{"id":975,"date":"2024-11-14T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/?p=975"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:59:50","slug":"neh-lauds-vanderbilts-jon-meacham-for-humanities-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/2024\/11\/14\/neh-lauds-vanderbilts-jon-meacham-for-humanities-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"NEH lauds Vanderbilt\u2019s Jon Meacham for humanities achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Vanderbilt Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/unity\/person\/jon-meacham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jon Meacham<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has been awarded a National Humanities Medal, the nation\u2019s highest honor for contributions to the humanities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Meacham, who holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency, was among 19 NEH medalists recognized by President Joseph R. Biden and NEH Chair Shelley C. Lowe in a recent White House ceremony.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The National Humanities Medal honors an individual or organization whose work has deepened the nation\u2019s understanding of the human experience, broadened citizens\u2019 engagement with history or literature, or helped preserve and expand Americans\u2019 access to cultural resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more details on this achievement, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2024\/11\/13\/neh-lauds-vanderbilts-jon-meacham-for-humanities-achievements\/?j=556125&amp;sfmc_sub=74722412&amp;l=300_HTML&amp;u=16135492&amp;mid=514009777&amp;jb=5&amp;utm_source=sfmc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Staff+MyVU+111424&amp;utm_term=Research+Image+Link&amp;utm_id=556125&amp;sfmc_id=74722412\">full MyVU article here<\/a>. Please join us in congratulating Professor Meacham!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer\u00a0Jon Meacham\u00a0has been awarded a National Humanities Medal, the nation\u2019s highest honor for contributions to the humanities.\u00a0\u00a0 Meacham, who holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency, was among 19 NEH medalists recognized by President Joseph R. Biden and NEH&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[8],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2024\/11\/14164454\/Meacham-with-POTUS-and-FLOTUS.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}