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100 years after his death, the definitive edition arrives

A Nobel Prize-winning economist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a “scholar of the book,” and a national history program among this year’s recipients

As we mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, a selection of past, present, and future humanities projects.

Research funded by a 1995 NEH grant to Wellesley College’s Susan Reverby became the basis for long-term scholarly engagement with the notorious “Tuskegee” Syphilis Study, and lead to the discovery of a disturbing chapter in the history of human experimentation in Guatemala.

A new NEH-supported exhibition chronicles 400 years of the King James Bible

Rutgers professor named MacArthur Fellow; Freedom Riders Wins Three Emmys

Sometimes a gift, no matter how exquisite, is more than it seems.

Traveling exhibition explores Abraham Lincoln's beliefs about slavery