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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 351 246 SO 022 469 TITLE National Endowment for the Humanities, Twenty-Sixth Annual Report, 1991. INSTITUTION National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, D.C. REPORT NO ISSN-8755-5492 PUB DATE 92 NOTE 202p.; For the 24th Annual Report, see ED 322 064. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Elementary Secondary Education; *Federal Aid; *Federal Programs; *Grants; Higher Education; *Humanities; Research IDENTIFIERS *National Endowment for the Humanities ABSTRACT This report contains brief descriptions of National Endowment for the Humanities programs as well as a complete listing of all Endowment grants, entered by the division and program in which they were funded, for fiscal year 1991 (October 1,1990 through September 30, 1991). The contents of the report are as follows; "Twenty Years of the Jefferson Lecture"; "Letter from the Deputy Chairman"; "How the Endowment Works"; "National Tests"; "The Charles Frankel Prize, Division of Education Programs"; "Division of Fellowships and Seminars"; "Division of Public Programs"; "Division of Research Programs"; "Division of State Programs"; "Office of Challenge Grants, Office of Preservation"; "Panelists in Fiscal Year 1991"; "Senior Staff Members of the Endowment"; "Members of the National Council on the Humanities"; "Summary of Grants and Awards for Fiscal Year 1991"; "Financial Report for Fiscal Year 1991"; and "Index of Grants." 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This past year marked the twentieth anniversary of the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Over the years, this annual event has given the nationa forum to acknowledge the work of such distinguished thinkers as Lionel Triliing, Robert Penn Warren, and Barbara Tuchman. In the 1991 lecture, historian Gertrude Himmelfarb was honored. In her lecture, she eloquently reminded us of the value of heroes and of the danger of trivializing great deeds. The state humanities councils also celebrated their twentieth anniversary in1991. Each year, these councils reach millions of citizens through programs as diverseas the nation itself. In 1991 state councils enabled people in the Midwest to learn more about the history of the Ohio River, in the Southeast to explore the culture of sixteenth-century native Americans. and in the West to document the Lewis and Clark expedition. Thanksto the state councils, Americans engaged in the study of topics ranging from the Bill of Rights to Shakespeare, from the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent to contemporary developments in the former Soviet Unior, Education in all its facets remains a concern of the Endowment. In1991NEH issued National Tests: What Other Countries Expect Their Students to Knot'. By offering sample humanities questions from examinations given to students in France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and the European Community, this report demonstrated the high standards that other nations :re setting for their students. As the agency entrusted to make knowledge of the humanities accessible to all citizens, the National Endowment for the Humanities shares the goal of achieving competency that lies at the heart of America 2000, your plan for our schools andour society. We hope that this past year's grants and programs have been of help in settinga standard for educational excellence. 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The honor, which is the highest the federal government bestows in the humanities, went to Gertrude Himmelfarb, a historian of the Victorian period and author of eight books. Mindful of the occasion, Himmelfarb took a moment to reflect on the first of the lectures, given by critic and philosopher Lionel Trilling. " Trilling," she recalled, ".;aid that he thought of himself as 'a nineteenth-century person' because he still believed in the efficacy of the will at a time when few other intellectuals did. "It is fitting for Inc today, on the twentieth anniversary of the Jefferson lectureship to recall those words from the first of the Jefferson lecturersall the more fitting because they provide a text for my own theme. For without will and freedom, there can be no virtue and vice. And without virtue and vice, there can be no heroes and villains. There can only be valets valets who recognize no heroes whether of good or of eviI, indeed who recognizeno greatness of any kind: no momentous events in history, no superior works of art, literature, or philosophy, no essential distinction between the trivial and the important." Himmellarh cautioned against the current fashion of attacking "elitist" figures and "elitist" themes in history. "It is, in fact, at the heart of the debate about 'great books,' she told the audience in the Departmental Auditorium. "The argument is no longer about the specific composition of the canon, the inclusion of this or that book, but about thevery idea of greatness, a greatness that traditionally has been thought to transcend race, gender, and classand genre, tooso that it was once taken for granted that Shakespeare ismore worthy of study than Superman, that high culture is higher, more elevating than popular culture, and that some "For without will and events in history are more momentous than others." Himmelfarb was horn in 1922 in New York. She freedom, therecan be no earned her bachelor of arts degrcc from Brooklyn College and her master's and doctorate in history from the University of Chicago. Himmelfarb taught virtue and vice. And without for twenty-three years at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor virtue and vice, there can be of History in 1978. She is now professor emeritus. Her first published work,Lord Acton: A Study in no heroes and villains. There Conscience andPolitics, appeared in 1952. Since then there have been seven more, exploring different facets of the Victorian period: Darwinand the can only be valetsvalets Darwinian Remlution; Victorian Alinds: Essays on NinL:eenth Century Intellectuals; On Liberty andLiberalism: The Case of .101», Stuart Mill;The Idea of Poverty:England who recognizeno heroes in the Industrial Age; Marriage andMoralsamong the Victorians;and most recently,Poverty and Compassion: whether of good The Aloral Imagination of the Late Victorians. Himmelfarb is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society, and a member or of evil.... of the American Philosophical Society and the Americar Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also serves on the hoard of the Woodrow Wilson International Center and the councils of the Library of Congress and the American Enterprise Institute. She was chosen for the lectureship by the National Councilon the Humanities, the presidentially appointed advisory body of the Endowment. The award, whichcarries a $10,000