Cultivating conversations and encouraging civic engagement
Bringing neighbors outside to explore our sense of place
Challenging ourselves to re-examine our beliefs
New Hampshire Humanities provides wide-ranging and thought-provoking, humanities-based programs that connect people across New Hampshire to culture, history, places, ideas, and each other. We connect people and ideas through free public events, literacy programs, and grantmaking.
For a small state, New Hampshire has a remarkable history full of interesting people, new inventions, daring adventures, and astounding beauty. Learn more about Granite State Stories, a special partnership between NHH and the NH Historical Society HERE.
Enjoy our recent e-news, Spark, and our fall quarterly newsletter, Engage!
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This program looks at how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a major role in this story. Explaining how man and his re...
Library Director is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NH Humanities Program Time: Nov 1, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Ev...
Come expand your understanding about how literature and language function within our communities through this collaboration between Dover Adult Learni...
Why do we know so little about David and Amias Thompson of Plymouth, England? And why is the little we know so often wrong? Our first European couple ...
When the Old Man of the Mountain fell from his perch high above Franconia Notch, on May 3, 2003, it made international news. Many in New Hampshire and...
Our statewide speakers bureau offering high quality public humanities programs.
Innovative humanities programs delivered to your workplace.
Our series of “bite size conversations about big ideas”.
Reading group serving more than 500 adult learners each year.
The state’s only grant program devoted to public humanities.
New Hampshire Humanities
"I'm a poet. And I celebrate the days I write nothing," writes @NHPoetLaureate Alexandria Peary. Thank you, Alex, for encouraging the reading, writing, and love of poetry in the Granite State! #NationalPoetryMonth https://t.co/0jQPtGvjOb via @WBUR- New Hampshire Humanities (@NHHumanities) May 1, 2023
"I'm a poet. And I celebrate the days I write nothing," writes @NHPoetLaureate Alexandria Peary. Thank you, Alex, for encouraging the reading, writing, and love of poetry in the Granite State! #NationalPoetryMonth https://t.co/0jQPtGvjOb via @WBUR
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Posted: November 2nd, 2023
This summer the tutors co-facilitated four six-week Connections book discussion groups using the program’s new “book grant” option. For Nashua Adult Learning Center, this option allowed us to serve 35 students who otherwise wouldn’t have had access to summer English instruction.
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