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NEH Sponsors Exhibition and Panel on Art and Religious Freedom
23+ hour, 16+ min ago (194+ words) Repression, Resilience and Renewal: Religious Freedom and the Art of Mohammad Yousof Asefi" will feature original artwork and inspiring story of the artist who rescued Afghan art from the Taliban Arizona State University Center for the Study of Religion and…...
Paths to Independence
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (139+ words) Published by The Westminster Magazine. Nearly a decade before the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, most American colonists were fiercely loyal to the British crown. As the French and Indian War ended, the British government found itself…...
The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution
2+ week, 1+ day ago (161+ words) Museum of the City of New York As the Declaration of Independence was publicly proclaimed on the streets of New York City in July 1776, the British forces were already in motion. With a decisive victory in the Battle of Brooklyn…...
Experience the Battle of Princeton | National Endowment for the Humanities
2+ week, 6+ day ago (210+ words) Experience the Battle of Princeton National Endowment for the Humanities (. gov) Experience the Battle of Princeton The Princeton Battlefield Society After the successful 1776 Christmas surprise attack on British and Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, George Washington continued his march…...
Pathways to Independence
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (139+ words) Published by The Westminster Magazine. Nearly a decade before the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, most American colonists were fiercely loyal to the British crown. As the French and Indian War ended, the British government found itself…...
California's American Revolution
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (150+ words) National Endowment for the Humanities (. gov) Perspectives on the American Revolution shift the further west you go. While American revolutionaries were fighting for independence from the British, the Spanish were slowly advancing along the West Coast. During the Revolutionary War,…...
The Discovery at Red Bank Battlefield
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (213+ words) Printmakers include P. Canot, H. B. Hall, S. V. Hunt, J. B. Longacre, J. M. Probst and Paul Sandby. During the summer of 2022, Rowan University sponsored public archaeological digs on the site of the Red Bank Battlefield. This particular battle saw fierce combat, with Americans claiming victory over Hessian…...
Remembering Gordon Wood
3+ week, 2+ day ago (379+ words) National Endowment for the Humanities (. gov) By Earl Mc Donald/ NARA The National Endowment for the Humanities mourns the passing of National Humanities Medalist Gordon S. Wood, who died at the age of 92 on June 8, 2026. A preeminent scholar of the American…...
Second Lady Usha Vance to Judge National Student Art Competition on American Heroes
3+ week, 3+ day ago (555+ words) National Endowment for the Humanities (. gov) Second Lady Usha Vance to Judge National Student Art Competition on American Heroes Second Lady Usha Vance will be among the panel of distinguished judges to choose the winners of a national student art…...
Augmented Reality on the Liberty Trail | National Endowment for the Humanities
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (187+ words) Augmented Reality on the Liberty Trail National Endowment for the Humanities (. gov) Augmented Reality on the Liberty Trail When the American Revolution began, many of the battles were concentrated in the northern colonies. By 1778, the British forces realized that much…...