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The recent spate of Sherlock Holmes movies, television shows, and literary adaptations indicate the Great Detective is alive and well in the 21st cent...
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More than 12,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a small river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire...
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This program presents a brief history of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, from its origins during the Progressive era of the early twentieth ce...
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Speaking as Betsey Phelps, the mother of a Union soldier from Amherst, New Hampshire who died heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg, Sharon Wood offe...
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Manchester is one example of the many industrial cities that attracted immigrants from Quebec in numbers large enough to warrant the creation and main...
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Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by Steve Wood, begins this program by recounting his early life and ends with a reading of the "Gettysburg Address.&qu...
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In 1837, teenaged Victoria ascended to the British throne, untrained and innocent. Those who would try to usurp her power underestimated this self-wil...
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Northern New England is full of reminders of past lives: stone walls, old foundations, a century-old lilac struggling to survive as the forest reclaim...
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Government regulations, licensing, handling drunks, controlling the flow of information –why would the colonial-era government allow women to ow...
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Deborah Anne Goss appears as Abby Hutchinson Patton, recalling mid-19th-century U.S. and New Hampshire history and performing rousing anthems, heartfe...
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American slavery divided not just the North from the South, but also northerners from each other. In the mid-1830s, the emergence of an aggressive abo...
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One of the most interesting aspects of the American Revolution is the role played by African Americans in the fight for independence. Both free Africa...
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From Brooklyn to Boston, from World War II to the present, Jason Sokol traces the modern history of race and politics in the Northeast. Why did white ...
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Join us for a special evening with our U.S. Poet Laureate!
Please join us on Monday, May 3 at 6:00 pm for an evening of poetry and discussion with U....
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Sufism is the inner dimension of Sunni Islam. Taking its source in the Quran and the Prophetic tradition, it has often been defined as "the scien...
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Presented by Sarah Shearer, MS candidate in the Environmental Studies program with a concentration in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New E...
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Join Dr. Charles Spencer, curator and archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and Dr. Robert Goodby, humanities scho...
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Traditional songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, present the latest news from the distant past. They help us to interpret present-day li...
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Lucy Terry Prince was born in Africa, where she was kidnapped by slave traders and transported to Rhode Island. While still enslaved in 1746, she wrot...
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Presented by Dr. Robert Gegear, UMASS Dartmouth and Founder of the Beecology Project
Dr. Robert Gegear will update participants on the decline of wil...
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Grace DeRepentigny Metalious believed that in rejecting her own ethnic and religious heritage, she would come closer to inheriting the "American ...
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We all think we know the story of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who fought for the Continental Army but then defected to the...
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Through architecture unique to northern New England, this illustrated talk focuses on several case studies that show how farmers converted their typic...
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From W. E. B. Du Bois to Toni Morrison, African American writers have often commented on Shakespeare and his status as the epitome of literature writt...
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Glenn Knoblock explores the fascinating history of New Hampshire's beer and ale brewing industry from Colonial days, when it was home- and tavern-...
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Meet Caesar, who is descended from the Goddess Venus. This program introduces Caesar as a young boy living with his Mother, Aurelia, and his Aunt Juli...
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For almost 150 years the moonlight ax murder of two Norwegian women on the rocky Isles of Shoals has haunted New England. Popular historian and lectur...
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The New Hampshire Historical Society presents a professional development opportunity geared toward upper elementary educators but useful to teachers o...
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The New Hampshire Historical Society presents a professional development opportunity geared toward upper elementary educators but useful to teachers o...
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Quilts made for use by soldiers during the Civil War are very rare-only twenty are known to exist, and Pam Weeks has studied most of them in person. T...
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As we begin to consider climate change as an everyday problem, it's valuable to know how people did that in the past. With support from the Guggen...
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Marek Bennett presents a whirlwind survey of comics from around the world and throughout history, with special attention to what these vibrant narrati...
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Since the late 1600s, the lively tradition of contra dancing has kept people of all ages swinging and sashaying in barns, town halls, and schools arou...
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A Connections workshop from New Hampshire Humanities for facilitators and teachers with Terry Farish! Participants in this workshop will:
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Covered wooden bridges have been a vital part of the NH transportation network, dating back to the early 1800s. Given NH's myriad streams, brooks,...
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Dawnland StoryFest, New Hampshire’s annual Indigenous storytelling festival, will be hosted virtually this year via Zoom by Strawbery Banke in c...
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Abenaki history has been reduced to near-invisibility as a result of conquest, a conquering culture that placed little value on the Indian experience,...
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Why are we so fascinated with stone walls? Kevin Gardner, author of The Granite Kiss, explains how and why New England came to acquire its thousands o...
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Information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are converging in ways that were not easily anticipated. We now have distinct new fields suc...
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In the early 20th century, the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture launched a program to boost the rural economy and promote tourism through the sale o...
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Dr. Alan C. Braddock will discuss his major traveling exhibition, Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, co-curated with Karl Kusserow at ...
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This unique and beautifully illustrated presentation focuses on the life and remarkable work of master jeweler and artist, Peter Carl Fabergé. ...
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Telling personal and family stories is fun - and much more. Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children...
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What family stories do you carry with you? What story do you tell over and over? What landscape do you cherish the most? One of the deepest human inst...
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Women have long been the subject of art, often depicted as nothing more than objects of desire. How do images of women change when women become the cr...
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Telling My Story is a platform for members of the New Hampshire community to reflect on race, class, and gender in a collaborative and honest way, whi...
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The true story of the speaker's family from the Axis side of WWII in Latvia, occupied Poland, and Germany—a story that includes two German v...
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Presented by Emma Erler, field specialist and garden expert for UNH Cooperative Extension
When gardeners think of designing a landscape for pollinato...
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The long and storied Senate career of New Hampshire’s favorite political son came to an ignominious end with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.&nbs...
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Carrie Brown explores the technological triumph that helped save the Union and then transformed the nation. During the Civil War, northern industry pr...
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From the 1920s to the 1960s, adult American theatergoers could anticipate a cartoon before each feature film. From Mickey Mouse to Donald Duck, Popeye...
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The Starry Messenger, presented by Michael Francis, is a dramatic fun-filled adaptation of Galileo's short treatise "Siderius Nuncius." ...
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Presented by David Mizejewski, naturalist and television host with National Wildlife Federation
Naturalist David Mizejewski shares how to create a be...
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Marek Bennett will deliver an engaging overview of global politics prior to the American Civil War through the lens of early banjo music. Between 1820...
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Do the three major monotheistic religions worship the same deity? Nicole Ruane traces the rise of the deity who comes to be known as The Lord, God the...
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As one of the last northeastern states with capital punishment still on the books and with its first person on death row since 1939, New Hampshire con...
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New Hampshire has attracted and inspired artists since the colonial era. What is distinctive about the art made here? This program will consider works...
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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...
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Post cards have many a story to tell about the built landscape, disastrous events such as fires or floods, daily folk customs, and the identity of pla...
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America's most beloved illustrator created dozens of images related to the second World War. What happens when an artist known for his use of humo...
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Using the well known scenes of The Odyssey, Sebastian Lockwood delivers the passion and intensity of the great epic that deserves to be heard told as ...
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In the midst of New Hampshire's opioid crisis, we are far from the time when addiction was an unfamiliar and even taboo subject. Narratives of add...
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Greek myth exerted a powerful influence on the Greeks and Romans, and as cultures and circumstances changed, different methods developed to incorporat...
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Granite Staters' impact on fresh water - and, conversely, inland waters' impact on Granite Staters - has evolved over time. Our pollution has ...
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On August 19, 1997, in little Colebrook, New Hampshire, a 62-year-old carpenter named Carl Drega, a man with long-simmering property rights grievances...
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Drawing on material from her book Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History, Dr. Kelly will discuss the role of the Famine in shaping Irish...
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The first enslaved African arrived in New Hampshire in 1645. There’s a long, rich Black history in the Granite State. Colonial New Hampshire new...
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Italian American culture is part of our everyday lives and has contributed to American culture for almost a century and a half. But who are those Ital...
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Jennie Powers took a stand against social vices in New Hampshire and Vermont in the early twentieth century. She was a humane society agent in Keene f...
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John G. Winant, three-time governor of New Hampshire went on to serve the nation in several capacities on the national and international scene. In the...
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In this talk, Dr. Mary K. Coffey (Dartmouth) examines Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco’s contributions to formulations of the American epic...
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Lafayette's first foray into human rights work was during the American Revolution which he saw as a cause important to all people. He continued to...
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The year is 1876, and New Hampshire's own John Hutchinson sings and tells about his famous musical family "straight from the horse's mout...
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While servant narratives have been popular for centuries, there seems to be a resurging interest in these stories in recent decades. Many contemporary...
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Dr. Nicole Ruane (UNH) will discuss Mary Baker Eddy, New Hampshire's most important and innovative religious thinker. Mark Twain called Eddy "...
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Mary Baker Eddy was New Hampshire's most important and most innovative religious thinker. Mark Twain called Eddy "the most interesting woman ...
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Raised in a slaveholding family, Mary Todd Lincoln evolved into an advocate for abolition. The intellectual equal of well-educated men, she spoke her ...
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In this first-person interpretive program, Judith Black introduces American Lucy Stone, the first woman hired by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societ...
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Drawing on research from her book, Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire, the Present, the Past, and the Future, Rebecca Rule regales audi...
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Patrick Anderson focuses on contemporary film directors and screenwriters in the United States whose originality, independence and unconventional appr...
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Singing games, accessible "pocket instruments" like spoons and dancing puppets, tall tales, funny songs, old songs and songs kids teach each...
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Presented by Michael Veit, high school biology teacher and native bee enthusiast
How many kinds of bees can you name: honey bees, bumble bees, sweat ...
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Presented by Heather Holm, biologist, pollinator conservationist, and award-winning author.
Native bees and predatory wasps share the same lineage an...
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Everyone knows that there's "something about lighthouses" that gives them broad appeal, but their vital role in our history and culture ...
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Quilts tell stories, and quilt history is full of myths and misinformation as well as heart-warming tales of service and tradition. Nearly every world...
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New England's colonial meetinghouses embody an important yet little-known chapter in American history. Built mostly with tax money, they served as...
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Successful attorney--and father of eight--Nathaniel Peabody Rogers walked away from his Plymouth, NH, law practice in the 1830s for a dangerous and ne...
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Rubbings, photographs, and slides illustrate the rich variety of gravestones to be found in our own neighborhoods, but they also tell long-forgotten s...
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This workshop will introduce prospective applicants to the Community Project Grant application and provide information about how to submit a competiti...
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This program offers a fun and engaging look at the historic and unusual weathervanes found on New Hampshire's churches, town halls, and other publ...
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Take Scandinavian and Austrian immigrants, the Dartmouth Outing Club, the Cannon Mountain Tramway, the muscular Christian, amateur tinkerers, and Prof...
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Following World War II, New Hampshire embarked on an extensive program of constructing new highways and improving existing roads to accommodate explos...
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The first agricultural fair in North America was held in what is now Londonderry in 1722, and it would become a wildly popular event lasting for gener...
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Hundreds of one-room schools dotted the landscape of New Hampshire a century ago and were the backbone of primary education for generations of childre...
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Learn more about the state you love! The New Hampshire Historical Society presents the New Hampshire History Institute for upper elementary educators,...
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Learn more about the state you love! The New Hampshire Historical Society presents the New Hampshire History Institute for upper elemen...
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Hear from young leaders such as the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Manchester movement, a state representative, a school board member, a campaig...
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In January 2016, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced the discovery of the wreckage of two sunken whale ships off the Alask...
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For many students of color, being in an environment in which most of the people are different from themselves is a challenging experience. Students of...
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Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential que...
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Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential que...
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Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential que...
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Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential que...
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Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential que...
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Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential que...
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Sarah Josepha Hale, a Newport, NH native, tells the story of her 30 year effort to have Thanksgiving declared a national holiday. President Abraham Li...
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If you appreciate beauty, if you are still full of wonder, if you ponder the meaning of life, you will love this program. Timm Triplett's ha...
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Dr. Katherine Gaudet (UNH) explores stories of epidemics in our next HTG Online event. Are we living through a Biblical plague? Or are we feeling the ...
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Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. Previously, she was a national ...
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Presented by Vicki J. Brown, natural resource steward and founding organizer of Pollinator Pathways NH
Who are "the pollinators"? Learn abo...
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From its earliest settlements New Hampshire has struggled with issues surrounding the treatment of its poor. The early Northeastern colonies followed ...
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This book discussion workshop is designed to help adult educators lead their own book discussions with students using Connections humanities themed ...
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Writing can become much more fulfilling if we think of it as happening right Now. Much is lost when we overlook the present moment because we forfeit ...
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Daily life for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's textile worker was not easy. Robert Perreault sheds light on how people from a variety of Euro...
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Until the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, few questioned the brutal hand of racism as orchestrated through police forc...
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In 1920, there were 949,889 Black farmers. A century later, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, only 35,470 remained.
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David Govatski presents the story of Raised Relief maps, which are three-dimensional representations of a portion of the Earth’s surface. These ...
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Marek Bennett presents an overview of the American Civil War through the lens of period music. Audience members participate and sing along as the pres...
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Loggers at the turn of the twentieth century cut the timber that built and warmed our houses and provided the ties for America's ever-expanding ra...
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From W. E. B. Du Bois to Toni Morrison, African American writers have often commented on Shakespeare and his status as the epitome of literature writt...
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In 1947, Edwin Way Teale, the most popular naturalist in the decade between Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, followed the progress of spring over four ...
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Rome and Pompeii were part of the "Grand Tour" for upper-class elite from the 17th through the 19th centuries, and remain today the primary ...
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One hundred years ago, a full generation before Rosie the Riveter, American women rolled up their sleeves and entered war industries where they had ne...
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Rudyard Kipling was the most internationally-celebrated author of his day. The first four years of his marriage and fatherhood were spent in New Engla...
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For the past 22 years, local Russian artist and lecturer Marina Forbes has presented her customized cultural tours designed for anyone interested in d...
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One of the most striking aspects of the Irish-American historical landscape is the enduring bond between immigrant community and ancestral home. Predi...
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Through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus ...
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Drawing heavily on the repertoire of traditional singer Lena Bourne Fish (1873-1945) of Jaffrey and Temple, New Hampshire, Jeff Warner offers the song...
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During World War II, 300 German prisoners of war were held at Camp Stark near the village of Stark in New Hampshire's North Country. Allen Koop re...
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More and more, the contemporary reading public is turning to digital technology as a means of experiencing literature. The Internet, hyperlink technol...
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Alice Fogel takes you through seven simple steps, and one hard one, toward understanding and appreciating more elements of poetry than you ever though...
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What is sustainability? And how has American literature shaped our understanding of this concept, in ways both surprising and disturbing? This interac...
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John Gfroerer explores the power of television as a communication medium and the ethical implications of manipulating the viewer by means of the choic...
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Stories speak to us of community. They hold our history and reflect our identity. Rebecca Rule has made it her mission over the last 20 years to colle...
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This lecture explores the life and legacy of Nicholas Black Elk (c.1866-1950), the Lakota holy man made famous by the book Black Elk Speaks. I begin w...
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Murder and mayhem, robbery and rapine, love that cuts to the bone: American ballads re-tell the wrenching themes of their English and Scottish cousins...
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The Sunapee Historical Society presents an illustrated lecture by Astrida Schaeffer, Clothing Historian & Exhibition Specialist, “The Bride ...
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On first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. Margo Burns e...
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The Celebration of Cultural Connections is part of Tammi J. Truax’s Poet Laureate project, Building Bridges through Poetry, designed to eng...
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On January 8, 2020 New Hampshire Humanities hosted this audience-interactive online program on the civic principles at the center of 2020’s melt...
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The largest river in New England rises in a small beaver pond near the Canadian border and flows over 400 miles through four states, falling 2,670 fee...
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This is our earliest epic. It is at least four thousand years old, but in performance we discover a dynamic and thrilling tale of heroes, friendship, ...
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On February 18, 1952, an astonishing maritime event began when a ferocious nor'easter split in half a 500-foot long oil tanker, the Pendleton, app...
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The First Amendment protects our most basic freedoms, none more important than freedom of speech. But what do we do about speech that threatens to des...
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In 1787 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to address a wide variety of crises facing the young United States of America and produced a charter for a ...
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Jose Lezcano presents a multi-media musical program that showcases the guitar in Latin America as an instrument that speaks many languages. Lezcano pr...
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Barns can tell us a great deal about the history of agriculture in New Hampshire. In the colonial period, New Hampshire was a rural, agrarian state an...
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Rebecca Noel explores the sometimes alarming, sometimes hilarious backstory of what we now know as gym class. Physicians worried since the Renaissance...
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The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 is the most devastating tropical cyclone of all time to affect the region. Only two other comparable storms ha...
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What does our love of sipping cups of sweet, hot drinks have to do with revolution and empire? Dr. Whitney Howarth of Plymouth State University w...
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Dr. Kenneth W. Noe explores how the Civil War's unusual weather affected both the battlefield and the home front. Traditional histories describe t...
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Local legend says Strawbery Banke Museum began when a Portsmouth librarian gave a rousing speech in 1957. The backstory, however, is richly complex. T...
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The term "Middle East" is a changing geopolitical concept. Throughout recent history, this term referred to a political, a cultural, and a g...
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For Black Americans traveling in the era of segregation presented serious dangers from hotels and restaurants that refused to accommodate them to host...
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The ancient Greek philosophers defined eudaimonia as living a full and excellent life. In this illustrated talk, Maria Sanders explores how ideas of h...
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The Stono Rebellion has been called the most important slave revolt in North American history. In this lecture, Damian Costello examines the events an...
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The Appalachian Mountain Club's Hut System is a unique institution in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Allen Koop explores how the huts and t...
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At the height of the Cold War, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U2 aerial spy program. Based on declassified...
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Ideas on Tap is a series of "pint-sized conversations about big ideas." Join us for drinks, appetizers, and conversation in a pub setting.
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Today we take for granted that great chefs become famous, and that they can influence social consciousness and public policy, not through private weal...
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Climbing all the 4000 footers in NH is a goal for many hikers in the Granite State. Learn how an interest in hiking, orienteering, map making, and tea...
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Every town and watershed in New Hampshire has ancient and continuing Native American history. From the recent, late 20th century explosion of local Na...
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This beautifully illustrated, interactive presentation by Marina Forbes will feature the history of Matryoshka nested doll making in Russia. Using a f...
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There is treasure here but not the pirate kind. Scientific "digs" on Smuttynose Island are changing New England history. Archaeologist Natha...
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The First Amendment affords citizens enormous liberties. But what about ideas that seek to undermine our democracy? Justice Louis Brandeis argued that...
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Homelessness has become a problem for many communities in New Hampshire. It is a preventable problem but most of the strategies communities have used ...
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Film is a powerful medium, generating billions of dollars and untold hours of entertainment around the world. Understanding how film creates and deliv...
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This program opens with the elderly Whitman on the evening of his seventieth birthday. The audience is a visitor in his room as he prepares for his bi...
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Uprooted is a 30-minute documentary based on interviews collected during New Hampshire Humanities' Fences & Neighbors initiative on immigratio...
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From Seabrook to Colebrook, Berlin to Hinsdale, New Hampshire’s towns, individuals, and veterans’ organizations erected a fascinating asso...
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The Vietnam War film and discussion program utilizes short videos and a trained facilitator to prompt discussion about the Vietnam era. Content is cul...
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The campaign for women's right to vote was a long one, from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York to ratification of th...
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How and why are wars fought? What exactly is a just war? This program looks at the history of "just war theory," starting in antiquity and f...
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Have you ever tried to retrace the steps of an explorer from before your time? Attempted to use an old map to guide you around a modern landscape? In ...
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Join the Museum of the White Mountains for a lecture on the Emerging LiDAR Landscape, the first lecture in their Summer Speaker Series, Wayfinding: Ma...
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How can schools in New Hampshire and nationally navigate polarization and inequity to help heal our country’s division? How can schools support ...
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Whatever did New Englanders do on long winter evenings before cable, satellite and the internet? In the decades before and after the Civil War, our ru...
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This workshop will introduce prospective applicants to the Community Project Grant application and provide information about how to submit a competiti...
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In recent years, there has been an uptick, if not an actual surge, of works by science fiction writers of color, a literary genre where Black voices a...
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Jo Radner shares a selection of historical tales-humorous and thought-provoking-about New Englanders who have used their wits in extraordinary ways to...
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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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Date: March 16th, 2017
The Trump administration recently released its budget blueprint which includes elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as well...
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Date: February 28th, 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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Date: February 28th, 2017
Together with his family, friends, and colleagues, New Hampshire Humanities remembers the singular contributions Nabil Migalli made to the cultural li...
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Date: February 28th, 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: February 27th, 2017
“Isn’t this supposed to be a tragedy?” begins Stacie,* a mother participating in a Connections book discussion at Goffstown State Prison for Wom...
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Date: February 14th, 2017
Why does philosophy matter? How do we determine what is fact and what is opinion, and why we should care? For the past eight years, a growing gr...
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Date: January 24th, 2017
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced the first recipients of its new Humanities Access grant, a program offering signifi...
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Date: January 24th, 2017
The “30 Pages in 30 Days” playwriting competition described in our February Calendar inspired a high school theater class. Here, their teacher sha...
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Date: January 24th, 2017
By Debbie Watrous, Executive DirectorNonprofits are always seeking to demonstrate the impact of their work. In the humanities, defining “impact” c...
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Date: January 24th, 2017
"Our Stories; Our Community" is the theme of this year's Family Literacy Festival on Saturday, May 6, 2 - 5 pm at the Boys & Girls C...
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Date: January 24th, 2017
Last fall’s Grapes of Wrath project, carried out in fifteen NH towns with support from New Hampshire Humanities, inspired Russell Bastedo, retired S...
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Date: January 24th, 2017
Last fall Prescott Park Arts Festival, with support from New Hampshire Humanities, held a playwriting competition that challenged and guided aspiring ...
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Date: January 4th, 2017
New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with Dartmouth College and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), launched an innovati...
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Date: December 30th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities has awarded a grant of $3,175 to the NH World Fellowship Center for a project about a McCarthy-era legal case that took a con...
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Date: December 30th, 2016
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s masterful novel about poverty and suffering, strength and resilience, was the cornerstone of a successful coll...
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Date: December 23rd, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities has received a $20,000 grant from Lincoln Financial Foundation to support its Connections adult literacy program. New Hampshi...
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Date: December 5th, 2016
Essay by Jason H., Connections participant, based on the book "The Plan," by Alison Paul, with pictures by Barbra LehmanA good plan alw...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
At the national celebration of the Pulitzer Centennial, New Hampshire Humanities was recognized for its HYPE (Hosting Young Philosophy Enthusiasts) pr...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
Dialogues on the Experience of War & Homecoming is a book discussion series that uses ancient literature and contemporary readings to help veteran...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
According to environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, “Climate change is actually the biggest thing that’s going on every single day.” In resp...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
If you haven’t yet seen our new Humanities to Go Catalog, here's a preview of some of the enticing new programs that will pique your curiosity! ...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
by Susan Hatem, Associate Director and Grants CoordinatorOne story seems to elicit another. Our experience is that one oral history project inspires o...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
“A good plan always starts with an idea and a pencil.” So begins a story Jason H. wrote for his three children during a Connections book disc...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
by Catherine Kaplan, Humanities to Go CoordinatorThe forecast for Waterville Valley on the evening of Friday, January 8, 2016 was iffy at best: a cold...
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Date: December 1st, 2016
by Ann-Maria Contarino, Dialogues on the Experience of War Team Manchester FacilitatorSing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns dr...
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Date: October 31st, 2016
As a supporter of New Hampshire Humanities, you understand the important role the humanities play in individual lives and in our communities, and how ...
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Date: October 31st, 2016
A monumental and far-reaching collaboration among nine New Hampshire libraries and Timberlane Regional High School, Community Stories: Soldiers Home &...
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Date: October 31st, 2016
Once a year, our board and staff share their recent reads. Here are their recommendations (for your holiday gift-giving consideration!)The Coldest Win...
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Date: October 31st, 2016
What can poetry offer adults from all over the world who are just beginning to write in English? Carol Birch's ESOL students at the Dover Adult Le...
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Date: October 31st, 2016
At our 27th Annual Dinner in late September, New Hampshire Humanities continued a long tradition of hosting nationally and internationally-recognized ...
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Date: October 28th, 2016
New catalog features dozens of fascinating new programs and perennial favoritesOur highly-anticipated and newly-revised Humanities to Go Catalog of Pr...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
AVA Gallery and Art Center, recipient of a New Hampshire Humanities grant, will host a gallery talk in conjunction with a current exhibit by photograp...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
With over 50 programs over nine weeks in nine communities, Soldiers Home & Away seeks to connect veterans and non-veterans to share experiences, b...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
According to environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, “Climate change is actually the biggest thing that’s going on every single day.” In resp...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
Supported in part by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, thirteen libraries, three schools, and the independent book store in the Moun...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
Constitutionally Speaking and the University of New Hampshire School of Law are pleased to present a free public symposium on Crime and the Constituti...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
Portsmouth, Milford, Canaan, and many other towns in New Hampshire have been home to natives of Africa and to African Americans for centuries, but the...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
Whose story becomes history? How is the question of “what happened” complicated by power and privilege? This Community Project Grant to Gorham Pub...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities has awarded a Community Project Grant to support scholar-led talkbacks with theatre experts following a one-hour, two-actor d...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
The Grapes of Wrath Big Read explores farming, cooking, arts, music and movies, and Steinbeck, the man and writer. Continuing a fifteen-library ...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
For more than 40 years, New Hampshire Humanities has provided opportunities for tens of thousands of Granite Staters to cultivate their curiosity, con...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
For more than four decades, New Hampshire Humanities has championed a thriving trade in ideas, actively promoted the power of informed conversation, a...
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Date: September 30th, 2016
It’s okay to act it out...That’s the theme for 30 Pages in 30 Days, A Playwright Competition, Prescott Park Arts Festival’s new community ...
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Date: September 1st, 2016
Dialogues on the Experience of War is a book discussion series that uses ancient literature and contemporary readings to help veterans release and re-...
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Date: September 1st, 2016
Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the health of our civic life, and I’m worried. Worried that we’re unable to hear each o...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Where do the observational skills of an artist and a scientist intersect? How do art and science inspire and expand larger conversations about the wor...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Traveling, tented “chautauquas” were an immensely popular form of American adult education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. T...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Dennis Britton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 2006. He earned a B.A...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
For fourteen years, America has been mired in war, war being waged by less than one percent of the population. The relatively small number of active m...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Wordplay and wit will sprout as guests enjoy nature-inspired activities when they take A Walk in the Words at Bedrock Gardens in Lee, supported by a g...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Join us for the Humanities to Go Catalog Launch Celebration!Wednesday, October 5 at 1:00 p.m. at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street,...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath has stirred and inspired readers for 77 years. The centerpiece of a multi-town community read fun...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Celebrating the power of the humanities, New Hampshire Humanities will welcome renowned historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed to presen...
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Date: August 31st, 2016
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Charles Warren Professor of American Lega...
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Date: August 15th, 2016
Dialogues on the Experience of War is an intimate book discussion series that uses Homeric texts and contemporary readings to help veterans access, un...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
Through time, writers have grappled with addiction in their work and in their lives. As New Hampshire confronts an opioid addiction epidemic unbo...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
Words and wit will sprout as guests enjoy nature-inspired literary activities when they take “A Walk in the Words” at Bedrock Gardens in Lee, supp...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
Supported by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, the Friends of Public Art will kick off the Winchester Musical Heritage Project with events e...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
For fourteen years, America has been mired in war, war being waged by less than one percent of the population. The relatively small number of active m...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath has stirred and inspired readers for 77 years. The centerpiece of a multi-town community read fun...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
Journey through history with Pulitzer winner Annette Gordon-Reed at our 2016 Annual Dinner!New Hampshire Humanities will welcome renow...
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Date: August 1st, 2016
The power of storytelling and dialogue is becoming recognized as a way to help veterans address both the experience of war and the social and cultural...
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Date: July 19th, 2016
The New Hampshire Humanities family is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Van McLeod, Commissioner, State of New Hampshire Department of Cu...
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Date: July 15th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities warmly welcomes Rebecca Kinhan as Communications Director. Kinhan has called New Hampshire home for thirty years, coming to t...
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Date: July 1st, 2016
The picturesque town of Dublin and the legacy of its famed art colony will be celebrated in August and September, supported by a grant from New H...
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Date: June 30th, 2016
Portrait painter Abbott Handerson Thayer, familiar with the area from his boyhood in Keene, came to Dublin in 1888 and started the Dublin art colony. ...
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Date: June 30th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to announed the 2016 recipients of our New Hampshire Humanities High School Book Awards, presented to high school ...
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Date: June 30th, 2016
Did you know that the bucolic town of Winchester, New Hampshire was the home of both the first pipe organ constructed in American as well as the natio...
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Date: June 30th, 2016
At MindsEye Designs art studio in Dover a small group of student artists sat around a paint-splattered table, discussing the life and work of Georgia ...
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Date: April 27th, 2016
How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” confront its participation in slavery, segregation, and the neglect of its Black history? The U...
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Date: April 25th, 2016
by Susan Bartlett, Connections Program CoordinatorWhat gives us hope? What experiences do we have in common: of growing up, of moving to a new country...
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Date: April 25th, 2016
The Castle Preservation Society, non-profit operators of the Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough, has received a grant from New Hampshire Hum...
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Date: March 30th, 2016
Teachers are invited to expand their understanding of the effects of the Civil War in the Granite State at a three-day teacher workshop hosted by the ...
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Date: March 30th, 2016
What roles have women played in the White Mountains? An exhibition at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University will vividly depi...
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Date: March 30th, 2016
Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children the self-knowledge to carry them through hard times. ...
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Date: March 30th, 2016
At a recent Connections session in Manchester, participants discussed the book Gandhi, a March to the Sea written by Alice McGinty with illustrations ...
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Date: March 25th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities has awarded a grant to the World Affairs Council for the third and final event in a series conducted in partnership with the ...
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Date: March 21st, 2016
Show Shakespeare some love this month at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester when the book tha...
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Date: February 12th, 2016
Imagine a world without the immortal phrases “To be, or not to be,” “Beware the Ides of March” and “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedf...
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Date: January 29th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities is thrilled to welcome Jane Berlin Pauley to our staff in the position of Director of Development.Jane brings a wealth of exp...
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Date: January 19th, 2016
New Hampshire's own Ken Burns has been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the 2016 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities...
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Date: January 19th, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities has received a $30,000 grant from the Pulitzer Foundation for a project that will explore the editorial cartoon with Pulitzer...
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Date: December 14th, 2015
New Hampshire Humanities is the recipient of a $350,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant, which must be...
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Date: November 30th, 2015
Dear Fellow Lifelong Learner, Four and a half years with New Hampshire Humanities has called me to trek physically and metaphorically all ac...
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Date: October 30th, 2015
Forty adventurers and lovers of the humanities recently gathered at the Ravine Lodge at the base of Mount Moosilauke for a guided hike ...
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Date: October 2nd, 2015
Children’s literature is full of heroes. And for good reason: young children live in the imaginative world of who they will become, taking example f...
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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: March 11th, 2023
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Date: November 29th, 2022
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Date: November 28th, 2022
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Date: November 17th, 2022
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Date: November 15th, 2022
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Date: November 10th, 2022
Speaking as Betsey Phelps, the mother of a Union soldier from Amherst, New Hampshire who died heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg, Sharon Wood offe...
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Date: November 9th, 2022
Telling personal and family stories is fun - and much more. Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children...
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Date: November 5th, 2022
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Date: November 3rd, 2022
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Date: November 3rd, 2022
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Date: October 31st, 2022
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Date: October 27th, 2022
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...
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Date: October 26th, 2022
The first agricultural fair in North America was held in what is now Londonderry in 1722, and it would become a wildly popular event lasting for gener...
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Date: October 25th, 2022
For almost 150 years the moonlight ax murder of two Norwegian women on the rocky Isles of Shoals has haunted New England. Popular historian and lectur...
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Date: October 25th, 2022
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Date: October 21st, 2022
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Date: October 20th, 2022
For almost 150 years the moonlight ax murder of two Norwegian women on the rocky Isles of Shoals has haunted New England. Popular historian and lectur...
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Date: October 20th, 2022
In the early 20th century, the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture launched a program to boost the rural economy and promote tourism through the sale o...
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Date: October 20th, 2022
John G. Winant, three-time governor of New Hampshire went on to serve the nation in several capacities on the national and international scene. In the...
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Date: October 19th, 2022
Barns can tell us a great deal about the history of agriculture in New Hampshire. In the colonial period, New Hampshire was a rural, agrarian state an...
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Date: October 17th, 2022
In 1787 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to address a wide variety of crises facing the young United States of America and produced a charter for a ...
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Date: October 13th, 2022
One hundred years ago, a full generation before Rosie the Riveter, American women rolled up their sleeves and entered war industries where they had ne...
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Date: October 13th, 2022
Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by Steve Wood, begins this program by recounting his early life and ends with a reading of the "Gettysburg Address.&qu...
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Date: October 13th, 2022
Drawing on research from her book, Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire, the Present, the Past, and the Future, Rebecca Rule regales audi...
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Date: October 12th, 2022
On first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. Margo Burns e...
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Date: October 11th, 2022
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Date: October 11th, 2022
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Date: October 7th, 2022
Women have long been the subject of art, often depicted as nothing more than objects of desire. How do images of women change when women become the cr...
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Date: October 6th, 2022
America's most beloved illustrator created dozens of images related to the second World War. What happens when an artist known for his use of humo...
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Date: October 5th, 2022
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Date: October 5th, 2022
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Date: October 4th, 2022
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Date: September 29th, 2022
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Date: September 27th, 2022
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Date: September 27th, 2022
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Date: September 27th, 2022
This program offers a fun and engaging look at the historic and unusual weathervanes found on New Hampshire's churches, town halls, and other publ...
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Date: September 27th, 2022
Quilts tell stories, and quilt history is full of myths and misinformation as well as heart-warming tales of service and tradition. Nearly every world...
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Date: September 27th, 2022
While servant narratives have been popular for centuries, there seems to be a resurging interest in these stories in recent decades. Many contemporary...
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Date: September 26th, 2022
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Date: September 22nd, 2022
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Date: September 21st, 2022
Quilts tell stories, and quilt history is full of myths and misinformation as well as heart-warming tales of service and tradition. Nearly every world...
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Date: September 21st, 2022
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Date: September 20th, 2022
This program presents a brief history of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, from its origins during the Progressive era of the early twentieth ce...
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Date: September 20th, 2022
Every town and watershed in New Hampshire has ancient and continuing Native American history. From the recent, late 20th century explosion of local Na...
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Date: September 19th, 2022
Jo Radner shares a selection of historical tales-humorous and thought-provoking-about New Englanders who have used their wits in extraordinary ways to...
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Date: September 19th, 2022
The ancient Greek philosophers defined eudaimonia as living a full and excellent life. In this illustrated talk, Maria Sanders explores how ideas of h...
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Date: September 17th, 2022
The Freedom of Religion
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Date: September 17th, 2022
Dan Shears, Material Culture Advisor for the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, along with tribe members Bill Gould and Darryl Peasley, will demonstrate the tra...
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Date: September 15th, 2022
Carrie Brown explores the technological triumph that helped save the Union and then transformed the nation. During the Civil War, northern industry pr...
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Date: September 15th, 2022
Following World War II, New Hampshire embarked on an extensive program of constructing new highways and improving existing roads to accommodate explos...
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Date: September 14th, 2022
Carrie Brown explores the technological triumph that helped save the Union and then transformed the nation. During the Civil War, northern industry pr...
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Date: September 14th, 2022
Glenn Knoblock explores the fascinating history of New Hampshire's beer and ale brewing industry from Colonial days, when it was home- and tavern-...
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Date: September 13th, 2022
Hundreds of one-room schools dotted the landscape of New Hampshire a century ago and were the backbone of primary education for generations of childre...
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Date: September 13th, 2022
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Date: September 13th, 2022
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Date: September 13th, 2022
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Date: September 12th, 2022
The campaign for women's right to vote was a long one, from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York to ratification of th...
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Date: September 12th, 2022
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Date: September 10th, 2022
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Date: September 8th, 2022
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Date: September 8th, 2022
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Date: September 8th, 2022
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Date: September 6th, 2022
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Date: September 5th, 2022
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Date: August 29th, 2022
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Date: August 25th, 2022
Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential question...
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Date: August 25th, 2022
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Date: August 23rd, 2022
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Date: August 21st, 2022
Drawing heavily on the repertoire of traditional singer Lena Bourne Fish (1873-1945) of Jaffrey and Temple, New Hampshire, Jeff Warner offers the song...
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Date: August 20th, 2022
Freedom to Petition
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Date: August 19th, 2022
Woody Pringle and Marek Bennett present an overview of the American Civil War through the lens of period music. Audience members participate and sing ...
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Date: August 18th, 2022
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Date: August 18th, 2022
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Date: August 18th, 2022
In this first-person interpretive program, Judith Black introduces American Lucy Stone, the first woman hired by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societ...
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Date: August 17th, 2022
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Date: August 17th, 2022
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Date: August 17th, 2022
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Date: August 12th, 2022
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Date: August 11th, 2022
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Date: August 10th, 2022
Jennie Powers took a stand against social vices in New Hampshire and Vermont in the early twentieth century. She was a humane society agent in K...
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Date: August 10th, 2022
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Date: August 10th, 2022
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Date: August 9th, 2022
The campaign for women's right to vote was a long one, from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York to ratification of th...
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Date: August 9th, 2022
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Date: August 8th, 2022
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Date: August 8th, 2022
Abenaki history has been reduced to near-invisibility as a result of conquest, a conquering culture that placed little value on the Indian experience,...
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Date: August 8th, 2022
The Remedial Herstory Project is hosting its second annual Summer Educators Retreat to help teachers integrate more women's history and literature...
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Date: August 7th, 2022
New England's colonial meetinghouses embody an important yet little-known chapter in American history. Built mostly with tax money, they served as...
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Date: August 6th, 2022
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Date: August 5th, 2022
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Date: August 4th, 2022
August is Eat Local Month, a time to focus on food that’s raised locally. Many of the foods we eat today have origins from faraway places, but s...
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Date: August 3rd, 2022
This free professional development workshop will guide middle and high school teachers through how to use comics and cartooning to engage students wit...
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Date: August 2nd, 2022
There is treasure here but not the pirate kind. Scientific "digs" on Smuttynose Island are changing New England history. Archaeologist Natha...
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Date: August 2nd, 2022
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Date: July 31st, 2022
Deborah Anne Goss appears as Abby Hutchinson Patton, recalling mid-19th-century U.S. and New Hampshire history and performing rousing anthems, heartfe...
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Date: July 31st, 2022
Herbalist and Native American Lynn Clowes will lead a trail walk where she will highlight various plants used by Native Americans and early colonists....
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Date: July 29th, 2022
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Date: July 28th, 2022
Through architecture unique to northern New England, this illustrated talk focuses on several case studies that show how farmers converted their typic...
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Date: July 28th, 2022
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Focus Grant, Spring 2022:A More Perfect Union
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Ideas on Tap - Artificial Intelligence
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Ideas on Tap - Fake News
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Higher Education: The Great Equalizer?
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TEACHING RESOURCES
Martin's Big Words
By Dorreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the most influenti...
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Mary Nolin, Program Manager - Connections
As the Connections program manager, Mary works with tea...
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Media Contact
Working on a story and need information, or would like to arrange an interview?We are happy to coordinate interviews with leadership, s...
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Meet our Connections facilitators...
Emily Archer, writer and facilitator, is grateful for a long-time relationship with New Hampshire Huma...
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Michael Haley Goldman, Executive Director
Haley Goldman recently arrived at NHH from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, ...
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TEACHING RESOURCES:
Miss Rumphius
Written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney
Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a s...
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New Hampshire Humanities Grants
New Hampshire Humanities grants provide funds to support humanities organizations and public programs across Ne...
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Newsletter Archives
New Hampshire Humanities' quarterly publication, Engage! is filled with stories about the work that we and our partners ...
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NH Humanities Map
Our Storied Past, Our Unfolding Future: New Hampshire Humanities Map
Please click on the map image to the left for our interactive...
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New Hampshire Humanities Logos
New Hampshire Humanities Logo - Color for Print New Hampshire Humanities Logo - Color for Web New Hampshire Huma...
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Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book.
You have your sunscreen and beach chairs. Once you pick up any of these 24 books, summer can really begin.
C...
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TEACHER RESOURCES:
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of Gambia
By Miranda Paul, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
The inspiring t...
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FY 2020 Impact Report
Illustrating the impact of our work on citizens and communities throughout New Hampshire, this report reflects programming from...
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Support New Hampshire's rich cultural heritage and civic health
New Hampshire Humanities relies on its year-round partners to support the d...
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Book Group Forms
Here are the forms you'll need to coordinate your Perspectives Book Group:
Host ChecklistBooks & Facilitators ListHost Eval...
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Book Groups Toolkit
Interested in leading your own book discussions? Check out the toolkit below for questions and resources to use with your group. ...
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Website Privacy Policy
What Our Policy Covers
This site is owned and operated by New Hampshire Humanities(“NHH” or “We”). We...
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It's Your Turn: Community Project Grants
New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grants provide grant funds to support public humanities prog...
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TEACHING RESOURCES:
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Steven Salerno
In this deeply moving and em...
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Real or Fake? Making Our Way in Post-Fact America
Ideas on Tap: Fake News: Making...
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Rebecca Boisvert, Director of Development
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rboisvert@nhhumanities.org 603-224-4071, ext. 113 ...
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Rebecca Kinhan, Communications Director
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rkinhan@nhhumanities.org 603-224-4071, ext. 116 ...
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Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
When her family moved to the town of Westmi...
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Administer your SHARP grant
Congratulations on receiving a New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) SHARP Grant. This page provides all the information and doc...
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Tell us about your event!
Thank you for providing details on public events related to your SHARP-funded projects. This information will be published ...
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SHARP Grants Frequently Asked Questions
What are the humanities?
The National Endowment for the Humanities defines the “humanities&rdqu...
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Sustaining the Humanities Through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP)
New Hampshire Humanities SHARP Grants
The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) all...
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Sustaining the Humanities Through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP)
New Hampshire Humanities SHARP Grants
The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) all...
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SHARP Grant Recipients
New Hampshire Humanities has awarded SHARP grants to the following organizations:
American Independence Museum
Andover Histo...
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Submit your SHARP report.
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Sponsorship
Is your company or organization looking for a unique way to be linked with excellence? Each year, we offer a number of customizable oppor...
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Stoned in the Granite State: The Debate Over Marijuana Legalization
Monday, Septemb...
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Submit your NHH Grant Report here
Submit your grant report to NHH by the date specified in your contract.
If you have too many additional docu...
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Sue Butman, Operations Manager
More about Sue
sbutman@nhhumanities.org 603-224-4071, ext. 118
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Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans
Click the links below to learn more about the books, find lesson plans for all levels, and enjoy the storytelling...
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Tell Me Lies: The First Amendment & the Right to (Mis)inform
Monday, May 9, 2022, Stark Brewing Co., Manchester
Why should misinformation be protect...
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TEACHING RESOURCES
The Undefeated
By Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
This poem is a love letter to black life in the United State...
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Lecture Series: A "Good" Citizen
The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence asserts that “all men” are “created equa...
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Additional Resources for A "Good" Citizen Lecture Series
Anne Jennison, March 18: Through the Eyes of the Abenaki/Wabanaki: What Is Ci...
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Ideas on Tap: Voting in AmericaThe Good, The Bad, and The Absent
Tuesday, September 15 at 6 pm via Zoom
Held in partners...
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TEACHING RESOURCES
Wangari's Trees of Peace
By Jeanette Winter
As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But y...
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Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
By Tanya Lee Stone
In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named El...
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TEACHING RESOURCES
Whoever You Are
By Mem Fox, illustrated by Leslie Staub
Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing ...
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You Hold Me Up
By Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel
This vibrant picture book, beautifully illustrated by celebrated arti...
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