Thirty-five hundred years ago, leading residents of Mitrou in Greece displayed their wealth and power through chariots, big buildings, fancy clothes, and refined cuisine.
The Yup’ik have managed to not only survive for generations in a harsh region at the northwestern edge of the American continents, but to build a resilient and enduring way of life.
The papers of the Founding Fathers - personal letters, private diaries, even financial records - reveal the humanity beyond the statues, portraits, and memorials.
Four months before Gauguin arrived in 1891, two Americans sought to explore the “real” Tahiti, to experience its landscape and understand its history. One was a wealthy intellectual, the other a painter.
Artists, patrons, theologians, philosophers, and scientists of the Italian Renaissance engaged with theories of the heavens, sharing a common belief in the power of planetary forces.
This program supports individual faculty members or staff at hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities pursuing research of value to humanities scholars, students, or general audiences.
Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be eligible for this special opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be essential to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the nature of the research and the topics being addressed demand presentation beyond traditional print publication.
Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Projects may be at any stage of development.
A free and accessible webinar is scheduled for January 19, 2016 for the Documenting Endangered Languages Program, which is a joint U.S. funding initiative led by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
NEH Grant Application Workshops are intended for anyone interested in learning about NEH funding opportunities and application strategies. Workshops listed here are conducted by Program Officers from the Division of Research.
Mark Silver, Senior Program Officer in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)'s Division of Research, introduces NEH's new Public Scholar grant program.
Giuseppe Verdi faced censorship from a number of authorities during his long career. He was forced to change many of his libretti because of the politics of the day.
A four-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting the archaeological excavation of slave quarters at James Madison's Montpelier.
