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Panelists talked about the impact or the government shutdown on the National Park Service.

Two granddaughters of Dwight D. Eisenhower voiced their opposition this week to the proposed design of a memorial honoring the 34th president of the United States. They appeared before a con…

Mr. Cole spoke about an effort to digitize U.S. newspapers. The project, a collaborative effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will reproduce …

President Bush and the first lady presented the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to the 2008 recipients at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Medals were…

Bruce Cole talked about a program called “Picturing America.” The project’s goal is to distribute 40 large reproductions of art as a tool for teaching history and culture. These are being of…

Mr. Cole read a message from President George W. Bush, followed by a brief video and reading commemoration of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. A medal was presented for the best stude…

Second Lady, Lynne Cheney, talked to students from Francis Scott Key Elementary School about some books chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of its continuing “We the …

The National Endowment for the Humanities issued a new list of recommended books for young readers (K-12) on the theme of “courage” as part of the Endowment’s We the People initiative. Lynne…

The National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman, Bruce Cole, joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and talked about the National Endowment for the Humanities' participation in the White Hous…

Henry Louis Gates talked about Thomas Jefferson’s reactions to the poetry of a Boston slave girl. Among the topics he addressed were controversy over the originality of the poems, attitudes …