Library bookselves are full of literary and historical voices of the past thanks to NEH-supported editions of the correspondence and papers of leading historical and literary figures.

The Presidents

Ten presidential papers projects are underwritten by NEH, from George Washington to Dwight David Eisenhower. The Washington and Eisenhower papers have each leveraged more than $1.8 million in nonfederal contributions. These projects are complex undertakings that often require the collaboration of teams of scholars. Presidential papers projects include:

• The Papers of George Washington (University of Virginia)
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Princeton University)
• The Papers of John and John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts Historical Society)
• The Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
• The Papers of Andrew Jackson (University of Tennessee)
• The Correspondence of James K. Polk (University of Tennessee)
• The Legal Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
• The Papers of Andrew Johnson (University of Tennessee)
• The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Southern Illinois University)
• The Dwight David Eisenhower Papers (Johns Hopkins University)

Authoritative multivolume editions of the writings, journals, and correspondence of preeminent literary and historical figures are being prepared or have been completed through NEH grants. They include:

• Matthew Arnold
• Samuel Beckett
• James Boswell
• Robert and Elizabeth Browning
• Willa Cather
• Joseph Conrad
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Charles Darwin
• John Dewey
• Frederick Douglass
• John Donne
• Thomas Edison
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Samuel Gompers
• Samuel Johnson
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• John Marshall
• Herman Melville
• Frederick Law Olmsted
• Marcel Proust
• George Santayana
• Henry David Thoreau
• Mark Twain
• Booker T. Washington
• W.B. Yeats