National Endowment for the Humanities announces awards

Margaret DeLacy Discussion

Friends:

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the award of $36.6 million in grants for scholarship to more than 200 projects for the coming year.

The announcement can be found at

http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2015-07-28

The Arts Beat blog on the New York Times website contains a brief story that mentioned the new "Public Scholar" program which received $1.7 million.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/n-e-h-announces-first-public-scholar-grants/?_r=0

A more detailed story in the Washington Post included a comment from the chair of the NEH, William D. Adams that there was a "fantastic" response and drew 485 applications:   “We’re very pleased with the diversity of the proposals, and the fact that many more came from independent scholars was very encouraging.”

Among the Independent Scholars who received awards was Diane McWhorter:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2015/07/28/can-the-neh-make-scholarship-popular/