National Endowment for the Humanities — Federal Assistance Programs

Humanities Research awards advance knowledge and understanding of the humanities and strengthen their intellectual foundations. The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting…

To preserve and provide access to humanities collections and resources for research, teaching, and public engagement.

This program supports the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education. Resulting products could include new or revised courses, programs, or curriculums;…

This program promotes better teaching and research in the humanities for K-12 educators and higher education faculty.

Under this program, development awards should result in a script or detailed treatment. Production awards must result in the production and distribution of radio, podcast, television,…

The Scholarly Editions and Translations program supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational texts and documents that are vital to generating new scholarship…

The purpose of this program is to celebrate key moments in American history and honor the statesmen, visionaries, and innovators who shaped the nation, through the…

To strengthen institutional base and organizational capacity for work in the humanities by providing funds that are matched with cash contributions from nonfederal parties. Successful applicants…

This program supports enhanced free, public access to historical U.S. newspapers. Recipients will digitize newspapers published in U.S. states or jurisdictions for ingest into Chronicling America,…

Federal/State Partnerships promote local, statewide, and regional humanities programming through annual grants to humanities councils in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto…

Fellowships and Other Awards to Individuals provide support for individual scholars to produce humanities scholarship, including books, articles, and digital projects. Fellowships are competitive awards granted…

The Office of Digital Humanities supports innovative humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports…

The Institutes program promotes better teaching and research in the humanities for higher education faculty and K-12 educators. The Landmarks of American History and Culture program…

This program supports projects that engage general audiences with ideas from humanities scholarship through in-person exhibitions and historic site interpretations.

Humanities Research awards advance knowledge and understanding of the humanities and strengthen their intellectual foundations. The Scholarly Editions and Translations program supports collaborative teams who are…

Support from this program would result in development of new courses, new programs (majors, minors, certificates, honors programs), and/or revision of existing courses/programs.