National Humanities Medal
The National Humanities Medal is an American award given to individuals or organizations whose work enhances understanding of the humanities , expands civic engagement in the humanities, or helps to obtain and expand access to important humanities resources.
The award, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities , was first presented in 1989 as the " Charles Frankel Prize". In 1997 it was renamed the National Humanities Medal . The winners receive a bronze medal designed by the 1995 Frankel Prize winner David Macaulay .
Award winners
Winner of the Charles Frankel Prize
- 1989 Patricia L. Bates , Daniel Boorstin , Willard L. Boyd , Clay Jenkinson , Américo Paredes
- 1990 Mortimer Adler , Henry Hampton , Bernard MW Knox , David Van Tassel , Ethyle R. Wolfe
- 1991 Winton Blount , Ken Burns , Louise Cowan , Karl Haas , John Tchen
- 1992 Allan Bloom , Shelby Foote , Richard Rodriguez , Harold K. Skramstad, Jr. , Eudora Welty
- 1993 Ricardo E. Alegría , John Hope Franklin , Hanna Gray , Andrew Heiskell , Laurel T. Ulrich
- 1994 Ernest L. Boyer , William Kittredge , Peggy Whitman Prenshaw , Sharon Percy Rockefeller , Dorothy Porter Wesley
- 1995 William R. Ferris , Charles Kuralt , David Macaulay , David McCullough , Bernice Johnson Reagon
- 1996 Rita Dove , Doris Kearns Goodwin , Daniel Kemmis , Arturo Madrid , Bill Moyers
Winner of the National Humanities Medal
- 1997 Nina M. Archabal , David A. Berry , Richard J. Franke , William Friday , Don Henley , Maxine Hong Kingston , Luis Leal , Martin Marty , Paul Mellon , Studs Terkel
- 1998 Stephen E. Ambrose , EL Doctorow , Diana L. Eck , Nancye Brown Gaj , Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Vartan Gregorian , Ramón Eduardo Ruiz , Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , Garry Wills
- 1999 Patricia Battin , Taylor Branch , Jacquelyn Dowd Hall , Garrison Keillor , Jim Lehrer , John Rawls , Steven Spielberg , August Wilson
- 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
- 2001 Jose Cisneros , Robert Coles , Sharon Darling , William Manchester , Richard Peck , Eileen Jackson Southern , Tom Wolfe , National Trust for Historic Preservation
- 2002 Frankie Hewitt , Iowa Writers 'Workshop , Donald Kagan , Brian Lamb , Art Linkletter , Patricia MacLachlan , The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association , Thomas Sowell
- 2003 Robert Ballard , Joan Ganz Cooney , Midge Decter , Joseph Epstein , Elizabeth Fox-Genovese , Jean Fritz , Hal Holbrook , Edith Kurzweil , Frank M. Snowden, Jr. , John Updike
- 2004 Marva Collins , Gertrude Himmelfarb , Hilton Kramer , Madeleine L'Engle , Harvey Mansfield , John Searle , Shelby Steele , United States Capitol Historical Society
- 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 )
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 2009 Robert A. Caro , Annette Gordon-Reed , David Levering Lewis , William Hardy McNeill , Philippe de Montebello , Albert H. Small , Theodore C. Sorensen , Elie Wiesel
- 2010 Daniel Aaron , Bernard Bailyn , Jacques Barzun , Wendell E. Berry , Roberto González Echevarría , Stanley Nider Katz , Joyce Carol Oates , Arnold Rampersad , Philip Roth , Gordon Wood
- 2011 Kwame Anthony Appiah , John Ashbery , Robert Darnton , Andrew Delbanco , National History Day , Charles Rosen , Teofilo Ruiz , Ramón Saldívar , Amartya Sen
- 2012 Edward L. Ayers , William G. Bowen , Jill Ker Conway , Natalie Zemon Davis , Frank Deford , Joan Didion , Robert D. Putnam , Marilynne Robinson , Kay Ryan , Robert B. Silvers , Anna Deavere Smith , Camilo José Vergara
- 2013 MH Abrams , American Antiquarian Society , David Brion Davis , William Theodore de Bary , Darlene Clark Hine , Johnpaul Jones , Stanley Nelson , Diane Rehm , Anne Firor Scott , Krista Tippett
- 2014 The Clemente Course in the Humanities , Annie Dillard , Everett L. Fly , Rebecca Newberger Goldstein , Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham , Jhumpa Lahiri , Fedwa Malti-Douglas , Larry McMurtry , Vicki Lynn Ruiz , Alice Waters
- 2015 Prison University Project , Rudolfo Anaya , José Andrés , Ron Chernow , Louise Glück , Terry Gross , Wynton Marsalis , James McBride , Louis Menand , Elaine Pagels , Abraham Verghese , Isabel Wilkerson
- 2019 The Claremont Institute , Teresa Lozano Long , Patrick J. O'Connell , James Patterson
Web links
Commons : National Humanities Medal - collection of images, videos and audio files
- NEH: List of all recipients of National Humanities Medals
- NEH: List of all recipients of the Charles Frankel Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEH: Awards and Honors ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
