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Request tickets for the 2009 Jefferson Lecture to be delivered by Leon Kass.
Attend a conference on May 11 as U.S. and Italian experts explore “Sustainable Cultural Heritage.”
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.
April is Jazz Appreciation Month; celebrate America's music with NEH, EDSITEment, and the Smithsonian.
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NEH awards We the People Bookshelf on “Picturing America” to 4,000 libraries.

Leon Kass, noted humanities scholar and bioethicist, to deliver the 2009 Jefferson Lecture.

NEH awards $20 million for 197 humanities projects.

President Obama appoints Carole M. Watson as Acting Chairman of NEH.

Image courtesy Julie Paschkis (www.juliepaschkis.com)

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.

Jefferson Lecturer Leon Kass describes his journey from medical school to the heart of the humanities.

An influx of undesirables at the end of the nineteenth century hit Boston’s elite rather hard.

What Words Are Worth: In defense of the humanities.

The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.

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