National Endowment for the Humanities

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. an independent agency that stimulates the growth and development of the humanities in the U.S. by awarding grants to individuals and organizations.

Example Sentences

At the time, Juson recalled to Salon, “I didn't have major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, but I had frequent flyer miles” and her equipment.

From Salon

Some of her many honors in music and scholarship included a Ph.D. from Howard University, a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation and the Charles E. Frankel Prize, Presidential Medal, from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

From Los Angeles Times

The project took nine months to develop and was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

From Los Angeles Times

Composed for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, each of Blackwood’s “Etudes” shows off the qualities of different, often alien microtonal octaves.

From New York Times

In the same article, his friend Wiliam R. Ferris, a folklorist and a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, said that Mr. Waterman was being a tad too modest: “That’s like Faulkner saying that he was a farmer, not a writer.”

From New York Times