President Obama Honors Humanities and Arts
The President awards the 2010 National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts.
“The fact is that works of art, literature, works of history, they speak to our condition and they affirm our desire for something more and something better,” President Obama said March 2, 2011 in an afternoon celebration of the Arts and Humanities.
He acknowledged different people throughout American history that inspired the country through their unique contributions in humanities and art. President Obama then awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to the honorees.
The National Medal of Arts is managed by the National Endowment for the Arts and honors individuals and groups that archive creation, growth, and support of the arts in the United States.
The National Humanities Medal is managed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and honors individuals and groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities.
The 2010 National Humanities Medals recipients, honored for their outstanding achievements in history, literature, education, and cultural policy, are: authors Wendell E. Berry, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Roth; historians Bernard Bailyn and Gordon S. Wood; literary scholars Daniel Aaron, Roberto González Echevarría, and Arnold Rampersad; cultural historian Jacques Barzun; and legal historian and higher education policy expert Stanley Nider Katz.
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