State humanities councils connect Americans with their past and each other. That work is under threat due to federal cuts.

“So what’s your major?” we’ve all heard. After sharing my plans, I’m often told: “What are you going to do with that?” It seems like a harmless question, but to an annually decreasing population of ...

F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...

PRODUCTION - 29 December 2022, Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: A stack of newly published books lies on a sales table in a bookstore in the Bornheim district. Reluctance to buy due to ongoing inflation and ...

On April 2, Georgia Humanities received a devastating message from the National Endowment for the Humanities: our general operating grant — which has brought nearly $4 million into the state over the ...

The death of the humanities. The undying "well, what are you planning on doing with that?" This perceived ‘death’ has plagued students in these fields for as long as they decided that math, science ...

Funding for humanities scholarship of all sorts is drying up, and central topics like DEI have become political playthings ...

The White House told members of a group of scholars who advise the National Endowment for the Humanities that their positions ...

Last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Trump administration canceled state grants, including for organizations in Washington. Around 80% of NEH staff members have been notified ...

The White House dismissed the majority of members on the National Council on the Humanities on Wednesday. Just four of the 26 members remain on the council’s website: Russell Berman, Keegan ...