New Hampshire Humanities extends its deep gratitude to the following board members who finished their terms on our Board of Directors last month: Steve Barba, Kathy Gillett, Inez McDermott, and Dan Will. We’re pleased to welcome five new board members from all corners of the state and hope you’ll have the opportunity to meet them in the coming year.
2018 Annual Dinner featuring Susan Stamberg
Join us on Wednesday, October 3, for our annual celebration of the humanities and a night that supports more than 450 free public programs around the state each year! LEARN MORE
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Join us for the first in our new
quarterly series tackling the
big questions of our times:
Real or Fake? Making Our Way
in Post-Fact America
October 30, 5:30-7:30 pm
The Barley House, Concord
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New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to announce the 2018 recipients of our New Hampshire Humanities High School Book Awards, awarded annually to high school juniors who have demonstrated genuine curiosity about history, literature, languages, or philosophy and who hope to deepen that knowledge in college.
Join us on September 21 at 6:30 pm at the Dana Center at Saint Anselm College for the William Treat Lecture for a conversation with U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Virginia Prescott of Georgia Public Broadcasting in "Civility, Cooperation, & Compromise: Why Our Constitutional Republic Requires Them."
The 2018 Wyman Tavern Lecture Series focuses on indigenous people, history, and culture into the 21st century. Basket Identification Day, supported by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, runs from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm with a presentation from 4:00-5:00 pm.
Eric Liu on "Citizen Power" at the William W. Treat Lecture
The duties and power of citizenship have seldom been more in the news. Renowned author Eric Liu will explore "Citizen Power" in a public talk at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester on Friday, April 21 at 6:00 pm. The William W. Treat Lecture is presented by Constitutionally Speaking in partnership with the New Hampshire Institute for Civics Education and New Hampshire Humanities.
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