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Wear Your Support with an NJCH T-Shirt

May 29, 2025

Wear your support for the humanities in New Jersey! NJCH is offering our supporters a chance to showcase your love of the humanities and the Garden State by purchasing a stylish t-shirt! The proceeds of sales will benefit NJCH and will count toward the $50,000 in matching funds being made available by The Federation of State Humanities Councils with support from the Mellon Foundation. […]

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open sign for Action Grants

Action Grant application is now available

February 19, 2018

The NJCH Action Grant is available one time per year. It is currently open. More information is available in the Grants section of our website. If you should have any […]

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Humanists discussing humanities

NJCH to Host Workshop about Applying to the Incubation and Action Grant Program

February 8, 2018

If you’re thinking about applying for a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, this might be the perfect workshop for you! NJCH is hosting a two hour […]

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Professor Stanley Katz

How have the public humanities impacted your life?

January 3, 2018

It’s a question we pose often. Not only do we believe in the benefit of reflection on topics that help us further our understanding of ourselves and others, we welcome […]

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NJCH Staff and Board in Boston

Successful Conference in Boston for NJCH Team

December 8, 2017

Last month, NJCH staff along with several board members made the trip up to Boston for the annual National Humanities Conference. The conference welcomed hundreds of humanities professionals (or humanists […]

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Question posed to Gubernatorial Candidates about Public Humanities

October 30, 2017

We posed the following question to each of the gubernatorial candidates: Public humanities programs use disciplines such as history, literature, and philosophy as tools to explore and examine our history, […]

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Introducing the Public Scholars Project

September 11, 2017

One of the goals of our 2016-2021 Strategic Plan is to expand access to the humanities. We achieve this goal by cultivating humanities programs that serve a variety of audiences. […]

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Interested in advocating for the humanities?

June 1, 2017

President Trump’s recent release of a budget draft calls for the elimination of the NEH and its sister organizations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and several other agencies that provide essential services and opportunities throughout the country. Speaking up for our nation’s educational and cultural institutions now is critical to the future of our democracy.

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New Members Join the NJCH Board of Trustees

December 15, 2016

The New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH), a nonprofit organization serving the state through public humanities programming, announced that three new members have joined the NJCH Board of Trustees. […]

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