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American Theatre
October 6, 2017
The national magazine for the American not-for-profit theatre. Search for: President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks before signing the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, which created the NEA and NEH. (Photo courtesy of the LBJ Library). October 2017 | Theatre History October 6,Ãâà...
Progressive.org
July 22, 2017
In 1965, while Trump was attending Fordham University and smacking golf balls into rivers, Congress passed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. This put full weight behind the idea that it is necessary and appropriate for the federal government to help create and sustain a climateÃâà...
Daily Signal
July 15, 2017
Nearly half of the $441 million awarded by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities—about $210 million—went to recipients in nine states and the District of Columbia. Most are blue states: California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Konbini US
March 16, 2017
President Lyndon B. Johnson inaugurated both the Arts and Humanities federal programs in 1965 with the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. In the legislation, he wrote: "The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States... An advanced civilization must not limitÃâà...
Huffington Post
March 12, 2017
Our new President, Donald Trump, has decided that building a Mexican Wall and increasing the U.S. military budget by $54 billion (over the present military budget of $596 billion) are the most important early steps to take in his first term. But building the Wall might cost as much as $40 billion and addingÃâà...
Quartz
February 23, 2017
“The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States,” declares the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, which created the NEA and its sister agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities. Under this formulation, access to the arts is both an individual right andÃâà...
Billboard
February 1, 2017
Created in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, the NEA since has awarded thousands of grants for orchestras, jazz ensembles, operas and chamber music groups, among other arts beneficiaries. A survey of NEA-funded activationsÃâà...
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