Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation / The Strobridge Lith. Co., Ci

A Dialogue on Emancipation, Webcast

Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m.: Watch a live-streamed discussion by five eminent Civil War historians of the events leading up to the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Rep. John Lewis to Speak at the Lincoln Memorial

Congressman Lewis joins NEH and Howard University’s Celebrating Freedom Program on September 17

photograph, Burial of Union soldiers in Fredericksburg, VA, 1864

Death and the Civil War

A new NEH-funded documentary, premiering Sept. 18, examines the impact of the Civil War's staggering death toll on American society.

Portrait of John Adams as Vice President

The Education of a Statesman

The latest volume of the Adams Papers, one of NEH's longest supported editorial projects, opens a window on the development of American self-government and on the education of a statesman.

Collage of Early 20th Century Newspaper Front Pages

Turning the Page on the U.S. Newspaper Program

In 1982 NEH created a cooperative national effort to locate and catalog all extant American newspapers.

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Newton, The Last Magician
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
Let Us Now Praise James Agee
The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
Burying Molière
How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
To See a Face
Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist.
The Swamp Doctor
Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron.
Julien Green: The End of a World
As Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.
Nietzsche Is Dead
The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
Into the Deep
U-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II.
The Thing (or Things) About Wendell Berry
An Appreciation by Mark Bittman
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
Humanities on the Brain
New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.
Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
Deaf Meets Wonderstruck
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
Modern Love
Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
Words of America
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
Henry James and the American Idea
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
A Diplomatic Education
Early in the Civil War, the Union narrowly avoided war with Britain.
The Everlasting Bible
New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.
Public Parking
Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.
California's Cold War Museum
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.