National Endowment for the Humanities


Watch as Chairman Cole discusses Picturing America with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's "Q&A.;"
Spend time with EDSITEment and its year-long showcase of Picturing America resources for K-12 teachers.
Learn how the NEH Office of Digital Humanities supports innovative uses of technology.
Visit Chronicling America, an online resource for historic American newspapers.
Subscribe to the NEH Feed.

Consult grant deadline calendar.

NEH and IMLS award Advancing Knowledge Digital Partnership grants.

NEH awards $27.6 million for 222 humanities projects.

Mrs. Laura Bush presents Picturing America to
Edna Karr Senior High School in New Orleans.

Second application period opens for
Picturing America program.

Image courtesy of Julie Paschkis

NEH, ALA announce We the People Bookshelf grant opportunity on “Picturing America.”

Picturing America program unveiled at
the White House.

NEH awards classic books to 3,000 school and public libraries on the theme, “Created Equal,” inspired by the 2009 bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.

Learn about We the People.

(Cover image:
Wooden fishing lures from the Shelburne’s folk art collection.)

The Revisionist Writer Amity Shlaes talks with Chairman Cole about the Great Depression.

Numerous translations of Don Quixote, some made without knowledge of Spanish, attest to the novel’s long reach.

Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.

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