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About the Council When we ask who we are and what our lives ought to mean, we are using the humanities. The Nebraska Humanities Council enhances the quality of life in communities across our state through programs that study the human race, its achievements, its creations, its dreams and aspirations, its failures and triumphs. The NHC promotes a better understanding of Nebraska–who we are and where we have been–to build a better future. The NHC was established as a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1973, primarily to award grants. By the 1980s, the NHC realized that in Nebraska, grants alone were not enough to reach the entire state, and subsequently started a Humanities Resource Center with traveling exhibits, videos and films, and a Speakers Bureau that now includes nearly 300 humanities programs. Other NHC programs now include Chautauqua and its scholars portraying historical characters, Capitol Forum on America’s Future for high school students, the Prime Time Family Reading Time reading and discussion program, Museum on Main Street exhibitions from the Smithsonian, the Nebraska Book Festival, and the annual Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities. The Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities works with the Council to secure private monies and advocate for public funding to support these programs.
Serving Nebraska since 1973
In January 1972, the National Endowment for the Humanities invited six Nebraskans to Washington, D.C., to be briefed about a state-based humanities program. They represented academic humanists, administrators in adult education programs and groups in the public sector.
Returning from Washington, the committee met in Omaha and elected William Brandenburg of Wayne State College as chair and Edward Janike as vice chair. A board of 20 members was formed and met in Lincoln on Aug. 9, 1972. On Oct. 26, E.W. Janike was named chair, and Robert Apostol was named vice chair. Throughout the planning period, Wayne State College served as fiscal agent for the committee. The committee awarded its first grants in 1973.
The Nebraska Humanities Council continues to provide high-quality humanities programs, events and publications.
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