Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum, 2017 Jefferson Lecturer

She will deliver the lecture on Monday, May 1 at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m.

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NEH Announces $16.3 Million for 290 Humanities Projects

Grants to fund wide range of programming and scholarship

Humanities Access

NEH Announces First Ever Humanities Access Grants

Supports humanities programming for young people, communities of color, and the economically disadvantaged

creating humanities communities

Creating Humanities Communities Grant Program

New grant program builds humanities infrastructure in previously underserved areas

NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce Fellowships for Digital Publica

NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Digital Publication

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Recent reports indicate that individuals are posing as the NEH on social media.

Explore the Humanities

Websites, apps, and digital projects supported by NEH grants

Dorothea Lange, "The Migrant Mother"

Photogrammar Project

Explore 170,000 photographs of America in the 1930s and 40s, created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

First Lady, diplomat, and citizen activist, Eleanor Roosevelt also wrote more than 8,000 columns, 580 articles, 27 books, and 100,000 letters.

"The Problem We All Live With," Norman Rockwell, 1963

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking six-part series that takes viewers across five hundred years and two continents to shed new light on the experience of being an African American.

W.E.B. Du Bois, c. 1911

Credo

W.E.B. Du Bois’ prose poem “Credo” proclaimed his philosophy of racial equality.

Influenza warning poster from Rochester, NY

The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919

An estimated 650,000 Americans lost their lives to the infamous and tragic 1918-1919 influenza epidemic. Read the stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the epidemic at this digital encyclopedia.

Martin Luther King Jr, 1964

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King’s most significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, public statements, published and unpublished writings.

American Cotton Manufacturers' Association dinner menu, May 17, 1907

What's On The Menu?

Browse historic menus from the collections of the New York Public Library.

Mary Moody Emerson Was a Scholar, a Thinker, and an Inspiration
She saw connections among the minds she encountered in books and in person.
John Ruskin Taught Victorian Readers and Travelers the Art of Cultivation
His power of observation gave “eyes” to generations.
Modernism and Mexico
The Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the works of some of Mexico's greatest twentieth-century painters.
Winter 2017 available on ISSUU
You can virtually flip through the magazine--and read it too!--on ISSUU. Start reading now.
What to Make of T. S. Eliot?
He feared and loathed women, colored his face green, and wore lipstick.
Back When Everyone Knew How You Voted
The secret ballot seems fundamental to democracy, and yet we did not always vote in private.
Paper Trail
On letters, diaries, and other records of the American story at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Old Friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Made History Together
Two souls on fire fought for justice