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Date: January 31st, 2025
Welcome to What’s the Big Idea?, our new blog highlighting Granite Staters' experiences and perspectives in the humanities—from local roots to global ideas. We hope these stories from many voices will ignite conversation and big ideas, helping shape our understanding of what it means to be human. Join us as we delve into New Hampshire’s culture, history, and contemporary issues, while reflecting on what it means to live a life enriched by the humanities. Share your thoughts and ideas with us—this is a space for conversation!
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Date: January 22nd, 2025
New Hampshire Humanities announces a grant of $1,250 from Ledyard National Bank to support the Connections adult literacy program.
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Date: January 14th, 2025
What is our safe place, our sanctuary? Which memories of this place offer us a sense of peace and solace? Can we carry this place within our hearts when our world is fraught with conflict and uncertainty? Can we create a sanctuary for each other with our words?
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Date: December 18th, 2024
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces that the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund has awarded a grant of $2,000 to support in person Humanities to Go programming in collaboration with White Mountains Community College and the Randolph, Berlin, and Gorham Public Libraries.
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Date: December 11th, 2024
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces that Mascoma Bank Foundation has awarded a grant of $1,500 to support the NHH Connections adult literacy program.
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Date: December 2nd, 2024
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces that Ella F. Anderson Trust/ BNY Mellon has awarded a grant of $5,000 to support the NHH Connections adult literacy program.
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Date: November 26th, 2024
For anyone who has ever studied and tried to speak another language, you might feel that you have “holes” in your language abilities. Maybe you are a strong speaker but experience difficulties reading the language. Maybe you understand words you hear but find it hard to write them.
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Date: November 25th, 2024
This past fall, over 3,000 Granite Staters from all corners of the state shared a powerful reading experience as part of New Hampshire Humanities’ (NHH) Big Read of The Bear by Andrew Krivak.
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Date: November 25th, 2024
With instances of hate and violence consuming our media, can literature– even in the simplest of picture books– play a unique role in fostering empathy and understanding? For an afterschool youth program, a night class for individuals with disabilities, and a class of New Americans learning about the complexities of American history, the answer was a resounding yes!
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Date: August 29th, 2024
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street, in cooperation with New Hampshire Humanities and Vermont Humanities, presents Crossroads: Change in Rural America (Crossroads), a year-long exhibition examining the evolving landscape of rural America. The first of six locations, the Saint Albans Museum in Vermont, opens in August 2024 and travels to five additional sites in Vermont and New Hampshire through August 2025.
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Date: June 25th, 2024
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces that Eversource Energy has awarded a grant of $1,500 to support the NHH Connections adult literacy program. The Connections adult literacy program is a book discussion program designed to promote English language skills, cultivate conversations about ideas, reinforce family literacy, and support a culture of reading to more than 400 adult learners across the state of New Hampshire each year. Connections participants can receive up to four free books and keep the books they read.
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Date: March 11th, 2024
New Hampshire Humanities invites the public to participate in Knit Democracy Together, a collaborative project combining knitting circles and discussion about the U.S. electoral system, held in locations around the state from March-June. All events are free and open to the public, with pre-registration requested at www.nhhumanities.org/knit-democracy-together.
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Date: January 31st, 2024
A Regular Saint
By Julie Moulton, Keene Community Education
There are only two Americans remembered in Canterbury Cathedral’s Chapel of Sain...
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Date: 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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Date: August 17th, 2023
New Hampshire Humanities thanks Eversource for its generous support of our Connections program, providing access to the humanities through literature for some of New Hampshire’s most diverse and underserved communities.
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Date: July 18th, 2023
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces its 2023 Annual Celebration of the Humanities will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at 5 pm at The Palace Theatre in Manchester, featuring internationally known and New York Times #1 bestselling author, Jodi Picoult, in conversation with New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Alexandria Peary.
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Date: June 16th, 2023
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) is one of 62 organizations nationwide selected to receive a 2023-2024 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read grant of $20,000. An initiative of the NEA in partnership with Arts Midwest, a Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the power of a shared reading experience.
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Date: December 21st, 2022
On a brisk morning in October, a small group of women came to class in the basement of the International Institute of New England (IINE) in Manchester. Coming from El Salvador, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal, and Vietnam, the women are not only learning critical content for Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) jobs in a healthcare field ravaged by the pandemic, but are learning English in the process.
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Date: November 7th, 2022
The Connections program at New Hampshire Humanities and NH Adult Education are thrilled to have nine adult educators from around the state currently engaging in this community of practice using Connections literature to Teach the Skills that Matter. Watch the video below to learn more about the project. Explore more of the Teaching the Skills that Matter initiative here.
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Date: October 24th, 2022
New Hampshire Humanities invites the public to a free event, “Stop Scrolling! Journalism, Objectivity, and the Future of News,” on Wednesday, November 2, at the Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst Street, Manchester.
Register for the in-person event, which includes a reception at 5:30 pm followed by the program at 6:30, HERE or sign up to access the livestream HERE, or at www.nhhumanities.org.
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Date: October 5th, 2022
New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) invites the public to two different programs in our “Ideas on Tap” series, on October 12 in Portsmouth and October 25 in Littleton. Ideas on Tap, our popular series of "pint-sized conversations about big ideas" held in casual, pub settings where all are invited to enjoy drinks, appetizers, and lively community conversations about timely topics. Tickets to each event are $15 and include plentiful appetizers, and one adult beverage (beer/wine) or non-alcoholic drink.
This fall we’re exploring questions about the role of journalism in a democracy, free speech, understanding images in the news, and what it really means to be an "informed citizen"? Join us in Portsmouth on October 12 and Littleton on October 25.
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Date: June 23rd, 2022
New Hampshire Humanities invites the public to its next Ideas on Tap program, This Post Has Been Flagged: Free Speech & Social Media, on Monday, June 27, 5:30-7:30 pm at Feathered Friend Brewing, 231 South Main Street, Concord. Ideas on Tap is a series of “bite-sized conversations about big ideas.” Tickets are $15 per person and include appetizers and one beverage (beer, wine, or non-alcoholic beverage). For more information, visit www.nhhumanities.org/ideas.
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Date: June 16th, 2022
This spring, the Portsmouth Adult Education program applied for and received a book grant for use with the students in our Basic English class. We selected four books from the Connections program at New Hampshire Humanities around the theme of childhood memories.
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Date: June 3rd, 2022
New Hampshire Humanities announces its June Ideas on Tap, our popular series of “bite-sized conversations about big ideas.” Join your neighbors, friends, and fellow citizens for drinks, appetizers, and a lively community conversation in a casual pub setting. Tickets are $15 per person and include appetizers and one beverage (beer, wine, or a non-alcoholic beverage).
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Date: May 26th, 2022
These poems were created in response to the book Wangari's Trees of Peace, written by English as a Second Language (ESL) students at Keene Community Education as part of their Connections book discussion this past spring.
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Date: April 5th, 2022
Concord, NH (February 2022) – New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces New Hampshire Humanities Special Initiative "A More Perfect Union,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. In 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s proclamation. In anticipation of the upcoming commemorations New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) will engage Granite Staters in conversations around what it means to “build a more perfect union” throughout 2022.
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Date: April 5th, 2022
Almost a year ago, New Hampshire Humanities launched a new book group program, Perspectives!, which has been enthusiastically received. Through this program, participants engage with diverse perspectives in the humanities through literature to build understanding and empathy, and to support a culture of reading in the Granite State. Easy to book and coordinate, Perspectives! offers facilitated group book discussions in virtual or in-person settings.
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Date: April 5th, 2022
Ten libraries, two high schools, and a museum explore what it meant to be an American in 1941, and what it means today. By Cab Vinton, Director, Plaistow Public Library
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Date: April 5th, 2022
We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our Communications & Social Media intern, Patrick Hodgson, who joined New Hampshire Humanities in January.
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Date: March 25th, 2022
An interviewer once asked of the Connections program, “If we can’t measure your impact, what is the point of doing it?” In a world driven by data and the need for measurable impacts, the pressures on programs to report out metrics, demographics, or skills gained are realities of our modern society.
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Date: March 21st, 2022
New Hampshire Humanities extends a warm welcome to Catherine Winters, Ph.D. as Program Coordinator, supporting New Hampshire Humanities' slate of public programming.
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Date: December 23rd, 2021
Concord, NH (December 20, 2021) – New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces it has received a $10,000 grant from the Couch Family Foundation to support New Hampshire Humanities’ work of delivering high-quality public humanities programs to the people of the Granite State.
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Date: September 15th, 2021
The Board of Directors and staff of New Hampshire Humanities are proud to announce the arrival of Michael Haley Goldman as our new Executive Director.
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Date: July 26th, 2021
Congratulations to the Belknap Mill on a successful weekend shooting the film for their Community Project Grant supported project, A Day in the Life of a Mill Worker, which will introduce New Hampshire students to life in a 1918 textile mill.
By Roberta Baker, The Laconia Daily Sun, July 19, 2021
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Date: May 25th, 2021

By Sunita Pereira and Mary Nolin
April is National Poetry Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the importance of poets and their poetry in our history, culture, and everyday lives. Adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students at the International Institute of New England (IINE) in Manchester have been using and writing their own poems to learn English. They also read the book Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rappaport as part of their ongoing Connections book discussion series.
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Date: April 23rd, 2021
By Aracelis Vega
I identify a lot with the book Letting Swift River Go. In those days of my childhood, I remember a lot when my grandfather had animal farms. Horses, cows, pigs, chickens, roosters, geese, turkey, rabbits, pigeons. Near the mountain there were lakes. I could inhale fresh day air. Also I had the opportunity to help cut wood to make a fire and cookout near the farm. This was an experience that I’ll never forget. Thank you for sharing this very similar story in my childhood.
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Date: March 26th, 2021
Organized through the cooperative efforts of libraries, schools, and organizations in the Mount Washington Valley, One Book, One Valley is an annual community reading program that aims to strengthen community ties, promote literacy through a shared reading experience, and encourage wide-spread discussion of a common book throughout region. For 2019, the program’s 14th anniversary, conveners selected Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of An American Family by journalist Amy Ellis Nutt, which explores one family’ s experience with the transition of their son to a girl named Nicole. The organizers selected this book to initiate conversations about the transgendered people’s lived experiences and more broadly, to prompt individuals of all genders to reflect on their gender and gender identity.
During the fall of 2019, 368 people participated in the range of programs hosted by the partner libraries and organizations. These included a Gender 101 lecture, a film screening and community discussions with transgender people. The program culminated with an author talk with Amy Ellis Nutt. At the end of the series, participants expressed their appreciation for the program and how they gained a "better understanding of another slice of the human experience.”
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Date: March 19th, 2021
By Martha L. Rodriguez
When we were reading these short stories as Rosa, When Jessie Came Across the Sea, Fry Bread and Letting Swift River Go, stories written to children, each of them about different topics of American culture, I discovered with surprise how a simple reading was able to communicate with depth and power the values and feelings of American people.
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Date: February 1st, 2021
By Barbara Visciano
In a recent New Hampshire Humanities Connections program requested by Barbara Visciano, teacher of the ESL Civics Reading and Discussion Class at the Dover Adult Learning Center, the concept of liberty and justice in our history was the topic of exploration. Using four picture books during the four week series, facilitator Bill Badgley took these students on an historical journey to four periods in American history during which there were struggles to live up to ideals set forth in our founding documents. He posed the essential question: What is an American?
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Date: November 1st, 2020
Here at New Hampshire Humanities, we have a saying for the work we do: “We play three roles here: The convener, the funder, and the catalyst for positive change.” Unfortunately, we can’t always play all these roles in every situation. This is a story of our role as convener.
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Date: October 13th, 2020
By Mary Nolin and William (Bo) Dean
With the COVID 19 pandemic forcing many adult education centers to pivot to virtual learning platforms, many teachers needed to find creative ways to engage and connect with their students. William ‘Bo’ Dean, an English as a Second Language (ESOL) instructor at Salem Adult Education, had the idea of mailing books from the Connections program to his students to teach English and issues around the environment through children’s literature.
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Date: May 26th, 2020
The Union Leader, May 2020New Hampshire Humanities Awards 64 CARES Act grants to cultural organizations across state...
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Date: April 8th, 2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) received $75 Million in supplemental funding to assist cultural institutions and humanists affected by COVID-19 as part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act economic stabilization plan.
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Date: April 8th, 2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) received $75 Million in supplemental funding to assist cultural institutions and humanists affected by...
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Date: March 12th, 2020
To our many partners, grantees, supporters, and audience members: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been detected in nearly 100 countries around the globe, and several cases have now been confirmed here in New Hampshire.
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Date: March 7th, 2020
These programs have been cancelled.Many courageous American women sacrificed their reputations and social status - some their marriages, rights to the...
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Date: March 6th, 2020
New Hampshire Humanities thanks our many community partners who enable us to carry out our mission critical programs. In this issue we’d like to spotlight Kirk McNeil, proprietor of Concord’s Area 23 Craft Beer & Ciders and host of several of our Ideas on Tap programs.
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Date: March 3rd, 2020
Had enough of politics? Think about what you and your community could really use right now. Laughter? Friendship? Perspective? What better time to choose a novel and bring people together through a “community read”? Build in a film, podcast, or speaker, too. Go local and choose a NH author or a book about our state.
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Date: March 3rd, 2020
Remembering, reading, listening, and looking are at the heart of several projects supported by New Hampshire Humanities with events this spring. In Du...
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Date: March 3rd, 2020
Had enough of politics? Think about what you and your community could really use right now. Laughter? Friendship? Perspective? What better time to cho...
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Date: March 3rd, 2020
Students in the Adult Basic Education (ABE) class at Second Start in Concord recently read the book Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for Presiden...
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Date: March 3rd, 2020
Dr. Baumgartner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She joined our Humanities to Go program last fall to of...
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Date: March 3rd, 2020
Mindfulness in Writing: Dr. Alexandria Peary, New Hampshire’s newest Poet Laureate, now offers two programs, “Present Moment, Prolific Moment: Usi...
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Date: February 20th, 2020
Rob Werner is the New Hampshire State Director for the League of Conservation Voters, a national advocacy organization that works to turn environmenta...
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Date: February 14th, 2020
Let your legacy connect people with ideas...Consider leaving a legacy that helps ensure your values live on for future generations. By naming New Hamp...
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Date: February 14th, 2020
We’re happy to announce that Rebecca Boisvert has joined New Hampshire Humanities team as Director of Development. Rebecca has a combined ten years ...
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Date: February 14th, 2020
In December, students of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) class at Second Start in Concord read the book Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for Pres...
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Date: February 14th, 2020
Remembering, reading, listening, and looking are at the heart of several projects supported by New Hampshire Humanities with events this spring. In Du...
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Date: February 14th, 2020
During the next year and a half, New Hampshire Humanities will offer a new series of programming that explores the relationship between democracy and ...
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Date: February 14th, 2020
Dr. Baumgartner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She joined our Humanities to Go program last fall to of...
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Date: January 22nd, 2020
Remembering, reading, careful listening, close looking, and individual expression are at the heart of several projects funded by New Hampshire Humanit...
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Date: December 12th, 2019
Each year the Board of Directors and staff of New Hampshire Humanities have a special tradition of telling us about a book they’ve read recently and...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
At this year’s Annual Dinner, New Hampshire Humanities presented the Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities Award to Steve Taylor and the Creative A...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
Several years ago, our former Board member, capital campaign committee member, and long-time supporter, Kate Hanna, shared her “humanities story” ...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
New Hampshire women who challenged the social norms of their day are highlighted in our new Humanities to Go programs, “Jennie Powers: The Woman Who...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
Ideas on Tap, our popular series of “pint-sized conversations about big ideas,” offers lively community conversations on a wide variety of contemp...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
This fall, New Hampshire Humanities launched a new podcast series called Past Lives that explores the more unusual chapters of New Hampshire&rsquo...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
For the past two months, I’ve had the pleasure of interning at New Hampshire Humanities with Dr. Tricia Peone and her work on public programs. ...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
Civic engagement - working to make a difference in and for one’s community – is the means by which individuals acknowledge they are part of someth...
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Date: December 5th, 2019
“Then we have to do Connections...” That simple sentence was my first introduction to the Connections program by my co-teacher at Second Start. I ...
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Date: October 3rd, 2019
New Hampshire Humanities offers the only grants program in our state dedicated to making the humanities accessible to all. The humanities are the ...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
Did you know that skills learned through the humanities are the same qualities that make top-notch employees—the ability to think critically and cre...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
What inspired you to become a monthly donor to NHH?Every time a restaurant we like closes my husband and I bemoan that it’s gone, but eventually one...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
The 14th annual One Book One Valley, a community read program for the Mount Washington Valley and surrounding towns, will be held in 2019, and will on...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
Six nonprofit organizations were recently awarded Community Project Grants for fall and winter events in locations around the state. Information about...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
“Sometimes ‘tell me more’ are the most generous words you can tell somebody.” - Terry Farish
You could say Terry...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
Ideas on Tap, our series of pint-sized conversations about big ideas, is back for a second season! Join us for drinks, appetizers, and a li...
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Date: August 30th, 2019
We’re excited to announce these brand new programs in our Humanities to Go speakers bureau! The programs discuss important themes in the history of ...
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Date: August 26th, 2019
In the Connections New Voices project, the bonds formed between professional writers and writers who are also English learners become a source of in...
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Date: August 2nd, 2019
NH Business Review, August 2019Introducing culture into the workplace: New initiative brings humanities to NH businesses...
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Date: July 17th, 2019
Writing united us. But could we actually pull off a reading? Yes, with help from some poets before us.
Back row: Tami Truax, Portsmouth Poet La...
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Date: July 10th, 2019
This is a workshop we’ve long wanted to offer since our program features many picture books on universal themes of the humanities. On August 13 ...
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Date: June 28th, 2019
Portsmouth Herald, July 2019New Voices shines light on immigrant storytelling...
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Date: June 18th, 2019
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote in New Hampshire and the United States, New Ham...
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Date: June 4th, 2019
Concord Monitor, June 2019Prison program encourages reading, storytelling for inmates to engage with their children...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
Open Questions is a new series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities as part of our Humanities to Go spea...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
The Hopkinton Historical Society’s 2019 summer exhibit, “Changing Views: Relations Between Hopkinton's Early Settlers and Native Americans,”...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
Hosted by the UNH Center for the Humanities with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a week-long institute in public humanities wil...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
This summer Plymouth State University hosts an intensive summer institute for teachers in which they practice humanities skills: reading, listening, a...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in New Hampshire and the United States, New Hampshire...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
Step right up! Supported by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, the Flying Gravity Circus presents Rob Mermin at a public event in Mil...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
This summer and fall at The Fells in Newbury, join us for a series of programs on the historical significance of John Milton Hay’s diplomatic effort...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
Keene Chautauqua 2019 features first-person performances of two inventors, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), by scholar/actors D...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
This year we say goodbye to some of our long-running Humanities to Go presentations as we make room for brand-new programming available beginning this...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
Humanities@Work is a new initiative from New Hampshire Humanities that helps employers bring high quality, innovative humanities programs into the wor...
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Date: May 31st, 2019
“New Voices” is an extension of the Connections reading and book discussion program, bringing an opportunity to students learning English ...
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Date: May 24th, 2019
Ink Link, Rob Greene, May 2019Oh, the humanities: Preserving the things that keep us fed, beyond food...
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Date: May 21st, 2019
Welcome messages from New Hampshire Congressional Representatives on the occasion of National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede&...
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Date: May 14th, 2019
NH Public Radio's "The Exchange," May 2019NEH Chairman Jon Peede on Building 'Cultural Infrastructure'...
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Date: March 8th, 2019
“What a wonderful and inspiring reading and conversation we had!” Poet S Stephanie summed up New Hampshire Humanities’ first reading...
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Date: March 4th, 2019
The Union Leader, March 2019Arts & humanities groups partner on workplace programming...
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Date: March 1st, 2019
Editor’s note: As many supporters as we have around the state (thousands!) we all value the humanities for different reasons. In each issue of Engag...
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Date: March 1st, 2019
The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts (NHBCA), New Hampshire’s statewide membership organization that promotes the intersection of art a...
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Date: March 1st, 2019
On September 9, 1919 NH Governor John H. Bartlett called a special session of the Legislature to vote on the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ...
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Date: March 1st, 2019
Though exact numbers vary, there are approximately 65 million people in motion around the world. These 65 million people are migrants, refugees, inter...
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Date: January 23rd, 2019
New Hampshire Humanities and the Business and Industry Association, New Hampshire’s statewide chamber of commerce, launched a partnership this month...
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Date: January 18th, 2019
As you know, the country is experiencing the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, now in its 27th day. Although we remain hopeful the shutdown...
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Date: December 7th, 2018
The Year of New Voices project of New Hampshire Humanities' Connections program offers a new focus on writing this year. To support students in th...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
Supported by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, the Jaffrey Civic Center’s “Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.” on Monday, January 21 will ...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
Dr. Tricia Peone, Program Manager, Humanities to GoTricia first discovered her love of the humanities at a local community college in her hometown of ...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
What was your first impression of New Hampshire Humanities?My first impression was that it was an organization which works to widen the perspective of...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
Babyboomers, Gen X, Millennials. Whichever label applies to your age group is assumed to express something about who you are and how you approach the ...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
Movies help us experience and understand each other and the world around us. They educate and enlighten us. And, they can lead to meaningful and much-...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
When I was in college, I had a professor whose words and deeds continue to inspire me to this day. Professor Beverly Smith taught me to believe in mys...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
Who may tell Native American stories – and when may the stories be told? How did (and does) storytelling affect the lives of Native Americans? Can s...
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Date: December 1st, 2018
Funded in part by New Hampshire Humanities, the Black Heritage Trail of NH will host two additional programs in the Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk se...
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Date: October 2nd, 2018
Bolstered by a generous $1 million gift from Bob and Beverly Grappone, Saint Anselm College has founded the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute, ...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to announce the 2018 recipients of our New Hampshire Humanities High School Book Awards, awarded annually to high ...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
New Hampshire Humanities extends its deep gratitude to the following board members who finished their terms on our Board of Directors last month: Stev...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
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 ...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
Every day hundreds of people pass by the monument to Keene settler Nathan Blake, never knowing how Blake’s fascinating story of capture, ransom, and...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
The 2018 Wyman Tavern Lecture Series focuses on indigenous people, history, and culture into the 21st century. Basket Identification Day, supported by...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
See what can happen when art and nature merge at a free community event supported by New Hampshire Humanities on Sunday, September 30 on the grounds o...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
Oyster River Community Read fosters community by bringing people together through books and reading. Our spring book choice, Waking Up White and Findi...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
Carolyn Russell was the project director for the Washington Meetinghouse documentary, "Meetinghouse: The Heart of Washington, NH." As a gran...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
In New Hampshire Humanities’ "Year of New Voices" project, Ewa Chrusciel will serve as one of the professional writers partnering...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
We’re pleased to present the first issue of our now quarterly publication, fresh off the press and dressed in a lively title: Engage! After an exten...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
(This event is currently sold out; see below to join the waiting list.)Join us for the first event in our new "Ideas on Tap," a quarterly se...
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Date: September 1st, 2018
This summer we said goodbye to someone who embodies the mission and spirit of New Hampshire Humanities, longtime program director Dr. Kathy Mathis. In...
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Date: June 29th, 2018
What makes a good story? “It’s when I become you,” an ESOL student once said in his class. Much of Beth Olshansky’s work...
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Date: June 5th, 2018
Eagle Times, June 2018Foundation grant supports Connections adult literacy program...
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Date: June 1st, 2018
Kelsey Landeck, a recent graduate from the Bradley Three Year Honors Program at Southern New Hampshire University, has joined us this summer as the ma...
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Date: June 1st, 2018
Letter from the editor: If you read Susan Hatem’s captivating message about how we’re expanding our reach and impact, you’ll sense we’re...
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Date: June 1st, 2018
Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera had just arrived at the Adult Learning Center in Nashua, his second day with New Hampshire Humanities' Connectio...
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Date: June 1st, 2018
What do we mean by "access"? We mean our minds and our doors are open, our resources are available, our approach is nonpartisan. New Hampshi...
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Date: June 1st, 2018
New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to present nationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg as keynote speaker at the 2018 Annual Dinner on...
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Date: May 31st, 2018
New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to announce The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $12,500 grant to support the New Hampshire Hum...
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Date: May 1st, 2018
The documentary that swept the nation last fall, Ken Burns’ THE VIETNAM WAR, is now available through our Humanities to Go program. In partnership w...
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Date: May 1st, 2018
With support from New Hampshire Humanities, the Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy will offer a 5-day summer institute from June 25-29 f...
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Date: May 1st, 2018
Why is understanding African American history in rural New Hampshire relevant to all of the state’s inhabitants, not just people of color? To suppor...
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Date: May 1st, 2018
To some children’s delight and others’ dismay, "gym class" is a standard requirement today in American schools. Pushback always ensues w...
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Date: May 1st, 2018
Every day hundreds of people pass by the monument to Keene settler Nathan Blake, never knowing how Blake’s fascinating story of capture, ransom, and...
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Date: May 1st, 2018
As chants of "This-is-what-democracy looks-like" filled America’s streets this spring, New Hampshire Humanities offered veterans in our st...
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Date: April 30th, 2018
A Palestinian and an Israeli die, go to heaven, and ask God, “Will there ever be peace in the Middle East?” God answers, “Yes, but not in my lif...
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Date: April 13th, 2018
Nashua Telegraph, April 2018U.S. Poet Laureate Visits Nashua...
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Date: April 12th, 2018
NH Public Radio, April 2018U.S. Poet Laureate Visits New Hampshire to Meet with English Language Learners...
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Date: April 11th, 2018
WMUR-TV, April 201821st U.S. Poet Laureate Shares Work at Currier Museum of Art...
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Date: March 31st, 2018
During National Poetry Month, 21st U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will visit the state to celebrate the vital role of poets in our world. A pu...
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Date: March 30th, 2018
"I’m a good person. Isn’t that enough?" ...one of the many philosophical questions raised in Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the S...
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Date: March 30th, 2018
New Hampshire Theatre Project’s provocative series, Elephant in the Room, has tackled topics that we as a society often have difficulty discussing...
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Date: March 30th, 2018
Two years ago I had not heard of Brendan O’Byrne. Probably not many have, even though he’s appeared in an Academy Award-nominated documentary film...
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Date: March 13th, 2018
NH Public Radio, March 2018New Hampshire Humanities seeks to bridge gap between culture & business...
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Date: March 3rd, 2018
Concord Monitor, March 2018As federal cuts loom, new leader takes helm of New Hampshire Humanities...
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Date: February 26th, 2018
How do decent people allow discrimination and racism to seep into their communities? What do we understand about racism, and how can we bridge racial ...
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Date: February 26th, 2018
The New Hampshire Theatre Project is making us feel a little uneasy. The Portsmouth theatre group is tackling thorny topics using theatre and communit...
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Date: February 26th, 2018
In partnership with NHPBS, short films from Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s PBS documentary, THE VIETNAM WAR, are the basis for a new Humanities to G...
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Date: February 2nd, 2018
21st U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, will speak at a free public event that includes a poetry reading, performance and conversation, followed...
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Date: February 2nd, 2018
New Hampshire Humanities invites veterans to participate in a free, three-day workshop on storytelling through the art of writing and photography. The...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
In recognition of Black History Month, we offer the following Humanities to Go programs that you can host in your community this year:All Eyes Are Upo...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
There’s so much that needs healing in our world... why are we uncomfortable talking about it? New Hampshire Theatre Project is not only talking abou...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
On February 7 at 7:00 pm the Historical Society of Cheshire County will host a free talk by Professor Paul Vincent, former New Hampshire Humanities Bo...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
Community Project Grants are New Hampshire Humanities’ way of putting the humanities into action for positive change, supporting your efforts to sha...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
How could a community with good intentions be home to discrimination and racism? How does a state like New Hampshire that is mostly white fit into the...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
The Couch Family Foundation has awarded a $7,500 grant to New Hampshire Humanities to support its Connections adult literacy program. Connections is o...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
More than a thousand New Hampshire high school students and their teachers will gather on March 15 at the University of New Hampshire for the 8th annu...
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Date: February 1st, 2018
Every spring, New Hampshire Humanities presents book awards to high school juniors who have demonstrated genuine curiosity about history, literature, ...
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Date: January 7th, 2018
Readers in a Connections group can be graduate students learning English as a third or fourth language, or incarcerated fathers using literature to co...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
The story of a courageous young woman who resisted her shackles and left everything she knew to find freedom is told by Dr. Erica Dunbar Armstrong in ...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
There’s so much that needs healing in our world... why are we uncomfortable talking about it? New Hampshire Theatre Project is not only talking abou...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
The Society for Classical Studies (SCS) has awarded Dr. Roberta Stewart of Dartmouth College its prestigious Outreach Prize for her work in developing...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
Bill Badgley's students studying English at the Dover Adult Learning Center are immigrants who have university degrees. Their fields of study incl...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
From January through April 2018, funded in part by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, residents of Madbury, Lee, and Durham will have...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
Anders Carlson-Wee was a professional rollerblader before he studied wilderness survival and started hopping freight trains to see the country. He has...
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Date: December 29th, 2017
Has the road to "homecoming" and adjustment back to civilian life been harder and longer than you and your family expected? Veterans, curren...
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Date: December 28th, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities extends its gratitude to Lincoln Financial Foundation for a $20,000 grant to support its Connections adult literacy program, ...
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Date: December 28th, 2017
Taintor Child, artist, and program director of MindsEye Designs in Dover, received a grant from New Hampshire Humanities to bring a Connections p...
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Date: December 21st, 2017
…we had a soiree, us Connections facilitators, and we remembered. In Villingen in the Black Forest I celebrated Christmas with my Britishboyfri...
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Date: December 1st, 2017
Each year, our board and staff have a tradition of sharing with each other our most recent reads. Here are this year's recommendations (for yourse...
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Date: December 1st, 2017
NH Humanities and NH Public Television present another in our series of community screenings & discussions of Ken Burns’ documentary, The Vietna...
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Date: December 1st, 2017
It’s ok to act it out... That’s the theme for 30 Pages in 30 Days, A Playwright Competition. Launched in 2017, 30 Pages in 30 Days is a commu...
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Date: December 1st, 2017
Why do we remember some stories about the past while passively “forgetting” or actively erasing others? The story of a courageous young woman who ...
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Date: December 1st, 2017
In 2010, Laurie Lalish of Lutheran Social Services, now Ascentria, conducted a visual arts project with her ESL class in Laconia who created imagery o...
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Date: November 14th, 2017
A high point of 2017 was an invitation to New Hampshire Humanities Connections staff to do a presentation with the extraordianry Jessie "little d...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
How is free speech different in schools from in the public square, and how should schools deal with the complexities of speech and expression? In...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
When Richard Rubin spoke about the last of the World War I “Doughboys” in Warner in June, audience member Nancy Brown wrote to us:“Mr...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
Ongoing soil degradation, a changing climate, and increasing population has stripped our soil of nutrients and left us on a vulnerable planet. What do...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
How does our past influence contemporary women’s roles and the recurrent national debate about gender? This month Littleton Public Library presents ...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
New Hampshire Theatre Project (NHTP) was created in 1988 with a mission to change lives through theatre. Outreach has always been important, including...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
Community Project Grants are New Hampshire Humanities’ way of supporting your efforts to share knowledge and spark conversations about topics that i...
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Date: November 1st, 2017
At the NH Correctional Facility for Women in Goffstown, a small group of women in red t-shirts and sweatshirts in a gray room with a gray floor were w...
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Date: September 30th, 2017
More than 70 years after World War II ended, stories from the frontlines and the home front of the most devastating world conflict of all time continu...
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Date: September 30th, 2017
The Board of Directors of New Hampshire Humanities announces that Amy L. Lockwood of Deerfield has been named Interim Director for the statewide human...
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Date: September 30th, 2017
Twenty-four years at New Hampshire Humanities – so many wonderful memories! I’d like to offer a few of them on the eve of my departure, but in sho...
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Date: September 29th, 2017
Over There, Over Here: WWI and Life in New Hampshire Communities commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I. A ...
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Date: September 29th, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities extends its deep gratitude to the following board members who finished their terms on our Board of Directors last month: Bob ...
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Date: September 29th, 2017
What are reasonable limits on free speech, and what happens when free speech is stifled? How is free speech different in schools from in the public sq...
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Date: September 29th, 2017
Portsmouth, Milford, Canaan, and many other NH towns have been home to natives of Africa and African Americans for centuries, but their stories have o...
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Date: September 29th, 2017
The Natural and Cultural History of Soil is designed to connect people, ideas, and the land. This series is sponsored by the Cheshire County Conservat...
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Date: September 26th, 2017
The dramatic work of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is brought to life by three actors in a new play that takes the themes of this nearly 200-year old ...
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Date: August 31st, 2017
What do our current agricultural practices say about us both individually and collectively? How do we understand the social needs and demands of our l...
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Date: August 31st, 2017
In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester stumbled upon Irishman John Hannon crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon, though penniless, ...
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Date: August 31st, 2017
A collaboration between 13 historical societies, museums, and libraries is underway with events scheduled through November. "Over There, Over Her...
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Date: August 31st, 2017
Bill Gates recently called Steven Pinker’s "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" the most inspiring book&...
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Date: August 31st, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities announces that Executive Director Deborah Watrous will be leaving New Hampshire this fall for a new position in Boston. Watro...
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Date: August 31st, 2017
The week before millions of viewers watch the premiere of Ken Burns’ new landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, New Hampshire Humanities will partne...
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Date: August 30th, 2017
How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” and a celebrated legacy of abolitionism confront and understand its participation in slavery, s...
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Date: August 28th, 2017
How did women serve in World War II? Why do many people believe that the veterans of this war had an easy homecoming? How is the experience of wa...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
James Wright, author of Enduring Vietnam, An American Generation and Its War, will present a talk on the culture of pre-war America, the force the War...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $12,500 grant to New Hampshire Humanities to support their Connections adult literacy program....
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Date: July 24th, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to announce the 2017 recipients of our New Hampshire Humanities High School Book Awards, awarded annually to high ...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
Congratulations to Catherine Stewart, winner of the 30 Pages in 30 Days playwriting competition, supported by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Pro...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
My name is Terry Farish and I recently returned to the Connections desk at New Hampshire Humanities after my friend and colleague Susan Bartlett moved...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
Traveling, tented “chautauquas” were a popular form of American adult education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today’s chautauquas f...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
By Benjamin Nugent, Director, Mountainview Low-Residency MFA, SNHU What’s an American writer to do with the opioid crisis? It has ravaged pocke...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities welcomes one of the brightest minds of our time, renowned author and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, our 2017 Annual Dinne...
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Date: July 24th, 2017
Supported in part by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, thirteen historical societies, museums, and libraries are collaborating to pr...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
By Dr Kathy Mathis, New Hampshire Humanities Project Director &nbs...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities has received a $25,000 grant from The McIninch Foundation to support its Humanities to Go Fund. With this gift New Hampshire ...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
Join us for the 2017 Annual DinnerWednesday, October 25, 2017Radisson Hotel Manchester Downtown, Reception 5:00 pm / Dinner 6:30 pm KEYNOTE ...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
A new Humanities to Go program by Ann McClellan &nbs...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
In June we said farewell to our talented colleague, Susan Bartlett, who is moving on to pursue other dreams after leading the Connections Adult Litera...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
By Scott Eaton, Humanities to Go presenter “It is only with the heart th...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
Traveling, tented “chautauquas” were a popular form of American adult education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today’s chautauquas f...
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Date: June 21st, 2017
A multi-group collaboration among thirteen historical societies, museums, and libraries is underway with a project called “Over There, Over Here: WW...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
The New Hampshire Institute for Civics Education, in partnership with The Monadnock Center for History and Culture, presents "Sowing Seeds of Dem...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Author Eric Liu explored "Citizen Power" in a public talk at the Currier Museum of Art in April in the William W. Treat Lecture presented by...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Here’s a sampling of the programs available to bring to your community through our Humanities to Go speakers bureau: Evolving English: From Beo...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Two-day teacher workshop:June 29-30, 9am-3:30 pm daily, Historical Society of Cheshire County, 246 Main Street, KeeneA New Hampshire Humanities grant ...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Supported by a New Hampshire Humanities grant, a collaboration between 13 historical societies, museums, and libraries will present "Over There, ...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Humanities to Go presenter Bob Cottrell brought along his beloved Chinook dog "Tug" when giving his talk, "Harnessing History: On the T...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
With support from a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, The Fells Estate & Historic Gardens in Newbury presents a series about one o...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
by Susan MacDonald Hatem, Associate Director"Liar!""That’s a lie!"Three times this spring one of the presenters in our speaker...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Read the Spring 2017 edition of HUMANITIES, the National Endowment for the Humanities’ magazine, for an interview with our executive director, Debbi...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities is thrilled to announce that renowned author and scientist Dr. Steven Pinker will present the keynote address at our 2017 Ann...
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Date: May 22nd, 2017
Sixty years after Peyton Place scandalized the country, the novel and film seem almost a diversion from the scandals of the current day. But the life ...
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Date: April 29th, 2017
Many of the projects you read about in our monthly Calendar are projects funded through the New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grants program,...
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Date: April 29th, 2017
With support from a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, The Fells Estate & Historic Gardens in Newbury presents Abraham Lincoln:&nbs...
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Date: April 29th, 2017
HYPE (Hosting Young Philosophy Enthusiasts), a student-led philosophical initiative founded by students at Souhegan High School and guided by Chris Br...
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Date: April 29th, 2017
It’s no surprise that a young girl who fell in love with New Hampshire and its deep cultural history at an early age would grow up to become one of ...
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Date: April 29th, 2017
Dear friends,Recent news about the possible elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities has—on a positive note—reignited a national c...
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Date: April 29th, 2017
No mistake was made at the pivotal moment of the very first Academy Awards. In 1927, “Wings,” a silent movie set during the First World War, won B...
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Date: March 28th, 2017
What is the most practical subject to study for economic success? It may well be philosophy! On graduate school entrance exams, philosophy students ou...
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Date: March 28th, 2017
Portsmouth, Milford, Canaan, and many other NH towns have been home to natives of Africa and African Americans for centuries, but their stories have o...
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Date: March 28th, 2017
Was Abraham Lincoln the “Great Emancipator” and “wise leader” as portrayed by his private secretaries and biographers John Milton Hay and John...
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Date: March 28th, 2017
Twenty-nine outstanding new programs are now available for booking at your library, town hall, church, or other organization. Here are a few of o...
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Date: March 20th, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities presents the 2017 Connections Family Literacy Festival, “Our Stories; Our Community,” a celebration of food, songs, danci...
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Date: March 20th, 2017
What are the ethical responsibilities when one’s conscience conflicts with political/legal directives? With a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, t...
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