The National Coalition for History (NCH) recently submitted testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on the proposed fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
NCH has endorsed letters to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees from the Coalition for International Education recommending $161.1 million in funding for International Education and Foreign Language Studies at the US Department of Education. The letter requests $141.1 million for HEA-Title VI (domestic programs) and $20 million for Fulbright-Hays (overseas) programs for Fiscal Year more >
STATEMENT TO NARA STAFF FROM ARCHIVIST OF THE US DAVID FERRIERO ANNOUNCING HIS RETIREMENT
President Trump has signed into law an omnibus appropriations bill which will fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2021. Click here to access a chart showing how programs of interest to our community fared. It includes the budget for FY 21 and compares it with FY 20 and President Trump’s original more >
The National Archives and the Obama Foundation have announced a new plan to make President Obama’s presidential library all digital. “In this new model, NARA will administer neither a museum nor a traditional “Presidential Library,” and will instead focus its resources and personnel on preserving and making accessible the Presidential records of the 44th President more >
The fiscal year 2016 appropriations process in Congress has broken down despite a burst of momentum over the past six weeks. For the first time in six years, both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees completed action on the twelve funding bills before the August recess. In fact, the House was able to pass six more >
On July 16, the U.S. Senate approved S. 1177, the “Every Child Achieves Act,” with strong bipartisan support. The vote in favor of the bill was 81-17. The bill reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and would replace the much-maligned “No Child Left Behind Act.” The legislation reduces the role of the federal more >
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently launched a new series of grants for two-year college institutions. Under the umbrella “Humanities Initiatives,” these NEH Community College grants are “intended to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities in subjects such as history, philosophy, and literature” and “enhance existing humanities programs, resources, or courses, more >
A new grant program aimed at bringing a “humanities perspective and context to the experience of war” is being offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The “Dialogues on the Experience of War” grant program plans to “expand and deepen the understanding of military service [through] humanities text and community discussions.” It falls more >
Dr. David J. Skorton became the Smithsonian Institutions 13th Secretary in its 169-year history on July 1, 2015. Previously, Skorton served as president at Cornell University and Iowa University. His background and training is in cardiology, which he taught for twenty-six years. He is the first medical doctor to lead the Smithsonian. In assuming his more >
