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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

February 12, 2012

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The War 150 Years Later

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

February 7, 2012

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Wendell E. Berry named 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

February 6, 2012

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NEH Celebrates Black History Month

February 1, 2012

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The Loving Story and Slavery by Another Name

January 12, 2012

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NEH Announces Winners of 2011 Digging Into Data Challenge

January 3, 2012

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NEH announces $21 million in awards and offers for 215 humanities projects

December 1, 2011

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The Painful Legacy of Human Experimentation

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.

October 14, 2011

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A Biblical Event

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

September 23, 2011

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Happy 400th, King James Bible

BackStory Radio Goes Weekly

National Endowment for the Humanities Invites You to a Lecture on the Tenement Museum and the Story of American Immigration

2012 Jefferson Lecture with Wendell Berry

150 Years Ago: Compensated Emancipation

The New neh.gov: More Accessible, More Informative, More Lively

A Life of Results

Poet and Essayist Christopher Merrill joins the National Council on the Humanities

NEH announces $17 million in awards and offers for 208 humanities projects

Flap jacks, pancakes, or batterbread?

Robert Hirst on the Making of Mark Twain's Autobiography

President requests $154,255,000 for NEH in 2013

President Obama Awards 2011 National Humanities Medals

The War 150 Years Later

Wendell E. Berry named 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

NEH Celebrates Black History Month

The Poetic Nun

The Loving Story and Slavery by Another Name

NEH Announces Winners of 2011 Digging Into Data Challenge

NEH announces $21 million in awards and offers for 215 humanities projects

Dr. Livingstone, Illuminated

The Painful Legacy of Human Experimentation

A Biblical Event

China–US Cultural Exchange

National Endowment for the Humanities Invites You To Preview 54 Cutting-Edge Digital Humanities Projects

NEH Grantees Win Honors

Remembering 9/11

NEH and NSF Award $3.9 Million to Preserve Languages Threatened With Extinction

Nuclear Nevada