The NEH @ 50 w/ William Adams
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Channel: The Aspen Institute · 2016 · News & Politics
Washington Ideas Roundtable Series NEH Chairman William Adams speaks at Washington Ideas first fall Roundtable. Adams assumed the Chairmanship last year after he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in July. A former president of Colby College, Adams will talk to Washington Post critic Philip Kennicott about the past fifty years of the NEH’s fulfilling it’s mission to “serve and strengthen our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans.” And as he begins his second year presiding over the grants program, he will look to the organization’s hopes of the future as he steers it into the next half century.
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