National Humanities Medal

The National Humanities Medal is a U.S. award for individuals or organizations whose work is the understanding of the humanities deepened, expanded civic engagement for the Humanities or helping to get access to important humanities resources and expand.

The award, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was first awarded in 1988 as " Charles Frankel Prize". In 1997 it was renamed the National Humanities Medal. The award winners receive a bronze medal, designed by the Frankel Prize winner 1995 David Macaulay.

Award winners

• Edward L. Ayers
• William G. Bowen
• Jill Ker Conway
• Natalie Zemon Davis
• Frank Deford
• Joan Didion
• Robert D. Putnam
• Marilynne Robinson
• Kay Ryan
• Robert B. Silvers
• Anna Deavere Smith
• Camilo José Vergara

• Kwame Anthony Appiah
• John Ashbery
• Robert Darnton
• Andrew Delbanco
• National History Day
• Charles Rosen
• Teofilo Ruiz
• Ramón Saldívar
• Amartya Sen

• Daniel Aaron
• Bernard Bailyn
• Jacques Barzun
• Wendell E. Berry
• Roberto González Echevarría
• Stanley Katz Nider
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Arnold Rampersad
• Philip Roth
• Gordon Wood

• Robert A. Caro
• Annette Gordon - Reed
• David Levering Lewis
• William Hardy McNeill
• Philippe de Montebello
• Albert H. Small
• Theodore C. Sorensen
• Elie Wiesel

• Gabor Boritt
• Richard Brookhiser
• Myron Magnet
• Albert Marrin
• Milton J. Rosenberg
• Thomas A. Saunders III
• Robert H. Smith
• John Templeton Foundation
• Norman Rockwell Museum

• Stephen H. Balch
• Russell Freedman
• Victor Davis Hanson
• Roger Hertog
• Cynthia Ozick
• Richard Pipes
• Pauline L. Schultz
• Henry Leonard Snyder
• Ruth Wisse
• " Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art"

• Fouad Ajami
• James M. Buchanan
• Nickolas Davatzes
• Robert Fagles
• Mary Lefkowitz
• Bernard Lewis
• Mark Noll
• Meryle Secrest
• Kevin Starr
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University

• Walter Berns
• Matthew Bogdanos
• Eva Brann
• John Lewis Gaddis
• Richard Gilder
• Mary Ann Glendon
• Leigh Keno
• Leslie Keno
• Alan Charles Kors
• Lewis Lehrman
• Judith Martin
• The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia

• Marva Collins
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
• Hilton Kramer
• Madeleine L' Engle
• Harvey Mansfield
• John Searle
• Shelby Steele
• United States Capitol Historical Society

• Robert Ballard
• Joan Ganz Cooney
• Midge Decter
• Joseph Epstein
• Elizabeth Fox - Genovese
• Jean Fritz
• Hal Holbrook
• Edith Kurzweil
• Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
• John Updike

• Frankie Hewitt
• Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Donald Kagan
• Brian Lamb
• Art Linkletter
• Patricia MacLachlan
• The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
• Thomas Sowell

• Jose Cisneros
• Robert Coles
• Sharon Darling
• William Manchester
• Richard Peck
• Eileen Jackson Southern
• National Trust for Historic Preservation

• Robert N. Bellah
• Will D. Campbell
• Judy Crichton
• David C. Driskell
• Ernest Gaines
• Herman T. Guerrero
• Quincy Jones
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Edmund S. Morgan
• Toni Morrison
• Earl Shorris
• Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

• Patricia Battin
• Taylor Branch
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
• Garrison Keillor
• Jim Lehrer
• John Rawls
• Steven Spielberg
• August Wilson

• Stephen E. Ambrose
• E. L. Doctorow
• Diana L. Eck
• Nancye Brown Gaj
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• Vartan Gregorian
• Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• Garry Wills

• Nina M. Archabal
• David A. Berry
• Richard J. Franke
• William Friday
• Don Henley
• Maxine Hong Kingston
• Luis Leal
• Martin Marty
• Paul Mellon
• Studs Terkel

Charles Frankel Prize

• Rita Dove (1996 )
• Doris Kearns Goodwin (1996 )
• Daniel Kemmis (1996 )
• Arturo Madrid ( 1996)
• Bill Moyers (1996 )
• William R. Ferris (1995 )
• Charles Kuralt (1995 )
• David Macaulay (1995 )
• David McCullough (1995 )
• Bernice Johnson Reagon (1995 )
• Ernest L. Boyer (1994 )
• William Kittredge (1994 )
• Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (1994 )
• Sharon Percy Rockefeller (1994 )
• Dorothy Porter Wesley ( 1994)
• Ricardo E. Alegría (1993 )
• John Hope Franklin ( 1993)
• Hanna Gray ( 1993)
• Andrew Heiskell (1993 )
• Laurel T. Ulrich (1993 )
• Allan Bloom ( 1992)
• Shelby Foote (1992 )
• Richard Rodriguez ( 1992)
• Harold K. Skramstad, Jr. (1992 )
• Eudora Welty (1992 )
• Winton Blount (1991 )
• Ken Burns ( 1991)
• Louise Cowan (1991 )
• Karl Haas ( 1991)
• John Tchen (1991)
• Mortimer Adler ( 1990)
• Henry Hampton ( 1990)
• Bernard M. W. Knox (1990)
• David Van Tassel ( 1990)
• Patricia L. Bates ( 1989)
• Daniel Boorstin (1989 )
• Willard L. Boyd (1989)
• Clay Jenkinson (1989 )
• Américo Paredes (1989 )