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Humanities projects include Anti-Slavery Manuscripts [132] with Boston Public Library, and Shakespeare's World [133] with the Folger Shakespeare Library and Oxford English Dictionary. Ecology projects include Snapshot Serengeti, [134] Wildcam Gorongosa [135] and Penguin Watch. [136] Anyone can build their own project on the free Project Builder ...
The American Council of Learned Societies' National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities suggests that the nature of public humanities work is to teach the public the findings of academic scholarship: it sees "scholarship and the public humanities not as two distinct spheres but as parts of a single process, the process of taking ...
Founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American-Working Class History Project, [1] the project grew out of a 1977–80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new social history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds, most of whom had no college experience. [2]
Faculty leaders say activism is in the college’s DNA, noting that students and professors have practiced nonviolent civil disobedience for more than half a century — from the Vietnam War in ...
In June 1893, the trustees of Princeton appointed one of their members, John J. McCook, to look into creating an academic costume that showed the wearer’s degree, faculty, and alma mater, and to discuss the concept with Columbia, Yale, Harvard and other universities with the goal being “the adoption of a uniform academic costume.” [33]
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities (see Public humanities). NEH facilitated the creation of State Humanities Councils [6] in the 56 U.S. states and territories. Each council operates independently, defining the ...
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) was an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues.It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as other federal ...
Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), [1] [2] the federal agency of the U.S. government established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89–209) to support research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.