National Humanities Medal
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The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. The award, given by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was established in 1988 as the Charles Frankel Prize. In 1997 it was renamed the National Humanities Medal.
[edit] Notable winners
- Russell Freedman (2007)
- Victor Davis Hanson (2007))
- Cynthia Ozick (2007)
- Richard Pipes (2007)
- "Monuments Men" Foundation for the Preservation of Art (2007)
- Nickolas Davatzes (2006)
- Robert Fagles (2006)
- Mark Noll (2006)
- Kevin Starr (2006)
- Bernard Lewis (2006)
- Walter Berns (2005)
- Matthew Bogdanos (2005)
- Eva Brann (2005)
- John Lewis Gaddis (2005)
- Richard Gilder (2005)
- Mary Ann Glendon (2005)
- Leigh Keno (2005)
- Leslie Keno (2005)
- Alan Charles Kors (2005)
- Lewis Lehrman (2005)
- Judith Martin (2005)
- Marva Collins (2004)
- Gertrude Himmelfarb (2004)
- Hilton Kramer (2004)
- Madeleine L'Engle (2004)
- Harvey Mansfield (2004)
- John Searle (2004)
- Shelby Steele (2004)
- Frank M. Snowden, Jr.(2003)
- Joseph Epstein (2003)
- John Updike (2003)
- Hal Holbrook (2003)
- Jean Fritz (2003)
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (2003)
- Midge Decter (2003)
- Joan Ganz Cooney (2003)
- Robert Ballard (2003)
- Thomas Sowell (2002)
- Donald Kagan (2002)
- Eileen Jackson Southern (2001)
- Richard Peck (2001)
- Toni Morrison (2000)
- Robert N. Bellah (2000)
- David C. Driskell (2000)
- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (2000)
- Ernest Gaines (2000)
- Jim Lehrer (1999)
- Steven Spielberg (1999)
- Taylor Branch (1999)
- August Wilson (1999)
- Patricia Battin (1999)
- Stephen E. Ambrose (1998)
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1998)
- Garry Wills (1998)
- Richard Franke (1997)
- Luis Leal (1997)
- Martin Marty (1997)
- Maxine Hong Kingston (1997)
- Studs Terkel (1997)
[edit] As Charles Frankel Prize
- Rita Dove (1996)
- Bill Moyers (1996)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (1996)
- David McCullough (1995)
- Charles Kuralt (1995)
- Bernice Johnson Reagon (1995)
- Dorothy Porter Wesley (1994)
- Sharon Percy Rockefeller (1994)
- Hanna Gray (1993)
- Ricardo E. Alegría (1993)
- Richard Rodriguez (1993)
- Laurel T. Ulrich (1993)
- John Hope Franklin (1993)
- Allan Bloom (1992)
- Eudora Welty (1992)
- Shelby Foote (1992)
- Ken Burns (1991)
- John Tchen (1991)
- Mortimer Adler (1990)
- Henry Hampton (1990)
- David Van Tassel (1990)
- Daniel Boorstin (1989)
- Américo Paredes (1989)