The National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that is one of the largest providers of grants to humanities researchers, is celebrating its 50th anniversary on September 29.
50.neh.gov has been launched with 51 stories of the top NEH-funded projects, and four of the projects are from UNL.
“Each of these stories is about a grant that changed the landscape of the humanities,” wrote Rachel Poor, with the NEH Office of Communications, in an email, “and collectively, these grants represent the best of the work the NEH has funded over the last 50 years.”
Poor congratulated English professor Adrian Wisnicki for his project, “David Livingstone Goes Digital,” being included.
The four projects are:
- David Livingstone Goes Digital
- The Real Buffalo Bill
- Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Newspapers: The First Draft of History
David Livingstone Goes Digital was started in 2005, but given new life recently by Wisnicki.
The Real Buffalo Bill is a project about William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody developed by history professor Douglas Seefeldt and six graduate research assistants, in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were developed by Gary Moulton and his editorial team at the Center for Great Plains Studies.
29 Nebraskan newspapers are part of the Newspapers: The First Draft of History project.
NEH is celebrating with a Twitter event, #NEHturns50. Twitter users who want to share their love of the humanities can write their message on a printable message board to photograph and tweet with the hashtag.
Read more about the David Livingstone project in UNL Today.
Written by Mike O'Connor
