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National Endowment for the Humanities

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Founded in 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making institution of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
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September 7
Alfre Woodard to take part in Sept 17 NEH Emancipation Nation celebration at Lincoln Memorial http://1.usa.gov/OdWcIH
Celebrating Emancipation at the Lincoln Memorial | National Endowment for the Humanities
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WASHINGTON, DC (September 6, 2012) – Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard will read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl at the Lincoln Memorial on September 17 as the National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard University commemorate the issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
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September 7
Learn about NEH’s grants for disaster preparedness and response for cultural institutions http://1.usa.gov/Qvv5Df
Disaster Preparedness for Cultural Heritage Institutions | National Endowment for the Humanities
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Director Nadina Gardner and Senior Program Officer Laura Word Share the Work of the Division of Preservation and Access in Disaster Preparedness, on Capitol Hill
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September 6
The history of Emancipation through the records of those that lived it: the Freedmen and Southern Society Project http://1.usa.gov/NS07F6
Freedman and Southern Society Project | National Endowment for the Humanities
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September 5
60 groups have registered “watch parties” for NEH’s Constitution Day Emancipation presentation. Join them on Sept 17 : http://1.usa.gov/Q0Bniv
Watch Live Stream | NEH Emancipation Resource Portal
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Please note that the program will be one hour long, including a live question and answer session. Questions submitted to emancipation@neh.gov or tweeted to @NEHemancipation will be answered in real time by the expert panel.
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August 31
WNET/Thirteen awarded Serious Play Award gold medal for NEH-funded Mission US2: “Flight to Freedom” educational game about slavery http://bit.ly/PFXKFM
August 27, 2012 « Serious Play Conference
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LOS ANGELES – Aug. 27, 2012 – DragonBox+, created by WeWantToKnow for At Home Learning was awarded Best of Show at the 2012 International Serious Play Awards, a program honoring exceptional examples of corporate, military, school/at home learning and games for good titles. The awards were announced...
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August 28
University of Missouri-St. Louis archaeologist awarded NEH grant to continue excavations at Iklaina, site where oldest written record in Europe uncovered http://bit.ly/OjcITS
Archaeologist awarded grant to continue excavations in Greece | UMSL Daily
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In the summer of 2010, University of Missouri–St. Louis archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos and his team uncovered the oldest written record in Europe.
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August 23
Turning the page on the US Newspaper Program http://1.usa.gov/NJ3tfG
Turning the Page on the U.S. Newspaper Program (1982-2011) | National Endowment for the Humanities
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Newspapers have chronicled the daily life of American citizens in small towns and cities since they appeared in the 17th century. Because they vividly document the civic, political, social, and cultural events of the nation’s history, all elements of historical newspapers provide source material fo...
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August 22
Students: submit your Emancipation Nation Student Contest entry by October 5 http://1.usa.gov/RhbBn7
Student Contest | NEH Emancipation Resource Portal
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**Updates: the contest deadline has been extended to October 5th to give students more time to enter. The prizes include a 2 night trip to Washington D.C., publication on the NEH website, and a cash prize.**
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August 21
Radiolab blog features NEH-funded WNYC Archives preservation project: a 1951 “Plan for Survival” recording on what to do in case of an atomic bomb http://wny.cc/MPg4S5
Radiolab Blogland - Like 1,000 blockbusters exploding all around you
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Our short Double Blasted tells the story of a man who survived not one, but TWO atomic bomb blasts--first in Hiroshima, and then in Nagasaki--in 1945. After hearing the podcast, the wonderful folks at WNYC's Archives pointed us to two surreal-sounding broadcasts that aired in New York City five year...
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August 16
A History of Mapping: NEH funded BackStory Radio podcast examines what maps reveal about how we see our world http://bit.ly/PaBMyo
Here to There: A History of Mapping | BackStory with the American History Guys
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The red state/blue state representation of the U.S. was originally intended to tell us something about electoral politics. But it has come to stand in for a lot more than that. So how did that map’s cultural meaning come to be so fixed?
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