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Title: National Endowment for the Humanities


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National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Roger S. Baskin, Sr.
  • EDUC 870

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The National Endowment for the Humanities
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
    is an independent federal agency created in 1965.
    It is the largest funder of humanities programs
    in the United States.

3
Who leads the NEH?
  • The Endowment is directed by a chairman, who is
    appointed by the president and confirmed by the
    U.S. Senate, for a term of four years. Advising
    the chairman is the National Council on the
    Humanities, a board of 26 distinguished private
    citizens who are also appointed by the president
    and confirmed by the Senate. The National Council
    members serve staggered six-year terms.
  • NEH's chairman is Bruce Cole. Before joining NEH,
    Dr. Cole was Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts
    and chairman of the Department of History of Art
    at the Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana
    University, Bloomington. He is a member of the
    Accademia Senese degli Intronati, the oldest
    learned society in Europe, and a founder and
    former co-president of the Association for Art
    History. He was confirmed by the Senate in
    December 2001.

4
What is its mission?
  • The Endowment accomplishes the mission of
    promoting excellence in the humanities and
    conveying the lessons of history to all Americans
    by providing grants for high-quality humanities
    projects in four funding areas preserving and
    providing access to cultural resources,
    education, research, and public programs.
  • NEH grants typically go to cultural institutions,
    such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges,
    universities, public television, and radio
    stations, and to individual scholars. The grants
  • strengthen teaching and learning in the
    humanities in schools and colleges across the
    nation
  • 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

5
When was NEH established?
  • 1963
  • Three scholarly and educational
    organizations--the American Council of Learned
    Societies (ACLS), the Council of Graduate Schools
    in America, and the United Chapters of Phi Beta
    Kappa--co-sponsor the establishment of a National
    Commission on the Humanities and instruct the
    Commission to conduct a study of "the state of
    the humanities in America." Barnaby Keeney,
    President of Brown University, is chair.
  • 1964
  • In April, the commission releases a report
    recommending "the establishment by the President
    and the Congress of the United States of a
    National Humanities Foundation."
  • In August, Congressman William Moorhead of
    Pennsylvania proposes legislation to implement
    the Commission's recommendations.
  • In a speech at Brown University on the importance
    of federal support for higher education,
    President Johnson lends his support.
  • 1965
  • In March, Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island
    introduces the Johnson Administration's
    legislation to establish a National Foundation on
    the Arts and the Humanities.
  • On September 29, President Johnson signs the
    National Foundation on the Arts and the
    Humanities Act of 1965, establishing the National
    Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the
    National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as
    separate, independent agencies. He selects
    Barnaby Keeney, who headed the original
    commission, to become the first NEH chairman.
    While Keeney completes the academic year at
    Brown, Henry Allen Moe, President of the American
    Philosophical Society, is interim chairman. The
    agency's first home is 1800 G Street, NW, in a
    building largely occupied by the National Science
    Foundation.

6
Where is NEH located?
  • National Endowment for the Humanities1100
    Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20506
  • State Humanities Councils exist throughout the
    country and in territories including Puerto Rico
    and Guam. There are a total of 56 such councils.

7
Why is NEH so important?
  • Take a look at some of the projects NEH has
    funded
  • "Treasures of Tutankhamen," the blockbuster
    exhibition seen by more than 1.5 million people
  • The Civil War, the landmark documentary by Ken
    Burns viewed by 38 million Americans
  • Library of America, editions of novels, essays,
    and poems celebrating America's literary heritage
  • United States Newspaper Project, an effort to
    catalog and microfilm 63.3 million pages of
    newspapers dating from the early Republic
  • Fifteen Pulitzer prize-winning books, including
    those by James M. McPherson, Louis Menand, Joan
    D. Hedrick, and Bernard Bailyn

8
How many grant options are there?
  • Choose from one of the grant categories
  • Challenge Grants
  • Education Programs
  • Public Programs
  • Federal/State Partnership
  • Office of Digital Humanities
  • Preservation and Access
  • Research Programs
  • We the People

9
References
  • All information for this presentation was
    gathered from the site below
  • http//www.neh.gov/index.html
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