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More Articles from Humanities Information: MORE RESOURCES: These are the top arts and humanities universities in 2008. Six members of the University's Faculty of Arts have been elected as Fellows of the prestigious Australian Academy of the Humanities. On Monday, President Bush awarded National Humanities Medals to two well-deserving New Yorkers: Myron Magnet and Richard Brookhiser. As editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, Magnet produced an influential forum for conservative ideas... The president of the United States awarded the director and founder of Gettysburg College's Civil War Institute a National Humanities Medal on Monday. President Bush handed out the National Medals of the Arts and Humanities at the White House on Monday. The annual awards recognize outstanding contributions to art, music, theater, writing and history. VOA's Deborah Block has more. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush handed out 2008 National Humanities Medals to nine people, a museum and a philanthropic foundation during a White House ceremony. STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Norman Rockwell Museum today received the National Humanities Medal, America’s highest recognition of work by individuals and institutions in the field of the humanities. It is one of nine recipients nationwide and the only museum among the winners. NAS Fallon Public Affairs The author of such titles as “In Defense of Food,” “The Omnivores Dilemma” and “The Botany of Desire,” Michael Pollan, speaks at Graham Chapel on Thursday night. The popular food writer received the humanities medal from Arts & Sciences. 3 p.m., Nov. 21 — The Bank of Guam and the Chamorro Artists Association, in collaboration with The Guam Gallery of Art at the Chamorro Village, and in culmination with Arts and Humanities Month, will hold its one-artist photographic synthesis exhibit of Kie Susuico at the bank's Hagåtña branch headquarters. |
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