What is National Endowment for the Humanities?
{{Infobox government agency |agency_name = National Endowment for the Humanities |logo = |logo_width = |logo_caption = |seal = US-NEH-2010Logo.svg |seal_width = 200 |formed = September 29, 1965 |preceding1 = |dissolved = |superseding = |jurisdiction = [[Federal government of the United States]] |employees = 159 (2010) |budget = $153 million [[USD]] (2008) |headquarters = Constitution Center (400 7th St SW, Washington, D.C.), [[Washington, D.C.]] |chief1_name = [[Shelly Lowe]] |chief1_position = Chair |chief2_name = |chief2_position = |parent_agency = |child1_agency = |website = {{url|www.neh.gov}} |footnotes = }} The '''National Endowment for the Humanities''' ('''NEH''') is an independent federal agency of the [[U.S.&nbsp;government]]. It was created by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 ({{USPL|89|209}}). It was created to support research, education, preservation, and public programs in the [[humanities]]. The NEH is housed at 400 7th St SW, [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.neh.gov/about/visiting-neh | title=Visiting NEH | publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=13 July 2014}}</ref> From 1979 to 2014, NEH was at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., [[Washington, D.C.]] in the [[Old Post Office Pavilion|Nancy Hanks Center at the Old Post Office]]. ==List of Chairpersons== * [[Barnaby Keeney]], 1963&ndash;1965, Chair of National Commission on the Humanities * Henry Allen Moe, 1965&ndash;66, Interim Chair * Barnaby Keeney, 1966&ndash;1970 * Wallace Edgerton, Acting Chair, 1970&ndash;71 * [[Ronald Berman]], 1971&ndash;1977 * Robert Kingston, Acting Chair, 1977 * [[Joseph Duffey]], 1977&ndash;81 * [[William J. Bennett]], 1981&ndash;85 * [[John Agresto]], Acting Chair, 1985 * [[Lynne Cheney]], 1986&ndash;1993 * [[Jerry L. Martin]], Acting Chair, 1993 * Donald Gibson, Acting Chair, 1993 * [[Sheldon Hackney]], 1993&ndash;97 * [[Bruce A. Lehman]], Acting Chair, 1997 * [[William R. Ferris]], 1997&ndash;2001 * [[Bruce Cole]], 2001&ndash;2009<ref>[http