National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Awards
- Number of records: 47,197
- Years covered: 1970-2012
Description
The National Endowment for the Humanities was created in 1965 to award grants to promote excellence in the humanities and awareness of the lessons of history. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States.
NEH projects have produced 7,000 books, including Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winners, as well as over 50,000 lectures per year.
Source
The current SDB NEH data was acquired from https://securegrants.neh.gov/open/data in June 2012. This data is also accessible via data.gov.
Data Fields
The SDB NEH data dictionary is here.
Coverage
The SDB NEH database goes back to 1970 and is current through June 2012. Year_awarded is considered to be the your of record for these grants.
References
NEH background information (link)
Attachments:
NEH counts graph 09.25.2012.jpg (image/jpeg)
neh dictionary 08.27.2012.xlsx (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)