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Featured Projects: Public Programs

14-year-old apprentice Nat Wheeler in Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?”

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Mission US Receives Top Honors

A gold-medal winner!

Posted: September 21, 2012
Elizabeth I’s copy of the Bishops’ Bible

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Strong Media Coverage for King James Bible Exhibition

It was all about disseminating information in 1611 just as it is today.

Posted: July 2, 2012
Photograph of sanitation workers' protest in Memphis, TN, 1968

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Extended Travel for a Civil Rights Photography Exhibition

A smaller version of the ‘For All the World to See’ exhibition is now making its way around the country.

Posted: July 2, 2012
Student filmmakers learn about the Civil War at the C & O Canal

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Civil War stories through the video camera’s lens: Learning history through filmmaking

Civil War battlefields are coming alive once more through a new NEH-funded project that connects middle school students to the American Civil War by training them to use primary source documents, humanities scholarship, role-playing, and digital technology to create short movies.

Posted: June 5, 2012
The Rogarshevsky Parlor at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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The Tenement Museum and the Story of American Immigration: A Free Public Lecture

Please join the National Endowment for the Humanities on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, for a presentation by Morris J. Vogel, President of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

Posted: May 3, 2012
image of gold Aztec artefact: Pectoral with Calendrical Notations

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Children of the Plumed Serpent

Artistic motifs can offer striking evidence of cultural survival.

Posted: April 4, 2012
Family barbecue in Lakewood Plaza suburban development, Long Beach, California,

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House and Home

From condos and Cape Cods to ranches and dumbbell apartments, Americans have built all sorts of structures to call home.

Posted: March 26, 2012
photograph of the Hudson River, with Catskill Mountains in background

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Thomas Cole Site

For over two centuries after their arrival, European Americans viewed the continent’s untamed lands as an unknown to be feared and conquered. 

Posted: February 16, 2012
Four color guard from 372nd Infantry marching in front of soldiers

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Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story

Pittsburgh’s Hill District, or “The Hill” as it is locally known, was the heart of the city’s African-American community during the twentieth century.

Posted: February 14, 2012
Richard and Mildred Loving in 1965

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The Loving Story

On Valentine’s Day HBO aired The Loving Story, a 90-minute documentary film about Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who married in Virginia in the late 1950s.

Posted: February 14, 2012