The Style Blog: National Endowment for the Humanities


Posted at 03:48 PM ET, 03/22/2012

Stanley Tucci, breaking from ‘The Hunger Games,’ pleads for arts funding
By Jacqueline Trescott
While the crowds are lining up for his new movie, “The Hunger Games,” actor Stanley Tucci visited Capitol Hill to plead for more funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

By Jacqueline Trescott  |  03:48 PM ET, 03/22/2012 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Tags:  Stanley Tucci, Deborah Tannen, arts funding, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Hunger Games

Posted at 06:22 PM ET, 03/21/2012

Dictionary of American Regional English completed
By Jacqueline Trescott
The final volume, covering “slab” to “zydeco,” was published this week after 50 years of research.

By Jacqueline Trescott  |  06:22 PM ET, 03/21/2012 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Tags:  Dictionary of American Regional English, National Endowment for the Humanities, Joan Houston Hall, Ben Zimmer, Harvard University Press

Posted at 11:06 AM ET, 02/14/2012

President Obama requests $857 million for the Smithsonian
By Jacqueline Trescott
In the fiscal 2013 federal budget request, the Smithsonian Institution is requesting funds for the old and the new.

By Jacqueline Trescott  |  11:06 AM ET, 02/14/2012 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Tags:  President Obama, federal budget 2013, arts funding, Smithsonian Institution, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, Rocco Landesman, Donald Trump, National Gallery of Art

Posted at 03:28 PM ET, 02/07/2012

Wendell Berry, poet and conservationist, selected to give 2012 Jefferson Lecture
By Jacqueline Trescott
The poet and conservationist has built a collection of more than 40 works that have examined the way we live with nature.

By Jacqueline Trescott  |  03:28 PM ET, 02/07/2012 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  Jacqueline Trescott | Tags:  wendell e. berry, national endowment for the humanities, jefferson lecture, award-winning poet

Posted at 07:00 PM ET, 01/06/2011

Obama resubmits humanities nominees
By Jacqueline Trescott
Since the Senate in the last Congress didn't confirmed a number of President Obama's nominations to the National Council on the Humanities, the White House has resubmitted the names. However Allison Blakelyhttp://www.bu.edu/phpbin/africa/profiles/app/details.php?id=57, a professor at Boston University who taught at...

By Jacqueline Trescott  |  07:00 PM ET, 01/06/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  Jacqueline Trescott, Jacqueline Trescott, Jacqueline Trescott | Tags:  Cathy N. Davidson, Constance M. Carroll, National Endowment for the Humanities, albert j. beveridge III