November 10, 2006
Bush Awards Historians
By Vernon Horn
Yesterday, President Bush awarded the 2006 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Recipients. Several of the awards were presented to historians, including Mark Noll, Historian of Religion, Notre Dame, IN, and Kevin Starr, Historian of California, San Francisco, CA, as well as the biographer Meryle Secrest.
The National Medal of Arts was established in 1984, and is considered the highest honor an artist or patron of the arts can receive from the United States Government. A maximum of 12 recipients are given the award each year. The National Humanities Medal was created in 1997, and is also only awarded to 12 or less recipients per year, it “honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities.”
A full list of the winners can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108.html
Comment:
Kevin Starr is actually a University Professor of history at the University of Southern California (since 1998).
— Curtis Fletcher Nov 12, 03:08 AM
Comment:
Thank you for your comment. We referred to Kevin Starr as we did because of the White House press release.
— Elisabeth Grant, Web Content Editor for the AHA Nov 13, 09:01 AM