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National Humanities Medal

American award for contributions to Humanities

National Humanities Medal
Summary

American award for contributions to Humanities

FieldValue
nameNational Humanities Medal
imageNational_Humanities_Medal_(transparent).png
awarded_forExceptional Contributions in the Humanities
presenterPresident of the United States
countryUnited States
locationWashington, D.C.
year1997
websitehttps://www.neh.gov/taxonomy/term/246
image2[[File:Red ribbon bar - general use.svg100px]]
caption2Ribbon of the medal
U.S. president]] [[George W. Bush]] on November 15, 2007.

The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to important resources in the humanities."

The annual Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities was established in 1988 and succeeded by the National Humanities Medal in 1997. The token is a bronze medal designed by a 1995 Frankel Prize winner, David Macaulay.

Medals are conferred annually, usually by the U.S. President, to as many as twelve living candidates and existing organizations nominated early in the calendar year. The president selects the winners in consultation with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH asks that nominators consult the list of previous winners and consider the National Medal of Arts to recognize contributions in "the creative or performing arts".

Recipients

Medalists are listed by year, then alphabetically by surname.

The Charles Frankel Prize

;1989

  • Patricia L. Bates
  • Daniel Boorstin
  • Willard L. Boyd
  • Clay Jenkinson
  • Américo Paredes

;1990

  • Mortimer Adler
  • Henry Hampton
  • Bernard Knox
  • David Van Tassel
  • Ethyle R. Wolfe

;1991

  • Winton Blount
  • Ken Burns
  • Louise Cowan
  • Karl Haas
  • John Tchen

;1992

  • Allan Bloom
  • Shelby Foote
  • Richard Rodriguez
  • Harold K. Skramstad, Jr.
  • Eudora Welty

;1993

  • Ricardo Alegría
  • John Hope Franklin
  • Hanna Gray
  • Andrew Heiskell
  • Laurel T. Ulrich

;1994

  • Ernest L. Boyer
  • William Kittredge
  • Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
  • Sharon Percy Rockefeller
  • Dorothy Porter Wesley

;1995

  • William R. Ferris
  • Charles Kuralt
  • David Macaulay
  • David McCullough
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon

;1996

  • Rita Dove
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Daniel Kemmis
  • Arturo Madrid
  • Bill Moyers

The National Humanities Medal

;1997

  • Nina M. Archabal
  • David A. Berry
  • Richard J. Franke
  • William Friday
  • Don Henley
  • Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Luis Leal
  • Martin Marty
  • Paul Mellon

;1998

  • Stephen E. Ambrose
  • E. L. Doctorow
  • Diana L. Eck
  • Nancye Brown Gaj
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Vartan Gregorian
  • Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Studs Terkel
  • Garry Wills

;1999

  • Patricia Battin
  • Taylor Branch
  • Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Jim Lehrer
  • John Rawls
  • Steven Spielberg
  • August Wilson

;2000

  • Robert N. Bellah
  • Will Campbell
  • Judy Crichton
  • David C. Driskell
  • Ernest Gaines
  • Herman T. Guerrero
  • Quincy Jones
  • Barbara Kingsolver
  • Edmund Morgan
  • Toni Morrison
  • Earl Shorris
  • Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

;2001

  • José Cisneros
  • Robert Coles
  • Sharon Darling
  • William Manchester
  • Richard Peck
  • Eileen Jackson Southern
  • Tom Wolfe
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation

;2002

  • Frankie Hewitt
  • Iowa Writers' Workshop
  • Donald Kagan
  • Brian Lamb
  • Art Linkletter
  • Thomas Sowell
  • Patricia MacLachlan
  • The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

;2003

  • Robert Ballard
  • Joan Ganz Cooney
  • Midge Decter
  • Joseph Epstein (writer)
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • Jean Fritz
  • Hal Holbrook
  • Edith Kurzweil
  • Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
  • John Updike

;2004

  • Marva Collins
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb
  • Hilton Kramer
  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Harvey Mansfield
  • John Searle
  • Shelby Steele
  • United States Capitol Historical Society

;2005

  • Walter Berns
  • Matthew Bogdanos
  • Eva Brann
  • John Lewis Gaddis
  • Richard Gilder
  • Mary Ann Glendon
  • Leigh Keno
  • Leslie Keno
  • Alan Charles Kors
  • Lewis Lehrman
  • Judith Martin
  • The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia

;2006

  • Fouad Ajami
  • James M. Buchanan
  • Nickolas Davatzes
  • Robert Fagles
  • Mary Lefkowitz
  • Bernard Lewis
  • Mark Noll
  • Meryle Secrest
  • Kevin Starr
  • Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University

;2007

  • Stephen H. Balch
  • Russell Freedman
  • Victor Davis Hanson
  • Roger Hertog
  • Cynthia Ozick
  • Richard Pipes
  • Pauline L. Schultz
  • Henry Leonard Snyder
  • Ruth Wisse
  • Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art

;2008

  • Gabor Boritt
  • Richard Brookhiser
  • Harold Holzer
  • Myron Magnet
  • Albert Marrin
  • Milton J. Rosenberg
  • Jordan Horner Saunders
  • Thomas A. Saunders III
  • Robert H. Smith
  • John Templeton Foundation
  • Norman Rockwell Museum

;2009

  • Robert Caro
  • Annette Gordon-Reed
  • David Levering Lewis
  • William Hardy McNeill
  • Philippe de Montebello
  • Albert H. Small
  • Ted Sorensen
  • Elie Wiesel

;2010

  • Daniel Aaron
  • Bernard Bailyn
  • Jacques Barzun
  • Wendell E. Berry
  • Roberto González Echevarría
  • Stanley Nider Katz
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Arnold Rampersad
  • Philip Roth
  • Gordon S. Wood

;2011

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • John Ashbery
  • Robert Darnton
  • Andrew Delbanco
  • Charles Rosen
  • Teofilo Ruiz
  • Ramón Saldívar
  • Amartya Sen
  • National History Day

;2012

  • Edward L. Ayers
  • William G. Bowen
  • Jill Ker Conway
  • Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Frank Deford
  • Joan Didion
  • Robert D. Putnam
  • Kay Ryan
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • Robert B. Silvers
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Camilo José Vergara

;2013

  • M. H. Abrams
  • American Antiquarian Society
  • David Brion Davis
  • William Theodore de Bary
  • Darlene Clark Hine
  • Johnpaul Jones
  • Stanley Nelson Jr.
  • Diane Rehm
  • Anne Firor Scott
  • Krista Tippett

;2014

  • The Clemente Course in the Humanities
  • Annie Dillard
  • Everett L. Fly
  • Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Fedwa Malti-Douglas
  • Larry McMurtry
  • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  • Vicki L. Ruiz
  • Alice Waters

;2015

  • Rudolfo Anaya
  • José Andrés
  • Ron Chernow
  • Louise Glück
  • Terry Gross
  • Louis Menand
  • Elaine Pagels
  • Prison University Project
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • James McBride
  • Abraham Verghese
  • Isabel Wilkerson

;2016

  • None awarded

;2017

  • None awarded

;2018

  • None awarded

;2019

  • The Claremont Institute
  • Teresa Lozano Long
  • Patrick O'Connell
  • James Patterson

;2020

  • Kay Coles James
  • O. James Lighthizer
  • The National World War II Museum

;2021

  • Richard Blanco
  • Johnnetta Betsch Cole
  • Walter Isaacson
  • Elton John
  • Earl Lewis
  • Henrietta Mann
  • Ann Patchett
  • Bryan Stevenson
  • Amy Tan
  • Tara Westover
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Native America Calling

;2022

  • Wallis Annenberg
  • Appalshop
  • Joy Harjo
  • Robin Harris
  • Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Robert Martin
  • Jon Meacham
  • Ruth Simmons
  • Pauline Yu
  • Elton John

;2023

  • LeVar Burton
  • Roz Chast
  • Nicolás Kanellos
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Mellon Foundation
  • Dawn Porter
  • Aaron Sorkin
  • Darren Walker
  • Rosita Worl
  • Anthony Bourdain

References

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  9. "Don Henley". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  37. "Herman T. Guerrero". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  43. "Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  44. "Jose Cisneros". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  45. "Robert Coles". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  46. "Sharon Darling". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  47. "William Manchester". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  48. "Richard Peck". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  49. "Eileen Jackson Southern". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  52. "Frankie Hewitt". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  53. "Iowa Writers' Workshop". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  55. "Brian Lamb". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  57. "Thomas Sowell". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  58. "Patricia MacLachlan". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  59. "The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  60. "Robert Ballard, Ph.D.". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  61. "Joan Ganz Cooney". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  62. "Midge Decter". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  63. "Joseph Epstein". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  64. "Elizabeth Fox-Genovese". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  65. "Jean Fritz". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  66. "Hal Holbrook". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  67. "Edith Kurzweil". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  68. "Frank M. Snowden Jr.". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  69. "John Updike". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  70. "Marva Collins". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  71. "Gertrude Himmelfarb". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  72. "Hilton Kramer". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  73. "Madeleine L'Engle". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  74. "Harvey C. Mansfield". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  75. "John Searle". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  76. "Shelby Steele". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  77. "United States Capitol Historical Society". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  78. "Walter Berns". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  79. "Matthew Bogdanos". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  80. "Eva Brann". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  81. "John Lewis Gaddis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  82. "Richard Gilder". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  83. "Mary Ann Glendon". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  84. "Leigh Keno". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  85. "Leslie Keno". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  86. "Alan Charles Kors". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  87. "Lewis Lehrman". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  88. "Judith Martin". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  89. "The Papers of George Washington". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  90. "Fouad Ajami". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  91. "James M. Buchanan". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  92. "Nickolas Davatzes". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  93. "Robert Fagles". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  94. "Mary Lefkowitz". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  95. "Bernard Lewis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  96. "Mark Noll". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  98. "Kevin Starr". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  99. "The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  101. "Russell Freedman". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  102. "Victor Davis Hanson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  103. "Roger Hertog". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  104. "Cynthia Ozick". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  105. "Richard Pipes". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  106. "Pauline L. Schultz". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  107. "Henry Leonard Snyder". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  108. "Ruth R. Wisse". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  109. "Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  110. "Gabor S. Boritt". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  111. "Richard Brookhiser". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  112. "Harold Holzer". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  113. "Myron Magnet". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  114. "Albert Marrin". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  115. "Milton J. Rosenberg". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  116. "Thomas A. Saunders III and Jordan Horner Saunders". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  117. "Robert H. Smith". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  118. "John Templeton Foundation". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  119. "Norman Rockwell Museum". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  120. "Robert A. Caro". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  121. "Annette Gordon-Reed". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  122. "David Levering Lewis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  123. "William H. McNeill". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  124. "Philippe de Montebello". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  125. "Albert H. Small". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  126. "Theodore C. Sorensen". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  127. "Elie Wiesel". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  128. "Daniel Aaron". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  129. "Bernard Bailyn". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  130. "Jacques Barzun". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  131. "Wendell E. Berry". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  132. "Roberto González Echevarría". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  133. "Stanley Nider Katz". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  134. "Joyce Carol Oates". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  135. "Arnold Rampersad". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  136. "Philip Roth". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  137. "Gordon S. Wood". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  138. "Kwame Anthony Appiah". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  139. "John Ashbery". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  140. "Robert Darnton". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  141. "Andrew Delbanco". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  142. "Charles Rosen". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  143. "Teofilo Ruiz". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  149. "William G. Bowen". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  150. "Jill Ker Conwayt". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  151. "Natalie Zemon Davis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  152. "Frank Deford". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  153. "Joan Didion". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  154. "Robert D. Putnam". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  155. "Kay Ryan". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  156. "Marilynne Robinson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  157. "Robert B. Silvers". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  158. "Anna Deavere Smith". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  159. "Camilo José Vergara". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  160. "M. H. Abrams". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  161. "American Antiquarian Society". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  162. "David Brion Davis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  163. "William Theodore de Bary". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  164. "Darlene Clark Hine". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  165. "Johnpaul Jones". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  166. "Stanley Nelson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  167. "Diane Rehm". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  168. "Anne Firor Scott". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  169. "Krista Tippett". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  173. "Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  174. "Jhumpa Lahiri". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  175. "Fedwa Malti-Douglas". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  176. "Larry McMurtry". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  177. "Rebecca Newberger Goldstein". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  178. "Vicki Lynn Ruiz". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  179. "Alice Waters". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  180. "Rudolfo Anaya". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  181. "José Andrés". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  182. "Ron Chernow". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  183. "Louise Glück". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  184. "Terry Gross". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  185. "Louis Menand". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  186. "Elaine Pagels". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  187. "Prison University Project". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  188. "Wynton Marsalis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  189. "James McBride". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  190. "Abraham Verghese". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  191. "Isabel Wilkerson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  195. "Teresa Lozano Long". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  196. "Patrick J. O'Connell". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  197. "James Patterson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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  200. "O. James Lighthizer". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  201. "National World War II Museum". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  202. "Richard Blanco". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  203. "Johnnetta B. Cole". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  204. "Walter Isaacson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  205. "Elton John". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  206. "Earl Lewis". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  207. "Henrietta Mann". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  208. "Ann Patchett". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  209. "Bryan Stevenson". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  210. "Amy Tan". National Endowment for the Humanities.
  211. "Tara Westover". National Endowment for the Humanities.
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