Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After Ending Old Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly canceled virtually all of its existing grants in April, citing a desire to pivot to “the president’s agenda.” Now it has announced its largest round of grants since, $34.8 million in funding for 97 projects across the country that helps show what that means.

The grants include many focused on presidents, statesmen and canonical authors, including $10 million to the University of Virginia — which the agency said was the largest grant in its history — that will support the “expedited completion” of editorial work on papers relating to the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution and the Founding era.