An overview of HNY's partnership series with the Brooklyn Public Library

A definition and brief history of HNY's signature series–plus dispatches from a recent success story and Banned Books Week.

We are not giving up. With your help, we will find new ways to keep doing this work. We ask you to stand with us—to advocate, to give, and to believe, as we do, that dialogue and understanding are not luxuries, but necessities.Read on to see how you can help #SaveHNY!

On April 14, 2025, HNY's Executive Director Sara Ogger talked to Sina Basila Hickey for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. Listen to the full interview.

Last week, Humanities New York (HNY) received notice that funding allocated to us by Congress and disbursed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was cancelled, effectively immediately.Join the nationwide, bipartisan effort to save the humanities in New York and across the country.

2025 is a milestone year for Humanities New York, marking 50 years since the formation of the National Endowment for the Humanities and our founding as New York’s state council. In advance of the new year and a number of exciting developments including a website redesign and streamlined grants offerings, we’re proud to present a new brand aesthetic. 

By Joe Murphy, Director of GrantsIn 2025, HNY will revise these offerings in order to better serve the needs and interests of public humanities practitioners across New York State.

Congratulations to 21 organizations across the state that have been awarded Action Grants. Take a look at the full list of recipients.

On October 22, 2024, artist and author of "Saving Time: How to Discover a Life Beyond the Clock" and UC Boulder media studies professor Nathan Schneider joined Humanities New York in Poughkeepsie for a conversation on mindfulness and civic engagement in the current era.See the full program.

Performances, workshops, and exhibitions are but a few of the types of programs happening across the state, year–round with the support of HNY's grant programs for community-centric cultural organizations and graduate students.Begin the month with a weekend of outdoor excursions exploring local Indigenous heritage in Cold Spring and the surrounding area, and read on for more grantee goings-on in November.

Join Humanities New York’s presentation of a conversation between best-selling author Jenny Odell and media studies professor Nathan Schneider on the role of digital technology in our lives.In-person tickets are pay-what-you-wish with registration.

Grantee goings-on in August include a screening and Q&A at NYC's Film Forum and a guitar-making demo at the Iroquois Museum in Howes Cave.

Congratulations to 27 organizations across the state that have been awarded Action Grants. Take a look at the full list of Fall 2024 grantees, and watch out for events happening near you!

15 graduate students have been awarded a total of $60,000 in Humanities Centers Initiative (HCI) grants. The HCI grant is given on an annual basis to humanities students based in New York, in partnership with nine state universities. Explore the full list of projects.

Recipients of HNY grants put funds to good use year-round and across the state, with performances, workshops, exhibitions, and other types of events that are frequently free and open to the public. Read on for a selection of grantee goings-on.

On April 11, 2024, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and IndigenousJustice in Early America Nicole Eustace and National Book Award-winning historian and writer of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Ned Blackhawk, joined Humanities New York in New York City to discuss their recent works, which throw into relief the role of Indigenous power players like the Iroquois Confederacy in the formation of the U.S. and their continuous influence on aspired-to models of governance, justice, and civility.Watch the full conversation.

Humanities New York is pleased to announce that 20 organizations across the state have received grants totaling $474,428 as part of the Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership (PIHP): a cohort-based program that supports organizations that incorporate the humanities into their work of serving formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. Read the full list of new and returning grantees.

"Indigenous histories invite new interpretations of American history," Ned Blackhawk writes in The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.In advance of HNY's spring event featuring Blackhawk and Nicole Eustace in conversation, we're diving into the authors' work. Read on for excerpts and analysis on Blackhawk's National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America and Eustace's Pulitzer Prize-winning Covered with Night. 

Stony Brook University's Jennifer Anderson recently joined HNY for a Long Island-centric edition  of our Land, Liberty & Loss: Echoes of the American Revolution series. Watch the full conversation.

Democracy as it's known at home and abroad has roots in ancient Indigenous beliefs and customs. Award-winning authors Ned Blackhawk and Nicole Eustace will meet onstage to discuss how Indigenous groups like the Iroquois Confederacy helped shape the society we live in today.Read on for a full event description and to purchase tickets.