NEH Acting Chairman Peede’s address to the 2017 National Humanities Conference When I was growing up in the Deep South, when we met a stranger, we’d ask, “Where are you from? Who are your people?” as a way of getting to know one another. We didn’t ask: “What’s your job?”…

For a few moments on August 21, 2017, the moon will completely obscure the sun over the continental United States, causing a total solar eclipse. …

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 22, 2017) — William D. Adams, the tenth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced today his resignation from the agency, effective Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama in April 2014 and was confirmed by the United States Senate…

“Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame” — 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities as delivered by Martha C. Nussbaum at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, May 1, 2017 (This lecture contains material from THE MONARCHY OF FEAR: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, by Martha C. Nussbaum, to be published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster.) At the end of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, two transformations take place in the city of Athens. One is famous, the other often…

Established by an act of Congress in 1965 to “promote progress in the humanities in the United States,” the mission of the National Endowment for the Humanities has been strongly endorsed by every U.S. president throughout the agency’s history. Notable presidential statements include: President Johnson: “The humanities are an effort…

Martha C. Nussbaum, world-renowned philosopher, distinguished author, and law professor, will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. The lecture is produced by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a federal…