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State humanities councils are private, non-profit partners of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). There are 56 councils located in every U.S. state and jurisdiction. These councils work to support local public humanities programs as well as to extend the NEH's national programming to local communities.
The NEH provides grants for high-quality humanities projects to cultural institutions such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, and radio stations, and to individual scholars. According to its mission statement: "Because democracy demands wisdom, NEH serves and strengthens our republic by promoting ...
Along with its digital projects, beginning in 1996 ASHP created professional development programs with the NEH-funded New Media Classroom to help college faculty develop lesson plans incorporating new digital technologies into humanities courses, one of the Endowment's first digital humanities projects. [15]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Television Academy Foundation a $350,000 grant for the preservation of its online archives documenting the history of television. Founded ...
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a joint project between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create and maintain a publicly available, online digital archive of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922. Additionally, the program will make available ...
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. [3] It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government by an act of the U.S. Congress , signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September ...
[1] [2] Its Honorary Chair is traditionally the First Lady as designated by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities [3] "Selection criteria require that each project be of national significance, demonstrate an urgent preservation need, have an educational or otherwise clear public benefit, and demonstrate the likely availability of ...
Particularly notable projects from this era of the center included the NEH-funded One Week One Tool Summer Institutes; [56] [57] NEH-funded Doing Digital History workshops for mid-career American historians; [58] [59] the Mellon-funded THATCamp unconferences; [60] [61] [62] and the Sloan-funded PressForward, a WordPress plugin for online ...