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American Council of Learned Societies, Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, and the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. Report of the Commission on the Humanities. New York, NY: American Council of Learned Societies, 1964.
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. P.L. 89-209.
Commission on the Humanities. The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980.
Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities. Report to the President. Washington, D.C.: Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities, 1981.
U.S. Department of Education. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1983.
Bennett, William, J. To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984.
French, R.S. and J.D. Moreno, eds. The Public Humanities: An Old Role in Contemporary Perspective. Washington, D.C.: The George Washington University, 1984.
National Humanities Alliance. Priorities for the Humanities: A Report by the Steering Committee Project on Priorities for the Humanities. Washington, D.C.: National Humanities Alliance, 1984.
American Council of Learned Societies. A Report to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Humanities. New York, NY: American Council on Learned Societies, 1985.
Churchill, John. "The Humanities in Public Conversation." The Midwest Quarterly. (Winter 1985).
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor. Report 99-274 to accompany H.R. 3248. [NEH Reauthorizing Legislation] 1985.
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Peterson, Merrill D., principal author. The Humanities and the American Promise: Report on the Colloquium on the Humanities and the American People. Austin, TX: Texas Committee for the Humanities, 1986.
Cheney, Lynne V. American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987.
Cheney, Lynne V. Humanities in America: A Report to the President, Congress, and the American People. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1988.
Cheney, Lynne V. 50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989.
Boren, Susan. Arts and Humanities: Funding Issues in the 101st Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, 1990.
Cheney, Lynne V. Tyrannical Machines: A Report on Educational Practices Gone Wrong and Our Best Hopes for Setting Them Right. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990.
Cheney, Lynne V. The Value of the Humanities. Washington, D.C.: President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, c. 1990.
Collins, Naomi F. "Culture's New Frontier: Staking a Common Ground." American Council of Learned Societies, Occasional Paper No. 15. New York, NY: American Council of Learned Societies, 1990.
The Independent Commission. A Report to Congress on the National Endowment for the Arts. 1990. (members appointed by the President)
Klein, Julie Thompson. Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory and Practice. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
Quay, James and James Veninga. Making Connections: The Humanities, Culture and Community. American Council of Learned Societies, Occasional Paper No. 11. New York, NY: American Council of Learned Societies, 1990.
Yeakey, Carol Camp. Social Change through the Humanities: An Essay on the Politics of Literary and Culture in American Society in New Literary History. Volume 21, Number 4. Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literacy and Cultural Change. (Autumn 1990).
Cheney, Lynne V. National Tests: What Other Countries Expect Their Students to Know. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991.
Community College Humanities Association. Successfully Integrating the Humanities into Associate Degree Occupational Programs: An Implementation Manual. Philadelphia, PA: Community College Humanities Association, 1991.
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. Reflections on a Multicultural Society. Washington, D.C.: PresidentÕs Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1991.
Cheney, Lynne V. Telling the Truth: A Report on the State of the Humanities in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992.
Institute of Museum & Library Services. National Needs Assessment of Small, Emerging, Minority and Rural Museums in the United States: A Report to Congress. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 1992.
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. A Report to the President. Washington, D.C.: President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1992.
The National Cultural Alliance. The Importance of the Arts & Humanities to American Society: A Nationwide Survey of the American Public. Washington, D.C.: The National Cultural Alliance, 1993.
Hackney, Sheldon. Lasting Values in a Disposable World in Humanities. Volume 16, Number 6. (November/December 1995).
Berube, Michael and Cary Nelson. Higher Education Under Fire: Economics and the Crisis of the Humanities. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995.
Cobb, Nina Kressner. Looking Ahead: Private Sector Giving to the Arts and Humanities. Washington, D.C.: President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities, 1996.
Barber, Benjamin R. Serving Democracy by Serving the Arts and the Humanities. Washington, D.C.: The President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1997.
Bender, Thomas and Carl E. Schorske, eds. American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Churchill, John. Liberal Education and Practical Wisdom. Midwest Quarterly 39.1 (1997).
Kernan, Alvin, ed. What's Happened to the Humanities? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Manheimer, Ronald. The Arts and Humanities in an Aging Society: A Window of Opportunity in the Coming Decades. Washington, D.C.: President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities, 1997.
Murray, Jacqueline and Meagan Pufahl, editors. The Humanities and the Future of the University. Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, 1997.
Nussbaum, Martha. Cultivating Humanity; A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Boren, Susan. Arts and Humanities: Funding and Reauthorization in the 105th Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, 1998.
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Coming Up Taller, Arts and Humanities Programs for Children and Youth at Risk: Annual Report. Washington, D.C.: President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1998.
Cornwell, Grant H. and Eve W. Stoddard. Globalizing Knowledge: Connecting International and Intercultural Studies. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1999.
National Endowment for the Humanities. Executive Summary: Results of the Museum Survey. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 2000. [in cooperation with Exhibits USA]
Berger, Benjamin, et als. Report of the Working Group on the Future of the Humanities. Ottawa, Ontario: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2001.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Working Group on the Future of the Humanities: A Response from the SSHRC Council. Ottawa, Ontario: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2001.
Feigenbaum, Harvey D. Globalization and Cultural Diplomacy. Washington, D.C.: Center for Arts & Culture, 2001.
National Endowment for the Humanities. Working Group Papers. Printed in 2001.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Making the Humanities Count: The Importance of Data. Washington, D.C.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002.
Association of American Universities and the Federation of State Humanities Councils. Humanities Partnerships: University -- State Council Collaborations. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Universities, 2002.
Nussbaum, Martha C. Humanities and Human Development in Journal of Aesthetic Education. Volume 36, Number 3 (Autumn 2002). [available through JSTOR]
The Digital Promise Project. Creating the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust: A Proposal to Transform Learning and Training for the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: Digital Promise Project, 2003.
Association of American Universities. Reinvigorating the Humanities: Enhancing Research and Education on Campus & Beyond. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Universities, 2004.
Renz, Loren, et als. Foundation Funding for the Humanities: An Overview of Current and Historical Trends. New York, NY: The Foundation Center, 2004. [in cooperation with The American Academy of Arts & Sciences]
Heritage Preservation. A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Preservation, 2005. [in cooperation with the Institute of Museum and Library Services]
Klein, Julie Thompson. Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.
The New Literary History. Volume 36. Essays on the Humanities (Winter 2005). [available through ProjectMuse –entire volume dedicated to humanities issues + additional bibliographical material in endnotes]
American Association of American Colleges and Universities."How Should Colleges Prepare Students to Succeed in a Global Economy?" (Washington, D.C.: Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc., 2006).
American Council on Education. Where Faculty Live: Internationalizing the Disciplines. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 2006.
American Council of Learned Societies. Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Final Report of the ACLS Commission on Cyber Infrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences. New York, NY: American Council of Learned Societies, 2006.
Berube, Michael. Rhetorical Occasions: Essay on Humans and the Humanities. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Lepage, G. Peter, et als., eds. "Do the Humanities Have to Be Useful?" Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Musil, Caryn McTighe. Assessing Global Learning: Matching Good Intentions with Good Practice. (Washington, D.C.: The Shared Futures Initiative, 2006.
U.S. Department of Education. A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 2006.
"Articulating the Value of the Humanities Graduate Education in the 21st Century." Council of Graduate Schools, Communicator. Volume 40, Number 2 (March 2007).
Association of American Colleges and Universities. College Learning for the New Global Century: From the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education & America's Promise. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2007.
Council of Graduate Schools. Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation. Washington, D.C.: Council of Graduate Schools, 2007.
National Academies International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America's Future. Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2007.
The Chronicle of Higher Education [various articles concerning the humanities, subscription required to access the archives]
National Endowment for the Humanities, Annual Reports Online (1997-2001).