National Humanities Medal
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]
National Humanities Medal | |
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Obverse of the medal | |
Awarded for | for exceptional contributions in the humanities |
Location | Washington, D.C. |
Country | United States |
Presented by | President of the United States |
First awarded | 1963 |
Website | https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/medal.jsp |
Ribbon of the medal |
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 once 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.[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.[3]
- 2019
- The Claremont Institute[4]
- Patrick O'Connell[5]
- Teresa Lozano Long[6]
- James Patterson[7]
2018
None awarded.[8]
2017
None awarded.[8]
2016
None awarded.[9]
2015
- Prison University Project[10]
- Louis Menand[11]
- Isabel Wilkerson[12]
- Abraham Verghese[13]
- Elaine Pagels[14]
- James McBride[15]
- Wynton Marsalis[16]
- Terry Gross[17]
- Louise Glück[18]
- Ron Chernow[19]
- José Andrés[20]
- Rudolfo Anaya[21]
- 2014
- Alice Waters
- Vicki L. Ruiz
- Fedwa Malti-Douglas
- Larry McMurtry
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- Rebecca Newberger
- Everett Fly
- Annie Dillard
- The Clemente Course in the Humanities
- 2013
- American Antiquarian Society
- Krista Tippett
- Anne Firor Scott
- Diane Rehm
- Stanley Nelson Jr.
- Johnpaul Jones
- William Theodore de Bary
- David Brion Davis
- M. H. Abrams
- Darlene Clark Hine
- 2012
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- Marilynne Robinson
- Kay Ryan
- Robert B. Silvers
- Robert D. Putnam
- Joan Didion
- Jill Ker Conway
- Frank Deford
- Edward L. Ayers
- Camilo José Vergara
- William G. Bowen
- 2011
- Amartya Sen[22]
- Andrew Delbanco
- Ramón Saldívar
- Teofilo Ruiz
- Charles Rosen
- National History Day
- Robert Darnton
- John Ashbery
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- 2010
- Daniel Aaron
- Bernard Bailyn
- Jacques Barzun
- Wendell E. Berry
- Roberto González Echevarría
- Stanley Nider Katz
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Arnold Rampersad
- Philip Roth
- Gordon S. Wood
- 2009
- Robert A. Caro
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- David Levering Lewis
- William H. McNeill
- Philippe de Montebello
- Albert H. Small
- Theodore C. Sorensen
- Elie Wiesel
- 2008
- Gabor Boritt
- Richard Brookhiser
- Harold Holzer
- Myron Magnet
- Albert Marrin
- Milton J. Rosenberg
- Thomas A. Saunders III
- Jordan Horner Saunders
- Robert H. Smith
- John Templeton Foundation
- Norman Rockwell Museum
- 2007
- Stephen H. Balch
- Russell Freedman
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Roger Hertog
- Cynthia Ozick
- Richard Pipes
- Pauline L. Schultz
- Henry Leonard Snyder
- Ruth Wisse
- Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
- 2006
- Fouad Ajami
- James M. Buchanan
- Nickolas Davatzes
- Robert Fagles
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Bernard Lewis
- Mark Noll
- Meryle Secrest
- Kevin Starr
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
- 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
- Marva Collins
- Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Hilton Kramer
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Harvey Mansfield
- John Searle
- Shelby Steele
- United States Capitol Historical Society
- 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
- Frankie Hewitt
- Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Donald Kagan
- Brian Lamb
- Art Linkletter
- Patricia MacLachlan
- The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
- Thomas Sowell
- 2001
- José Cisneros
- Robert Coles
- Sharon Darling
- William Manchester
- Richard Peck
- Eileen Jackson Southern
- Tom Wolfe
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- 2000
- Robert N. Bellah
- Will D. Campbell
- Judy Crichton
- David C. Driskell
- Ernest Gaines
- Herman T. Guerrero
- Quincy Jones
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Edmund S. Morgan
- Toni Morrison
- Earl Shorris
- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
- 1999
- Patricia Battin
- Taylor Branch
- Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
- Garrison Keillor
- Jim Lehrer
- John Rawls
- Steven Spielberg
- August Wilson
- 1998
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- E. L. Doctorow
- Diana L. Eck
- Nancye Brown Gaj
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Vartan Gregorian
- Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Garry Wills
- 1997
- Nina M. Archabal
- David A. Berry
- Richard Franke
- William Friday
- Don Henley
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Luis Leal
- Martin Marty
- Paul Mellon
- Studs Terkel
Charles Frankel Prize
- 1996
- Rita Dove
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Daniel Kemmis
- Arturo Madrid
- Bill Moyers
- 1995
- 1994
- Ernest L. Boyer
- William Kittredge
- Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
- Sharon Percy Rockefeller
- Dorothy Porter Wesley
- 1993
- 1992
- Allan Bloom
- Shelby Foote
- Richard Rodriguez
- Harold K. Skramstad, Jr.
- Eudora Welty
- 1991
- Winton Blount
- Ken Burns
- Louise Cowan
- Karl Haas
- John Tchen
- 1990
- Mortimer Adler
- Henry Hampton
- Bernard M.W. Knox
- David Van Tassel
- Ethyle R. Wolfe
- 1989
- Patricia L. Bates
- Daniel Boorstin
- Willard L. Boyd
- Clay Jenkinson
- Américo Paredes
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