National Humanities Medal

Stephen H. Balch receiving National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush

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 first established in 1988 as the Charles Frankel Prize. In 1997 it was renamed the National Humanities Medal. Medal recipients receive a bronze medal designed by 1995 Frankel Prize winner David Macaulay.^[1]

Lists of the winners of the National Humanities Medal^[2] and Frankel Prize^[3] are available at the NEH website.

Winners

• Daniel Aaron (2010)
• Bernard Bailyn (2010)
• Jacques Barzun (2010)
• Wendell E. Berry (2010)
• Roberto González Echevarría (2010)
• Stanley Nider Katz (2010)
• Joyce Carol Oates (2010)
• Arnold Rampersad (2010)
• Philip Roth (2010)
• Gordon S. Wood (2010)
• Robert A. Caro (2009)
• Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
• David Levering Lewis (2009)
• William H. McNeill (2009)
• Philippe de Montebello (2009)
• Albert H. Small (2009)
• Theodore C. Sorensen (2009)
• Elie Wiesel (2009)
• Gabor Boritt (2008)
• Richard Brookhiser (2008)
• Harold Holzer (2008)
• Myron Magnet (2008)
• Albert Marrin (2008)
• Milton J. Rosenberg (2008)
• Thomas A. Saunders III (2008)
• Jordan Horner Saunders (2008)
• Robert H. Smith (2008)
• John Templeton Foundation (2008)
• Norman Rockwell Museum (2008)
• Stephen H. Balch (2007)
• Russell Freedman (2007)
• Victor Davis Hanson (2007)
• Roger Hertog (2007)
• Cynthia Ozick (2007)
• Richard Pipes (2007)
• Pauline L. Schultz (2007)
• Henry Leonard Snyder (2007)
• Ruth Wisse (2007)
• "Monuments Men" Foundation for the Preservation of Art (2007)
• Fouad Ajami (2006)
• James M. Buchanan (2006)
• Nickolas Davatzes (2006)
• Robert Fagles (2006)
• Mary Lefkowitz (2006)
• Bernard Lewis (2006)
• Mark Noll (2006)
• Meryle Secrest
• Kevin Starr (2006)
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (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)
• The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia (2005)
• Marva Collins (2004)
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (2004)
• Hilton Kramer (2004)
• Madeleine L'Engle (2004)
• Harvey Mansfield (2004)
• John Searle (2004)
• Shelby Steele (2004)
• United States Capitol Historical Society
• Robert Ballard (2003)
• Joan Ganz Cooney (2003)
• Midge Decter (2003)
• Joseph Epstein (writer) (2003)
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (2003)
• Jean Fritz (2003)
• Hal Holbrook (2003)
• Edith Kurzweil (2003)
• Frank M. Snowden, Jr.(2003)
• John Updike (2003)
• Frankie Hewitt (2002)
• Iowa Writers' Workshop (2002)
• Donald Kagan (2002)
• Brian Lamb (2002)
• Art Linkletter (2002)
• Patricia MacLachlan (2002)
• The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association (2002)
• Thomas Sowell (2002)
• José Cisneros (2001)
• Robert Coles (2001)
• Sharon Darling (2001)
• William Manchester (2001)
• Richard Peck (2001)
• Eileen Jackson Southern (2001)
• Tom Wolfe (2001)
• National Trust for Historic Preservation (2001)
• Robert N. Bellah (2000)
• Will D. Campbell (2000)
• Judy Crichton (2000)
• David C. Driskell (2000)
• Ernest Gaines (2000)
• Herman T. Guerrero (2000)
• Quincy Jones (2000)
• Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
• Edmund S. Morgan (2000)
• Toni Morrison (2000)
• Earl Shorris (2000)
• Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (2000)
• Patricia Battin (1999)
• Taylor Branch (1999)
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (1999)
• Garrison Keillor (1999)
• Jim Lehrer (1999)
• John Rawls (1999)
• Steven Spielberg (1999)
• August Wilson (1999)
• Stephen E. Ambrose (1998)
• E. L. Doctorow (1998)
• Diana L. Eck (1998)
• Nancye Brown Gaj (1998)
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1998)
• Vartan Gregorian (1998)
• Ramón Eduardo Ruiz (1998)
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1998)
• Garry Wills (1998)
• Nina M. Archabal (1997)
• David A. Berry (1997)
• Richard Franke (1997)
• William Friday (1997)
• Don Henley (1997)
• Maxine Hong Kingston (1997)
• Luis Leal (1997)
• Martin Marty (1997)
• Paul Mellon (1997)
• Studs Terkel (1997)

Charles Frankel Prize

• Rita Dove (1996)
• Doris Kearns Goodwin (1996)
• Daniel Kemmis (1996)
• Arturo Madrid (1996)
• Bill Moyers (1996)
• William R. Ferris (1995)
• Charles Kuralt (1995)
• David Macaulay (1995)
• David McCullough (1995)
• Bernice Johnson Reagon (1995)
• Ernest L. Boyer (1994)
• William Kittredge (1994)
• Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (1994)
• Sharon Percy Rockefeller (1994)
• Dorothy Porter Wesley (1994)
• Ricardo E. Alegría (1993)
• John Hope Franklin (1993)
• Hanna Gray (1993)
• Andrew Heiskell (1993)
• Laurel T. Ulrich (1993)
• Allan Bloom (1992)
• Shelby Foote (1992)
• Richard Rodriguez (1992)
• Harold K. Skramstad, Jr. (1992)
• Eudora Welty (1992)
• Winton Blount (1991)
• Ken Burns (1991)
• Louise Cowan (1991)
• Karl Haas (1991)
• John Tchen (1991)
• Mortimer Adler (1990)
• Henry Hampton (1990)
• Bernard M.W. Knox (1990)
• David Van Tassel (1990)
• Ethyle R. Wolfe (1990)
• Patricia L. Bates (1989)
• Daniel Boorstin (1989)
• Willard L. Boyd (1989)
• Clay Jenkinson (1989)
• Américo Paredes (1989)

References

1. ^ Awards and Honors at NEH Website (retrieved January 23, 2009).
2. ^ National Humanities Medals at NEH Website (retrieved January 23, 2009).
3. ^ Winners of the Charles Frankel Prize at NEH Website (retrieved January 23, 2009).