FEATURED COUNCIL PROGRAM
2012 Schwartz Prize Winner
Mass Humanities wins award for outstanding work in the public humanities for Reading Fredrick Douglass, a program designed to attract a diverse audience to share in the reading of Fredrick Douglass' The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
- Federation Board Meeting
Chicago, IL
July 19–20, 2013 - Federation Board Meeting
Birmingham, AL
November 7, 2013 - 2013 National Humanities Conference
Birmingham, AL
November 7–10, 2013 - 2014 Federation Board Meeting
Washington, DC
January 24–25, 2014
FIND YOUR STATE COUNCIL
NEWS FROM THE FEDERATION
- New! 2012 Income Survey Report revised 5-13-2013
- New! Signed Senate Dear Colleague letter FY 2014
- New! Signed House Dear Colleague letter FY 2014
- Testimony on Behalf of the Federation of State Humanities Councils
- NEH announces President's FY2014 budget request
- Federation President Esther Mackintosh's remarks from Humanities on the Hill Briefing now available
- Transcription of the 2012 National Humanities Conference Opening Plenary speech by Don Randel, Mellon Foundation
- Federation awards 2012 Schwartz Prizes to Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Tennessee councils
- Are We Losing Our Humanity? FSHC President Esther Mackintosh speaks on panel at National Press Club (Video)
NEWS FROM THE COUNCILS
May 10-11, 2013: Kentucky Humanities Council names Ben Chandler as its new Executive Director.
May 8, 2013: The Fleming County Covered Bridge Museum will host a Kentucky Humanities Council Chatauqua presentation of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the Father of Abdominal Surgery.
May 7, 2013: Indiana Humanities host fifth annual Conversations to Examine the Next 200 Years that look toward the future and building on economic success.
April 8, 2013: Poets explore Native American heritage in verse at free public reading. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' Virginia Indian program director highlighted.
April 3, 2013: SC Humanities Festival celebrates local history and culture of host community. Festival has been to 15 different cities during its 19 year span.