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The NEH has helped scholars tell important Jewish stories. What now?
If the Trump administration cared so much about antisemitism, it wouldn't go after the National Endowment for the Humanities ...
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Removed Confederate monuments in Maryland to remain hidden, despite Trump executive order
The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...
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Black History Travel 2025: Unearthing the Narratives of the Past
Black history is everywhere. From oral traditions, written records, and acclaimed museums to weathered buildings, bronze ...
Scholars have told important Jewish stories with the NEH’s support. What happens to them now? | Commentary
A historian focused on Jewish history for more than four decades wonders what will happen to Jewish stories now that many of ...
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Trump administration will use humanities grant money to build patriotic sculpture park
Funds from cancelled National Endowment for the Humanities grants will help realise one of the US president’s pet projects ...
Artifacts from Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, and Gandhi are coming to Philly for America’s 250th
Kenneth B. Morris Jr.’s family treasures have always been American treasures. Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass, and great-great-grandson of ...
Canceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the ...
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Elizabeth Freeman to be one of first two women, first person from Western Massachusetts immortalized in State Senate chambers
A Berkshire County icon is one of two women to be honored with a bust in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber for the first time ...