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Let's Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers

Let's Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers

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... excellence in the work of Texas women writers won fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for a number of short-story authors. Jane Roberts Wood also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Arts at a New Frontier: The National Endowment for the Arts

The Arts at a New Frontier: The National Endowment for the Arts

Fannie Taylor

Charles Christopher Mark, who took over the Office of State and Community Operations (later known as the Federal–State Partnership) as its first director, had worked with Stevens and the Council as a consultant while the agency was being  ...
PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy

PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy

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Washington: National Endowment forthe Humanities, 1992. ¦¦. TyrannicalMachines: AReport onEducational PracticesGone WrongandOur Best Hopesfor Setting Them Right. Washington: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990.
The American Nation, A history of the United States: World ...

The American Nation, A history of the United States: World ...

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Itscurrent Chairman isBroadway theatre producer Rocco Landesman. National Endowment forthe Humanities: The National Endowment forthe Humanities is an independent federalagency ofthe United States established by the National ...
Shedding Skin

Shedding Skin

Robert Ward

This classic novel, the 1972 winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, turns, providing an essential companion piece to The King of Cards.
Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture

Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture

Phil Ford

Publication of this book was supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP.

Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP.

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CAROL SIMPSON STERN THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF JOHN Frohnmayer during his turbulent two and one-half years at the helm of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is of an inept, naive, embattled chairman, basically decent, but ...
National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report

National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report

National Endowment for the Humanities

Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA Beverly Jarrett $4,345 To support the publication of the first volume of a chronological and comprehensive survey of the history of Afro-American literature. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge,  ...
Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the ...

Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the ...

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This text assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on Arts, covering the players who created national arts policy.
Breaking Even

Breaking Even

Alejandro Grattan-Domínguez

Alejandro Grattan-Domínguez. This volume is made possible through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the City of Houston through ...
Annual Report

Annual Report

National Endowment for the Arts

... Filmmaker New York, New York " Robert Sitton Director Northwest Film Study Center Portland, Oregon Anthea Sylbert Vice President, Special Projects Warner Brothers Studios Los Angeles, California Jesus Trevino Television Producer, ...
Folklore: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Post-Enlightenment World

Folklore: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Post-Enlightenment World

Bill Ivey

In Folklore, Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, argues that the world today is being reshaped by the end of the Enlightenment.
Handbook California Legislature

Handbook California Legislature

California. Legislature

Ins; G.E. & Con. Pro.; Nat. Res.; V. Chmn., Jt. Arts Com. Member, Jt. Com. on Fisheries and Aquaculture; Sel. Com. on Oil Spill Prevention and Response Preparedness; Ntl. Endowment For Arts Com. §fi^C FELANDO, Gerald N. (R) 51st Dis- ...
Arts Administration

Arts Administration

Malcolm Anderton

Following on from the successful first edition, Arts Administration has now been updated to include arts policy under the new UK Ministry of Heritage, the workings of the national lottery and the role of ethnic minority, fringe and ...
Arts Administration

Arts Administration

Malcolm Anderton

Following on from the successful first edition, Arts Administration has now been updated to include arts policy under the new UK Ministry of Heritage, the workings of the national lottery and the role of ethnic minority, fringe and ...
Sine gabay

Sine gabay

Nick Deocampo

... P: Committee on Galleries, National Commission for Culture and the Arts; C: Yam Laranas; E: Nonoy Dadivas Cast: Mon Confiado, Pandy Aviado, Von Ryan Quinto, Mara Benitez Synopsis: National Artist for Visual Arts, Victorio C. Edades,  ...
Lasting legacy to the Carolinas: the Duke Endowment, 1924-1994

Lasting legacy to the Carolinas: the Duke Endowment, 1924-1994

Robert Franklin Durden

The third part of the author’s trilogy on the Duke family and the university, here telling the story of the Duke Endowment.
Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral ...

Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral ...

Rita Portales

ducational foundations like the Carlos H. Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity Endowment increasingly recognize both the seriousness and the depth of the problems that Latina and Latino students face. The Cantu endowment is a ...
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse

Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse

Thomas A. Bredehoft

It was written while Iwas supported by a National Endowment forthe Humanities Fellowship, and my thanks must first go to the NEH, as the book would have been impossible to complete without the extended opportunity to write and think (and ...
The Road to Ruins

The Road to Ruins

Ian Graham

Initsstillfairly shortlife, the National Endowment forthe Humanities hadsteadfastly awardedit each ofthe threeyear matching grants thatIappliedfor, andIcould only hopethatMrs. Vaughan and other generousdonors might continue to contributethe ...
Religions of South Asia: An Introduction

Religions of South Asia: An Introduction

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... orjointly received support, we particularly want to acknowledge our respective universities, the American Institute of Indian Studies andSmithsonian Institution, the Infinity Foundation, the National Endowment forthe Humanities, DrJ.
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism

The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism

Philip Mosley

Thanks are due to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University (Marica Tacconi, Director) for awarding me a faculty grant in 2009 to work on this book; to the Matthews Faculty Research Endowment at Penn State ...
The Arts Management Handbook: New Directions for Students ...

The Arts Management Handbook: New Directions for Students ...

Meg Brindle

Separate sections cover Performing and Visual Arts Management, Arts Management Education and Careers, and Arts Management: Government, Nonprofits, and Evaluation. The book also includes a chapter on grants and raising money in the arts.
A Commentary on Cicero, De Officiis

A Commentary on Cicero, De Officiis

Andrew Roy Dyck

Andrew R. Dyck is Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles. Publication of this volume is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge ...

The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge ...

Stephen P. Turner

... and Andy Pickering made extensiveand useful comments,and raised many questions. I have,Iamafraid,answered only afewof them.I was also helpedbytwo institutions. I cadgedtime froma National Endowment forthe Humanities Fellowship.
Philosophy For Dummies

Philosophy For Dummies

Tom Morris

For eight summers, Itaught aseminar sponsored byThe National Endowment forthe Humanities called Faith, Reason, and the Meaning of Life, based onacareful reading ofhis text.Some of the bestandmost remarkable school teachers in ...
What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

Michelle Kamhi

The participation of one “philosopher of art,” Robert Sitton, was reported in the Getty Center's newsletter as one of DBAE's early successes. Through a program called Artists in the Schools, partly sponsored by the National Endowment for the  ...
Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism: Gender and ...

Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism: Gender and ...

David Sigler

Research support for thisbook camefrom theUniversity of IdahoUniversity Research Office, IdahoHumanities Council, Chawton House Library,National Endowment forthe Humanities, and American Societyfor EighteenthCentury Studies.
Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian ...

Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian ...

John Shelton Reed

All future work on Anglo-Catholicism and related subjects will be indebted to Reed's Glorious Battle. This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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