NEH Announces Latest Slate of Humanities Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $29 million in awards for 215 humanities projects across the country. This round of funding, NEH’s third and last for fiscal year 2019, will support research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The peer-reviewed grants were awarded in addition to $48 million in annual operating support provided to the national network of state and territorial humanities councils during fiscal year 2019.

This funding cycle includes grants for several longstanding NEH-supported scholarly editions and publishing project, with new grants enabling continued work on the papers of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as publication of the complete speeches, correspondence, and writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt, and a new scholarly edition and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Other book industry–related awards include grants for statewide reading and discussion programs in Maine tied to the state’s bicentennial in 2020, the expansion the Perseus Digital Library of resources on the Classical world.

Books supported by this grant include a biography of Sacagawea "as a window into the experiences of Northern Plains, Rockies, and Pacific Northwest Native American tribes"; a book tracking "the mythos of Alexander the Great across multiple cultures and eras"; and a work on "the portrayal of returning WWII veterans in the blockbuster 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives."

A full list of grants by geographic location is available here.