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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

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

How Americans learned to live with leisure

For centuries, El Camino Real was the main line north

EDSITEment's lesson plan brings the ancient structure to life

EDSITEment examines the religious underpinnings of the American Revolution

'Crowdsourcing' is building a truly voluminous database of dishes from century-old menus

Historic newspapers capture the growing conflict during the week of the First Battle of Bull Run.