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To mark this year’s U.S. Semiquincentennial, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has committed $730,000 to sponsor the Freedom 250 American Heroes Student Art Contest. This national competition invites students in grades 3–12 to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary by creating artwork inspired by the 200+ historic Americans to be honored with statues in the National Garden of American Heroes.
Freedom 250 will award up to 168 first-place prizes to students at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels from each U.S. state and territory. Winners will receive a travel allowance to attend the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with a parent or guardian this summer, where all winning artworks will be featured in an exhibition and honored in an awards ceremony.
>>>Learn more about the American Heroes Student Art Contest
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 Over the past six decades the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has provided funding to make possible a wide range of resources and research endeavors that educate and shed new light on the nation's founding and the events, individuals, and ideals that shaped the United States.
New NEH funding opportunities such as Celebrate America!, Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition, and Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary support public programs and preservation projects focusing on America’s foundational roots, historical figures, and important milestones in the past 250 years.
>>>Browse a selection of NEH-supported projects related to the Semiquincentennial and 250 years of American history and read more about NEH's A More Perfect Union initiative.
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The White House appointed William English as Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on April 21, 2026. English, a political economist at Georgetown University, has served as a member of NEH’s advisory board, the National Council on the Humanities, since his nomination by President Donald J. Trump and confirmation to that position by the Senate in 2019.
He will continue in the position until the confirmation of a permanent NEH Chairman to oversee the agency’s grant-making. NEH’s Senior Deputy Chairman, Michael McDonald, who served as NEH Acting Chairman from March 2025 to January 2026, was nominated by President Trump as the 13th Chairman of NEH on February 4, 2026, pending Senate confirmation.
>>>Read more about Acting Chairman English
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 NEH's Division of Lifelong Learning is offering a new grant opportunity, Curriculum Development: Western Civilization. This grant program is designed to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing or enhancing programs, resources, or courses.
Projects must be focused on the teaching and study of Western civilization, American history, American government and civics, and/or the Great Books tradition. Projects may take a variety of approaches to the topic(s), drawing on fields such as philosophy, history, languages and literature, political science, archaeology, and classics.
>>>Learn more about this new funding opportunity
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