Congratulations to our friends at the Washington Papers.
This was posted on History New Network from the NEH website (11-9-05)

President George W. Bush will award the 2005 National Humanities Medal on
Thursday to eleven distinguished Americans and one scholarly research
project for their contributions to the humanities. At a White House
ceremony, the President will present the National Humanities Medal to
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, and the Papers of George Washington Project
at the University of Virginia.
The National Humanities Medal, first awarded in 1989 as the Charles
Frankel Prize, honors individuals and organizations whose work has
deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens'
engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand America's
access to important humanities resources.
    . . . .
The Papers of George Washington (Charlottesville, Va.), was established in
1969 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the
university and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to
publish a complete edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written
to Washington, as well as letters and documents written by him, will
eventually be published in the complete edition that will consist of
approximately 90 volumes. Fifty-two volumes are now finished. The new
edition is supported financially by grants from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission, as well as the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the
University of Virginia. The staff spent much of the first ten years of the
project's life collecting Washington documents from repositories and
private owners all over the United States and Europe. The 135,000
Washington documents now deposited in photographic form in the project's
offices represent one of the richest collections of American historical
manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and
enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not
be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of
Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to
scholars, but also to all Americans interested in the founding of their
nation. Theodore J. Crackel, editor-in-chief of the Papers of George
Washington Project, will accept the National Humanities Medal on behalf of
the project.


Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial
1250 Red Hill Road
Brookneal, Virginia 24528
www.redhill.org

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