenty-Nine Middle and High School Students Named National Endowment for the Humanities Scholars at 2016 National History Day

Twenty-nine young historians named NEH scholars at National History Day

July 17, 2016

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20 NEH-Funded Films To Watch This Summer

July 15, 2016

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Expanding Our Current Scope | NDNP

July 7, 2016

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William Craig Rice, Farewell

June 28, 2016

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NEH Chairman William D. Adams to Discuss Designing Humanities Games with USC Game Innovation Lab Director Tracy Fullerton

June 22, 2016

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Learning the Humanities through Video Games

June 20, 2016

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NEH Announces Public Humanities Projects Grant Program

June 14, 2016

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NEH Announces Humanities Connections Grant Program

New NEH grant program aims to provide substantive humanities experiences for students in all academic fields

April 29, 2016

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NEH Announces Grant Award to Bring Art Conservation Team to Cuba

April 21, 2016

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U.S. Government Cultural Mission to Cuba Announced

Trip Builds on President Obama’s Recent Visit
“Todos Somos Americanos”

April 14, 2016

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Tickets to the 2016 Jefferson Lecture w/ Ken Burns Available April 12

April 11, 2016

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NEH Announces $21.1 Million for 248 Humanities Projects

New grant awards support veterans’ discussion groups and humanities at community colleges

March 23, 2016

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NEH Announces $1.5 Million for “Dialogues on the Experience of War”

March 17, 2016

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NEH Announces Protecting our Cultural Heritage

Agency encourages projects that document or digitally re-create imperiled or destroyed cultural materials

March 9, 2016

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The Trans-Atlantic Platform Launches Fourth Digging Into Data Challenge

Digital researchers from three continents invited to apply new methods of using "big data" to address humanities inquiries

March 3, 2016

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Announcing NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

New joint NEH and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship opportunity encourages digital research in the humanities

February 29, 2016

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NEH Announces Humanities Access Grant Program

New NEH grant program strengthens humanities programs for young people, communities of color, and the economically disadvantaged

February 25, 2016

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NEH Chairman Adams Praises President Obama's Nomination of Carla D. Hayden as Librarian of Congress as Inspired Choice

February 24, 2016

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Obama Administration requests $149.8 million for NEH in 2017

Proposed budget 1.28% increase over current appropriation

February 9, 2016

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Announcing the Fourth Round of Digging Into Data

Digital researchers from three continents are invited to apply new methods of using "big data" to address humanities inquiries

February 8, 2016