National Humanities Medal
| National Humanities Medal | |
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| Awarded for | exceptional contributions in the humanities |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | President of the United States |
| First awarded | 1997 |
| Website | https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/medal.jsp |
 Ribbon of the medal | |
Stephen H. Balch receives the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush
The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to important resources in the humanities."[1]
The annual Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities was established in 1988 and succeeded by the National Humanities Medal in 1997. The token is a bronze medal designed by a 1995 Frankel Prize winner, David Macaulay.[1]
Medals are conferred annually, usually by the U.S. President, to as many as twelve living candidates and existing organizations nominated early in the calendar year. The president selects the winners in consultation with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).[2] NEH asks that nominators consult the list of previous winners and consider the National Medal of Arts to recognize contributions in "the creative or performing arts".[2]
Recipients[]
Medalists are listed by year, then alphabetically by surname.[3]
- 2020
- Kay Coles James[4]
- O. James Lighthizer[4]
- The National World War II Museum[4]
- 2019
- The Claremont Institute[5]
- Teresa Lozano Long[6]
- Patrick O'Connell[7]
- James Patterson[8]
- 2018
None awarded.[9]
- 2017
None awarded.[9]
- 2016
None awarded.[10]
- 2015
- 2014
- Annie Dillard
- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Fedwa Malti-Douglas
- Larry McMurtry
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Vicki L. Ruiz
- Alice Waters
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- Robert Caro
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- David Levering Lewis
- William Hardy McNeill
- Philippe de Montebello
- Albert H. Small
- Ted Sorensen
- Elie Wiesel
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- Walter Berns
- Matthew Bogdanos
- Eva Brann
- John Lewis Gaddis
- Richard Gilder
- Mary Ann Glendon
- Leigh Keno
- Leslie Keno
- Alan Charles Kors
- Lewis Lehrman
- Judith Martin
- The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia
- 2004
- 2003
- Robert Ballard
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Midge Decter
- Joseph Epstein (writer)
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
- Jean Fritz
- Hal Holbrook
- Edith Kurzweil
- Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
- John Updike
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- Robert N. Bellah
- Will Campbell
- Judy Crichton
- David C. Driskell
- Ernest Gaines
- Quincy Jones
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Edmund Morgan
- Toni Morrison
- Earl Shorris
- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
- 1999
- 1998
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- E. L. Doctorow
- Diana L. Eck
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Vartan Gregorian
- Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Garry Wills
- 1997
Charles Frankel Prize[]
- 1996
- 1995
- William R. Ferris
- Charles Kuralt
- David Macaulay
- David McCullough
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
- 1994
- Ernest L. Boyer
- William Kittredge
- Sharon Percy Rockefeller
- Dorothy Porter Wesley
- 1993
- Ricardo Alegría
- John Hope Franklin
- Hanna Gray
- Andrew Heiskell
- Laurel T. Ulrich
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
- Daniel Boorstin
- Willard L. Boyd
- Clay Jenkinson
- Américo Paredes
References[]
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- ^ a b "Awards and Honors". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved January 23, 2009.
- ^ a b "National Humanities Medals Nominations". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
- ^ "Winners of the National Humanities Medal and the Charles Frankel Prize". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved January 23, 2009.
- ^ a b c "President Donald J. Trump Awarded the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2021-01-16 – via National Archives.
- ^ "The Claremont Institute". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Teresa Lozano Long". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Patrick J. O'Connell". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "James Patterson". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ a b Schuessler, Jennifer (2019-11-19). "After Hiatus, Trump Awards National Arts and Humanities Medals". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ Libbey, Peter (2018-07-15). "Trump Has Yet to Award the National Arts Medals for 2016". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Rudolfo Anaya". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "José Andrés". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Ron Chernow". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Louise Glück". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Terry Gross". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Louis Menand". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Elaine Pagels". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Prison University Project". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Wynton Marsalis". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "James McBride". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Abraham Verghese". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Isabel Wilkerson". NEH.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ Choudhury, Uttara (February 13, 2012). "Amartya Sen to receive US Humanities Medal from Obama". First Post.
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