Approximately 100 employees at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), around two-thirds of the workforce, were laid off on 10 June, when the Trump administration’s “reduction in ...

I have been thinking about them as we mark the 249th year since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.

The National Endowment for the Humanities began accepting applications from artists in April 2025 to work on sculptures for the garden, which is set to open in July 2026 in celebration of the 250th ...

This week, President Trump started the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not everyone wants to wave the flag his way.

Following President Trump’s announcement last month that he was firing Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution has issued a clarifying affirmation of ...

The annual festival, which features events in Lincoln and Omaha, begins Sunday with a family day at the Sheldon Museum of Art ...

The Fourth of July offered a grand teachable moment for educators, especially progressive ones. As an assignment for my summer sociology classes, I would typically have students read Frederick Douglas ...

Tucson and Southern Arizona arts organizations could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funding after the National Endowment for the Arts withdrew grant offers and terminated ...

Trump has targeted, among other bodies and agencies, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the ...

The 250-statue National Garden of American Heroes, originally set for completion in July 2026, should be finished “during” Trump’s second term, the White House said.

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.