The Civil War
and Veterans Today
Join NEH November 13 & 14
for panel discussions
and special film screenings
of Death and the Civil War
All are welcome to join the
NEH and Georgetown University’s screening and panel discussion at
Georgetown’s ICC Auditorium,
6pm to 8pm on Tuesday, November 13
Explore the Humanities
Websites, apps, and digital projects supported by NEH grants
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The Other Jefferson DavisThe U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
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Not Exactly a Hermit: Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
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Nietzsche Is DeadThe battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
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Friends of RousseauSome of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
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The DramatistBarbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy
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Newton, The Last MagicianThe great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
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Let Us Now Praise James AgeeThe journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
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Julien Green: The End of a WorldAs Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.
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Into the DeepU-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II.
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The Thing (or Things) About Wendell BerryAn Appreciation by Mark Bittman
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The Strange Politics of Gertrude SteinWas the den mother of modernism a fascist?
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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged PeopleA scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
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Deaf Meets WonderstruckAn NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
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Modern LoveCharles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
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Words of AmericaThe final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
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Henry James and the American IdeaThe Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
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California's Cold War MuseumAll things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.