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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Agency overview
Formed September 29, 1965
Jurisdiction Federal government of the United States
Headquarters Constitution Washington, D.C.
Employees 159 (2010)
Annual upkeep $153 one thousand thousand USD (2008)
Agency executive
  • Shelly Lowe, Chairman
Website www.neh.gov

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an contained federal agency of the U.S. regime, established past the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Pub.L. 89–209), dedicated to supporting inquiry, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is housed at 400 7th St SW, Washington, D.C.[1] From 1979 to 2014, NEH was at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, North.W., Washington, D.C. in the Nancy Hanks Center at the Old Post Office.

On February 10, 2020, the NEH was presented by the Trump administration with a FY2021 budget that included an orderly wind-downward of the agency.[2]

History and Purpose [edit]

The NEH provides grants for high-quality humanities projects to cultural institutions such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, and radio stations, and to individual scholars. Co-ordinate to its own mission statement:

"Considering republic demands wisdom, NEH serves and strengthens our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans."[three]

NEH was created in 1965 nether the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, which also included the National Endowment for the Arts and later the Institute for Museum Services, as a movement to provide greater investment in civilization by the federal government.[4] NEH was based upon recommendation of the National Commission on the Humanities, convened in 1963 with representatives from 3 US scholarly and educational associations, the Phi Beta Kappa Guild, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Council of Graduate Schools.[4] [5] The agencies stated purpose is to create incentives for excellent work in the humanities by:

  • awarding grants that strengthen teaching and learning in the humanities in schools and colleges
  • facilitate research and original scholarship
  • provide opportunities for lifelong learning
  • preserve and provide access to cultural and educational resources
  • strengthen the institutional base of the humanities.[iii]

As part of its mandate to support humanities programs in every US state and territory, the agency supports a network of individual, nonprofit affiliates, the 56 humanities councils in us and territories of the United States.

Jim Leach leadership, 2009–2013 [edit]

The ninth NEH chair was Jim Leach. President Obama nominated the quondam Iowa congressman, a Republican, to chair the NEH on June 3, 2009;[half-dozen] the Senate confirmed his engagement in August 2009.[7] Leach began his term as the NEH chair on August 12, 2009 and stepped down in May 2013. Between Nov 2009 and May 2011, Leach conducted the American "Civility Bout" to call attention to the demand to restore reason and civility back into politics, a goal that in his words was "central to the humanities." Leach visited each of the 50 states, speaking at venues ranging from university and museum lecture halls to hospitals for veterans, to support the return of not-emotive, civil exchange and rational consideration of other viewpoints. According to Leach, "Little is more than important...than establishing an ethos of thoughtfulness and decency of expression in the public square. Words reflect emotion besides as meaning. They analyze—or cloud—thought and energize action, sometimes bringing out the ameliorate angels in our nature, sometimes lesser instincts."[viii]

William Adams leadership, 2014–2017 [edit]

The tenth chair of the NEH was William Adams, who served from 2014 to 2017. President Obama nominated Adams on April 4, 2014;[9] [10] [11] Adams was confirmed by the Senate in a vox vote on July ix, 2014.[12] Adams appointed Margaret (Peggy) Plympton as the deputy NEH chair in January 2015.[xiii]

Earlier Adams's date, the NEH was headed past Acting Chair Carole M. Watson. Adams resigned his appointment on May 23, 2017, when he cited accomplishments under the "Mutual Skillful" initiative and the appointment of new administration officials.[fourteen]

Offices and Initiatives [edit]

The Endowment is directed by the NEH chair. Advising the chair is the National Council on the Humanities, a board of 26 distinguished private citizens who are appointed by the president and confirmed past the Senate.[15] The National Council members serve staggered vi-twelvemonth terms.

The NEH chair [edit]

The Endowment is directed by a chair, who has legal authorisation to corroborate all recommendations and award grants and cooperative agreements. The chair is nominated by the president and confirmed with the advice and consent of the U.Due south. Senate. The chair'south decisions are informed by recommendations from the National Council on the Humanities, peer-reviewers who are selected to read each project proposal submitted to the Endowment, as well equally by the Endowment's staff.

Major program offices [edit]

The NEH has six grant-making divisions and offices:[16]

  • The Division of Preservation and Admission awards grants to preserve, maintain, and improve admission to primary sources in the humanities, in both digital and analog form.
  • The Segmentation of Public Programs supports projects that bring the humanities to large audiences through libraries and museums, tv set and radio, historic sites, and digital media.
  • The Partitioning of Enquiry makes awards to back up the publication of books in and outside the humanities.
  • The Division of Education works to support and strengthen teaching of the humanities.
  • The Office of Federal/Country Partnership collaborates with 56 state and territory humanities councils to strengthen local programs.
  • The Office of Digital Humanities advises on utilize of technology in the humanities and coordinates.

The Office of Challenge Grants, dissolved in 2017, administered grants intended to support capacity building and encourage fundraising in humanities institutions. The Division of Preservation and Admission now offers a grant program that is similar to previous programs in the Challenge Grants function.

Special initiatives [edit]

These are special priorities of the endowment that indicate critical areas of the humanities as identified by the NEH chair. They differ from the divisions of the endowment in that they exercise non sponsor or coordinate specific grant programs.

Bridging Cultures initiative [edit]

Bridging Cultures was an NEH initiative that explored ways the humanities promote understanding and mutual respect for people with various histories, cultures, and perspectives. Projects supported through this initiative focused on cultures globally as well as within the U.s.a..[17]

Standing Together [edit]

This initiative, launched in 2014, marks a priority to make awards that promote understanding of the war machine experience and to support returning veterans.[xviii]

We the People [edit]

We the People was an NEH special funding stream initiated past NEH chair Coles, using dedicated funds available to each chair of the NEH, which was designed to encourage and enhance the instruction, written report, and understanding of American history, culture, and democratic principles.[19] The initiative supports projects and programs that explore significant events and themes in American nation'southward history, which accelerate cognition of the principles that define America.[20]

According to NEH, the initiative led a renaissance in knowledge about American history and principles among all The states citizens. The initiative was launched on Constitution Day, September 17, 2002 and agile through 2009.[21]

Notable projects [edit]

Since 1965, the NEH has sponsored many projects, including:

  • "Treasures of Tutankhamen," an exhibition seen past more than 1.v one thousand thousand people.[22]
  • The Ceremonious War, a 1990 documentary past Ken Burns seen by 38 1000000 Americans.[23]
  • Library of America, editions of novels, essays, and poems celebrating America's literary heritage.[24]
  • United states Newspaper Project, an effort that cataloged and microfilmed 63.three million pages of newspapers dating from the early United states of america. The program at present digitizes newspapers and makes them available through Chronicling America, a web resources maintained by the Library of Congress.[25]
  • Xv Pulitzer Prize–winning books, including those by James M. McPherson, Louis Menand, Joan D. Hedrick, and Bernard Bailyn.[26]
  • EDSITEment, a Web projection bringing the "best of the humanities on the web" to teachers and students, started in 1997.[27]
  • Reference archives, in Athens and Boston, of archaeological photographs taken by Eleanor Emlen Myers.[28]
  • The Valley of the Shadow, a digital history project created past Edward Fifty. Ayers and William Grand. Thomas III on the experience of Amalgamated Civil War soldiers in the United States.[29]
  • What'southward on the Bill of fare, digitization and community-sourced transcription of New York Public Library's restaurant card drove.[xxx]
  • Katherine Anne Porter at 100, a conference at the Academy of Maryland featuring presentations on Porter and her work, movie screenings, and exhibits containing items from Porter'due south papers.[31]

Recent and Upcoming Council Meetings [edit]

Agendas and minutes:

  • Calendar for Meeting of the National Council on the Humanities 7 March 2022

Awards [edit]

Jefferson Lecture [edit]

Since 1972 the NEH has sponsored the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which it describes as "the highest laurels the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual accomplishment in the humanities." The Jefferson Lecturer is selected each twelvemonth past the National Council on the Humanities. The honoree delivers a lecture in Washington, D.C., during the spring, and receives an honorarium of $ten,000. The stated purpose of the honor is to recognize "an individual who has made significant scholarly contributions in the humanities and who has the power to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities in a broadly appealing manner."[32]

National Humanities Medal and Charles Frankel Prize [edit]

The National Humanities Medal, inaugurated in 1997, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation'due south understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to of import resources in the humanities. Up to 12 medals can exist awarded each year. From 1989 to 1996 the NEH awarded a like prize known equally the Charles Frankel Prize.[33] The new honour, a statuary medallion, was designed by David Macaulay, the 1995 winner of the Frankel Prize. Lists of the winners of the National Humanities Medal[34] and the Frankel Prize[35] are available at the NEH website.

Humanities magazine [edit]

Starting in 1969, the NEH published a periodical called Humanities; that original incarnation was discontinued in 1978. In 1980, Humanities magazine was relaunched (ISSN 0018-7526). It is published vi times per year, with one cover commodity each year dedicated to profiling that twelvemonth's Jefferson Lecturer. Most of its articles have some connection to NEH activities. The magazine's editor since 2007 has been journalist and author David Skinner.[36] From 1990 until her death in 2007, Humanities was edited by Mary Lou Beatty (who had previously been a high-ranking editor at the Washington Postal service).[37] [38]

See also [edit]

  • Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Listing of country humanities councils
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Humanities Medal
  • National Humanities Medal recipients

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Visiting NEH". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved xiii July 2014.
  2. ^ "NEH Argument on Proposed FY 2021 Budget". Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  3. ^ a b "About". NEH.
  4. ^ a b "How NEH Got Its Showtime". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved thirteen July 2014.
  5. ^ "NEH Timeline".
  6. ^ Robin Pogrebin, "Obama Names a Republican to Lead the Humanities Endowment", New York Times, June iv, 2009.
  7. ^ Robin Pogrebin, "Rocco Landesman Confirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts", New York Times, August 7, 2009.
  8. ^ "E.J. Dionne Welcomes Jim Leach's Telephone call for Civility". The Washington Post. xxx Nov 2009. Retrieved 3 Nov 2012.
  9. ^ "President Obama Announces his Intent to Nominate Dr. William "Bro" Adams as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities". Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  10. ^ "Obama nominates William 'Bro' Adams to exist next caput of National Endowment for the Humanities". Minneapolis Star Tribune. 10 April 2014. Archived from the original on thirteen April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  11. ^ "Adams Tapped by President Obama". Colby College. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 14 Apr 2014.
  12. ^ "Senate confirms head of US Humanities Endowment". The Washington Postal service. Archived from the original on sixteen July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Deputy Chair". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 14 March 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  14. ^ "NEH Chairman William D. Adams Announces Resignation". Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities. May 22, 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  15. ^ "National Council on the Humanities". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  16. ^ "Data about the Divisions and Offices that Administer NEH Grant Programs". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved xi April 2014.
  17. ^ "About the Bridging Cultures Initiative". Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  18. ^ "NEH Veterans Initiative". Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  19. ^ "We the People". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved xiii July 2014.
  20. ^ "The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau". March 2, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-03-02.
  21. ^ "Almost We the People". Archived from the original on 2016-04-03.
  22. ^ "King Tut Comes to America". Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  23. ^ "Ken Burns The Civil State of war". Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  24. ^ "Library of America". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  25. ^ "Newspapers: The First Draft of History". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  26. ^ "NEH & Books". Archived from the original on 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  27. ^ "Edsitement". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 . {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  28. ^ Myers, J. Wilson. "Eleanor Emlen Myers, 1925–1996" (PDF). Breaking Ground: Women in Old Earth Archeology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2015. Retrieved twenty February 2015.
  29. ^ "Valley of the Shadow". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  30. ^ "What'south on the menu?". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27 .
  31. ^ "Katherine Anne Porter at 100 records". University of Maryland Archival Collections. hdl:1903.i/7856.
  32. ^ Jefferson Lecturers at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).
  33. ^ Awards and Honors Archived 2009-01-17 at the Wayback Auto at NEH Website (retrieved January 23, 2009).
  34. ^ National Humanities Medals Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the NEH website (retrieved January 23, 2009).
  35. ^ Winners of the Charles Frankel Prize at NEH Website (retrieved Jan 23, 2009).
  36. ^ "Editor'south Annotation, September/Oct 2007". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2016-08-21 .
  37. ^ "Editor's Note, March/April 2007". National Endowment for the Humanities . Retrieved 2016-08-21 .
  38. ^ Sullivan, Patricia (2007-02-09). "Mary Lou Beatty; Editor at NEH, Postal service". The Washington Mail service. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-08-21 .

Further reading [edit]

  • Jensen, Richard. The Culture Wars, 1965-1995: A Historian's Map" Periodical of Social History (Vol. 29, Special Issue: Social History and the American Political Climate: Problems and Strategies (1995)), pp. 17-37 online
  • Kammen, Michael. "Culture and the Land in America." Journal of American History 83.3 (1996): 791-814. online
  • Koch, Cynthia K. "Postscript: The Endowments at Fifty." in Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Didactics (IGI Global, 2018) pp. 32-48.
  • Miller, Stephen. Excellence and Disinterestedness: The National Endowment for the Humanities (Upward of Kentucky, 2015).
  • Redaelli, Eleonora. "Understanding American cultural policy: the multi-level governance of the arts and humanities." Policy Studies 41.ane (2020): eighty-97. online
  • Topf, Mel A. "The NEH and the Crunch in the Humanities." College English 37.iii (1975): 229-242. online
  • Zainaldin, Jamil. "Public works: NEH, Congress, and the state humanities councils." Public Historian 35.ane (2013): 28–50. online

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities in the Federal Register
  • NEH EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web
  • GrantSocial: NEH Grant Browser 1970-nowadays

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