New Hampshire Humanities

Connections Family Literacy Festival: “Our Community"

Tuesday, January 24, 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 Club of Manchester. Students enrolled in the New Hampshire Humanities Connections book discussion groups through our participating adult literacy partners are invited to attend along with their family members.

News Archive

May 2020

New Hampshire Humanities awards 64 CARES Act grants in nearly 50 NH communities

April 2020

CARES Act: Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security Act

March 2020

"Jabberwocky," read by Neil Gaiman

Our policy regarding programs and the Coronavirus

We Hear You Calling: A Celebration of the Suffragists Through Poetry & Music

Partner Spotlight: Kirk McNeil, Area 23

Let us help fund your community humanities project!

Seven NH Organizations Awarded $10K for public programs

Heart on Fire: The story of Susan B. Anthony

Featured Humanities to Go Presenter: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner

New programs to bring to your community (or workplace!)

February 2020

Planned Giving

Welcome, Rebecca Boisvert

Heart on Fire: Using Susan B. Anthony for HiSET Preparation and Civic Engagement

Seven NH Organizations Awarded $10K for Public Programs

New Hampshire Humanities awarded “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” Grant

Humanities to Go Featured Presenter: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner

January 2020

Seven NH Organizations Awarded NHH Community Project Grants

December 2019

What are we reading?

Spotlight on Women's History

Donor Spotlight: Kate Hanna

Taylor and Farish honored for humanities achievements

"Past Lives" Podcast Launched!

Guess who made NH Magazine's "IT" list?

What's on tap?

Meet Rachel Avery, program intern

Welcome, Mary Nolin!

Are you ready?

October 2019

Grants Available for Humanities-Based Community Projects

August 2019

Bring Quality Humanities Programs and a World of Ideas into Your Workplace!

Donor Spotlight: Elizabeth Dubrelle

15 Libraries and a Bookstore Get Together for One Book One Valley

New Hampshire Humanities Awards $23,850 in Grants

New Hampshire Humanities Bids Farewell to Terry Farish

Our Newest Humanities to Go Programs!

Announcing the 2019-2020 Ideas on Tap Series!

Home Is the Moving Back and Forth Between What I Cannot Name: Poems & Stories

July 2019

Immensity: A New Voices Story

Finding Homes in Words and Pictures: A Connections Workshop for Facilitators and Teachers with Jeannine Atkins

June 2019

Calls for programs on women's suffrage and voting rights expansion

May 2019

Celebrating New Hampshire's New Voices

"Open Questions" asks the big questions

Changing Views: Relations Between Hopkinton's Early Settlers & Native Americans

Enacting Equity, Inquiry, and Community in the Humanities

UNH Summer Institute in Public Humanities

Diplomacy: Then and Now

Circle of Sawdust: Mud, Myths, Magic & Mayhem in the Circus

Humanities to Go Call for Proposals: 19th Amendment Centennial

Keene Chautauqua 2019: Innovators and Inventors, Tesla and Lamarr: Makers of Modern Life

Humanities@Work brings the world of ideas into your workplace

Changes to our Humanities to Go programming

March 2019

New Voices: Sounds & Rhythms of Story

Unfinished Business: The Right to Vote Before and Since the 19th Amendment

Donor Spotlight: Major Wheelock

New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts and New Hampshire Humanities partner to put culture to work

Anthropologist Sara Withers on Finding Refuge

January 2019

Announcing Humanities @ Work partnership with BIA

From our executive director's desk: About the NEH shutdown

December 2018

"Tell me more..."

Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 21

Using Nature to Bridge the Generational Divide

Lights, Camera, Civics!

Black Heritage Trail of NH presents Tea Talk Series

Donor Spotlight: Aryn Marsh

Dawnland Storyfest 2019

Welcome, Tricia and Morgan!

Executive Director's message: In praise of teachers

October 2018

Inaugural event at Grappone Humanities Institute October 10

September 2018

Welcome, new Board members!

2018 Humanities High School Book Award Winners

Civility, Cooperation and Compromise: Why Our Constitution Requires Them

Tell me more about that basket...

Two Sides of the Coin: Native American & Early Colonists Cultural Clashes

Blue Trees: What do art and nature bring to a community?

Donor Spotlight: Carolyn Russell

Other People's Perspectives

The Third Language

Farewell, Kathy Mathis

Ideas on Tap: Real or Fake? Making Our Way in Post-Fact America

Engage! Our new quarterly publication

June 2018

Using image-making to help students tell their stories

NPR “founding mother” Susan Stamberg to speak at 2018 Annual Dinner

A Story from the House of Extravagant Colors

An official welcome for our executive director

Welcome, Kelsey!

Important message about our Calendar publication

Access, Innovation, and Elevation: Our new priorities for the year

May 2018

Bank of America Charitable Foundation grant supports Connections adult literacy program

What Does Democracy Look Like? Stories & Photos by NH Veterans

Book THE VIETNAM WAR through Humanities to Go!

Too Long in the Shadows: African American History in Rural New Hampshire

Telling Our Stories in Pictures and Words

Two Sides of the Coin: Native American & Early Colonists Cultural Clashes

Beware the Chair: Medieval Roots of School Exercise

April 2018

Will peace ever come to the Middle East? "Combatants for Peace" tour NH this week

March 2018

Welcome to our new executive director, Anthony Poore!

Giving voice to the power of poetry

"Waking Up White" in New Hampshire

Let's talk about death & dying...

Farewell, Brendan

February 2018

Welcome to our new executive director

How do we overcome racism in our communities?

Vietnam War program is now available through Humanities to Go!

Staring down the "Elephant in the Room"

21st U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to speak on April 11

"To Tell What They Can’t Say" Journalism Workshop for NH Veterans

What are we afraid to talk about?

Black History Month

Paul Vincent speaks on immigration policy Feb. 7

How can your community put humanities into action?

Thank you to the Couch Family Foundation

Waking Up White

Excellence in Humanities Book Awards Spring 2018

Philosophy students asking big questions at HYPE conference

January 2018

How Congolese Women Sing the "Glory" and more discoveries of a Connections Facilitator

December 2017

Dynamite: Anders Carlson-Wee and Poetry's Explosive Potential

Rethinking Resistance: Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Elephant in the Room Series: Mental Illness

Seedfolks: Growing Community in a New World

Stewart awarded Society for Classical Studies Outreach Prize

Good Intentions: Waking Up White by Debby Irving

Veterans Book Discussion Groups beginning in February & March

The Story of a Shop

Connections literacy program receives Lincoln Financial Foundation grant

In a Deep December...

30 PAGES IN 30 DAYS: A Playwright Competition

For Laurie, a Welcoming New Hampshire Story

Rethinking Resistance: Ona Judge, the Washingtons’ runaway slave, and the meanings of escape

What are we reading?

NH Humanities presents a preview screening & community discussion of The Vietnam War

November 2017

In Celebration of Languages: The Story of a Pumpkin, a traditional tale from Bhutan in Nepali and English

Free Speech at the Schoolhouse Gate: Landmark cases on speech and expression in schools

The Natural and Cultural History of Soil: Growing a Dirt Revolution

Author Richard Rubin returns!

In Her Words: Inspirational Women from New England History

I’m Not Saying You Can’t Challenge This”: The Right to Be, and Writing the Constitution

What could YOUR community do with a humanities grant?

The "Elephant in the Room Series" confronts difficult social issues

September 2017

Reflections on 24 Years: A Fond Farewell from Debbie Watrous

Amy Lockwood Selected as Interim Director

World War II We Never Knew: North Country libraries host WW II events

You Don’t Lose Your Rights at the Schoolhouse Gate: Landmark Cases on Speech & Expression

Welcome, New Board Members

Over There, Over Here: World War I and Life in NH Communities

Cultivating Fertile Soil, Generating Resilient Communities

Understanding racism, learning from our past

What Does It Mean to Be Human? Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" Brought to Life in a New Play

August 2017

Community Conversations: The Vietnam War

Executive Director Debbie Watrous to leave NH Humanities after 24 years

Over There, Over Here: World War I and Life in NH Communities

The Story of Baker Chocolate: A Sweet History

Cultivating Fertile Soil, Generating Resilient Communities

What books have inspired Steven Pinker?

Understanding systemic racism, learning from our past

Great North Woods libraries explore WWII

July 2017

Enduring Vietnam, An American Generation and Its War, a talk by author James Wright

2017 Humanities Book Award Winners

Bank of America Charitable Foundation grant supports Connections Adult Literacy

Hello from Terry Farish

30 Pages in 30 Days winning playwright to present one-act play at Prescott Park

Literature, Addiction and Communal Response

Keene Chautauqua 2017: WW I and America

Over There, Over Here: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Entering WWI

Seats are going fast for our Annual Dinner!

June 2017

Enduring Vietnam: “A Story That Has No End”

2017 Annual Dinner with Steven Pinker

McIninch Foundation awards $25,000 grant for Humanities to Go

Keene Chautauqua 2017: World War I and America

Farewell, Susan Bartlett

Life Downstairs: British Servant Culture in Fact, Fiction, and Film

A Child of Exile in America at War

Over There, Over Here: 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Entering World War I

May 2017

2017 Annual Dinner keynote: Steven Pinker

What We Do, Who We Are

Before Peyton Place: In search of the real Grace Metalious

Looking for an interesting topic for YOUR community?

"Citizen Power" by Eric Liu draws sold-out crowd

Civics Workshop for Teachers: Sowing Seeds of Democracy

Abraham Lincoln: Behind White House Doors

Remembering Tug, the Chinook

Watrous featured in NEH magazine, Humanities

Over There, Over Here: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the U.S. entering WWI

Immigration in the Granite State Teacher Workshop

April 2017

Have a great idea for a humanities project in your community?

HYPE conference draws 1,100 students

American Civil War Series at The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens

Your support is more important than ever!

Donor Profile: Janet Pitman Anderson on Why She Supports New Hampshire Humanities

Over There, Over Here: 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Entering World War I

March 2017

See Shadows Fall North

Why teach philosophy to children?

Looking for an interesting topic for YOUR community?

Abraham Lincoln: Behind White House Doors

‘More Than Just Ourselves’ Willard Uphaus, Louis Wyman, and Civil Liberties in the McCarthy Era

Connections Family Literacy Festival May 6

Take action: Your voice is needed!

February 2017

More Than Just Ourselves: Willard Uphaus, Louis Wyman, and Civil Liberties in the McCarthy Era

Community Project Grants: It's Your Turn

Remembering Nabil Migalli

Victims, Villains, or Heroes? Reading Shakespeare at Goffstown Women’s Prison

NH students examine meaning of citizenship at HYPE 2017

January 2017

Meelia Center receives NEH Humanities Access Grant

Memories of Stockholm: When Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize

Connections Family Literacy Festival: “Our Community"

Students inspired by playwriting challenge

Ripple Effects

From page to stage: Playwright finalists to present original one-act plays

New Hampshire Humanities veterans project featured on The Exchange and voted #1 show in 2016

December 2016

Subversive Activities

The Grapes of Wrath comes alive in fifteen New Hampshire towns

Generous grant from Lincoln Financial Foundation will support NH Humanities Connections Adult Literacy program

The Plan

A Good Plan: The Gift of Connection

From Hurricane to Climate Change: A Region Responds

Dialogues on the Experience of War & Homecoming

New HYPE Video Celebrates Young Philosophers as Part of Pulitzer Centennial

A Sneak Peek at Some of Our Newest Humanities to Go Programs

From Troy to Baghdad...to New Hampshire: A Reflection on Dialogues of War

The Ripple Effect: How New England's Stone Walls Prompted a Journey of Discovery

The Gift of Attention: Building Community Through Oral History

October 2016

You can help us continue to bring the power of ideas to all corners of the state

Community Stories: Soldiers Home & Away

What books are the New Hampshire Humanities board and staff reading?

For This I Am Yearning: Learning English, Writing Poetry

27th Annual Dinner a memorable celebration of humanities

New Humanities to Go Catalog Unveiled!

September 2016

Constitutionally Speaking: Crime and the Constitution Public Symposium

The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescues

From Hurricane to Climate Change: A Region Responds

Community Stories: Soldiers Home & Away

Nature Re-Visioned: Finding Meaning at the Intersection of Art and Science

Steinbeck in California: The Man and the Writer

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores what it means to be human

Women Out of The Kitchen: Historical Women of New England

Shadows Fall North documentary sheds light on slavery and segregation in the Granite State

30 Pages in 30 Days: A Playwright Festival on the Seacoast

Campaign for the Humanities: Our vision for the future

The Campaign for the Humanities: Excellence, innovation, and access for future generations

Veterans book discussions launch in four NH cities

Letter from the Executive Director: We need the humanities now more than ever

August 2016

Welcome to New Hampshire Humanities' new board members

Keene Chautauqua 2016 - Activist Athletes: Race and Sports

Nature Re-Visioned: Finding Meaning at the Intersection of Art and Science

Community Stories: Soldiers Home & Away

The Grapes of Wrath series continues with Franklin, film, and fiddlers

Which programs will be in our new Humanities to Go catalog?

Walk in the Words Garden & Literature festival at Bedrock Gardens in Lee, September 17 & 18

Annual dinner keynote speaker Annette Gordon-Reed (and her top five most influential books)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author joins long list of celebrated keynote speakers for New Hampshire Humanities Annual Dinner

Dialogues on the Experience of War: Book Discussion Groups for veterans and service members to be launched in September 2016

The Grapes of Wrath: More Relevant Today Than Ever

Celebrate Winchester's musical and technological heritage

Take a "Walk in the Words" at Bedrock Gardens

New Hampshire Humanities gives grant to explore themes of addiction in literature

Community Stories: Soldiers Home & Away

Dialogues on the Experience of War: New Hampshire Humanities brings veterans together to examine shared experiences through the lens of literature

A fascinating journey through history with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Annette Gordon-Reed, at our Annual Dinner

July 2016

New Hampshire Humanities mourns the loss of Van McLeod

New Hampshire Humanities welcomes new communications director

Discovering Dublin celebrates town's colorful past and present

June 2016

2016 Humanities High School Book Awards – Celebrating excellence in the humanities

Small town, rich history: Discovering Dublin celebrates past & present

Strike up the band! Celebrating musical heritage and technological ingenuity in Winchester

Lessons from the Artist’s Life: Connections Conversations

April 2016

Race and the Live Free or Die State - Documentary film premieres May 26

Making Connections: Book Discussions for Adult Learners

“Oui” Francos are still here: Franco American heritage center stage at Castle in the Clouds

March 2016

Teacher Workshop will explore the legacy of the Civil War in NH

Building Community Through Oral History in Kingston

Taking the Lead: Women and the White Mountains

Gandhi’s Big Idea

Global Tipping Points: Insecure World lecture series examines areas of conflict

First Folio! The Book that Gave us Shakespeare comes to the Currier

February 2016

First Folio! The Book that Gave us Shakespeare

January 2016

New Hampshire Humanities welcomes Jane Berlin Pauley

"Can't Take a Joke?" will explore the incendiary power of the editorial cartoon

Ken Burns tapped for NEH's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

December 2015

New Hampshire Humanities awarded $350,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

October 2015

Recreation and Reflection: Humanities in Action series takes to the woods

The Hero Has a Thousand Faces – Courage and Connections

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